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144Hayden White and the Aesthetics of HistoriographyHistory of the Human Sciences 5 (1): 17-35. 1992.
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86The epistemology of "epistemology naturalized"Dialectica 53 (2). 1999.Quine's “Epistemology Naturalized” has become part of the canon in epistemology and excited a widespread revival of interest in naturalism. Yet the status accorded the essay is ironic, since both friends and foes of philosophical naturalism deny that Quine makes a plausible case that the methods of naturalism can accommodate the problems of epistemology
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74A Rationalist Methodology for the Social SciencesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1): 104-108. 1989.
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35Review Symposium: S. Fuller, Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our TimesHistory of the Human Sciences 14 (2): 87-97. 2001.
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233Ways of pastmakingHistory of the Human Sciences 15 (4): 125-143. 2002.Riddles of induction – old or new, Hume’s or Goodman’s – pose unanswered challenges to assumptions that experiences logically legitimate expectations or classifications. The challenges apply both to folk beliefs and to scientific ones. In particular, Goodman’s ‘new riddle’ famously confounds efforts to specify how additional experiences confirm the rightness of currently preferred ways of organizing objects, i.e. our favored theories of what kinds there are.1 His riddle serves to emphasize that nei…Read more
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34Microfoundations Without Foundations: Comments on LittleSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1): 57-64. 1996.
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48Truth in interpretation: The case of psychoanalysisPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (2): 175-195. 1991.This article explores and attempts to resolve some issues that arise when psychoanalytic explanations are construed as a type of historical or narrative explanation. The chief problem is this: If one rejects the claim of narratives to verisimilitude, this appears to divorce the notion of explanation from that of truth. The author examines, in particular, Donald Spence's attempt to deal with the relation of narrative explanations and truth. In his critique of Spence's distinction between narrativ…Read more
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44Editor’s Introduction:“What Does History Matter to...?”Journal of the Philosophy of History 5 (3): 301-307. 2011.
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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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509MistakesSynthese 136 (3): 389-408. 2003.A suggestion famously made by Peter Winch and carried through to present discussions holds that what constitutes the social as a kind consists of something shared – rules or practices commonly learned, internalized, or otherwise acquired by all members belonging to a society. This essays argues against the explanatory efficacy of appeals to this shared something as constitutive of a social kind by examining a violation of social norms or rules, viz., mistakes. I argue that an asymmetric relation…Read more
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694. three dogmas (more or less) of explanationHistory and Theory 47 (1). 2008.What ought to count as an explanation? Such normative questions—what “ought to be” the case?—typically mark the domain that those with a type of philosophical aspiration call their own. Debates in the philosophy of history have for too long been marred by bad advice from just such aspirants. The recurrent suggestion has been that historians have a particular need for a theory of explanation since they seem to have none of their own. But neither the study of the natural sciences nor the study of …Read more
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4Review of Robert Piercey, The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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