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10Quantum Realism: The Interpretation of an Interpretation? (review)Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 41 (1): 83-91. 2006.A Review: Jens Hebor. The Standard Conception as Genuine Quantum Realism
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9Good will or lost opportunities?: Mauro Dorato: Science and representative democracy. London: Bloomsbury, 2023, 183 pp, £ 76.50 HB (review)Metascience 32 (3): 325-328. 2023.
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8Understanding Meaning through Human EvolutionDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 1-20. forthcoming.I argue that meaning is a result of our biological evolution, and that language evolved from primates’ ability to grasp conceptually the most important features of their environment. I hold that natural selection and adaptation ensure that primates both sense and conceptualize their world similarly, and that they therefore think similarly, whenever they receive the same sense impressions. This cognitive similarity enabled our predecessors to learn and develop a language because of the regular as…Read more
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8Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others (review)Isis 98 660-661. 2007.
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7After postmodernism: a naturalistic reconstruction of the humanitiesPalgrave-Macmillan. 2012.The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting a pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is possible to show that scientific practice of humanistic sciences can be understood on similar lines to scientific practice of natural and social sciences.
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7The nature of scientific thinking: on interpretation, explanation, and understandingPalgrave-Macmillan. 2014.Forms of understanding -- Understanding as organized beliefs -- On interpretation -- Representations -- Scientific explanation -- Causal explanations -- Other types of explanations -- The pragmatics of explanation -- Not just why-questions -- A rhetorical approach to explanation -- Pluralism and the unity of science.
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5Quantum Realism: The Interpretation of an Interpretation?Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 41 (1): 83-91. 2006.
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5Perspectives on Time (edited book)Springer. 2010.Perspectives on Time deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy. It contains 18 previously unpublished papers, written by philosophers from various European countries, as well as a large introduction about the history and the main situation in the respective fields today. The prominent issues which are addressed in this book concern the direction of time, the reality of tenses, the objectivity of becoming, the existence in time, and the logic…Read more
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4Review of Sandro Petruccioli: Atoms, metaphors, and paradoxes: Niels Bohr and the construction of a new physics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (2): 275-279. 1995.
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4Rethinking Science: A Philosophical Introduction to the Unity of ScienceAshgate Publishing. 2002.Science and humanity are usually seen as very different: the sciences of nature aim at explanations whereas the sciences of man seek meaning and understanding. This book shows how these contrasting descriptions fail to fit into a modern philosophical account of the sciences and the arts. Presenting some of the major ideas within the philosophy of science on facts, explanation, interpretation, methods, laws, and theories, Jan Faye compares various approaches, including his own. Arguing that the s…Read more
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4A review of Gerald Holton's book.
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Filosofia, scienza e bioetica nel dibattito contemporaneo. (edited book)Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. 2007.
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The Past RevisitedDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 24 7-18. 1987.This paper contains a discussion of backward causation.
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Niels Bohr: His Heritage and LegacyKluwer Academic Publishers. 1991.The book gives an painstaking analysis of Niels Bohr's understanding of quantum mechanics based on a claim that Bohr was influenced by Harald Høffding's approach to philosophical problems.