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48Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001.
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44Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24 2001 Session 5: Development, Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology.
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4Mechanisms, coherence, and theory choice in the cognitive neurosciencesIn Peter McLaughlin, Peter Machamer & Rick Grush (eds.), Theory and Method in the Neurosciences, Pittsburgh University Press. pp. 70-80. 2001.
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PrefacePSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1). 1986.
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3A Brief Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of ScienceIn Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains sections titled: Logical Positivism to Logical Empiricism: 1918‐55 New Paradigms and Scientific Change: Late 1950s through the 1970s Contemporary Foci and Future Directions.
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4Philosophy of space-time physicsIn Peter K. Machamer & Michael Silberstein (eds.), The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science, Blackwell. pp. 173-198. 2002.
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74Theory and Method in the Neurosciences (edited book)Pittsburgh University Press. 2001.Surveys theories in contemporary neuroscience, exploring many of its methodological techniques and problems.
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9Maurice Crosland, ed., "The Emergence of Science in Western Europe" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 17 (3): 341. 1979.
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1Perception, conception, and the limits of the direct theoryIn R.E. Auxier & L.E. Hahn (eds.), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. pp. 29--129. 2002.
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42Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions (review)Metascience 9 (3): 347-498. 2000.
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106Science, Values, and Objectivity (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004.Few people, if any, still argue that science in all its aspects is a value-free endeavor. At the very least, values affect decisions about the choice of research problems to investigate and the uses to which the results of research are applied. But what about the actual doing of science? As Science, Values, and Objectivity reveals, the connections and interactions between values and science are quite complex. The essays in this volume identify the crucial values that play a role in science, dist…Read more
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28Interpretation: Ways of Thinking About the Sciences and the Arts (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found. Individual topics include: the general nature of interpretation and its forms; comparing and contrasting interpretation and hermeneutics; culture as interpretation seen through Hegel’s aesthetics; interpreting philosophical texts; methodologies for interpreting human …Read more
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11Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2006.
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2The Dispositions of DescartescIn Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf & Karsten Stüber (eds.), Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 69-78. 2009.
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45Scientific normativity as non-epistemic: A hidden Kuhnian legacySocial Epistemology 17 (1). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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4Descartes's Changing MindPrinceton University Press. 2009.Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture of the development of Cartesian science, epist…Read more
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28Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Pre. 2007.Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking about Causes brings together top philosophers from the United States and Europe to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought.
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9Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus’ “Enneads.” (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (4): 907-907. 2003.Little attention has been directed to Plotinus’s philosophy of nature in contemporary scholarship, and we applaud in principle this attempt to investigate Plotinus’s understanding of the natural world and the ramifications this has for other areas of his thought.
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16Descartes’s changing mindStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (3): 398-419. 2006.Descartes is always concerned about knowledge. However, the Galileo affair in 1633, the reactions to his Discourse on method, and later his need to reply to objections to his Meditations provoked crises in Descartes’s intellectual development the import of which has not been sufficiently recognized. These events are the major reasons why Descartes’s philosophical position concerning how we know and what we may know is radically different at the end of his life from what it was when he began. We …Read more
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16Kitcher and the Achievement of ScienceThe Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without IllusionsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (3): 629. 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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14Lisa Bortolotti: An Introduction to the Philosophy of ScienceScience & Education 21 (2): 287-288. 2012.
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Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of MindWalter de Gruyter. 2009.
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52The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science (edited book)Blackwell. 2002.This volume presentsa definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science.
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