J.D. Trout’s papers

In press. Strategic Reliabilism: A Naturalistic Approach to Epistemology. Philosophy Compass. (A refereed entry for a subscription database, sponsored by Blackwell; with Michael Bishop).

In press. “Philosophical Messages in the Medium of Spoken Language”, in Matthew Nudds and Casey O’Callaghan (Eds.), Sounds and Perception: New Essays on the Philosophy of Sound and Auditory Experience. New York: Oxford University Press (with Robert Remez).

2007. A Restriction Maybe, but is it Paternalism? Cognitive Bias and Choosing Governmental Decision Aids. NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 2(3), 455-469.

2007. The Psychology of Discounting: A Policy of Balancing Biases. Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 21(2), 201-220.

2007. The Psychology of Scientific Explanation. [request paper] Philosophy Compass, 2/3, 564-591. (A refereed entry for a subscription database, sponsored by Blackwell).

2005. The Pathologies of Standard Analytic Epistemology. Noûs 39 (4), 696-714 (with Michael Bishop).

2005. Lexical Boosting of Noise-band Speech in Open- and Closed-set Formats. Speech Communication 47(4), 424-435.

2005. Paternalism and Cognitive Bias. Law and Philosophy 24(4, July), 393-434.

2005. Paying the Price for a Theory of Explanation: de Regt’s Discussion of Trout (2002). Philosophy of Science 72 (January), 198-208.

2004. The Philosophical Legacy of Meehl (1978): Confirmation Theory, Theory Quality, and Quantitative Epistemology. Applied & Preventive Psychology: Current Scientific Perspectives, 11(1), 73-76.

2003. Biological Specializations for Speech: What Can the Animals Tell Us? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12(5, October), 155-159.

2003. Epistemology’s Search for Significance. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 15(2), 203-216. (with Michael Bishop).

2002. Scientific Explanation and the Sense of Understanding. Philosophy of Science 69(2), 212-233. 

2002. 50 Years of Successful Predictive Modeling Should be Enough: Lessons for the Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science 68 (Proceedings): S197-S208 (with Michael Bishop).

2001. Metaphysics, Method and the Mouth: Philosophical Lessons of Speech Perception. Philosophical Psychology, 14, (3), 261-291.

2001. The Biological Basis of Speech: What to Infer from Talking to the Animals. Psychological Review, 108, (3), 523-549.

2000. Resurrecting “Death Taxes”: Inheritance, Redistribution, and the Science of Happiness. Journal of Law and Politics, 16(4), 765-847 (with Shahid Buttar as second author).

2000. Entries on ‘Scientific Realism’, ‘Empirical Decision Theory’, and ‘Belief Revision’. In R. Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2^nd Edition), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2000. ‘Measurement’ (4500 words) and ‘Paradoxes of Confirmation’ (1000 words) in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell Publishers, edited by W. H. Newton-Smith.

1999. Measured Realism and Statistical Inference: An Explanation for the Fast Progress of ‘Hard’ Psychology. Philosophy of Science 66 (Proceedings): S260-S272.

1998. Materialism. In C. Eliasmith, ed., Online Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind (2000 words, with Paul Moser as second author). Posted at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/materialism.html

1995. Entries on ‘Alchemy’ (pp.16-17) and ‘Uniformity of Nature’ (pp.820-21). In R. Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1995. Diverse Tests on an Independent World. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 26 (3), 407-429.

1995. Ontological Progress in Science. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 25 (2), 177-201 (with R. Burian as first author).

1995. Physicalism, Supervenience, and Dependence (pp.187-217). In Ü. D. Yalçin and E. E. Savellos, eds., Supervenience: New Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with P. K. Moser).

1994. Austere Realism and the Worldly Assumptions of Inferential Statistics (pp.190-199). In M. Forbes, D. Hull, and R. Burian, eds., PSA 1994, Volume 1, Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association.

1994. A Realistic Look Backward. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25 (1), 37-64.

1993. Robustness and Integrative Survival in Significance Testing: The World's Contribution to Rationality. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 44, 1-15.

1992. Theory-Conjunction and Mercenary Reliance. Philosophy of Science, 59, 231-245.

1991. Belief Attribution in Science: Folk Psychology Under Theoretical Stress. Synthese, 87, 379-400.

1990. Auditory and Visual Influences on Phonemic Restoration. Language and Speech, 33, 121-135 (with William Poser as second author).