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Edited Volumes

1.     Shech, E. and W.S. Parker (Eds.) 2021. John D. Norton's Material Theory of Induction and Beyond. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Special Collection). 

2.     Parker, W.S. (Ed.) 2018. Proceedings of the 25th Biennial Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Volume 2: Symposium Papers. Philosophy of Science 85(5): 739-1215.

3.     Parker, W.S. (Ed.) 2017. Proceedings of the 25th Biennial Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Volume 1: Contributed Papers. Philosophy of Science 84(5): 795-1315.

4.     Katzav, J. and W.S. Parker (Eds.) 2015. The Roles of Climate Models. Special issue of European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5(2): 141-257.

5.     de Regt, H.W. and W.S. Parker (Eds.) 2014. Simulation, Understanding and Visualization. Special issue of Perspectives on Science 22(3): 311-422.

Journal Articles

1. **Parker, W.S. 2023. Values in Science: The Epistemic Projection Approach. Philosophy of Science. Accepted manuscript.

2. **Bokulich, A. and W.S. Parker. 2021. Data Models, Representation and Adequacy-for-Purpose. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 

3. **Parker, W.S. 2020. Evidence and knowledge from computer simulation. Erkenntnis. doi: 10.1007/s10670-020-00260-1.

4. **Parker, W.S. 2020. Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View. Philosophy of Science 87 (3):457-477.

5.     Parker, W.S. 2020. Local Model-Data Symbiosis in Meteorology and Climate Science. Philosophy of Science 87(5): 807-818.

6. **Gramelsberger, G., Lenhard, J. and W.S. Parker 2020. Philosophical Perspectives on Earth System Modeling: Truth, Adequacy and Understanding. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) 12(1): e2019MS001720. 

7. **Parker, W.S. and G. Lusk 2019. Incorporating user values into climate services. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100(9): 1643-1650.

8.     Katzav, J. and W.S. Parker 2018. Issues in the Theoretical Foundations of Climate Science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 63: 141-149.

9. **Parker, W.S. and E. Winsberg 2018. Values and evidence: How models make a difference. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 8(1): 125-142.

10.     Parker, W.S. 2017. Computer simulation, measurement and data assimilation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68(1): 273-304.

11. **Parker, W.S. 2016. Reanalyses and Observations -- What's the Difference? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97: 1565–1572, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00226.1

12. **Parker, W.S. and J.S. Risbey 2015. False Precision, Surprise and Improved Uncertainty Assessment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 373(2055): 20140453

13. **Katzav, J. and W.S. Parker 2015. The future of climate modeling. Climatic Change 132(4): 475-487.

14.     Parker, W.S. 2015. Getting (even more) serious about similarity. Biology and Philosophy 30(2): 267-276.

15.     Parker, W.S. 2014. Values and uncertainties in climate prediction, revisited. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 46: 24-30.

16. **Parker, W.S. 2014. Simulation and understanding in the study of weather and climate. Perspectives on Science 22(3): 336-356. 

17.     Parker, W.S. 2013. Ensemble modeling, uncertainty and robust predictions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 4(3): 213-223.

18.     Parker, W.S. 2011. When climate models agree: The significance of robust model predictions. Philosophy of Science 78(4): 579-600.

19.     Parker, W.S. 2011. Scientific models and adequacy-for-purpose. Modern Schoolman 87(3-4), 285-293.

20.     Parker, W.S. 2010. Predicting weather and climate: Uncertainty, ensembles and probability. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41: 263-272.

21.     Parker, W.S. 2010. Whose probabilities? Predicting climate change with ensembles of models. Philosophy of Science 77(5): 985-997.

22.     Parker, W.S. 2010. Comparative process tracing and climate change fingerprints. Philosophy of Science 77(5): 1083-1095.

23. **Parker, W.S. 2010. An instrument for what? Digital computers, simulation and scientific practice. Spontaneous Generations 4: 39-44. 

24.     Parker, W.S. 2009. Does matter really matter? Computer simulations, experiments, and materiality. Synthese 169(3): 483-496.

25.     Parker, W.S. 2009. Confirmation and adequacy-for-purpose in climate modeling. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 83: 233-249.

26.     Parker, W.S. 2008. Franklin, Holmes and the epistemology of computer simulation. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22(2): 165-183.

27.     Parker, W.S. 2008. Computer simulation through an error-statistical lens. Synthese 163(3): 371-384.

28.     Parker, W.S. 2006. Understanding pluralism in climate modeling. Foundations of Science 11(4): 349-368.

29.     Yuter, S.E. and W.S. Parker 2001. Rain Measurement on Ship Revisited. Journal of Applied Meteorology 40(6): 1003-1018. 

Book Chapters

1.     Parker, W.S. (in press) Climate Modeling. In B. Hale and A. Light (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics.

2. **Parker, W.S. 2020. Evaluating Data Journeys: Climategate, Synthetic Data and the Benchmarking of Methods for Climate Data Processing.  In: Leonelli S., Tempini N. (eds) Data Journeys in the Sciences. Springer, Cham.

3.     Parker, W.S. 2018. The significance of robust climate predictions. For E. Lloyd and E. Winsberg (Eds.) Conceptual and Philosophical Issues in Climate Modeling. [Revised version of (2011) "When climate models agree".]

4.     Parker, W.S. 2016. Environmental Science: Empirical Claims in Environmental Ethics. In S. Gardiner and A. Thompson (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics.

5.     Parker, W.S. 2014. Climate Change and Social Science. In N. Cartwright and E. Montuschi (Eds.) Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction. OUP. 

6.     Parker, W.S. 2013. Computer Simulation. In S. Psillos and M. Curd (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, 2nd Edition.

7.     Parker, W.S. 2011. Communicating Science: Moral Responsibility in Theory and Practice. In D. Scott and B. Francis (Eds.), Debating Science: Deliberation, Values and the Common Good.

8.     Parker, W.S. 2009. Distinguishing Real Results from Instrumental Artifacts: The Case of the Missing Rain. In G. Hon, J. Schickore, and F. Steinle (Eds.), Going Amiss in Experimental Research (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 267).

Other

1. **Parker, W.S. 2021. Virtually a Measurement. Nature Physics 17:146.

2. **Parker, W.S. 2018. Climate Science. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

3. **Parker, W.S. 2017. Reply to “Comments on Reanalyses and Observations: What’s the Difference?” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98(11): 2461.

4. **Parker, W.S. 2014. Letter to the editor. (‘The Truth about Models’). American Scientist 102(4): 243.

5.     Parker, W.S. 2012. Computer simulation and philosophy of science. Review of Winsberg, E. (2010) Science in the Age of Computer Simulation. Metascience 21(1): 111-114.

6. **Parker, W.S. 2010. Multi Model Ensembles, Metrics & Probabilities. In T. Stocker, Q. Dahe, G.K. Plattner, M. Tignor, P. Midgley (Eds.), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Expert Meeting on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections. IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit, Bern, Switzerland: 81-82.