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  1. Yu, H., Petkov, S. (2024). Don’t get it wrong! On understanding and its negative phenomena. Synthese 203, 48
  2. Petkov Stefan, Haichiang Dai, Stumbrys Tadas. (under review). What is like to lucid dream? Lucidity as a test case for the knowledge argument.
  3. Petkov Stefan. Dai Haichiang (2021). In defense of veridicality. Partial truth and scientific understanding. Chinese Journal of Contemporary Values. (In Chinese)
  4. Petkov Stefan. (2021). Historical narratives and understanding - potential inferential power. Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13(1): 33-44
  5. Petkov, S. (2021). The Degrees of Understanding and the Inferential Component of Understanding. Organon F , 28(4), 746-776.
  6. Petkov Stefan. (2020). The role of truth in explanatory understanding. Balkan Journal of Philosophy 12(2): 87-98.
  7. Petkov, Stefan (2019). Studying Controversies: Unification, Contradiction, Integration. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 50 (1):103-128.
  8. Petkov Stefan, Wang Wei, Lei Yi. (2016). Explanatory unification and natural selection explanations. Biology & Philosophy 31(5): 705:725.
  9. Petkov, Stefan.(2015). Explanatory unification and conceptualization. Synthese 192 (11):3695-3717
  10. Petkov, Stefan.(2015).The Fitness Landscape Metaphor: Dead but Not Gone. Philosophia Scientiae 19(1), March 2015.
  11. Petkov, Stefan. (2013). Metaphors. In: Tabakov M. (ed). Encyclopedic dictionary of logic and semantics. Stars editing house. Sofia. (In Bulgarian).
  12. Petkov, Stefan. (2012). Metaphors in science: the life of the landscape metaphor in evolutionary biology. Philosophical Alternatives vol. 1/2012. (In Bulgarian).
  13. Petkov, Stefan. (2009). Scientific Standards and Scientific Metaphors in "Genetics and the Origins of Species" of Theodosius Dobzhansky. In: Stefanov, A., Gurova, L., Apostolov, A. (Eds.). Evolution and Knowledge. Sofia: Publishing House "Ivan Rilski", 17-31. (In Bulgarian).
  14. Petkov, Stefan. (2007). Creativity. In Gerdjikov S., Merdjanova Y. Philosophy for 11th grade. (In Bulgarian- High school textbook on philosophy, approved by the Bulgarian ministry of education).