2004

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, A. (2004) 'The Scientific Study of Society', by Max Steuer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, xiii + 464 pages. [Book Review]

2005

Northcott, Robert (2005) Comparing apples with oranges. Analysis 65 (1), pp. 12-18. ISSN 0003-2638.

Northcott, Robert (2005) Pearson's wrong turning: against statistical measures of causal efficacy. Philosophy of Science 72 (5), pp. 900-912. ISSN 0031-8248.

2006

Northcott, Robert (2006) Causal efficacy and the analysis of variance. Biology & Philosophy 21 (2), pp. 253-276. ISSN 0169-3867.

Northcott, Robert (2006) The irrational game: why there's no perfect system. In: Bronson, E. (ed.) Poker and Philosophy: Pocket Rockets and Philosopher Kings. Chicago, USA: Open Court Publishing Company, pp. 105-115. ISBN 9780812695941.

2008

Northcott, Robert (2008) Can ANOVA measure causal strength? Quarterly Review of Biology 83 (1), pp. 47-55. ISSN 0033-5770.

Northcott, Robert (2008) Weighted explanations in history. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (1), pp. 76-96. ISSN 0048-3931.

May 2008

Northcott, Robert (2008) Causation and contrast classes. Philosophical Studies 139 (1), pp. 111-123. ISSN 0031-8116.

2009

Northcott, Robert (2009) Is actual difference making Robert Northcott actually different? Journal of Philosophy 106 (11), pp. 629-634. ISSN 0022-362X.

Northcott, Robert (2009) On Lewis, Schaffer and the non-reductive evaluation of counterfactuals. Theoria 75 (4), pp. 336-343. ISSN 1755-2567.

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, A. (2009) Progress in economics. In: Kincaid, H. and Ross, D. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 306-337. ISBN 9780195189254.

2010

Northcott, Robert (2010) Bad luck or the ref's fault? In: Richards, T. (ed.) Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game. Popular Culture and Philosophy 51. Chicago, USA: Open Court, pp. 319-326. ISBN 9780812696769.

Northcott, Robert (2010) Walsh on causes and evolution. Philosophy of Science 77 (3), pp. 457-467. ISSN 0031-8248.

August 2010

Northcott, Robert (2010) Natural-born determinists: a new defense of causation as probability-raising. Philosophical Studies 150 (1), pp. 1-20. ISSN 0031-8116.

2012

Northcott, Robert (2012) Genetic traits and causal explanation. In: Plaisance, K.S. and Reydon, T.A.C. (eds.) Philosophy of Behavioral Biology. Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science 282. London, UK: Springer, pp. 65-82. ISBN 9789400719507.

Northcott, Robert (2012) How necessary are randomized controlled trials? In: Munson, R. (ed.) Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Bioethics (9th Edition). Independence, U.S.: Cengage, pp. 187-191. ISBN 9781133587149.

Northcott, Robert (2012) Partial explanations in social science. In: Kincaid, H. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 130-153. ISBN 9780195392753.

May 2012

Northcott, Robert (2012) Degree of explanation. Synthese , ISSN 0039-7857.

June 2013

Northcott, Robert (2013) Verisimilitude: a causal approach. Synthese 190 (9), pp. 1471-1488. ISSN 0039-7857.

23 September 2013

Alexandrova, A. and Northcott, Robert (2013) It's just a feeling: why economic models do not explain. Journal of Economic Methodology 20 (3), pp. 262-267. ISSN 1350-178X.

June 2015

Northcott, Robert (2015) Harm and causation. Utilitas 27 (2), pp. 147-164. ISSN 0953-8208.

July 2015

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, A. (2015) Prisoner's dilemma doesn't explain much. In: Peterson, M. (ed.) The Prisoner's Dilemma. Classic Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-84. ISBN 9781107621473.

December 2015

Northcott, Robert (2015) Opinion polling and election predictions. Philosophy of Science 82 (5), pp. 1260-1271. ISSN 0031-8248.

September 2016

Northcott, Robert (2016) A dilemma for the Doomsday Argument. Ratio 29 (3), pp. 268-282. ISSN 0034-0006.

December 2017

Northcott, Robert (2017) When are purely predictive models best? Disputatio 9 (47), pp. 631-656. ISSN 0873-626X.

September 2018

Northcott, Robert (2018) Conceived this way: innateness defended. Philosophers Imprint 18 (18), pp. 1-16. ISSN 1533-628X.

December 2018

Northcott, Robert (2018) The efficiency question in economics. Philosophy of Science 85 (5), pp. 1140-1151. ISSN 0031-8248.

2019

Northcott, Robert (2019) Free will is not a testable hypothesis. Erkenntnis 84 , pp. 617-631. ISSN 0165-0106.

12 January 2019

Northcott, Robert (2019) Prediction versus accommodation in economics. Journal of Economic Methodology 26 (1), pp. 59-69. ISSN 1350-178X.

12 September 2019

Northcott, Robert (2019) Big data and prediction: four case studies. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A , ISSN 0039-3681.

13 August 2020

Northcott, Robert and Alexandrova, A. and Wright, J. (2020) Back to the big picture. Journal of Economic Methodology , ISSN 1350-178X. (In Press)

1 January 2021

Northcott, Robert (2021) Pre-emption cases may support, not undermine, the counterfactual theory of causation. Synthese 198 , pp. 537-555. ISSN 0039-7857.

10 July 2021

Diener, E. and Northcott, Robert and Zyphur, M. and West, S. (2021) Beyond experiments. Perspectives on Psychological Science , ISSN 1745-6916. (In Press)

30 November 2021

Northcott, Robert (2021) Economic theory and empirical science. In: Heilmann, C. and Reiss, J. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. Routledge. ISBN 9781138824201. (In Press)