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    Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence
    Axiomathes 33 (1): 1-23. 2023.
    This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts is shown to be the result of multifaceted, cognitive processes, which require both material realization and conceptual interpretation. Generally speaking, the meaning of empirical concepts consists of several distinct components, but it includes at least a structuring and an abstracting component. These two meaning components are abstract entities, …Read more
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    How Inclusive Is European Philosophy of Science?
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (2): 149-165. 2015.
    The main question of this article is given by its title: how inclusive is European philosophy of science? Phrased in this way, the question presupposes that, as a mature discipline, philosophy of science should provide an inclusive account of its subject area. I first provide an explanation of the notion of an inclusive philosophy of science. This notion of an inclusive philosophy of science is specified by discussing three general topics that seem to be missing from, or are quite marginal in, r…Read more
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    Universities are occupied by Management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability' through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence', and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation's absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how Management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative …Read more
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    Substantiële filosofie: met niet-discursieve inhoud maar zonder naturalisme
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (2): 223-229. 2017.
    Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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    Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real Causation
    Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 52 (4): 597-608. 2021.
    In this article, I put forward a basic philosophical claim: empirical scientific knowledge, that is, knowledge generated in experimental and observational practices, presupposes real causation. My discussion exploits two core notions from the philosophical analysis of scientific experimentation and observation: the aim of realizing object-apparatus correlations and the required control of the relevant interactions between environment and experimental or observational system. The conclusion is th…Read more
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    An immanent criticism of Lakatos' account of the ‘degenerating phase’ of Bohr's atomic theory
    Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 13 (1): 99-109. 1982.
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    The 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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    Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence
    Global Philosophy 33 (1): 1-23. 2022.
    This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts is shown to be the result of multifaceted, cognitive processes, which require both material realization and conceptual interpretation. Generally speaking, the meaning of empirical concepts consists of several distinct components, but it includes at least a structuring and an abstracting component. These two meaning components are abstract entities, …Read more
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    The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation (edited book)
    University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003.
    Since the late 1980s, the neglect of experiment by philosophers and historians of science has been replaced by a keen interest in the subject. In this volume, a number of prominent philosophers of experiment directly address basic theoretical questions, develop existing philosophical accounts, and offer novel perspectives on the subject, rather than rely exclusively on historical cases of experimental practice. Each essay examines one or more of six interconnected themes that run throughout the …Read more
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    Kramers and the Forman theses
    History of Science 21 (2): 165-182. 1983.
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    The World Observed/the World Conceived
    University of Pittsburgh Press. 2006.
    Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world. _The World Observed/The World Conceived _presents an innovative analysis of the nature and role of observation and conceptualization. While these two actions are often treated as separate, Hans Radder shows that they are inherently interconnected-that materially realized observational processes are always conceptually interpreted and that the meaning of concepts depends on the way…Read more
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    What is the future of science and technology? Will academic research become a commodity like so much else? Will technology and science become ever more intertwined? Such questions concern anyone to whom science and technology matter. A philosophical approach can shed light on them, as Hans Radder has amply shown. This volume contains essays by colleagues and friends that highlight the wide variety of topics he has addressed in his work. Whether it is the interaction between science, technology a…Read more
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    Standards: Recipes for Reality (review)
    Isis 103 762-763. 2012.
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    Book Review: The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (review)
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (4): 538-545. 2000.
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    Review of: Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 167 pp.
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    Book Review: The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (review)
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (4): 520-527. 2000.
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    The Critical Naturalism Manifesto: Some Comments
    Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 43 (1): 114-116. 2023.
    The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the s…Read more
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    Science and Technology: Positivism and Critique
    In 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.