Publications

Journal articles and book chapters, chronological (newest first).

2026
Trustworthiness, Non-Manipulation, and Public Health Guidance for Individuals

Philosophy of Medicine 7(1)

Harvard, S., and E. Winsberg.
2026
Bureaucratic Science: A Public Choice Analysis of Gatekeeping during COVID-19

Synthese 207, article 10

Winsberg, E.
2026
The Perverse Incentives of Climate Integration: Why Researchers Can’t Deliver What Funding Institutions Demand

Philosophy & Public Affairs 54(1): 16–33

Winsberg, E.
2025
The ‘Values in Modelling’ framework for patient and public involvement in health economics modelling: development and application in the LEAP model project

PharmacoEconomics

Harvard, S., R. Carter, S. H. Chong, T. Lanier, Z. Zeyan, A. Adibi, S. Lee, C. Novacovik, M. Ewert, E. B. Winsberg, and K. Johnson.
2025
Managing Values in Science: A return to decision theory

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Winsberg, E.
2025
A Reply to Bernstein, Jayaram, and Hutler’s “Assessing the Liberty-Based Case Against Pandemic Lockdowns”

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 35(2): 197–204

Winsberg, E.
2024
Falsehoods Fly: a review essay

The Journal of Value Inquiry

Winsberg, E.
2024
‘Managing values’ in health economics modelling: philosophical and practical considerations

Social Science and Medicine

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E.
2024
Three Hidden Disagreements Over E-Cigarettes

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E., Duan, K., Carlsten, C.
2023
Patient and Public Involvement in Health Economics Modelling Raises the Need for Normative Guidance

Pharmacoeconomics

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E.
2023
The Metaphysics of PROB and PH

Time’s arrow and the Probability Structure of the World, edited by Loewer, B., Winsberg, E. and Weslake, B., Harvard University Press

Winsberg, E.
2022
Who is responsible for global health inequalities after Covid-19?

Global Epidemiology

Winsberg, E.
2022
Purposes and Duties in Scientific Modeling

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E.
2022
Putting Races on the Ontological Map: a Close Look at Spencer’s ‘New Biologism’ of Race

Biology & Philosophy

Winsberg, E.
2022
The Epistemic Risk in Representation

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E.
2021
Causal Inference, Moral Intuition, and Modeling in a Pandemic

Philosophy of Medicine

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E.
2021
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow!

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Winsberg, E.
2021
Value Judgments in a COVID-19 Vaccination model: a Case Study in the Need for Public Involvement in Health-oriented Modelling

Social Science & Medicine

Harvard, S., Winsberg, E., Symons, J., Adibi, A.
2021
The Diversity of Philosophy Students and Faculty in the United States

The Philosophers’ Magazine

Schwitzgebel, E., Bright, L.K., Jennings, C.D., Thompson, M. and Winsberg, E.
2021
This Paper Attacks a Strawman, and the Strawman Wins: A Reply to van Basshuyen and White

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Winsberg, E., Brennan, J., Surprenant, C.
2021
A Modest Defense of Geoengineering Research

Philosophy and Technology

Winsberg, E.
2021
How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties during the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Winsberg, E., Brennan, J., Surprenant, C.
2020
Severe Weather Event Attribution: Why Values Won’t Go Away

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Winsberg, E., Oreskes N., Lloyd, E.
2019
Hawking Radiation and Analogue Experiments: a Bayesian Analysis

Studies in History & Philosophy of Modern Physics

Dardashti, R., Hartmann, S., Thébault, K., Winsberg, E.
2018
An Antidote for Hawkmoths: a Response to Recent Arguments Grounded in the Topology of Dynamical Systems

European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Nabergall, L., Navas, A., Winsberg, E.
2018
What does Robustness Teach us in Climate Science: a Re-appraisal

Synthese

Winsberg, E.
2018
Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modelling

Philosophical and Conceptual Issues in Climate Modeling, edited by Winsberg, E. and Lloyd, E., Palgrave MacMillan

Winsberg, E.
2017
Values and Evidence: How Models Make a Difference

European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Parker, W., Winsberg, E.
2017
Representational Risk

Routledge Handbook on Science and Values, edited by Kevin Elliot and Ted Richards, Routledge

Winsberg, E. and Harvard, S.
2017
Success and Scientific Realism: Considerations from the Philosophy of Simulation

Routledge Handbook on Scientific Realism, edited by Juha Saatsi, Routledge

Winsberg, E. and Mirza, A.
2017
Making an Author in Radically Collaborative Research

The Collective Dimensions of Science, edited by Weisberg, Mayo-Wilson and Boyer, Oxford University Press

Huebner, B., Kukla, R. and Winsberg, E.
2016
The Adventures of Climate Science in the Sweet Land of Idle Dreams

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Winsberg, E., Goodwin, W.
2016
Missing the Forest for the Fish: How Much does the ‘Hawkmoth effect’ Threaten the Viability of Climate Projections?

Philosophy of Science

Goodwin, W., Winsberg, E.
2015
Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: What Dumb Holes could tell us about Gravity

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Dardashti, R., Thébault, K., Winsberg, E.
2015
Deflationism, Pragmatism, and Metaphysics

Aspects of Anti-Representationalism, edited by Steven Gross, Nicholas Tebben, and Michael Williams, Oxford University Press

Kukla, R., and Winsberg, E.
2014
Accountability and Values in Radically Collaborative Research

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Winsberg, E., Huebner, B., Kukla, R.
2012
Bumps on the Road to Here (from Eternity)

Entropy 14(3), 390-406

Winsberg, E.
2012
Values and Uncertainties in the Predictions of Global Climate Models

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 22(2), 111-137

Winsberg, E.
2012
Holism, Entrenchment, and the Future of Climate Model Pluralism

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41(3), 253-262

Lenhard, J., and Winsberg, E.
2009
A Tale of Two Methods

Synthese 169(3), 575-92

Winsberg, E.
2009
A Function for Fictions: Expanding the Scope of Science

Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization, edited by Suarez, M., Routledge

Winsberg, E.
2009
Value Judgments and the Estimation of Uncertainty in Climate Modeling

New Waves in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Magnus, P.D., and Busch, J., Palgrave MacMillan

Biddle, J. and Winsberg, E.
2008
Laws and Chances in Statistical Mechanics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39(4), 872-888

Winsberg, E.
2006
Handshaking Your Way to the Top: Inconsistency and Falsification in Intertheoretic Reduction

Philosophy of Science 73, 582-594

Winsberg, E.
2006
Models of Success vs. the Success of Models: Reliability without Truth

Synthese 152, 1-19

Winsberg, E.
2004
Laws and Statistical Mechanics

Philosophy of Science 71, 707-718

Winsberg, E.
2004
Can Conditionalizing on the “Past Hypothesis” Militate Against the Reversibility Objections?

Philosophy of Science 71, 489-504 (winner of 2004 award for outstanding Philosophy of Science article by a recent Ph.D.)

Winsberg, E.
2003
Quantum Life: Interaction, Entanglement, and Separation

Journal of Philosophy C, 80-97

Winsberg, E. and Fine, A.
2003
Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World

Philosophy of Science 70, 105-125

Winsberg, E.
2001
Simulations, Models, and Theories: Complex Physical Systems and their Representations

Philosophy of Science 68, S442-S454

Winsberg, E.
1999
Sanctioning Models: The Epistemology of Simulation

Science in Context 12(3), 275-92

Winsberg, E.