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36How to Justify Teaching False ScienceScience Education 92 (3): 526-542. 2008.We often knowingly teach false science. Such a practice conflicts with a prima facie pedagogical value placed on teaching only what’s true. I argue that only a partial dissolution of the conflict is possible: the proper aim of instruction in science is not to provide an armory of facts about what things the world contains, how they interact, and so on, but rather to contribute to an understanding of how science as a human endeavor works and what sorts of facts about the world science aims to pro…Read more
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301Review: Muhammad Ali Khalidi's Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 66 (4): 1017-1023. 2015.
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117A Reflection on our FreedomPhilosophia 38 (2): 327-330. 2010.Many Compatibilists seem to suppose that discover that we lived in a deterministic world would not unseat our confidence that many of our actions are nevertheless free. Here's a short story about such confidence becoming unseated.
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877A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of SciencePhilosophy of Science 81 (5): 1184-1196. 2014.We describe a simple, flexible exercise that can be implemented in the philosophy of science classroom: students are asked to determine the contents of a closed container without opening it. This exercise has revealed itself as a useful platform from which to examine a wide range of issues in the philosophy of science and may, we suggest, even help us think about improving the public understanding of science
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General Philosophy of Science |
Social Epistemology |
Philosophy of Biology |
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