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CSW Jobs for Philosophers Employment StudyApa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 8 (2): 3-6. 2009.
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9The pragmatic turn in naturalist philosophy of sciencePerspectives on Science 3 (2): 206-230. 1995.Creative approaches in recent work in science studies can be usefully connected with ideas from the pragmatic tradition. This article both criticizes and builds on the contemporary pragmatic views of Hacking, Stich, and others. It selects a theme from the work of James and Dewey as a heuristic for a new, and necessary, pragmatic epistemology of science.
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70Responses to criticsPerspectives on Science 16 (3). 2008.In this paper I respond to the criticisms of Helen Longino, Alan Richardson, Naomi Oreskes and Sharyn Clough. There is discussion of the character of social knowledge, the goals of scientific inquiry, the connections between Social Empiricism and other approaches in science studies, productive and unproductive dissent, and the distinction between empirical and non-empirical decision vectors.
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39Multivariate Models of Scientific ChangePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994.Social scientists regularly make use of multivariate models to describe complex social phenomena. It is argued that this approach is useful for modelling the variety of cognitive and social factors contributing to scientific change, and superior to the integrated models of scientific change currently available. It is also argued that care needs to be taken in drawing normative conclusions: cognitive factors are not instrinsically more "rational" than social factors, nor is it likely that social …Read more
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8Frank Sulloway's Born to RebelPhilosophy of Science 65 (1): 171. 1998.Born to Rebel is an innovative and important work with much to say to philosophers of science, as well as historians and sociologists of science. Sulloway uses, successfully, quantitative statistical methods that others have despaired of using to analyze the complexities of historical change. In particular, he investigates scientific decision-making during scientific controversies with a multivariate analysis. The goal is to discern, precisely, the contribution of factors such as religious belie…Read more
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86Mechanisms, continental approaches, trials, and evolutionary medicine: New work in the philosophy of medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (1): 1-4. 2011.
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109Socially Responsible Science and the Unity of ValuesPerspectives on Science 20 (3): 331-338. 2012.
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37On Putnam’s Argument for the Inconsistency of RelativismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 213-220. 1990.
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264Just a paradigm: evidence-based medicine in epistemological contextEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (3): 451-466. 2011.Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) developed from the work of clinical epidemiologists at McMaster University and Oxford University in the 1970s and 1980s and self-consciously presented itself as a "new paradigm" called "evidence-based medicine" in the early 1990s. The techniques of the randomized controlled trial, systematic review and meta-analysis have produced an extensive and powerful body of research. They have also generated a critical literature that raises general concerns about its methods.…Read more
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43The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine (edited book)Routledge. 2016._The_ _Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine _is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as philosophy of epidemiology, measuring harms, the concept of disability, nursing perspectives, ra…Read more
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16Naturalism and generalityPhilosophical Psychology 8 (4). 1995.Naturalistic epistemologists frequently assume that their aim is to identify generalities (i.e. general laws) about the effectiveness of particular reasoning processes and methods. This paper argues that the search for this kind of generality fails. Work that has been done thus far to identify generalities (e.g. by Goldman, Kitcher and Thagard) overlooks both the complexity of reasoning and the relativity of assessments to particular contexts (domain, stage and goal of inquiry). Examples of huma…Read more
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2Group Judgment and the Medical Consensus ConferenceIn Fred Gifford (ed.), Philosophy of Medicine, Elsevier. 2011.
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39Apriority and metajustification in BonJour's structure of empirical knowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (4): 767-777. 1990.
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59Commentary on Alison Gopnik's "the scientist as child"Philosophy of Science 63 (4): 547-551. 1996.None
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36The whiptail lizard reconsideredPerspectives on Science 11 (3): 318-325. 2003.: Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's introductory text, The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science (1993), includes a controversy about the significance of pseudosexual behavior in the parthenogenetic whiptail lizard. Collins and Pinch, basing their account on the work of Greg Myers (1990), claim that "in this area of biology, experiments are seldom possible" and that the debate has "battled to an honorable draw." I argue that a closer look at the publications of the scientists involved sh…Read more
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