•  96
    Hilary Putnam’s Internal Realism
    Cogito 12 (1): 33-39. 1998.
  •  93
    Measurability invariance, continuity and a portfolio representation
    with Kim Sawyer and Ric Lombardo
    Measurement 46 (1): 89-96. 2013.
  •  89
    A Dialogue on Scientific Rationality
    Cogito 5 (3): 135-140. 1991.
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  •  83
    Interview with Paul Hoyningen-Huene
    Metascience 5 (2): 59-70. 1996.
    Interview of Paul Hoyningen-Huene conducted by Howard Sankey in 1996 in Tuscany.
  •  78
    Scientific Rationality versus Social Construction
    with Geoffrey Bowker
    Cogito 8 (1): 38-45. 1994.
  •  55
    What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scientists their understanding of method is something they just pick up in the course of being trained, Nola and Sankey argue that it is possible to be explicit about what this tacit understanding of meth…Read more
  •  53
    Questions of Realism: an Interview
    Sooreye Andishe 61. 2012.
    An interview about realism conducted in English and translated into Persian by Reza Alizadeh Mamaghani.
  •  43
    Over-Measurement
    with K. R. Sawyer and R. Lombardo
    Measurement 93 379-384. 2016.
    Measurement is a special type of evaluation that is more exact than either opinion or estimation. In the social sciences, in particular, most evaluations are not measures, but rather mixtures of opinion and estimation. Over-measurement represents anchoring to evaluations which are not measures. For an over-measured characteristic, single measures are used when instead a portfolio of possible measures should be used. There are three implications. First, measurements of characteristics which depen…Read more
  •  31
    Incommensurability and Related Matters (edited book)
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.
    Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well as exploring the broader implications of incommensurabil…Read more
  •  15
    Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism (edited book)
    with Alexander Bird and Brian David Ellis
    Routledge. 2013.
    While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science—and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are: The modal metaphysics of properties: What is the essential nature of natural properties? Are all properties essentially categorical? Are…Read more
  • El cambio en el concepto de incommensurabilidad de Kuhn
    Cuadernos de Epistemologia 4 11-31. 2010.
    Spanish translation of 'Kuhn's Changing Concept of Incommensurability'
  • Rationality, Relativism and Methodological Pluralism
    Explorations in Knowledge 13 (1): 18-36. 1996.
    Readers interested in this paper will find it is reprinted as chapter nine of my book, Rationality, Relativism and Incommensurability.
  • Introduction
    with Paul Hoyningen-Huene
    In Paul Hoyningen-Huene & Howard Sankey (eds.), Incommensurability and Related Matters, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.
  • Introductory discussion of Lakatos's idea of scientific research programmes, and an application to the case-study of continental drift.