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7Wahrnehmung / Philosophie / Wissenschaft / Geschichte.
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22A Fallacious Forced Choice: Cloninger and Stoyanov, Machamer, and Schaffner Are CompatiblePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3): 281-284. 2013.
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87Rational reconstructions revisedTheoria 16 (3): 461-480. 2001.Imre Lakatos’ idea that history of science without philosophy of science is blind may still be given a plausible interpretation today, even though his theory of the methodology of scientific research programmes has been rejected. The latter theory captures neither rationality in science nor the sense in which history must be told in a rational fashion. Nonetheless, Lakatos was right in insisting that the discipline of history consists of written rational reconstructions. In this paper, we will e…Read more
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5Chapter three. Seeing the implications of his causal views: The response to his criticsIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 82-110. 2009.
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103Phenomena, data and theories: a special issue of SyntheseSynthese 182 (1): 1-5. 2011.The papers collected here are the result of an INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: Data · Phenomena · Theories: What’s the notion of a scientific phenomenon good for? held in Heidelberg in September 2008. The event was organized by the research group Causality, Cognition, and the Constitution of Scientific Phenomena in cooperation with Philosophy Department at the University of Heidelberg (Peter McLaughlin and Andreas Kemmerling) and the IWH Heidelberg. The symposium was supported by the Emmy-Noether-Progr…Read more
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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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70Newton and the mechanical philosophy: Gravitation as the balance of the heavensSouthern Journal of Philosophy 50 (3): 370-388. 2012.We argue that Isaac Newton really is best understood as being in the tradition of the Mechanical Philosophy and, further, that Newton saw himself as being in this tradition. But the tradition as Newton understands it is not that of Robert Boyle and many others, for whom the Mechanical Philosophy was defined by contact action and a corpuscularean theory of matter. Instead, as we argue in this paper, Newton interpreted and extended the Mechanical Philosophy's slogan “matter and motion” in referenc…Read more
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19Understanding scientific changeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 5 (4): 373-381. 1975.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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31Wagner, Michael F. Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus’ “Enneads” (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (4): 907-908. 2003.
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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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Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
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General Philosophy of Science |