Publications

Works under review or in preparation (preprints and drafts)

About the relevance of experts' reports (with Anouk Barberousse). Preprint.

All the truth? Relevance and testimonial reliability. Draft.

French judges' evidential reasoning. An epistemological approach. Extended synopsis of the book proposal.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

“La présomption d’innocence est-elle un principe probatoire ? Une approche épistémologique”, Revue des procédures, 5, (2023): 14-25.  Preprint.

Le raisonnement probatoire et la “mise en récit” des preuves – présentation critique du story-model” (with David Lagnado), Droit et Société, 110, (2022): 87-105. Preprint.

“Plausibility Matters: A challenge to Gilbert’s ‘Spinozan’ theory of belief formation” (co-authored with Adam J.L. Harris, Sabine Topf, and Ulrike Hahn), Cognition, 220, 2022.
OSF preregistered study (https://osf.io/mkrvd and https://osf.io/538zj). This project was awarded a grant from the Fondation pour les sciences sociales. Preprint.

“Bayes and biases. Questioning the ‘confirmation bias’”, Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 112 (2021): 567-590. Access paper online. Download paper.

“In the Space of Reasonable Doubt” (with Ulrike Hahn), Synthese, 198, 15 (2019):  3609-3633. Preprint.

“Qu’est-ce qu’un doute raisonnable ?”, Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 3, 143 (2018): 371-390.

“Is a unified account of conspiracy theories possible?” (with Philippe Huneman), Argumenta, 3, 2 (2018): 49-72. Preprint.

“About the Empirical Warrants of Computer-Based Scientific Knowledge” (with Anouk Barberousse), Synthese, 191, 15 (2014): 3595-3620. Preprint.

The Birth of Classical Genetics as the Junction of Two Disciplines: Conceptual Change as Representational Change”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 48, (2014): 105-116. Preprint.

Theorising and Representational Practices in Genetics”, Biological Theory, 7,4 (2013): 311-324. Awarded article (Young Researcher award 2012, Société de Philosophie des Sciences). Preprint.

“Models of Data and Theoretical Hypotheses: A Case-Study in Mendelian Genetics”, Synthese, 190, 2 (2013): 293-319. Preprint.

A-not-B Errors: Testing the Limits of Natural Pedagogy”, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3,4 (2012): 525-545.

“Representing with Imaginary Models: Formats Matter”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part 1, 42, 2 (2011): 287-295.

“Le pendule, la licorne et la figure: comment les modèles scientifiques représentent les phénomènes”, Philonsorbonne, 3 (2009): 75-95.

Peer-reviewed book chapters and proceedings papers

“Expert advice for decision-making: the subtle boundary between informing and prescribing”, in A. Bernal & G. Axtell (eds.), Epistemic Paternalism. Conceptions, Justifications and Implications, Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society series, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020. Preprint.

“Coherence and Credibility in the Story-Model of Jurors’ Decision-Making: Does Mental Simulation Really Drive the Evaluation of the Evidence?” (with David Lagnado), in A. Nepomuceno Fernández, L. Magnani, F.J. Salguero-Lamillar, C. Barés-Gómez, M. Fontaine (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation, Series "Sapere", Springer, 2019. Preprint.

“Theories and models”, in A. Barberousse, D. Bonnay, & M. Cozic (eds.), The Philosophy of Science. A Companion, Oxford University Press, 2018: 171-224.

“Scientific Change” (with Anouk Barberousse), in A. Barberousse, D. Bonnay, & M. Cozic (eds.), The Philosophy of Science. A Companion. Oxford University Press, 2018: 225-258.

“The dilution effect: Conversational basis and witness reliability” (with Jens Koed Madsen & Ulrike Hahn), in Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T. & Davelaar, E. J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2663-2668, 2017.

“Engagement théorique et présentation des données : les cartes génétiques”, in D. Andler (ed.), Sciences et décision, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Franche-Comté, 2015: 109-118.

“Computer simulations and empirical data” (with Anouk Barberousse), in J. M. Durán & E. Arnold (eds.), Computer simulations and the changing face of scientific experimentation. Cambridge Scholars publishing, 2013: 29-45.

“Formats of Representation in Scientific Theorising”, in P. Humphreys & C. Imbert (eds.), Models, Simulations, and Representations, Routledge, 2012: 250-273.

“The Theoretician’s Gambits: Scientific Representations, Their Formats and Content”, in L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, & C. Pizzi (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Abduction, Logic, Computational Discovery, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2010: 533-558.

