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22Theory Generalization, Problem Reduction and the Unity of SciencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974. 1974.
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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 Vasò„ Kintè„ & 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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40Book Review:Science and Hypothesis Larry Laudan (review)Philosophy of Science 49 (4): 653-. 1982.
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15Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (review)Isis 97 763-764. 2006.
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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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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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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
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69Thomas Kuhn (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes to many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Thomas Kuhn, the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, is probably the best-known and most influential historian and philosopher of science of the last 25 years, and has become something of a cultural icon. His concepts of paradigm, paradigm change and incommensurability have changed the way we think about science. This volume offers an introduc…Read more
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732Modeling and Inferring in ScienceIn Emiliano Ippoliti, Fabio Sterpetti & Thomas Nickles (eds.), Models and Inferences in Science, Springer. pp. 1-9. 2016.Science continually contributes new models and rethinks old ones. The way inferences are made is constantly being re-evaluated. The practice and achievements of science are both shaped by this process, so it is important to understand how models and inferences are made. But, despite the relevance of models and inference in scientific practice, these concepts still remain contro-versial in many respects. The attempt to understand the ways models and infer-ences are made basically opens two roads.…Read more
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58Scientific Problems and ConstraintsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978. 1978.In this paper the relation between scientific problems and the constraints on their solutions is explored. First the historical constraints on the solution to the blackbody radiation problem are set out. The blackbody history is used as a guide in sketching a working taxonomy of constraints, which distinguishes various kinds of reductive and nonreductive constraints. Finally, this discussion is related to some work in erotetic logic. The hypothesis that scientific problems can be identified with…Read more
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15John Lukacs. At the End of an Age. x + 230 pp., table, index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2002. $22.95 (review)Isis 94 (2): 407-408. 2003.
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1From natural philosophy to metaphilosophy of scienceIn P. Achinstein & R. Kagon (eds.), Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, Mit Press. pp. 507--541. 1987.
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Scientific Discovery, Logic and Rationality. . Scientific Discovery : Case StudiesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 44 (1): 169-170. 1982.
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5Criticism and the History of Science: Kuhn's, Lakatos's, and Feyerabend's Criticisms of Critical Rationalism. Gunnar Andersson (review)Isis 87 (2): 396-397. 1996.
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12Review of Gary L. Hardcastle (ed.), Alan W. Richardson (ed.), Logical Empiricism in North America: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, XVIII (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (7). 2004.