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68Foregrounding the BackgroundPhilosophy of Science 83 (5): 647-661. 2016.Practice-centric and theory-centric approaches in philosophy of science are described and contrasted. The contrast is developed through an examination of their different treatments of the underdetermination problem. The practice-centric approach is illustrated by a summary of comparative research on approaches in the biology of behavior. The practice-centric approach is defended against charges that it encourages skepticism regarding the sciences.
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65Whither philosophy of science?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36 (4): 774-778. 2005.A response to Philip Mirowski’s criticism of 20th century philosophy of science as in collusion with cold war US politics. Only a very narrow view of the work in our field could support such a critique.
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191Evidence and hypothesis: An analysis of evidential relationsPhilosophy of Science 46 (1): 35-56. 1979.The subject of this essay is the dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs and assumptions. In Part I, two ways in which the relation between evidence and hypothesis is dependent on such assumptions are discussed and it is shown how in the context of appropriately differing background beliefs what is identifiable as the same state of affairs can be taken as evidence for conflicting hypotheses. The dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs is illustrated by discussio…Read more
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7The fate of knowledge in social theories of scienceIn Frederick F. Schmitt (ed.), Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 135--158. 1994.
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627Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific InquiryPrinceton University Press. 1990.This is an important book precisely because there is none other quite like it.
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