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17A Deflationary, Neo-Mertonian Critique of Academic PatentingIn M. Rédei M. Dorato M. Suàrez (ed.), Epsa Epistemology and Methodology of Science, Springer. pp. 221--231. 2010.
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40The origin and nature of modern science (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16 (3). 2002.(2002). The origin and nature of modern science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 291-295. doi: 10.1080/0269859022000013355
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74Accardi on Quantum Theory and the "Fifth Axiom" of ProbabilityPhilosophy of Science 57 (1): 149-. 1990.In this paper we investigate Accardi's claim that the "quantum paradoxes" have their roots in probability theory and that, in particular, they can be evaded by giving up Bayes' rule, concerning the relation between composite and conditional probabilities. We reach the conclusion that, although it may be possible to give up Bayes' rule and define conditional probabilities differently, this contributes nothing to solving the philosophical problems which surround quantum mechanics
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7Science and Technology: Positivism and CritiqueIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: References and Further Reading.
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In and About the World: Philosophical Studies of Science and TechnologyTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (2): 377-377. 1996.
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60Experimental Reproducibility and the Experimenters' RegressPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.In his influential book, "Changing Order", H.M. Collins puts forward the following three claims concerning experimental replication. (i) Replication is rarely practiced by experimentalists; (ii) replication cannot be used as an objective test of scientific knowledge claims, because of the occurrence of the so-called experimenters' regress; and (iii) stopping this regress at some point depends upon the enculturation in a local community of practitioners, who tacitly learn the relevant skills. In …Read more
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99Critical philosophy of technology: The basic issuesSocial Epistemology 22 (1). 2008.This paper proposes a framework for a critical philosophy of technology by discussing its practical, theoretical, empirical, normative and political dimensions. I put forward a general account of technology, which includes both similarities and dissimilarities to Andrew Feenberg's instrumentalization theory. This account characterizes a technology as a "(type of) artefactual, functional system with a certain degree of stability and reproducibility". A discussion of how such technologies may be r…Read more
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16The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.Selling science has become a common practice in contemporary universities. This commodification of academia pervades many aspects of higher education, including research, teaching, and administration. As such, it raises significant philosophical, political, and moral challenges. This volume offers the first book-length analysis of this disturbing trend from a philosophical perspective and presents views by scholars of philosophy of science, social and political philosophy, and research ethics. T…Read more
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62Pragmatism, Ethics, and TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 7 (3): 10-18. 2004.
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45How Concepts Both Structure the World and Abstract from ItReview of Metaphysics 55 (3). 2002.TWO OPPOSING VIEWS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP between concepts and the world can be found in the history of philosophy. One view—deriving from Immanuel Kant and endorsed by Karl Popper, among many others—claims that in forming and using concepts we structure the world. Concepts produce or increase order. Hence, the world, insofar as it is knowable by human beings, is necessarily a conceptually structured world. The second, still older view—represented by the Aristotelian tradition and by John Locke,…Read more
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