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13Review. Paul Feyerabend. Killing timeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (3): 467-473. 1996.
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225Introducing the Canberra PlanIn David Braddon-Mitchell & Robert Nola (eds.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, Mit Press. pp. 1--20. 2009.
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38Observation and Growth in Scientific KnowledgePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.In the writings of scientists we find claim to the effect that we can observe items such as pulsars, gravity waves, quarks, electrons, etc. An epistemological theory, originally developed by Dretske and modified by Jackson, is used to give an account of such claims and the extent to which they may be deemed correct. The theory eschews talk of the theory-ladenness of observation while giving an account of how our observation reports may evolve with growth in scientific knowledge. The theory is pa…Read more
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49Knowledge, discourse, power and genealogy in FoucaultCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 1 (2): 109-154. 1998.
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2Review 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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69Nietzsche 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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6The 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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Harré, R., "Varieties of Realism: A Rationale for the Natural Sciences" (review)Mind 96 (n/a): 575. 1987.
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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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46Varieties 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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30Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in IndiaScience & Education 13 (3): 243-249. 2004.
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39This 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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124‘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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37There 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.