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167Poincaré's thesis of the translatability of euclidean and non-euclidean geometriesNoûs 25 (5): 639-657. 1991.Poincaré's claim that Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries are translatable has generally been thought to be based on his introduction of a model to prove the consistency of Lobachevskian geometry and to be equivalent to a claim that Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries are logically isomorphic axiomatic systems. In contrast to the standard view, I argue that Poincaré's translation thesis has a mathematical, rather than a meta-mathematical basis. The mathematical basis of Poincaré's transl…Read more
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25From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of ScienceIn Michael Heidelberger & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives, . pp. 147-158. 2002.Members of the Vienna Circle played a pivotal role in defining the work that came to be known as the philosophy of science, yet the Vienna Circle itself is now known to have had much broader concerns and to have been more rooted in philosophical tradition than was once thought. Like current and past philosophers of science, members of the Vienna Circle took science as the object of philosophical reflection but they also endeavored to render philosophy in general compatible with contemporary scie…Read more
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43A Life in Science, Philosophy, and the Public Domain: Three Biographies of PoincaréJeremy J. Gray. Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+592. $35.00/£24.95 .Ferdinand Verhulst. Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius. New York: Springer, 2012. Pp. xi+260. $49.95 ; $39.95 .Jean-Marc Ginoux and Christian Gerini. 2012. Henri Poincaré: Une biographie au quotidien. Paris: Ellipses, 2012. Pp. iv+298. €24.00 . [Henri Poincaré: A Biography through the Daily Papers. Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. Pp. 260. $29.00 ; $22.00 .] (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2): 309-318. 2016.
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23Introduction - Forum: Pragmatism in the Philosophy of ScienceHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (1): 70-71. 2015.Introduction to conference papers published in HOPOS
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76In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science. Stump emphasizes the unique epistemological status of the constitutive elements of scientific theories, constitutive elements being the necessary preconditions that must be assumed in order to conduct a particular scientific inquiry. These constitutive elements, such as logic, ma…Read more
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21Robert M. Makus, 1951-2002Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 76 (5). 2003.Obituary of Robert M. Makus, 1951-2002
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7Gila Sher, The Bounds of Logic: a Generalized Viewpoint (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (6): 426-428. 1995.
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75Arthur Pap’s Functional Theory of the A PrioriHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (2): 273-290. 2011.Arthur Pap was not quite a Logical Empiricist. He wrote his dissertation in philosophy of science under Ernest Nagel, and he published a textbook in the philosophy of science at the end of his tragically short career, but most of his work would be classified as analytic philosophy. More important, he took some stands that went against Logical Empiricist orthodoxy and was a persistent if friendly critic of the movement. Pap diverged most strongly from Logical Empiricism in his theory of a “functi…Read more
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263Naturalized philosophy of science with a plurality of methodsPhilosophy of Science 59 (3): 456-460. 1992.Naturalism implies unity of method--an application of the methods of science to the methodology of science itself and to value theory. Epistemological naturalists have tried to find a privileged discipline to be the methodological model of philosophy of science and epistemology. However, since science itself is not unitary, the use of one science as a model amounts to a reduction and distorts the philosophy of science just as badly as traditional philosophy of science distorted science, despite …Read more
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