Contributions to Books
How Wisdom Can Help Solve Global Problems, in Sternberg, R., Nusbaum, H., Glueck, J. (Eds.), Applying wisdom to contemporary world problems, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2019, pp. 337-380.
The Urgent Need for Social Wisdom, in Sternberg, R., Gluck, J. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, pp. 754-780.
Do We Need an Academic Revolution to Create a Wiser World?, in R. Barnett & M. A. Peters, eds., The Idea of the University: Volume 2:Contemporary Perspectives, Peter Lang, New York, 2018, chapter 28.
Could Inelastic Interactions Induce Quantum Probabilistic Transitions? in Shan Gao, ed., Collapse of the Wave Function, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, ch. 14, pp. 257-273.
Relativity Theory may not have the last Word on the Nature of Time: Quantum Theory and Probabilism, in Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding, ed. G. Ghirardi and S. Wuppuluri, Springer, 2017, pp. 109-124.
Popper's Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy in J. Shearmur & G. Stokes (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Popper, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016, ch. 7, pp. 170-207.
Can Scientific Method Help Us Create a Wiser World?, in N. Dalal, A. Intezari and M. Heitz, eds., Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, Issues and Questions for a New Millennium, Routledge, London, 2016, ch. 11, pp. 147-161.
What’s Wrong with Science and Technology Studies? What Needs to Be Done to Put It Right?, in Raffaelle Pisano, ed., A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society and Technology Studies, Springer, Dordrecht, 2015, pp. vii-xxxvii.
What Philosophy Ought to Be, in C. Tandy, ed., Death and Anti-Death, Volume 11: Ten Years After Donald Davidson (1917-2003), Ria University Press, Palo Alto, California, 2014, ch. 7, pp. 125-162.
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically Comprehensible?, in Recent Advances in Cosmology, ed. A. Travena and B. Soena, Nova Publishers Inc, New York, 2013.
Taking the Nature of God Seriously, in Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, Springer 2013, pp. 585-597.
Our Global Problems And What We Need To Do About Them, in C. Tandy and J. Lee, eds., Death and Anti-Death Anthology, vol. 10: Ten Years After John Rawls (1921-2002), 2012, Ch. 7, pp. 131-174, Ria University Press, Palo Alto, California.
Wisdom: Object of Study or Basic Aim of Inquiry?, in M. Ferrari and N. Weststrate, eds., The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom, Springer, 2012, ch. 14, pp. 299-324.
Creating a Better World: Towards the University of Wisdom, in R. Barnett, ed., The Future University: Ideas and Possibilities, Routledge, New York, 2012, pp. 123-138.
How Universities Can Help Humanity Learn How to Resolve the Crises of Our Times - From Knowledge to Wisdom: The University College London Experience, Handbook on the Knowledge Economy, vol. 2, ed. G. Heam, T. Katlelle and D. Rooney, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2012, pp. 158-179.
A Priori Conjectural Knowledge in Physics, in What Place for the A Priori?, edited by Michael Shaffer and Michael Veber, Open Court, Chicago, 2011, pp. 211-240.
Is the Quantum World Composed of Propensitons?, in Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, edited by Mauricio Suárez, Synthese Library, Springer, Dordrecht, 2011, pp. 219-241.
We Urgently Need an Academic Revolution, in How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth, ed. John E. Wade II, Pelican Publishing Co., 2010, pp. 269-71.
The Urgent Need For An Academic Revolution: The Rational Pursuit Of Wisdom, in Death And Anti-Death, Volume 7: Nine Hundred Years After St. Anselm (1033-1109), ed. C. Tandy, Ria University Press, Palto Alto, California, 2010, ch. 7, pp. 211-238.
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution: From Knowledge to Wisdom, text of key note address given on 20 May 2010 at a Conference at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, in III International Interdisciplinary Technical Conference of Young Scientists: Proceedings, ed. W. Karpiuk and K. Wisniewski, Poznan, 2010, pp. 19-30.
