Boyd teki väitöskirjansa ”A recursion-theoretic characterization of the ramified analytical hierarchy” Hilary Putnamin ohjaamana. Se oli MIT:n ensimmäisiä filosofian alalla.
Julkaisuja
”A Recursion-Theoretic Characterization of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy”, yhdessä Gustav Henselin ja Hilary Putnamin kanssa. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 141 (Jul., 1969), 37-62
”Determinism, Laws and Predictability in Principle”, Philosophy of Science 39 (1972): 431-50.
”Realism, Underdetermination, and a Causal Theory of Evidence”. Noûs 7 (1973):1–12.
”Approximate Truth and Natural Necessity”. The Journal of Philosophy Vol. 73, No. 18, Seventy-Third Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (Oct., 1976), 633-635
”Metaphor and Theory Change”. Teoksessa Ortony, A. (toim.): Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
”Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail”. Teoksessa Block, N. (toim.): Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1980.
”Scientific Realism and Naturalistic Epistemology”, PSA 80, vol. 2 (Philosophy of Science Association) (ed R. N. Giere / P. D. Asquith) (1982).
”On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism”, Erkenntnis (1983) 19:45–90.
”Observations, Explanatory Power and Simplicity”. Teoksessa Achinstein & Hannaway (toim.): Observation, Experiment and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985).
”Lex Orandi est Lex Credendi”. Teoksessa Churchland & Hooker (toim.): Images of Science: Scientific Realism Versus Constructive Empiricism, Chicago 1985.
”How to be a Moral Realist”. Teoksessa McCord, Sayre (toim.): Moral Realism, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 1988.
”What Realism implies and What It Does Not”. Dielactica (1989)
”Realism, Conventionality, and 'Realism About”. Teoksessa Boolos (toim.): Meaning and Method, Cambridge 1990
”Realism, Approximate Truth and Philosophical Method”. Teoksessa Savage, Wade (toim.): Scientific Theories, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 14. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1990)
”Realism, Anti-Foundationalism and the Enthusiasm for Natural Kinds”, Philosophical Studies 61 (1991), 127-148
”Kinds as the Workmanship of Men. Realism, Constructivism, and Natural Kinds”. Teoksessa Nida-Rümelin, Julian (toim.): Rationalität, Realismus, Revision: Proceedings of the Third International Congress, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie. Berlin: de Gruyter (1999).
”Kinds, Complexity and Multiple Realizations: Comments on Millikan's 'Historical Kinds and the Special Sciences”, Philosophical Studies
”Homeostasis, Species, and Higher Taxa”. Teoksessa Wilson, R. (toim.): Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambdrige: MIT Press