• Home
  • Publications
    • Monographs >
      • Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020)
    • Edited Volumes
    • Special Issues
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
  • Events
    • The Kuhn Centennial Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation in Biology Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • MMR and Causal Inference Workshop (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Analogical Reasoning Workshop (Kent, 2021)
    • Metaphilosophy Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences Conference (Kent, 2020)
    • Historiography of Genetics Workshop (Tel Aviv, 2019)
  • Selected Talks
  • Media Coverage
  • Contact
  Yafeng Shan | Philosopher

publications

MONOGRAPHS

(under contract) ​The Social Nature of Scientific Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

(under contract) ​Proximate and Ultimate Causation in Biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 


(2023) ​Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences, London and New York: Routledge. (Co-authored with Jon Williamson.)​

(2020) ​Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics, Cham: Springer.


EDITED VOLUMES
​

(under contract) Rethinking Thomas Kuhn's Legacy, Cham: Springer.

(under contract) Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers, London and New York: Routledge.


(under contract) Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2023) Examining Philosophy Itself. Chichester: Wiley.

​(2022) ​New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, New York and London: Routledge.


SPECIAL ISSUES
​
(2022) New Directions in Metaphilosophy, a special issue of Metaphilosophy. ​

(2021) Evidential Diversity in the Social Sciences, a topical collection of Synthese, co-edited with Jon Williamson.
​

(2021) New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics, a special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, co-edited with Ehud Lamm and Oren Harman.


JOURNAL ARTICLES

(2023) "Science is More Than Knowing." Asian Journal of Philosophy.

(2022) "‘History Will Be Kind To Me’: An Introduction to New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. (Co-authored with Ehud Lamm and Oren Harman.)
​
(2022) "Evidential Monism, Evidential Pluralism, or Evidential Contextualism? An Introduction to Evidential Diversity in the Social Sciences." Synthese 200(4), 321. (Co-authored with Jon Williamson.)

(2022) “The Unexamined Philosophy Is Not Worth Doing: An Introduction to New Directions in Metaphilosophy.” Metaphilosophy 53(2-3): 153-158.

(2022) "Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research." Philosophy Compass 17(1), e12804.

(2022) "Philosophy Doesn't Need a Concept of Progress." Metaphilosophy 53(2-3): 176-184. 

(2021) "Applying Evidential Pluralism to the Social Sciences." European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11(4), 96. (Co-authored with Jon Williamson.)

(2021) "Beyond Mendelism and Biometry." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 89: 155-163.

(2019) "Contrastivism and Non-Comtrastivism in Scientific Explanation." Philosophy Compass​ 14(8), e12613.

(2019) "A New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress." Philosophy of Science 86(4): 739-758. 
​
(2020)  “Kuhn’s ‘Wrong Turning’ and Legacy Today.” Synthese 197(1): 381-406.
​​

BOOK CHAPTERS

(2024) “The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions.” In Handbook of the Historiography of Science, edited by Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon. Cham: Springer.
​
(commissioned) “Epistemic Causality and Its Application to the Social and Cognitive Sciences.” In Alternative Approaches to Causation, edited by Yafeng Shan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-authored with Samuel D. Taylor and Jon Williamson.)

(2022) “The Functional Approach: Scientific Progress as Increased Usefulness.” In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan, 46-61. New York: Routledge.

(2022) “Introduction: Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Progress.” In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan, 1-9. New York: Routledge.

​
(2021) “Mendel on Developmental Information.” In Information and the History of Philosophy, edited by Chris Meyns, 262–80. London: Routledge.

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

(2021) "Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences." The Reasoner 15(6): 50-51.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Publications
    • Monographs >
      • Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020)
    • Edited Volumes
    • Special Issues
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
  • Events
    • The Kuhn Centennial Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation in Biology Conference (Kent, 2022)
    • MMR and Causal Inference Workshop (Kent, 2022)
    • Causation Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Analogical Reasoning Workshop (Kent, 2021)
    • Metaphilosophy Conference (Kent, 2021)
    • Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences Conference (Kent, 2020)
    • Historiography of Genetics Workshop (Tel Aviv, 2019)
  • Selected Talks
  • Media Coverage
  • Contact