Cleland, Carol E. (forthcoming). "What is life?," in Kampourakis, K. (ed.), Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Biology Education, Springer (forthcoming).

Cleland, Carol E. (forthcoming). "Is a General Theory of Life Possible?: Understanding the origins and nature of life in the context of a single example", in Sterelny, K., Callebaut, W., and Pigliucci, M (eds.), The Meaning of Theory in Biology, MIT Press (forthcoming).

Cleland, Carol E. (2011). "Conceptual Challenges for Contemporary Theories of the Origin of Life," Current Organic Chemistry: Special Issue on Prebiotic Chemistry, (forthcoming)

Cleland, Carol E. and Brindell, S. (forthcoming). "Science and the Messy, Uncontrollable World of Nature," in Pigliucci, M and Boudry, M. (eds), Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (University of Chicago Press) (forthcoming).

Cleland, Carol E. and Wilson, E. (forthcoming). "Lessons from Earth: Towards an Ethics of Astrobiology," in Stoeger, Impey, and Spitz (eds.), Astrobiology: Social, Cultural, and Ethical Questions (forthcoming).

Cleland, Carol E. (2010). "Common Cause Explanation and the Asymmetry of Overdetermination," Max Weber Working Paper Series, EU Publications (2010).

Cleland, Carol E. (2009). "Philosophical issues in natural history and its historiography" in Tucker, A. (ed), Blackwell Companions to Philosophy: A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Oxford: Blackwell Pub., pp. 44-62.

Cleland, Carol E. (2007). "A Shadow Biosphere," Astrobiology Magazine, December 1, 2006, pp. 1-4.

Cleland, Carol E. (2006). "The Church-Turing Thesis: A last vestige of a failed mathematical program, " in Olszewksi, A., Wolenski, J. and R. Janusz (eds.), Church’s Thesis after Seventy Years. Berlin: Ontos Verlag, pp. 119-146.

Cleland, Carol E. (2006). "Understanding the Nature of Life: A Matter of Definition or Theory," in Seckbach, J. (ed.), Life as We Know It. (Vol. 10 of the Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology Series). Berlin: Springer. 

Cleland, Carol E. & Shelley Copley (2005). "The Possibility of Alternative Microbial Life on Earth," International Journal of Astrobiology 4, pp. 165-173. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2004). "Keith M. Parsons, 'Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars'," Philosophy of Science 71, pp. 605-607. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2004). "The Concept of Computability," Theoretical Computer Science 317/1-3, pp. 209-225. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2004). "Why it is a mistake to define 'life'," in Bedau, Husbands, et al. (eds), Artificial Life IX Workshop Proceedings, pp. 93-95. 

Cleland, Carol E. & Christopher Chyba (2002). "Defining 'Life'," Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 32(4), pp. 387- 93. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2002). "Methodological and Epistemic Differences Between Historical Science and Experimental Science," Philosophy of Science 69, pp. 474-496. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2002). "On Effective Procedures," in Carol E. Cleland (guest editor) Minds and Machines (special volume, Effective Procedures) 12, pp. 159-179. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2002). "Reply to Kevin Kilty's 'Comment on: Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method'," Geology 30, pp. 951-952. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2002). "Reply to R. J. Bailey's ' Comment on: Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method'," Geology 30, pp. 953-954. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2001). "Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method," Geology 29, pp. 987-990. 

Cleland, Carol E. (2001). "Recipes, Algorithms, and Programs," Minds and Machines 11, pp. 219-237. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1997). "David Miller, 'Critical Rationalism,'" The Philosophy Quarterly, pp. 400-404. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1995). "Standards of Evidence: How High for Ancient Life on Mars?", The Planetary Report Vol. XVII No.1, pp. 20-21. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1995). " Moore, G. E., 'Lectures on Metaphysics 1934-35,'" The Review of Metaphysics (March), pp. 671-673. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1995). "Effective Procedures and Computable Functions," Minds and Machines 5, pp. 9-23. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1995). "John Carroll, 'Laws of Nature,'" The Review of Metaphysics (December), pp. 406-408. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1994). "Jonathan Bennett, 'Events and their Names,' "Noûs Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, pp. 103-109. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1993). "Is the Church-Turing Thesis True?," Minds and Machines 3, pp. 283-312. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1992). "The Church/Turing Thesis: Procedures, Processes and Causation," ICS Technical Report, No. 92-04, pp. 1-38. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1991). "On the Individuation of Events," Synthese, Vol 86, pp. 229-254. 

(Reprinted in R. Casati & A. Varzi (eds.) Events. Dartmouth, 1996, pp. 373-400). 

Cleland, Carol E. (1990). "The Difference Between Real Change and Mere Cambridge Change," Philosophical Studies, Vol 60, pp. 257-280. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1988). "Is Smolensky's Treatment of Connectionism on the Level?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11:1, pp. 27-28. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1987). "Change, Process and Events," CSLI Report, No. CSLI-87-95, pp. 1-36. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1985). "Causality, Chance and Weak Non- Supervenience," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 22, pp. 287-298. 

Cleland, Carol E. (1984). "Space: An Abstract System of Non- Supervenient Relations," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 46, pp. 19- 40. 

Volumes:

Cleland, Carol E. (in progress). The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for life as we don't know it (under contract with Cambridge University Press). 

Bedau, Mark A. & Cleland, Carol E., eds. (2010). The Nature of Life: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives from Philosophy and Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cleland, Carol E., guest editor (2002). Effective Procedures, special volume of Minds and Machines, 12.