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22Cartwright, Capacities, and ProbabilitiesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.I argue that Nancy Cartwright's largely methodological arguments for capacities and against Hume's regularity account of causation are only partially successful. They are especially problematic in establishing the primacy of singular causation and the reality of mixed-dual capacities. Therefore, her arguments need to be supported by ontological ones, and I propose the propensity interpretation of causal probabilities as a natural way of doing this.
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21History and Philosophy of Science-Based Approach to Science Teaching at its BestScience & Education 24 (7-8): 1001-1008. 2015.
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21Commercialisation and commodification of science: educational responses (thematic issue)Science & Education 22 (10). 2013.
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20Discussione su "Dogma contro critica" di Thomas S. KuhnIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 13 (3): 625-648. 2000.
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18Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 5 11-13. 2007.
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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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11Science and its DiscontentsThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 13 147-161. 2007.
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4Causal Modeling and the Statistical Analysis of CausationPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 12-23. 1986.Recent studies on probabilistic causation and statistical explanation (Cartwright 1979; Salmon 1984), I believe, have opened up the possibility of a genuine unification between philosophical approaches and causal modeling (CM) in the social, behavioral and biological sciences (Wright 1934; Blalock 1964; Asher 1976). This unification rests on the statistical tools employed, the principle of common cause, the irreducibility of causation to probability or statistics, and the idea of causal process …Read more
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2Singular Causation and LawPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1): 537-543. 1990.Humean accounts of law are at the same time accounts of causation. Accordingly, since laws of nature are nothing but contingent cosmic regularities, to be a cause is just to be an instance of such a law. It follows from this view that it is logically impossible that there be causally related events which are not law-governed. Any particular cause-effect pair instantiates some law of nature, where the law is understood as a regularity. The regularity itself may be understood phenomenalistically, …Read more
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1Changing Conceptions of Rationality from Logical Empiricism to PostpositivismIn Logical Empiricism, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325--348. 2003.
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Critical RationalismIn Stathis Psillos Martin Curd (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, . 2008.
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Changing Conceptions of RationalityIn Paolo Parrini, Wes Salmon & Merrilee Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Pittsburgh University Pres. pp. 325. 2003.
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