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20Antidotes all the way down?Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (3): 259-269. 2010.This paper explores the question: can fundamental dispositions (which have no distinct causal basis) suffer from finks and antidotes? I use my response to shed light on the question: can the fundamental laws of physics be ceteris paribus laws?
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20Philosophy of Science a Unified Approach, written by Gerhard SchurzGrazer Philosophische Studien 94 (4): 638-640. 2017._ Source: _Page Count 5
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19Review of Craig Dilworth: The Metaphysics of Science (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 284-286. 1997.
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13Kuhn on Reference and EssencePhilosophia Scientiae 8 39-71. 2004.La thèse kuhnienne de l’incommensurabilité semble mettre en cause le réalisme scientifique. Une réponse à cette mise en cause consiste à se focaliser sur la continuité de la référence. La théorie causale de la référence, en particulier, semble offrir la possibilité d’une continuité de la référence susceptible de fournir une base pour l’espèce de comparabilité entre théories que requiert le réaliste. Dans « baptiser et rebaptiser : la vulnérabilité des désignations rigides », Kuhn attaque la théo…Read more
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13Review of Karl Popper: The Myth of the Framework_; Karl Raimund Popper: _Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (1): 149-151. 1996.
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12Free Inquiry:The Haldane Principle and the Significance of Scientific ResearchSocial Epistemology 2 (7). 2013.[no abstract]
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11Kuhn and twentieth century philosophy of scienceAnnals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12 (2): 1-14. 2004.
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9Further Antidotes: a Response to GundersenPhilosophical Quarterly 50 (199): 229-233. 2000.In my ‘Dispositions and Antidotes’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 48, I raise an objection to the conditional analysis of dispositions, both in its simple formulation and in a more sophisticated version due to David Lewis, The Philosophical Quarterly, 47. The objection suggests that a disposition may be continuously present and the appropriate stimulus occur without the manifestation occurring, because some outside influence, an antidote, interferes. Gundersen in The Philosophical Quarterly, 50, …Read more
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8Review of Craig Dilworth: The Metaphysics of Science (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 284-286. 1997.
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7Laws and CriteriaCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (4): 511-541. 2002.Debates concerning the analysis of the concept of law of nature must address the following problem. On the one hand, our grasp of laws of nature is via our knowledge of their instances. And this seems not only an epistemological truth but also a semantic one. The concept of a law of nature must be explicated in terms of the things that instantiate the law. It is not simply that a piece of metal that conducts electricity is evidence for a law that metals conduct electricity.
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4Monastic Dispositional EssentialismIn Alexander Bird, B. D. Ellis & Howard Sankey (eds.), Properties, Powers, and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Routledge. pp. 35--41. 2012.
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2Discovering the essences of natural kindsIn Helen Beebee & Nigel Sabbarton-Leary (eds.), The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, Routledge. 2010.
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2Natural kinds and modalityIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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1Waismann Versus Ewing on CausalityVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 15 207-224. 2011.Friedrich Waismann’s typescript “Causality” dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s, and derives from lectures he gave at Oxford in 1947–8, where he was then university lecturer. The typescript is divided into twelve sections, and Waismann devotes much of one section to an engagement with A. C. Ewing’s paper “A Defence of Causality”
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1Rationality and the structure of self-deceptionIn Gianfranco Soldati (ed.), European Review of Philosophy, 1: Philosophy of Mind, Stanford: Csli Publications. pp. 19-38. 1994.
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1Kuhn and the Historiography of ScienceIn William J. Devlin & Alisa Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 311. Springer. 2015.
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