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90Causal modeling: New directions for statistical explanationPhilosophy of Science 54 (4): 495-514. 1987.Causal modeling methods such as path analysis, used in the social and natural sciences, are also highly relevant to philosophical problems of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation. We show how these methods can be effectively used (1) to improve and extend Salmon's S-R basis for statistical explanation, and (2) to repair Cartwright's resolution of Simpson's paradox, clarifying the relationship between statistical and causal claims
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117Back to Basics: A Philosophical Critique of ConstructivismStudies in Philosophy and Education 20 (2): 157-175. 2001.
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149Singular Causation and LawPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. 1990.Humean accounts of law are at the same time accounts of causation. Accordingly, since laws are nothing but contingent cosmic regularities, to be a cause is just to be an instance of such a law. Every particular cause-effect pair, according to these accounts, instantiates some law of nature. I argue that this claim is false. Singular causation without being governed by any law is logically and physically possible. Separating causes from laws enables us to see the distinct role each plays in scien…Read more
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242 Kuhn and Logical PositivismIn Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited, Routledge. pp. 15. 2012.
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262Can causes be reduced to correlations?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 249-270. 1996.This paper argues against Papineau's claim that causal relations can be reduced to correlations and defends Cartwright's thesis that they can be nevertheless boot-strapped from them, given sufficiently rich causal background knowledge.
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111Popper's piecemeal engineering: What is good for science is not always good for societyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1): 1-10. 1985.
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Critical RationalismIn Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Routledge. 2005.
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21Commercialisation and commodification of science: educational responses (thematic issue)Science & Education 22 (10). 2013.
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47Human Needs, Consumption, and Social PolicyEconomics and Philosophy 15 (2): 187. 1999.From its early origins to the present, the development of mainstream economic theory has taken a direction which has excluded the analysis of human needs as a basis for social policy. The problems associated with this orientation are increasingly recognized both by economists and non-economists. As Sen points out, it is indeed strange for a discipline concerned with the well-being of people to neglect the question of needs. Currently, some writers such as Doyal and Gough, post-Keynesian economis…Read more
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528Justice in the Distribution of KnowledgeEpisteme 14 (2): 129-146. 2017.In this article we develop an account of justice in the distribution of knowledge. We first argue that knowledge is a fundamental interest that grounds claims of justice due to its role in individuals’ deliberations about the common good, their personal good and the pursuit thereof. Second, we identify the epistemic basic structure of a society, namely, the institutions that determine individuals’ opportunities for acquiring knowledge and discuss what justice requires of them. Our main contentio…Read more
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13The Internal-External Distinction Sheds Light on the History of the Twentieth-Century Philosophy of ScienceIn Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu, Springer Verlag. 2015.Drawing on the recent revisionary scholarship regarding logical positivism and its relation to the early post-positivism, I display and question the standard historical understanding of the analytical philosophy of science from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s. I then propose an alternative account based on the internal-external distinction. I conclude by showing some advantages of my alternative narrative that does more justice to the logical positivism than the standard understanding and sugges…Read more
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Changing Conceptions of RationalityIn Paolo Parrini, Merrilee H. Salmon & Wesley C. Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325. 2003.
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139A Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science for Science EducationScience & Education 20 (7-8): 591-607. 2011.Although there is universal consensus both in the science education literature and in the science standards documents to the effect that students should learn not only the content of science but also its nature, there is little agreement about what that nature is. This led many science educators to adopt what is sometimes called “the consensus view” about the nature of science (NOS), whose goal is to teach students only those characteristics of science on which there is wide consensus. This is a…Read more
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34Why Should Philosophers of Science Pay Attention to the Commercialization of Academic Science?In M. Rédei M. Dorato M. Suàrez (ed.), Epsa Epistemology and Methodology of Science, Springer. pp. 129--138. 2010.
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59Science and its DiscontentsThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 13 147-161. 2007.
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