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18The Concept of the Individual an d the Idea (l) of Method in Seventeenth-Century Natural PhilosophyIn Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 81. 2000.
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32Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997.Leading scholars in the fields of philosophy and the sciences of the mind have contributed to this newest volume in the prestigious Pittsburgh-Konstanz series. Among the problem areas discussed are folk psychology, meanings as conceptual structures, functional and qualitative properties of colors, the role of conscious mental states, representation and mental content, the impact of connectionism on the philosophy of the mind, and supervenience, emergence, and realization. Most of the essays are …Read more
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27Kitcher and the Achievement of Science (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (3): 629-636. 1995.Perhaps, the best way to approach a book with as broad a scope and as great an ambition as Philip Kitcher’s The Advancement of Science is to think about its main goal. What vision is it trying to convey? Is it a worthy vision? Later one can ask how well it was done.
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60Feyerabend and Galileo: The interaction of theories, and the reinterpretation of experienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 4 (1): 1-46. 1973.
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2Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation (review)Isis 102 553-554. 2011.
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7Review: Kitcher and the Achievement of Science (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (3). 1995.Perhaps, the best way to approach a book with as broad a scope and as great an ambition as Philip Kitcher’s The Advancement of Science is to think about its main goal. What vision is it trying to convey? Is it a worthy vision? Later one can ask how well it was done.
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6Chapter six. Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: The case of sensationIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 198-242. 2009.
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42Philosophy and the Brain SciencesIris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2): 353-374. 2009.What are the differences between philosophy and science, or between the methods of philosophy and the methods of science? Unlike some philosophers we do not find philosophy and the methods of philosophy to be sui generis. Science, and in particular neuroscience, has much to tell us about the nature of the world and the concepts that we must use to understand and explain it. Yet science cannot function well without reflective analysis of the concepts, methods, and practices that constitute it. Fo…Read more
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1712Thinking about mechanismsPhilosophy of Science 67 (1): 1-25. 2000.The concept of mechanism is analyzed in terms of entities and activities, organized such that they are productive of regular changes. Examples show how mechanisms work in neurobiology and molecular biology. Thinking in terms of mechanisms provides a new framework for addressing many traditional philosophical issues: causality, laws, explanation, reduction, and scientific change
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36Athens-pittsburgh symposium in the history and philosophy of science and technologyPerspectives on Science 12 (3): 243-243. 2004.
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37The challenge of psychiatric nosology and diagnosisJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (3): 704-709. 2012.
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Scientific controversies: An introductionIn Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--17. 2000.
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3Chapter four. Body-body causation and the cartesian world of matterIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 111-163. 2009.
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Neuroscience, learning and the return to behaviorismIn John Bickle (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience, Oxford University Press. pp. 166--178. 2009.
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11The Dispositions of DescartescIn Machamer Peter (ed.), Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 69-78. 2009.
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37Knowing causes: Descartes on the world of matterPhilosophica 76 (2). 2005.In this essay, we discuss how Descartes arrives at his mature view of material causation. Descartes position changes over time in some very radical ways. The last section spells out his final position as to how causation works in the world of material objects. When considering Descartes causal theories, it is useful to distinguish between vertical and horizontal causation. The vertical perspective addresses Gods relation to creation. God is essential being, and every being other than God …Read more
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Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
General Philosophy of Science |