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143A Curious Disagreement: response to Hoyningen-Huene and OberheimStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 40 (2): 210-212. 2009.In this response, doubts are expressed relating to the treatment by Hoyningen-Huene and Oberheim of the relation between incommensurability and content comparison. A realist response is presented to their treatment of ontological replacement. Further questions are raised about the coherence of the neo-Kantian idea of the world-in-itself as well as the phenomenal worlds hypothesis. The notion of common sense is clarified. Meta-incommensurability is dismissed as a rhetorical device which obstructs…Read more
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1215Scientific Realism and Basic Common SenseKairos. Revista de Filosofia and Ciência 10 11-24. 2014.This paper considers the relationship between science and common sense. It takes as its point of departure, Eddington’s distinction between the table of physics and the table of common sense, as well as Eddington’s suggestion that science shows common sense to be false. Against the suggestion that science shows common sense to be false, it is argued that there is a form of common sense, basic common sense, which is not typically overthrown by scientific research. Such basic common sense is st…Read more
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130Measurability invariance, continuity and a portfolio representationMeasurement 46 (1): 89-96. 2013.
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4466Qu'est-ce que le realisme scientifique?Reseaux 94 69-82. 2002.Les tables, les chaises, les gens assis sur des chaises à des tables, sont des objets composés de matière. Selon la science, la matière se compose principalement d'atomes. Les atomes sont faits d'électrons, de neutrons et de protons. Les neutrons et les protons forment un noyau autour duquel orbitent les électrons. Outre ces particules, les physiciens en ont découvert un grand nombre d'autres, comme les photons, les quarks et les neutrinos.
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673El cambio en el concepto de incommensurabilidad de KuhnCuadernos de Epistemologia 4 11-31. 2010.El año 1962 vio la introducción, por parte de Kuhn y Feyerabend, de la tesis de la inconmensurabilidad de las teorías científicas . Desde entonces, la tesis ha sido debatida ampliamente y ha atraído muchos críticos. Su influencia aún es considerable, particularmente en las áreas de la historia y la filosofía de la ciencia interesadas en el cambio y la elección de teorías. Esta influencia se debe, en gran medida, a la inmensa popularidad de la obra maestra de Kuhn, La Estructura de las revoluci…Read more
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1725Kuhn's ontological relativismScience & Education 9 (1-2): 59-75. 2000.In this paper, I provide an interpretation of ontological aspects of Kuhn's theory of science.
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552Sherrilyn Roush: Tracking Truth (review)Review of Metaphysics 61 (1): 158-159. 2007.This book is a comprehensive defence of a modified Nozickian tracking account of knowledge. The account is presented as an analysis of knowledge, rather than justification. Roush allows that a tracking analysis of justification may be possible. But she denies that justification is required for knowledge. Her view is externalist, but not reliabilist.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
| Scientific Realism |
| Metaphysical Realism |
| Incommensurability in Science |
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