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Aristotle’s Solution to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox and its Implications (2022)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. M. (2022). Aristotle’s Solution to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox and its Implications. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 4(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2022.0061

Mechanisms, laws and explanation (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2020). Mechanisms, laws and explanation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(3), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00284-y

Mechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases whe... Read More about Mechanisms, laws and explanation.

Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them (2014)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J., & Cartwright, N. (2014). Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them. Erkenntnis, 79(10), 1745-1758. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9639-4

Most of the regularities that get represented as ‘laws’ in our sciences arise from, and are to be found regularly associated with, the successful operation of a nomological machine. Reference to the nomological machine must be included in the cp-clau... Read More about Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them.

The Methodology of Actuarial Science (1999)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. (1999). The Methodology of Actuarial Science. British Actuarial Journal, 5, 115-195. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1357321700000416