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19Understanding scientific changeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 5 (4): 373-381. 1975.
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47This paper details the ontological and epistemic character of activties that occur in mechanisms. It explains why they are sufficient to handle the problems of causation.
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6Individual and Other-Person Morality: A Plea for an Emotional Response to Ethical ProblemsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 64 73-84. 1998.
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10The Cambridge Companion to Galileo (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with th…Read more
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80Mechanistic Information and Causal ContinuityIn Phyllis McKay Illari Federica Russo (ed.), Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press. 2011.Some biological processes move from step to step in a way that cannot be completely understood solely in terms of causes and correlations. This paper develops a notion of mechanistic information that can be used to explain the continuities of such processes. We compare them to processes that do not involve information. We compare our conception of mechanistic information to some familiar notions including Crick’s idea of genetic information, Shannon-Weaver information, and Millikan’s biosemantic…Read more
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72Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants. This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known philosophers of science presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plaus…Read more
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51Rendering clinical psychology an evidence‐based scientific discipline: a case studyJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (1): 149-154. 2012.
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55Descartes's Changing MindPrinceton University Press. 2009.This is the first book to focus on Descartes's changing views, and it is welcome."--Roger Ariew, University of South Florida
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8Of PsychologyIn Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour & James G. Lennox (eds.), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 346. 1992.
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6Chapter one. From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stanceIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-35. 2009.
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42Motion and Time, Space and Matter: Interrelations in the History of Philosophy and SciencePhilosophical Review 88 (1): 122-124. 1979.
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31Wagner, Michael F. Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus’ “Enneads” (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (4): 907-908. 2003.
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2Review of W. R. SHEA: Galileo's Intellectual Revolution (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (1): 81-82. 1975.
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134In Quest for Scientific Psychiatry: Toward Bridging the Explanatory GapPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3): 261-273. 2013.The contemporary epistemic status of mental health disciplines does not allow the cross validation of mental disorders among various genetic markers, biochemical pathway or mechanisms, and clinical assessments in neuroscience explanations. We attempt to provide a meta-empirical analysis of the contemporary status of the cross-disciplinary issues existing between neuro-biology and psychopathology. Our case studies take as an established medical mode an example cross validation between biological …Read more
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Epistemology and Psychology (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 5 (4): 373. 1975.
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1Philosophy of psychologyIn Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour & James G. Lennox (eds.), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 346--363. 1992.
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5IndexIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 251-258. 2009.
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1Causality and Explanation in Descartes' Natural PhilosophyIn Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull (eds.), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, Ohio State University Press. pp. 168--199. 1976.
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37Neuroscienze e natura della filosofiaIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (3): 495-514. 2005.
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14Anne Ashley Davenport. Descartes's Theory of Action. xvii + 310 pp., bibl., index. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. $129 (review)Isis 99 (1): 178-179. 2008.
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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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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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Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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