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12Review: Christine Sypnowich (ed.), The egalitarian conscience: essays in honour of G. A. Cohen (review)The European Legacy 12 (5): 644-5. 2007.
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11Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, and Thomas Uebel: Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics (review)Philosophy in Review 16 (5): 322-324. 1996.
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10Hertz, Wittgenstein and Philosophical Method1Philosophical Investigations 31 (1): 48-67. 2007.There have recently appeared claims that the influence Heinrich Hertz exerted over Wittgenstein's later work was far more abiding than previously recognised. I critically evaluate such claims by Gordon Baker and Allan Janik. I first show that Hertz was indeed concerned with the same feature, clarity, which often exercised Wittgenstein. But I then argue that Wittgenstein should not be seen as having adopted the conception of philosophical method, which Hertz deployed in The Principles of Mechanic…Read more
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10Review: A W Carus, Carnap and twentieth century thought: explication as enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 2007The European Legacy 14 (6): 759-761. 2009.
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10PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of SciencePhilosophical Books 35 (2): 136-137. 1994.
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9FeyerabendIn W. H. Newton‐Smith (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2017.Paul K. Feyerabend (1924–94) was an imaginative maverick philosopher of science, a critic of positivism, as well as, more recently, falsificationism, philosophy of science itself, and of “rationalist” attempts to lay down or discover rules of scientific method.
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9Gestalt Epistemology: From Gestalt Psychology to Phenomenology in the Work of Michael PolanyiPhilosophia Scientiae 26 233-254. 2022.Gestalt psychology of perception was one of the main inspirations behind the philosophical work of the Hungarian polymath Michael Polanyi. Seeing scientists and philosophers backing away from its implications, he proposed instead to take those implications seriously. I detail four ways in which he did so, the result of which was his theory of “tacit knowing”. This can be thought of as a Gestalt epistemology, because it takes the figure/ground relation as the model for all knowing. Polanyi took h…Read more
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9Coming to Our Senses By Devitt Michael Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 338Philosophy 72 (281): 464-. 1997.
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8Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change (review)Philosophical Books 37 (2): 125-127. 1996.
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8Christian Erbacher, Wittgenstein’s Heirs and Editors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). 0 + 71 pp., price £15.00 pb, £8.69 Kindle edition (review)Philosophical Investigations 44 (3): 339-342. 2021.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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7Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning: The Existential Threat of CompetencyImprint: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston instead presents the competency movement as one which makes the concept of human learning redundant. Starting with its origins in Taylorism, the slaughterhouse and radical behaviourism, the book c…Read more
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5The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the BrainPhilosophical Books 37 (3): 198-200. 1996.
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5Thomas Kuhn, a Philosophical History for Our Times. By Steve FullerThe European Legacy 8 (6): 833-833. 2003.
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3Review of Arthur Donovan, Larry Laudan and Rachel Laudan: Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (4): 1063-1065. 1994.
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3The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the BrainPhilosophical Books 37 (3): 198-200. 1996.
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2Review of Donald Gillies: Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method_; Robert Cummins and John L. Pollock: _Philosophy and AI: Essays at the Interface (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (4): 610-612. 1997.
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1In Science, Faith and Society, Michael Polanyi speaks about various ‘interpretations of nature’. I discuss the items that he has in mind, identify two of his major theses about them, and investigate the extent to which he treated science as resting on different ‘ultimate suppositions’ at different times in its history.I then consider what he says about how to decide between science and rival ‘interpretations of nature’, arguing that the idea of such a choice or decision is dubious, and that ther…Read more
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Physical Science |