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4IntroductionIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-9. 1992.
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2Chapter three. Limitless dissentIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 82-113. 1992.
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5Chapter four. The obstacles of contentIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 114-145. 1992.
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3Chapter eleven. Living as one shouldIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 377-392. 1992.
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12Marxism and CapitalismIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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5Marx's legacyIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Marx's Capitalism Exploitation The State and Capitalism Morality and Social Interests Notes Bibliography.
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48Wittgenstein in transition: A review of the philosophical grammar (review)Philosophical Review 86 (4): 520-544. 1977.
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31The Advancement of Realism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (3): 637. 1995.Some of us think that the current consensus in the natural sciences is closer to the truth than it has ever been before. But for decades we have been told that important parts of this consensus are due to interactions of power, rhetoric and custom which have no tendency to promote truth in our own view. I think that the debunking of this debunking in The Advancement of Science is a devastating success, an awesome combination of erudition, philosophical insight and conceptual resourcefulness. But…Read more
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76Propensity: Popper or Peirce?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (2): 123-132. 1975.
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94Methodological individualism and social explanationPhilosophy of Science 45 (3): 387-414. 1978.Past criticisms to the contrary, methodological individualism in the social sciences is neither trivial nor obviously false. In the style of Weber's sociology, it restricts the ultimate explanatory repertoire of social science to agents' reasons for action. Although this restriction is not obviously false, it ought not to be accepted, at present, as a regulative principle. It excludes, as too far-fetched to merit investigation, certain hypotheses concerning the influence of objective interests o…Read more
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12Moral Differences: Truth, Justice, and Conscience in a World of ConflictPrinceton University Press. 1992.In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides new resources for coping with the most troubling types of moral conflict: disagreements in moral conviction, conflicting interests, and the tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to moral truth, and, within this framework, develops a theory of justice and an assessment of the role of mora…Read more
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40In search of Einstein's legacy: A critical notice of Arthur fine, the shaky game: Einstein, realism, and the quantum theoryPhilosophical Review 98 (2): 215-238. 1989.
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112Half-naturalized social kindsPhilosophy of Science 67 (3): 652. 2000.We often legitimately ascribe reality both to social and to natural kinds. But the bases for these ascriptions are not entirely the same. In both cases, reality is typically determined by what characterizations of causal factors are indispensable to adequate explanation. Nonetheless, a psychological role as part of an identity that instances embrace is sometimes, distinctively, a condition for ascribing reality to a social kind. Although such assessments of reality can be construed as employing …Read more
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13Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social SciencesPrinceton University Press. 1988.In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification, explanation, and truth. Using a wealth of examples from both the natural and the social sciences, Fact and Method applies the new account of scientific reason to specific questions of method in virtually every field of inquiry, including biology, physi…Read more
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24Democracy and Class Dictatorship: RICHARD W. MILLERSocial Philosophy and Policy 3 (2): 59-76. 1986.Clearly, Marx thought he was promoting democratic values. In the Manifesto, the immediate goal of socialism is summed up as “to win the battle of democracy.” Marx sees the reduction of individuality as one of the greatest injuries done by a system in which most people buy and sell their labor power on terms over which they have little control. As they supervised translations and re-issues of the Manifesto, Marx and Engels singled out just one point as a major topic on which their view in 1848 ha…Read more
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4Chapter six. Justice as social freedomIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 185-238. 1992.
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6Chapter Seven. INEQUALITIESIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 239-282. 1992.