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Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to the World of Proofs and PicturesErkenntnis 54 (3): 404-407. 2001.
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Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in IndiaInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18 105-108. 2004.
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Mary Tiles, "the philosophy of set theory: An introduction to Cantor's paradise" (review)Dialogue 29 (2): 314. 1990.
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Why Empiricism Won't WorkIn C. Hitchcock (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, . 2004.A defence of a priori knowledge of nature via thought experiments. The article is part of a pair, the counter-view argued by John Norton.
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Models of Rationality and the History of ScienceDissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada). 1981.Thinkers as diverse as Kuhn and Salmon agree that should an account of scientific rationality not square with actual scientific practice, then this should be considered as a reductio ad absurdum of the proposed norms and not be taken as evidence that the history of science is in large measure irrational. While many are willing to accept the need to do justice to the history of science as a constraint on the acceptability of any candidate theory of scientific method, very few are willing to use t…Read more
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Philosophy of Mathematics, an Introduction to the World of Proofs and PicturesBulletin of Symbolic Logic 9 (4): 504-506. 2003.
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Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Approach and Steven Shapin, The Scientific RevolutionInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 12 (1): 100. 1998.
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James Robert Brown: Thought experiments and platonism. Part twoCroatian Journal of Philosophy 7 (20): 125-268. 2007.
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusDepartment of Philosophy
Institute for the History and Philosophy of ScienceRetired faculty
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |