SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
edited volumes
RESEARCH PAPERS
- Gurova, L. (2025). The reformation of faith – reformation of knowledge analogy revisited. In: M. Szỉvós & T.R. Szanto (Eds.) Knowledge. Controversy. Virtuality. Studies in honour of László Ropolyi on is 75th birthday. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 35-43.
- Gurova, L. (2024). Understanding and Inference in Recent Works on Scientific Understanding. In: A. I. Mărăşoiu, M. Dumitru (Eds.) Understanding and Conscious Experience. Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives. London: Routledge, 62-74.
- Gurova, L. (2022). The uses of truth: Is there room for reconciliation of factivist and non-factivist accounts of scientific understanding?. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 35 (3-4), 211-221.
- Gurova, L. (2021). Feigned Narratives Do Not Always Satisfy Needs: The Case of Factitious Disorders. Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13 (1), 83-90.
- Gurova, L. (2017). A Reason to Avoid the Causal Construal of Dispositional Explanations. Organon F 24 (4), 438-455.
- Gurova, L. (2017). On some non-trivial implications of the view that good explanations increase our understanding of explained phenomena. Balkan Journal of Philosophy 9 (1), 45-52.
- Gurova, L. (2017). Are Causal Accounts of Explanation Always Useful? In the Case of Personality Trait Explanations They Are Probably Not. EPSA 15 Selected Papers, 167-177.
- Gurova, L., Shahbazyan, L., Petkov, G. (2015). Understanding Hostile Attributional Bias: Dodge’s Model Revisited. In: Stoyanov, D. (Ed.) Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 193-206.
- Gurova, L. (2014). The Principle Based Explanations Are not Extinct in Cognitive Science: The Case of the Basic Level Effects. Philosophia Scientiae 18 (3): 203-214.
- Shahbazyan, L., Petkov, G., Gurova, L. (2014) Analogical transfer of intentions. Proc. of 36th Annual Cognitive Science Conference. 23-26 July, Quebec City, Canada: 2907-2912.
- Gurova, L. (2013). Principles Versus Mechanisms in Cognitive Science. In: Karakostas, V., Dieks, D. (Eds.) EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer, 393-403.
- Gurova, L., Pléh, C. (2013). Existing and Would-Be Accounts of the History of Cognitive Science: An Introduction. In: Pléh, C., Gurova, L., Ropolyi, L. (Eds.). New Perspectives on the History of Cognitive Science. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1-34.
- Gurova, L. (2013). Towards a New Philosophical Perspective on the History of Cognitive Science. In: Pléh, C., Gurova, L., Ropolyi, L. (Eds.). New Perspectives on the History of Cognitive Science. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 35-42.
- Gurova, L. (2013). Thirty Years of Cognitive Studies of Categorization: What Is behind the Reported Progress? In: Pléh, C., Gurova, L., Ropolyi, L. (Eds.). New Perspectives on the History of Cognitive Science. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 165-174.
- Gurova, L. (2013). ‘Understanding It Makes It Normal’: Is It a Reasoning Fallacy or Not? Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19, 524-527.
- Gurova, L. (2012). Inferentialism and the Laws of Nature Controversy. In: Gurova, L. (Ed.). Inference, Consequence and Meaning: Perspectives on Inferentialism. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 131-141.
- Gurova, L. (2011). Fodor vs. Darwin: A Methodological Follow-Up. In: Hvorecky, J., Hribek, T. (Eds.) Knowledge, Value, Evolution. London: College Publications, 55-63.
- Gurova, L. (2011). Sparse and Dense Categories: What They Tell Us about Natural Kinds. In: Petrov, V. (Ed.) Ontological Landscapes. Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 157-167.
- Gurova, L. (2008). Assuming Essences and Refuting Them. In: Raynova, I., Petrov, V. (Eds.). Being and Knowledge in Postmetaphysical Context. Wien: Institut fűr Axiologische Forschungen, pp. 103-109.
- Gurova, L. (2007). National Philosophies of Science? How Social Categorization Screens off Genuine Causal Explanations. In: Kaneva, S. (Ed.) Philosophy Bridging Civilizations and Cultures. Proc. of XXIV Varna International Philosophical School, 01-03 June, 2006. Sofia: IPhR – BAS, 350-355.
- Gurova, L. (2004). Philosophy of Science in the Struggle for the Soul of Science. In: Kaneva, S., Genova, D., Obreshkov, N.(Eds.) Challenges Facing Philosophy in United Europe. Proceedings of 23rd Varna International Philosophical School. Sofia: IPhR-BAS, 50-56.
- Gurova, L. (2003). Philosophy of science meets cognitive science: the categorization debate. In: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.236. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 141-162.
reviews AND NOTES
- Gurova, L. (2024). Review of: Boris D. Grozdanoff, Zdravko Popov and Silviya Serafimova (eds.), Rationality and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023, 221 p. ISBN: 978-1-5275-9441-8. Balkan Journal of Philosophy 16 (1), 88-91.
- Gurova, L. (2017). How does philosophy of science make a difference in the world we live in? A conversation with Stephan Hartmann, Stathis Psillos, and Roman Frigg. Balkan Journal of Philosophy 9 (1), 79-82.
- Gurova, L. (2016). Philosophy of science in Europe: Bulgaria. EPSA Newsletter 01-2016. http://www.philsci.eu/Newsletter-01-2016-Philosophy-of-Science-in-Europe/
- Gurova, L. (2009). Review: Psillos, Stathis (2007). Philosophy of Science A-Z. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. Balkan Journal of Philosophy, vol.1, No2, 159-162.
- Gurova, L. (2009). Inference, Consequence, and Meaning, 3-4 December. The Reasoner, vol. 3, No 1, 7-8.
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BOOKS
Гурова, Л. (2019). Обяснение, разбиране и извод. София: Изд. на Нов български университет. Гурова, Л., Цацов, Д. (1999). Дебатът психологизъм – антипсихологизъм. София: Богианна. Гурова, Л. (1998). Ролята на проблемите. София: Богианна. PAPERS
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