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution, in History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure, ed.M. Levene, R. Johnson, R. Maguire, Humanities-Ebooks, Tirril, Penrith, 2010.
From Knowledge to Wisdom, in Ideas on the Nature of Science, ed.David Cayley, ed., Goose Lane Editions, New Brunswick, 2009, pp. 360-378 (text of broadcast on 18 June 2008).
Replies and Reflections, in Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, edited by Leemon McHenry, Ontos Verlag, 2009, pp. 249-313.
How Can Life of Value Best Flourish in the Real World?, in Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, edited by Leemon McHenry, Ontos Verlag, 2009, pp. 1-56 A summary of my life's work.
From Knowledge to Wisdom: The Need for an Academic Revolution, in Wisdom in the University, ed., R. Barnett and N. Maxwell, Routledge, London, 2008 (pbk, 2009), pp. 1-33.
The Disastrous War against Terrorism: Violence versus Enlightenment, chapter 3 of Terrorism Issues: Threat Assessment Consequences and Prevention, ed. Albert W. Merkidze, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2007, pp. 111-133.
The Enlightenment, Popper and Einstein, in Knowledge and Wisdom: Advances in Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Human Systems Management, Y. Shi et al. (eds.), IOS Press, 2007, pp. 131-148.
The Enlightenment Programme and Karl Popper, in Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment. Volume 1: Life and Times, Values in a World of Facts, ed. I Jarvie, K.Milford and D. Miller, chapter 11, Ashgate, London, 2006, pp. 177-190.
Practical Certainty and Cosmological Conjectures, in M. Rahnfeld, ed., Gibt es sicheres Wissen?, Leipziger Unversitätsverlag, Leipzig, 2006, pp. 44-59.
Learning to Live a Life of Value, in J. Merchey, ed., Living a Life of Value, Values of the Wise Press, 2006, pp. 383-395.
Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism and Ultimate Reality, in The Ontology of Spacetime, edited by D. Dieks, Elsevier, B. V., 2006, pp. 229-245.
A Critique of Popper's Views on Scientific Method, in Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, edited by A. O'Hear, Routledge, 2004; reprint of 1972 article.
Art as Its Own Interpretation, in Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, edited by A. Ruvoi, Rodopi, 2003, pp. 269-83.
Karl Raimund Popper, in British Philosophers, 1800-2000, edited by P. Dematteis, P. Fosl and L. McHenry, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Columbia, 2002, pp. 176-194.
Must Science Make Cosmological Assumptions if it is to be Rational?, in The Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Irish Philosophical Society, Spring Conference, edited by T. Kelly, Irish Philosophical Society, Maynooth, 1997, pp. 98-146.
A Philosopher Struggles to Understand Quantum Theory: Particle Creation and Wavepacket Reduction, in Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics, edited by M. Ferrero and A. van der Merwe, Kluwer Academic, 1995, pp. 205-214.
Towards a New Enlightenment: What the task of Creating Civilization has to learn from the Success of Modern Science, in Academic Community: Discourse or Discord?, edited by R. Barnett, Jessica Kingsley, 1994, pp. 86-105.
Beyond Fapp: Three Approaches to Improving Orthodox Quantum Theory and An Experimental Test, in Bell's Theorem and the Foundations of Modern Physics, edited by A. van der Merwe, F. Selleri and G. Tarozzi, World Scientific, 1993, pp. 362-370.
How Can We Build a Better World? In Einheit der Wissenschaften: Internationales Kolloquium der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 25-27 June 1990. J. Mittelstrass (editor). (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.), 1991, pp. 388-427.
Methodological Problems of Neuroscience, in Models of the Visual Cortex, edited by D. Rose and V.G. Dobson, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1985, pp. 11-21.
Can there be Necessary Connections between Successive Events?, in The Justification of Induction, edited by R. Swinburne, Oxford University Press, London, 1974, pp. 149-74. (Reprint of paper published in 1968.)