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  • Worrall, John (2014). Prediction and accommodation revisited. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 45(1), 54-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2013.10.001
  • Worrall, John (2011). Causality in medicine: getting back to the Hill top. Preventive Medicine, 53(4-5), 235-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.08.009
  • Worrall, John (2010). For universal rules, against induction. Philosophy of Science, 77(5), 740-753. https://doi.org/10.1086/656823
  • Worrall, John (2010). Evidence: philosophy of science meets medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16(2), 356-362. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01400.x
  • Worrall, John (2009). Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence. Synthese, 180(2), 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9599-4
  • Worrall, John (2008). Evidence and ethics in medicine. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51(3), 418-431. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0040
  • Scerri, Eric R., Worrall, John (2001). Prediction and the periodic table. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 32(3), 407-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-3681(01)00023-1
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  • Alexander, J. Mckenzie, Hudetz, Laurenz, Rédei, Miklós, Ross, Lewis, Worrall, John (2025). Proofs and research programmes: Lakatos at 100. Springer. picture_as_pdf
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  • Worrall, John (2025). Cholesterol and cardio-vascular disease: degenerating research programmes in current medical science. In Synthese Library (pp. 205-230). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88213-5_12 picture_as_pdf
  • Frigg, Roman, Alexander, J. Mc Kenzie, Hudetz, Laurenz, Rédei, Miklós, Ross, Lewis, Worrall, John (2025). Introduction. In Synthese Library (pp. 1-6). Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88213-5_1 picture_as_pdf
  • Worrall, John (2010). Do we need some large, simple randomized trials in medicine? In Suárez, Mauricio, Dorato, Mauro, Rédei, Miklós (Eds.), Epsa Philosophical Issues in the Sciences: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association (pp. 289-302). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
  • Worrall, John (2010). Error, tests and theory confirmation. In Mayo, Deborah G., Spanos, Aris (Eds.), Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science (pp. 125-154). Cambridge University Press.
  • Worrall, John (2005). Theory-confirmation and history. In Cheyne, Colin, Worrall, John (Eds.), Rationality and Reality: Conversations With Alan Musgrave (pp. 31-62). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Worrall, John (2002). Philosophy of science: classic debates, standard problems, future prospects. In Machamer, Peter, Silberstein, Michael (Eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science (pp. 18-36). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Worrall, John (2000). Pragmatic factors in theory-acceptance. In Newton-Smith, William (Ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (pp. 349-357). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
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  • Worrall, John (2016). The placebo effect and evidence-based policy.
  • Worrall, John (2016). Homeopathy and evidence-based policy.