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238Knowledge and power: toward a political philosophy of scienceCornell University Press. 1987.This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice.
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49Engaging science: how to understand its practices philosophicallyCornell University Press. 1996.Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the ...
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45Philosophy of science and the persistent narratives of modernityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (1): 141-162. 1991.
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72Husserlian phenomenology and scientific realismPhilosophy of Science 54 (2): 222-232. 1987.Husserl's (1970) discussion of "Galilean science" is often dismissed as naïvely instrumentalist and hostile to science. He has been explicitly criticized for misunderstanding idealization in science, for treating the lifeworld as a privileged conceptual framework, and for denying that science can in principle completely describe the world (because ordinary prescientific concepts are irreplaceable). I clarify Husserl's position concerning realism, and use this to show that the first two criticism…Read more
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252Barad's feminist naturalismHypatia 19 (1): 142-161. 2004.: Philosophical naturalism is ambiguous between conjoining philosophy with science or with nature understood scientifically. Reconciliation of this ambiguity is necessary but rarely attempted. Feminist science studies often endorse the former naturalism but criticize the second. Karen Barad's agential realism, however, constructively reconciles both senses. Barad then challenges traditional metaphysical naturalisms as not adequately accountable to science. She also contributes distinctively to f…Read more
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53Philosophical discussions of mechanisms and mechanistic explanation have often been framed by contrast to laws and deductive-nomological explanation. A more adequate conception of lawfulness and nomological necessity, emphasizing the role of modal considerations in scientific reasoning, circumvents such contrasts and enhances understanding of mechanisms and their scientific significance. The first part of the paper sketches this conception of lawfulness, drawing upon Haugeland, Lange, and Rouse.…Read more
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Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices PhilosophicallyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (2): 359-364. 1998.
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125Arguing for the Natural Ontological AttitudePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.Arthur Fine has recently argued that standard realist and anti-realist interpretations of science should be replaced by "natural ontological attitude" (NOA). I ask whether Fine's own justification for NOA can meet the standards of argument that underlie his criticisms of realism and anti-realism. Fine vacillates between two different ways of advocating NOA. The more minimalist defense ("why not try NOA?") begs the question against both realists and antirealists. A stronger program, based on Fine…Read more
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234The politics of postmodern philosophy of sciencePhilosophy of Science 58 (4): 607-627. 1991.Modernism in the philosophy of science demands a unified story about what makes an inquiry scientific (or a successful science). Fine's "natural ontological attitude" (NOA) is "postmodern" in joining trust in local scientific practice with suspicion toward any global interpretation of science to legitimate or undercut that trust. I consider four readings of this combination of trust and suspicion and their consequences for the autonomy and cultural credibility of the sciences. Three readings tak…Read more
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28Review of Georg Gasser (ed.), How Successful is Naturalism? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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54How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical NaturalismUniversity of Chicago Press. 2002.How can we understand the world as a whole instead of separate natural and human realms? Joseph T. Rouse proposes an approach to this classic problem based on radical new conceptions of both philosophical naturalism and scientific practice.
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9Cultural Collisions: Post-Modern Technoscience by Raphael Sassower (review)Isis 87 582-583. 1996.
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12Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis. Barry Barnes, David Bloor, John HenryIsis 87 (4): 764-766. 1996.
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75New philosophies of science in north America — twenty years laterJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 29 (1): 71-122. 1998.This survey of major developments in North American philosophy of science begins with the mid-1960s consolidation of the disciplinary synthesis of internalist history and philosophy of science (HPS) as a response to criticisms of logical empiricism. These developments are grouped for discussion under the following headings: historical metamethodologies, scientific realisms, philosophies of the special sciences, revivals of empiricism, cognitivist naturalisms, social epistemologies, feminist theo…Read more
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40Engaging Science through Cultural StudiesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994.The paper introduces cultural studies of science as an alternative to the "legitimation project" in philosophy and sociology of science. The legitimation project stems from belief that the epistemic standing and cultural authority of the sciences need general justification, and that such justification (or its impossibility) arises from the nature or characteristic aim of the sciences. The paper considers three central themes of cultural studies apart from its rejection of these commitments to th…Read more
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80Vampires: Social constructivism, realism, and other philosophical undeadHistory and Theory 41 (1). 2002.Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science by Andre Kukla The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking
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150Recovering Thomas KuhnTopoi 32 (1): 59-64. 2013.The interpretive plasticity of Kuhn’s philosophical work has been reinforced by readings informed by other philosophical, historiographic or sociological projects. This paper highlights several aspects of Kuhn’s work that have been neglected by such readings. First, Kuhn’s early contribution to several subsequent philosophical developments has been unduly neglected. Kuhn’s postscript discussion of “exemplars” should be recognized as one of the earliest versions of a conception of theories as “me…Read more
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72Indeterminacy, empirical evidence, and methodological pluralismSynthese 86 (3). 1991.Roth (1987) effectively distinguishes Quinean indeterminacy of translation from the more general underdetermination of theories by showing how indeterminacy follows directly from holism and the role of a shared environment in language learning. However, Roth is mistaken in three further consequences he draws from his interpretation of indeterminacy. Contra Roth, natural science and social science are not differentiated as offering theories about the shared environment and theories about meanings…Read more
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42Epistemological derangementStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36 (4): 835-847. 2005.
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47Policing knowledge: Disembodied policy for embodied knowledgeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (3-4). 1991.Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology offers a constructive program for integrating philosophy and sociology of science as normative knowledge policy, constrained by the linguistic, psychological, social, and political embodiment of knowledge. I endorse and elaborate upon Fuller's insistence that science studies should take seriously the embodiment of knowledge, but criticize his conception of knowledge policy on three grounds. Knowledge policy as Fuller conceives it seems committed to an untenable…Read more
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97Articulating the World: Experimental Systems and Conceptual UnderstandingInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (3). 2011.Attention to scientific practice offers a novel response to philosophical queries about how conceptual understanding is empirically accountable. The locus of the issue is thereby shifted, from perceptual experience to experimental and fieldwork interactions. More important, conceptual articulation is shown to be not merely ?spontaneous? and intralinguistic, but instead involves a establishing a systematic domain of experimental operations. The importance of experimental practice for conceptual u…Read more
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