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11Social Studies of ScienceIn Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Routledge. pp. 259--68. 2005.
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Abandoning science and truth, or reclaiming science and truth from nietzschean ascetic ideals?Rivista di Estetica 45 (28): 199-223. 2005.
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Darwinian inferencesIn Martin Brinkworth & Friedel Weinert (eds.), Evolution 2.0: Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences, Springer. 2011.
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13Review. Paul Feyerabend. Killing timeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (3): 467-473. 1996.
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5Review of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson: The Structure and Development of Science (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 35 (2): 184-188. 1984.
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1Review of Hilary Putnam: Meaning and the Moral Sciences (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (1): 91-97. 1980.
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70Nietzsche as Anti-Semitic Jewish Conspiracy TheoristCroatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 35-62. 2003.Despite his strong objections to anti-Semitism, it will be argued that Nietzsche held a curious conspiracy theory about the Jews that is uniquely his own. Modern Jews, he declared, had the power to have mastery over Europe. And Ancient Jews exercised a remarkable power of self-preservation when they got others to accept the slave morality of Christianity. The second claim is shown to have a setting in Nietzsche’s own theory of the genealogy of morals. But it is argued that that theory is defecti…Read more
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Harré, R., "Varieties of Realism: A Rationale for the Natural Sciences" (review)Mind 96 (n/a): 575. 1987.
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8The Philosophy of Perception (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 17 (n/a): 276-277. 1968.These three volumes are amongst the first of a series of anthologies of philosophical writings under the title Oxford Readings in Philosophy, the series editor being G J Warnock. The blurb on the back of each says that ‘the aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader’. But all good anthologis…Read more
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35Some observations on a Popperian experiment concerning observationJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 21 (2): 329-346. 1990.Summary In several places Popper describes a little experiment in which an audience is given the non-specific command âObserve!â He draws a number of conclusions from this experiment, in particular that observation takes place in the presence of theoretical problems, questions, hypotheses or points of view. The paper argues that while Popper's experiment is instructive, it hardly supports the strong conclusions he draws about the theory-dominance of observation in science. In particular, it …Read more
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OME, R. W.: "Science Under Scrutiny: The Place of History and Philosophy of Science" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (n/a): 553. 1985.
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32Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in IndiaScience & Education 13 (3): 243-249. 2004.
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47Varieties of structuralism Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-6 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9557-x Authors Robert Nola, Department of Philosophy, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796
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40This is a collection of 23 papers plus an Introduction in a book which revives an old issue that some have declared to be long dead, viz., whether there is any way of demarcating science from other endeavors, but most importantly pseudoscience. This is a timely book that is well worth consulting since it breathes life back into an important problem. There is something in it for all, as the six parts into which it is divided indicate: “What’s the problem with the demarcation problem?”; “History a…Read more
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26Review of Herbert Keuth, The Philosophy of Karl Popper (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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35‘Paradigms lost, or the world regained’ —An excursion into realism and idealism in scienceSynthese 45 (3): 317-350. 1980.Tensions between idealism and scientific realism have been resolved by an appeal to the theory/observation distinction. but many who support incommensurability reject the distinction in favor of a version of idealism, e.g., thomas kuhn who supports a version of relativist idealism in which the terms of a theory do refer, but only to a paradigm--relative world of entities. it is argued that the three kinds of idealism depend on a cluster theory of meaning for fixing the reference of scientific te…Read more
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75The status of Popper's theory of scientific methodBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (4): 441-480. 1987.
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39There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy: A dialogue on realism and constructivismStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5): 689-727. 1993.
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22On the possibility of a scientific theory of scientific methodScience & Education 8 (4): 427-439. 1999.Normative naturalism (NN), advocated by Larry Laudan, understands the principles of scientific method to be akin to scientific hypotheses which are then open to test like any principles of science. It uses a meta-inductive rule to test methodological principles against suitably presented episodes in the history of science. One strength of NN is that it provides the basis for a philosophical/historical research programme into the methodological strategies actually employed in the sciences. But fo…Read more
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17Relativism and Realism in Science (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1988.The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major D…Read more