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Heidegger, Leibniz, and the Principle of Sufficient ReasonDissertation, Columbia University. 1987.Heidegger's numerous writings on Leibniz are important for several reasons, in particular because they bear upon the principle of sufficient reason, one of the most basic of philosophical concepts. This dissertation has a twofold aim: to begin to explore the nature of Heidegger's writings on Leibniz, and to discuss the interpretation of the principle of sufficient reason that emerges in them. ;Works discussed include the lecture series Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Logik of 1928, the 1941 essa…Read more
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1Heidegger And The Empirical Turn In Continental Philosophy Of ScienceIn Trish Glazebrook (ed.), Heidegger on Science, State University of New York Press. pp. 225-237. 2012.
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53Interview with physicist Christopher FuchsContinental Philosophy Review 54 (4): 541-561. 2021.QBism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that posits quantum probabilities as subjective Bayesian probabilities, whence its name. By avoiding experientially unfulfilled speculations about what exists prior to measurement, QBism seems to make a close encounter with the phenomenological method. What follows is an interview with QBism’s founder and principal champion, the physicist Christopher Fuchs.
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154Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of scienceSynthese 177 (3): 411-425. 2010.Trust is a central concept in the philosophy of science. We highlight how trust is important in the wide variety of interactions between science and society. We claim that examining and clarifying the nature and role of trust (and distrust) in relations between science and society is one principal way in which the philosophy of science is socially relevant. We argue that philosophers of science should extend their efforts to develop normative conceptions of trust that can serve to facilitate tru…Read more
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55Celebrating science Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9545-1 Authors Robert P. Crease, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 213 Harriman Hall, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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7The second creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physicsRutgers University Press. 1996.The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and th…Read more
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9The workshop and the world: what ten thinkers can teach us about science and authorityW.W. Norton & Company. 2019.Francis Bacon's New Atlantis -- Galileo and the authority of science -- Rene Descartes : workshop thinking -- Giambattista Vico : going mad rationally -- Mary Shelley's hideous idea -- Auguste Comte's religion of humanity -- Max Weber : authority and bureaucracy -- Kemal Atatørk : science and patriotism -- Edmund Husserl : cultural crisis -- Hannah Arendt : action -- Conclusion.
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42Introduction: Phenomenology of Quantum MechanicsContinental Philosophy Review 54 (4): 405-412. 2021.The collection of essays in this special issue point toward the rich and diverse themes under which the phenomenologist might analyze quantum mechanics. The authors in the collection demonstrate that the tradition inaugurated by Husserl promises to dispel the many experiential quandaries of quantum mechanics. They interrogate the meaning of the theoretical entities described by the mathematical equations and analyze their manner of appearing to the physicist. To this end, the efforts of the auth…Read more
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3Theory and Theoretical Objects in an Existential/Hermeneutic Conception of ScienceBalkan Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 121-130. 2012.
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11On Not Being Able to Dance: The InterringIn Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To the Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 205-215. 2019.What makes it hard to dance? Twentieth-century phenomenologists drew attention to the importance of the lived body, and dance is the art form for which the lived body is literally central. Why then isn’t dance the easiest art form to engage in? Phenomenologists are drawn to situations where a phenomenon breaks down, which can open insights into the phenomenon itself. Here the phenomenon is the ability to dance where one might normally expect to. This paper invokes Marion Milner’s book On Not Bei…Read more
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30Arendt and the Authority of Science in PoliticsArendt Studies 1 43-60. 2017.Arendt’s explorations of the dynamics of politics, facts, and truth in the public sphere contain important insights into the authority of science and science denial. This article reviews and contextualizes Arendt’s views on modern science and technology, discusses her views on authority, and identifies some insights that her writings provide on the dynamics of science denial. Arendt’s writings point to another possible source of authority besides Weber’s three categories (traditional, legal-rati…Read more
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17MYLES JACKSON, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. (review)In Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein & Carl Mitcham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Oxford University Press. pp. 79. 2010.
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21Covariant RealismHuman Affairs 19 (2): 223-232. 2009.Covariant Realism Hermeneutic phenomenology of science implies a particular version of realism. It approaches scientific entities in a twofold perspective: in their relation to other parts of the theory (as elements in a theoretical "language"), and in relation to the lifeworld as mediated by laboratory practices; as "fulfilled" in laboratory situations that "produce" worldly objects. The question then arises of the relation between the two perspectives; as Ginev has pointed out, there is danger…Read more
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38Sheets-Johnstone, M. the primacy of movementPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (1): 69-83. 2003.
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29Missing IhdeTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20 (2): 95-104. 2016.This article investigates how lack of a phenomenology of technology has hurt understanding of the lifeworld. One way, as Ihde has shown, involves a failure to appreciate the instrumental mediation of experience and the extension of perception. But Ihde also fails to notice the background in which these mediations are taking place and which shapes the mediations themselves and our interpretation of them; not even the research of technoscientists takes place in a neutral atmosphere that does not a…Read more
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20From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Harry E. GoveIsis 92 (3): 632-633. 2001.
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92Dreyfus on expertise: The limits of phenomenological analysis (review)Continental Philosophy Review 35 (3): 245-279. 2002.Dreyfus's model of expert skill acquisition is philosophically important because it shifts the focus on expertise away from its social and technical externalization in STS, and its relegation to the historical and psychological context of discovery in the classical philosophy of science, to universal structures of embodied cognition and affect. In doing so he explains why experts are not best described as ideologues and why their authority is not exclusively based on social networking. Moreover,…Read more
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10Das Spiel der Natur: Experimentieren als VorführungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (3): 419-438. 1994.
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10The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (review)Isis 101 263-264. 2010.
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50Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, the primacy of movementContinental Philosophy Review 35 (1): 103-107. 2002.
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86The Play of Nature: Experimentation as PerformanceIndiana University Press. 1993."Crease’s brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." —Robert C. Scharff Crease attacks the "mystical" account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to which experimentation takes a backseat to theory
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20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |