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972Motives Still Don't Matter: Reply to PynesZygon 47 (4): 662-665. 2012.This paper continues a dialogue that began with an article by Jeffrey Koperski entitled “Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Good Ones,” published in the June 2008 issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. In a response article, Christopher Pynes argues that ad hominem arguments are sometimes legitimate, especially when critiquing Intelligent Design (2012). We show that Pynes’s examples only apply to matters of testimony, not the kinds of arguments found in the best defenses…Read more
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67Models, confirmation, and chaosPhilosophy of Science 65 (4): 624-648. 1998.The use of idealized models in science is by now well-documented. Such models are typically constructed in a “top-down” fashion: starting with an intractable theory or law and working down toward the phenomenon. This view of model-building has motivated a family of confirmation schemes based on the convergence of prediction and observation. This paper considers how chaotic dynamics blocks the convergence view of confirmation and has forced experimentalists to take a different approach to mod…Read more
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82BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN: The Empirical Stance (review)Faith and Philosophy 21 (2): 256-259. 2004.Review of The Empirical Stance
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