Other book chapters

“Sommes-nous trop crédules ?”, in C. Senik (ed.), Crises de confiance, éditions La Découverte, 2020.

“Le rôle d’autrui dans la formation des connaissances”. Introduction to the French translation of Coady (1973) and Burge (1993) in D. Bonnay & H. Galinon (eds.), Épistémologie sociale, textes clés, Vrin (forthcoming).

“Comment parler de la science ?”, in M. Silberstein (ed.), Qu’est-ce que la science… pour vous ? (tome 2), Éditions Matériologiques, 2018: 325-330.

“Le rôle des diagrammes et des schémas dans l’activité théorique en biologie”, in T. Hoquet & F. Merlin (eds.), Précis de philosophie de la biologie, Vuibert, 2014: 125-143.

“Qu’est-ce qu’une théorie scientifique ?”, in T. Lepeltier (ed.), Histoire et Philosophie des sciences, Sciences Humaines Publ., 2013: 170-180.

“Le changement scientifique” (with Anouk Barberousse), in A. Barberousse, D. Bonnay, & M. Cozic (eds.), Précis de philosophie des sciences, Vuibert “Philosophie des sciences”, 2011: 171-205.

Other publications

“Qu’est-ce que la vérité judiciaire ?”, Nouvelles du SIEJ, Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques, 2024 (forthcoming).

“Trois questions à Isabelle Drouet et Marion Vorms”, interview by Florence Bellivier and Christine Noiville, Cahiers Droit, Science et Technologie, 2023.

“Dans la tête du juge. Autour des travaux de Marion Vorms sur le raisonnement probatoire au tribunal”, interview by Marion Lemoine-Schonne and Laurent Rousvoal, Amplitude du droit, 2, 2023. Online access here.

“Sciences et justice : un lien complexe”, interview about the Mediator trial (with Isabelle Drouet), by par Violette Vauloup, Sciences Ouest, April 2023, 408: 9.

“Vérité et faits juridiques dans une perspective épistémologique, Grief. Revue des mondes juridiques, 2023, n°10/1, p. 83-86.

“Une raison bien gardée”, Igitur, Arguments philosophiques, vol 13, n°1 (2022) p. 21-34, « Les disputes de la raison », about Pascal Engel’s Manuel rationaliste de survie.  Online access here.

“La valeur probante du témoignage: perspectives épistémologique et juridique”, Cahiers philosophiques, 142, 3 (2015): 21-52.

“What do Genetic Maps Represent?”, in S. Brauckmann, C. Brandt, D. Thieffry & G. B. Müller (eds.), Graphing Genes, Cells, and Embryos. Cultures of Seeing 3D and Beyond, MPI Preprint 380, 2009.

“À l’épreuve du monde. L’éducation au sens large”, Les Études Philosophiques, 3 (2007), “Simone Weil et la Philosophie”: 155-168.

Translations (from English into French)

Burge, T. “Content preservation”, in D. Bonnay, H. Galinon & M. Vorms (eds.), Épistémologie sociale, textes clés, Vrin (forthcoming).

Coady, C.A.J. “Testimony and observation”, in D. Bonnay, H. Galinon & M. Vorms (eds.), Épistémologie sociale, textes clés, Vrin (forthcoming).

Chang, H., “Complementary chemistry”, in J.P. Llored (ed.), La chimie, cette inconnue ?, Hermann (forthcoming).

Books and conferences reviews

Review of R. Frigg & M. C. Hunter (eds.), Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in art and science, Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. Theoria, 75: 391-394, 2012.

Report on the conference Models and Simulations 2 (with Julian Reiss), The Reasoner, vol. 1, n°7, nov. 2007.

“L’actualité de Simone Weil”, review of the last publications on Simone Weil, Les Études Philosophiques, 2007, 3 (“Simone Weil et la Philosophie”), pp. 243-256.

Edited volumes

Co-editor (with Denis Bonnay and Henri Galinon) of a volume presenting and translating a selection of key articles in social epistemology, Vrin (forthcoming).

Co-editor (with Ulrike Hahn), “Reasonable Doubt: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives”, topical collection of Synthese.

Co-editor (with Chris Pincock), “Models and Simulations 4”, special issue of Synthese, 190, 2 (2013): 187-337.

Monograph (in French)

Qu’est-ce qu’une théorie scientifique?,  Vuibert “Philosophie des sciences”, 2011. Preface by Paul Humphreys.