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130In 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 (ed.), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett. pp. 346--363. 1992.
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5IndexIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), 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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4ContentsIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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11Anne 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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37Neuroscienze e natura della filosofiaIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 18 (3): 495-514. 2005.
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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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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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102Feyerabend 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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5Review: 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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2Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation (review)Isis 102 553-554. 2011.
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6Chapter six. Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: The case of sensationIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), 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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1702Thinking 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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7For Philosophy of Science, and European Cultural Center of Delphi. The topic of the symposium, convened at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, was Forms of Proof and Demonstration in Philosophy and Science. These symposia are held every two years in Greece in recognition of Athens as the birthplace of Western philosophy (all of them supported by (review)Perspectives on Science 12 (3): 243-243. 2004.
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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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31The challenge of psychiatric nosology and diagnosisJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (3): 704-709. 2012.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
General Philosophy of Science |