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2Problem of demarcationIn Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeifer (eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, Routledge. pp. 1--188. 2005.
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70The methodological study of creativity and discovery -- some backgroundFoundations of Science 4 (3): 231-235. 1999.
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21Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science: Rationality without FoundationsThomas Kuhn's “Linguistic Turn” and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism: Incommensurability, Rationality, and the Search for Truth by Stefano Gattei; Stefano Gattei.
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38Heuristic Appraisal: Context of Discovery or Justification?In Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification, Springer. pp. 159--182. 2006.
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62Deflationary Methodology and Rationality of SciencePhilosophica 58 (2). 1996.The last forty years have produced a dramatic reversal in leading accounts of science. Once thought necessary to (explain) scientific progress, a rigid method of science is now widely considered impossible. Study of products yields to study of processes and practices, .unity gives way to diversity, generality to particularity, logic to luck, and final justification to heuristic scaffolding. I sketch the story, from Bacon and Descartes to the present, of the decline and fall of traditional scient…Read more
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47Questioning and problems in philosophy of science: Problem-solving versus directly truth-seeking epistemologiesIn Michel Meyer (ed.), Questions and questioning, W. De Gruyter. pp. 43--67. 1988.
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10Matthew Lund. N. R. Hanson: Observation, Discovery, and Scientific Change. Amherst, NY: Humanity, 2010. Pp. 253. $26.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (2): 364-368. 2012.
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316 Some Puzzles about Kuhn's ExemplarsIn Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited, Routledge. pp. 112. 2012.
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1Integrating the science studies disciplinesIn Steve Fuller (ed.), The Cognitive Turn: Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989.
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15Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (review)Isis 97 763-764. 2006.
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40Book Review:Science and Hypothesis Larry Laudan (review)Philosophy of Science 49 (4): 653-. 1982.
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55Problem reduction: Some thoughtsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 84 (1): 107-133. 2005.Reduction was once a central topic in philosophy of science. I claim that it remains important, especially when applied to problems and problem-solutions rather than only to large theory-complexes. Without attempting a comprehensive classification, I discuss various kinds of problem reductions and similar relations, illustrating them, inter alia, in terms of the blackbody problem and early quantization problems. Kuhn's early work is suggestive here both for structuralist theory of science and fo…Read more
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11The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies. Fred WilsonIsis 92 (4): 775-776. 2001.
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2The Methodological Study of Creativity and Discovery -- Some BackgroundFoundations of Science 4 (3): 231-235. 1999.
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64Kuhnian puzzle solving and schema theoryPhilosophy of Science 67 (3): 255. 2000.Looking at Thomas Kuhn's work from a cognitive science perspective helps to articulate and to legitimize, to some degree, his rejection of traditional views of concepts, categorization, theory structure, and rule-based problem solving. Whereas my colleagues focus on the later Kuhn of the MIT years, I study the early Kuhn as an anticipation of case-based reasoning and schema theory. These recent developments in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence may point toward a more computational…Read more
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53Davidson on explanationPhilosophical Studies 31 (February): 141-145. 1977.Davidson's defective defense of the consistency of (1) the causal interaction of mental and physical events, (2) the backing law thesis on causation, (3) the impossibility of lawfully explaining mental events is repaired by closer attention to the description-Relativity of explanation. Davidson wrongly allows that particular mental events are explainable when particular identities to physical events are known. The author argues that such identities are powerless to affect what features a given l…Read more