Publications

 Peer reviewed journal articles 
  1. Kostić, D. and Khalifa, K. (2025). “Does Functional Connectivity Explain?” Synthese, 206:207​. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05296-w   
  2. Barman, K. G., Caron, S., Sullivan, E., de Regt, H. W., de Austri, R. R., Boon, M., Färber, M., Fröse, S., Golling, T., Lopez, L. G., Hasibi, F., Heinrich, L., Ipp, A., Kapoor, R., Kasieczka, G., Kostić, D., Krämer, M., Marco, J., Otten, S., Pawlowski, P., Vischia, P., Weber, E., Weniger, C. (2025). “Large physics models: towards a collaborative approach with large language models and foundation models”. European Physical Journal C. 85, 1066. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14707-8
  3. Kostić, D. (2024). “On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Non-causal Explanations”. Philosophy of Science, 91(5), 1078–1088. doi:10.1017/psa.2023.114 
  4. Kostić, D., Halffman, W. (2023). “Mapping Explanatory Language in Neuroscience”. Synthese 202, 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04329-6. 
  5. de Boer, N., Kostić, D., Ross, M., de Bruin, L., Glas, G. (2022) “Using Network Models in Person-centered Care in Psychiatry: How Perspectivism Could Help to Draw Boundaries.” Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13:925187, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.925187.
  6. Kostić, D. and Khalifa, K. (2022). "Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms.” Philosophy of Science (2022), 22, 1–24 doi:10.1017/psa.2022.29.
  7. Khalifa, K., Islam, F., Gamboa, J.P.,Wilkenfeld, D. A., Kostić, D. (2022). “Integrating Philosophy of Understanding with the Cognitive Sciences”, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 16:764708. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.764708.
  8. Kostić, D. and Khalifa, K. (2021) “The Directionality of Topological Explanations.” Synthese, 199, 14143–14165 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03414-y.
  9. Kostić, D. (2020). “General Theory of Topological Explanations and Explanatory Asymmetry”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20190321. 
  10. Kostić, D., Hilgetag, C., Tittgemeyer, M. (2020). “Unifying the Essential Concepts of Biological Networks”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375: 20190314.
  11. Kostić, D. (2019).  “Minimal Structure Explanations, Scientific Understanding and Explanatory Depth”, Perspectives on Science, 27 (1), 48-67.
  12. Kostić, D. (2019). “Unifying the Debates: Mathematical and Non-Causal Explanations”, Perspectives on Science, 27 (1), 1-6.
  13. Kostić, D. (2018). “The Topological Realization”. Synthese, 195(1), 79-98.
  14. Kostić, D. (2018). “Mechanistic and Topological Explanations: an Introduction”. Synthese, 195(1), 1-10.
  15. Kostić, D. (2017). "Explanatory Perspectivalism: Limiting the Scope of the Hard Problem of Consciousness". Topoi, 36(1), 119-125.
  16. Kostić, D. (2012). “Foundations of Transparency of Explanations: Semantic Realization”, Treci program 156/IV, pp. 1-12.
  17. Kostić, D. (2012). “The Vagueness Constraint and the Quality Space for Pain”, Philosophical Psychology, 25 (6), pp. 929-939.
  18. Kostić, D. (2011). “The Two-dimensional Argument Against Physicalism and the Conceptual Analysis”, Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 24, pp. 05-17.
  19. Kostić, D. (2011). “The Explanatory Gap Account and Intelligibility of Explanation”, Theoria, LIV, 3, pp. 27-43.
 
Invited book chapters
 
   20. Kostić, D. (2022). “Topological Explanations, an Opinionated Appraisal.” In Lawler, I., Shech, E. and Khalifa, K. (eds): Scientific Understanding and  Representation: Mathematical Modeling in the Life and Physical Sciences, Routledge, pp. 96-115. DOI: 10.4324/9781003202905-9.
   21. Kostić, D. (2016). “The Role of Topological Representation of the Brain in Understanding its Properties, Functions and Behaviors“, in „Aspects of the Mental Representation Problems“, Gvozdenovic, V. (Ed.), Akademska Misao, Belgrade.  

Monographs
 
   22. Kostić, Daniel (2012). “The Explanatory Gap Problem – How Neuroscience Might Contribute to its Solution”, Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DOI: 10.18452/16447. 

Edited volumes
 
   23. Kostić, D., Hilgetag, C., Tittgemeyer, M. (2020). “Unifying the Essential Concepts of Biological Networks: Biological Insights and Philosophical Foundations”, a Theme Issue in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
   24. Kostić, D. (2019).  "Unifying the Debates: Mathematical and Non-causal Explanations", Special Issue in Perspectives on Science, 27 (1).
   25. Kostić, D. (2018)."Mechanistic and Topological Explanations”, Special Issue in Synthese 195(1).
   26. Kostić, D. (2014). “Explanation, Evidence, Theory”, Special Issue in Treci program, 163 (III).
   27. Kostić, D. (2012). “Structure of Explanations”, Special Issue in Treci program, 56 (IV). 

Book reviews
 
   28. Kostić, D. (2018). “The Ultimate Articulation of the Account of Explanatory Understanding”, Metascience, 28 (1): 61–64. (Review of K. Khalifa, Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge.) 

Commentaries
 
   29. Milkowski, M., and Kostić, D. (2023). “Forging Connections: Uniting Neuroscience and Philosophy of Science.” eLetter, Levenstein, Daniel, et al. "On the role of theory and modeling in neuroscience." Journal of Neuroscience, 43.7 (2023): 1074-1088. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/43/7/1074/tab-e-letters#forging-connections-uniting-neuroscience-and-philosophy-of-science.