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27This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.
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25Kitcher 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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23A recent drawing of the theory/observation distinctionPhilosophy of Science 38 (3): 413-414. 1971.James Cornman has recently offered a definition for ‘observation term’ which he takes to meet most, if not all, of the standard objections to such definitions. He also employs this definition against certain materialists, but in what follows I wish only to address myself to the proposed definition. I shall argue that he has failed to show any logical difference between “observation terms,” as he defines them, and terms which are not so classified. I shall show that his definition is too restrict…Read more
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23Chapter five. Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideasIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 164-197. 2009.
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23Thinking 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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20Maurice Crosland, ed., "The Emergence of Science in Western Europe" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 17 (3): 341. 1979.
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20A Fallacious Forced Choice: Cloninger and Stoyanov, Machamer, and Schaffner Are CompatiblePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (3): 281-284. 2013.
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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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17The meta‐language of psychiatry as cross‐disciplinary effort: In response to Zachar (2012)Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (3): 710-720. 2012.
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17Understanding scientific changeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 5 (4): 373-381. 1975.
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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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