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  Yafeng Shan | Philosopher

Book chapters

Shan, Y. (2024). Kuhn Still Matters. In Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy, edited by Yafeng Shan, 1-7. Springer, Cham.
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Shan, Yafeng, Samuel D. Taylor, and Jon Williamson. 2024. “Epistemic Causality and Its Application to the Social and Cognitive Sciences.” In Alternative Approaches to Causation, edited by Yafeng Shan, 241-277. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0010
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Shan, Yafeng. 2024. “Some Reflections on Causation.” In Alternative Approaches to Causation, edited by Yafeng Shan, 1-12. Oxford: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0001
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Shan, Yafeng. 2023. "Assessing Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research." In Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers, edited by Yafeng Shan, 1-10. London: Routledge.
DOI: 10.4324/9781003273288-1

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Shan, Yafeng. 2023. “The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions.” In Handbook of the Historiography of Science, edited by Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon, 257-273. Cham: Springer. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27510-4_12
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Shan, Yafeng. 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. 
DOI: 10.4324/9781003165859-5
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Shan, Yafeng. 2022. “Introduction: Philosophical Analyses of Scientific Progress.” In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan, 1-9. New York: Routledge. 
DOI: 10.4324/9781003165859-1
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Shan, Yafeng. 2021. “Mendel on Developmental Information.” In Information and the History of Philosophy, edited by Chris Meyns, 262–80. London: Routledge.
DOI: 10.4324/9781351130752-20 
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  • Home
  • Publications
    • Monographs >
      • Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020)
    • Edited Volumes >
      • Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers (Routledge, 2023)
      • New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (Routledge, 2022)
    • Special Issues
    • Journal Articles
    • Book Chapters
  • Events
    • Explanation, Narrative, and Explanation in the Social Sciences Conference (HK, 2025)
    • Philosophy of Science and Epistemology Conference (HK, 2024)
    • Karl Popper and 21st Century Philosophy of Science Conference (HK, 2024)
    • 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)
  • HKUST Philosophy of Science Research Group
  • HKUST Philosophy of Science Lecture Series
    • HKUST PLS Full Programme
  • HKUST HPS Research Seminar
    • HKUST HPS Full Programme
  • HKUST Philosophy of Science Annual Workshops
  • Media Coverage
  • Contact