Publications

Books

Tulodziecki, Dana (2025) Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues (Elements Series), Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009278478

This Element develops and advances a novel view – the Epistemic Labour View – about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical virtues can illuminate and resolve issues surrounding actual cases of underdetermination found in scientific practice.

Papers

Schwertz, H. & Tulodziecki, D. (2025), 'High-risk private space missions have potential impact on government-sponsored programs' (forthcoming), npj Microgravity

Tulodziecki, Dana (2025), ‘Data Can be Underdetermined, Too’ (forthcoming), Philosophy of Science, https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25259/

Potochnik, A. & Tulodziecki, D. (2025), ‘We Can’t Know If Scientific Theories Are Correct’, in Sosis, C. (ed.), Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny, Routledge

Vickers, P.,..., Tulodziecki, D., et al. (2024), ‘Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement’, PLoS ONE 19(12): e0313541.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313541

Seylani, A, ..., Schwertz, H., Dana Tulodziecki* (2024), 'Ethical Considerations for the Age of Non-Governmental Space Exploration', Nature Communications.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44357-x

Tulodziecki, Dana (2021). 'Theoretical Continuity, Approximate Truth, and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction'. In Timothy D. Lyons & Peter Vickers (eds.), Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 11-32.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190946814.003.0002

Tulodziecki, Dana (2021). 'How (not) to think about theory-change in epidemiology'. Synthese 198 (10): 2569-2588.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02135-7

Tulodziecki, Dana (2021). 'Virtues in Scientific Practice'. In Emanuele Ratti & Thomas A. Stapleford (eds.), Science, Technology, and Virtues: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190081713.003.0012

Tulodziecki, Dana & Curd, Martin (2019). ‘Should We Trust What Our Scientific Theories Say?’. In K. McCain and K. Kampourakis (eds.), What Is Scientific Knowledge?, New York: Routledge, pp. 245–259,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203703809

Tulodziecki, Dana (2017). 'Against Selective Realism(s)'. Philosophy of Science 84 (5):996-1007.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/694004

Tulodziecki, Dana (2017). 'Underdetermination'. In Juha Saatsi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203712498

Tulodziecki, Dana (2017). 'Abandoning the Realism Debate: Lessons from the Zymotic Theory of Disease'. In Michela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn & G. Schurz (eds.), EPSA 15 Selected Papers, European Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5. Springer. pp. 61--69.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53730-6_6

Tulodziecki, Dana (2016). 'Structural realism beyond physics'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 59:106--114.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.06.008

Tulodziecki, Dana (2016). 'From Zymes to Germs: Discarding the Realist/Anti-Realist Framework'. In Raphael Scholl & Tilman Sauer (eds.), The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Springer. pp. 265--284.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30229-4_13

Tulodziecki, Dana (2014). ‘Epistemic Virtues and the Success of Science’. In A. Fairweather (ed.), Virtue Epistemology Naturalized: Bridges between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Synthese Library, Springer, 247–268

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04672-315

Tulodziecki, Dana (2013). 'Underdetermination, methodological practices, and realism'. Synthese 190 (17):3731-3750.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0221-9

Tulodziecki, Dana (2013). 'Shattering the Myth of Semmelweis'. Philosophy of Science 80 (5):1065-1075.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/673935

Tulodziecki, Dana (2012). 'Epistemic Equivalence and Epistemic Incapacitation'. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (2):313-328.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axr032

Tulodziecki, Dana (2012). 'Principles of Reasoning in Historical Epidemiology'. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (5):968-973.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30229-4_13

Tulodziecki, Dana (2011). 'A case study in explanatory power: John Snow’s conclusions about the pathology and transmission of cholera'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (3):306-316.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.02.001

Tulodziecki, Dana (2007). 'Breaking the ties: epistemic significance, bacilli, and underdetermination'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (3):627-641.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.06.002

White Papers

De Marines, J., Haramia, C., Laflèche, , É.A, Tulodziecki, D., Wong M.L. (2025), ‘Strengthening Interdisciplinary Expertise Across Philosophy and Astrobiology’

Barker, R.,. . . , Tulodziecki, D., et al. (2021). ‘Space Biology Reference Experiment Campaigns
for High Fidelity Plant Physiology’, Research Campaign White Paper: Decadal Survey
on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032, The National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Permalink TBA)

Porterfield, D. M.; Tulodziecki, D.; Costes, S. V.; Beheshti, A.; Sanders, L. M. (2021). ‘Omics
and Open Science: A Platform and Approach for the Future for Space Biology’, Topical
White Paper: Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space
2023-2032), The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Permalink
TBA)

Book Reviews and Translations

Tulodziecki Dana (2008). Scientific Realism and the Colours of Dinosaurs. Metascience 17 (2):323-326.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-008-9177-2

(2004). English translation of Thomas Pogge (1998), ‘Gleiche Freiheit für alle?’, in Otfried
Höffe (ed.), John Rawls: Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, Berlin: Akademie Verlag
1998, 149–168 [‘Equal Liberty for All?’, in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (2004),
266–281]

(2002). German translation of Arthur Danto (2001), ‘Beauty and the End of Art’, talk delivered
at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 25 April, 2002

(2002). English translation of Thomas Pogge (2001), ‘Internationale Gerechtigkeit: Ein uni-
versalistischer Ansatz’, in Karl Graf Ballestrem (ed.), Internationale Gerechtigkeit,
Opladen: Leske und Budrich 2001, 31–54 [‘A Universalistic Approach to International
Justice’ in Giuseppe Zaccaria (ed.), International Justice and Interpretation, Münster:
LIT Verlag 2002