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94The bureaucratic turn: Weber contra Hempel in Fuller's social epistemologyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (3-4). 1991.Like the positivists, Fuller is concerned to demarcate and systematically evaluate scientific claims and practices. Fuller corrects and reforms the positivist enterprise in light of his sociological naturalism. What Fuller's analysis brings to the fore is how the naturalization of epistemology makes the power?knowledge relation into an epistemological issue. Yet, in his writings. Fuller is radically divided with respect to how to react to this fact. Specifically, Fuller vacillates between, on th…Read more
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13Review of Jonathan Gorman, Historical Judgement: The Limits of Historiographical Choice (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8). 2008.
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95On missing Neurath's boat: Some reflections on recent Quine literatureSynthese 61 (2): 205-231. 1984.
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132Varieties and vagaries of historical explanationJournal of the Philosophy of History 2 (2): 214-226. 2008.For the better part of the 20th century, expositions of issues regarding historical explanation followed a predictable format, one that took as given the nonequivalence of explanations in history and philosophical models of scientific explanation. Ironically, at the present time, the philosophical point of note concerns how the notion of science has itself changed. Debates about explanation in turn need to adapt to this. This prompts the question of whether anything now still makes plausible the…Read more
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2Michael Krausz, ed., Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (2): 66-70. 1990.
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24Hayden White in Philosophical Perspective: Review Essay of Herman Paul’s Hayden White: The Historical Imagination (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (1): 102-111. 2014.For almost half a century, the person most responsible for fomenting brouhahas regarding degrees of plasticity in the writing of histories has been Hayden White. Yet, despite the voluminous responses provoked by White’s work, almost no effort has been made to treat White’s writings in a systematic yet sympathetic way as a philosophy of history. Herman Paul’s book begins to remedy that lack and does so in a carefully considered and extremely scholarly fashion. In his relatively brief six chapters…Read more
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24The epistemology of science after QuineIn Stathis Psillos & Martin Curd (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Routledge. pp. 3. 2008.
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3A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1): 104-108. 1989.
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St. Louis Roundtable on Philosophy of the Social SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 32 (1): 3-91. 2002.
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17Book Reviews : Objectivity, Empiricism and Truth. By R. H. Newell. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. 124. $24.95 (cloth (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (2): 244-247. 1989.
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9Raymond Martin, "the past within us: An empirical approach to philosophy of history" (review)History and Theory 31 (2): 200. 1992.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Social Science |
20th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Physical Science |