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42How postmodern was Neurath's idea of unity of science?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 28 (3): 439-451. 1997.
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17John McCumber, Time In The Ditch: American Philosophy And The Mccarthy Era. Northwestern University Press , xxiii + 213 pp., $29.95 (review)Philosophy of Science 69 (2): 389-392. 2002.
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16Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics by Nancy Cartwright; Jordi Cat; Lola Fleck; Thomas E. Uebel (review)Isis 88 560-562. 1997.
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47Against a third dogma of logical empiricism: Otto Neurath and "unpredictability in principle"International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15 (2). 2001.(2001). Against a third dogma of logical empiricism: Otto Neurath and 'unpredictability in principle' International Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 199-209. doi: 10.1080/02698590120059068
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180Pluralism, logical empiricism, and the problem of pseudosciencePhilosophy of Science 65 (2): 333-348. 1998.I criticize conceptual pluralism, as endorsed recently by John Dupre and Philip Kitcher, for failing to supply strategies for demarcating science from non-science. Using creation-science as a test case, I argue that pluralism blocks arguments that keep creation-science in check and that metaphysical pluralism offers it positive, metaphysical support. Logical empiricism, however, still provides useful resources to reconfigure and manage the problem of creation-science in those practical and polit…Read more
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79How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of LogicCambridge University Press. 2005.This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's Unity of Science Movement when these projects emigrated to the US in the 1930s and follows their de-politicization by a convergence of intellectual, cultural and political forces in the 1950s. Students of logical empiricism and the Vienna Circle treat these as strictl…Read more
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70Chaos, History, and NarrativeHistory and Theory 30 (1): 1-20. 1991.Hempel's proposal of covering laws which explain historical events has a certain plausibility, but can never be actually realized due to the chaotic nature of history. The natural laws that would govern both individual lives and greater history would be nonlinear; consequently, in the terminology of chaos theory, the final states of both are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Initial conditions would need to be exactly known in order to account correctly for historic phenomena, especiall…Read more
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