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1Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell ExperimentsIn James T. Cushing & Ernan McMullin (eds.), Philoophical Consequences of Quantum Theory, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 224--253. 1989.
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26Einstein on Locality and SeparabilityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 16 (3): 171. 1985.
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6What is Albert Einstein’s place in the history of twentieth-century philosophy of science? Were one to consult the histories produced at mid-century from within the Vienna Circle and allied movements (e.g., von Mises 1938, 1939, Kraft 1950, Reichenbach 1951), then one would find, for the most part, two points of emphasis. First, Einstein was rightly remembered as the developer of the special and general theories of relativity, theories which, through their challenge to both scientific and philos…Read more
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10Astride the Divided Line: Platonism, Empiricism, and Einstein's Epistemological OpportunismPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 63 143-164. 1998.
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Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics. Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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3Otto Neurath: The Philosopher in the CaveIn Adam Tuboly & Jordi Cat (eds.), Neurath Reconsidered: New Sources and Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 45-65. 2019.The question of philosophy’s relevance to extra-academic concerns is much with us today. Plato tells us that, once the philosopher has seen the truth in the full light of the sun, she must return to the cave, there to put knowledge to work in making a better world, even though, being temporarily unaccustomed to the dark, she risks ridicule from those still in thrall to illusion. This paper reflects upon the life and career of Otto Neurath as a modern exemplification of this ideal of philosophica…Read more
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10Technomoral Civic Virtues: a Critical Appreciation of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the VirtuesPhilosophy and Technology 31 (2): 293-304. 2018.This paper begins by summarizing the chief, original contributions to technology ethics in Shannon Vallor’s recent book, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, highlighting especially the book’s distinctive inclusion of not only the western virtue ethics tradition but also the analogous traditions in Buddhist and Confucian ethics. But the main point of the paper is to suggest that the theoretical framework developed in the book be extended to include an anal…Read more
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7Introduction: Integrated history and philosophy of science in practiceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 50 1-3. 2015.
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5Passion at a DistanceIn Wayne C. Myrvold & Joy Christian (eds.), Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle, Springer. pp. 3--11. 2009.
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8Steven French and Décio Krause have written what bids fair to be, for years to come, the definitive philosophical treatment of the problem of the individuality of elementary particles in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. The book begins with a long and dense argument for the view that elementary particles are most helpfully regarded as non-individuals, and it concludes with an earnest attempt to develop a formal apparatus for describing such non-individual entities better suited to the…Read more
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11Lost wanderers in the forest of knowledge: Some thoughts on the discovery-justification distinctionIn Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction, Springer. pp. 3--22. 2006.Neo-positivism is dead. Let that imperfect designation stand for the project that dominated and defined the philosophy of science, especially in its Anglophone form, during the fifty or so years following the end of the Second World War. While its critics were many,1 its death was slow, and some think still to find a pulse.2 But die it did in the cul-de-sac into which it was led by its own faulty compass.
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5Reduction and emergence in the physical sciences: some lessons from the particle physics and condensed matter debateIn Nancey C. Murphy & William R. Stoeger (eds.), Evolution and emergence: systems, organisms, persons, Oxford University Press. pp. 141--157. 2007.
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11more on the history of the Vienna Circle and its allies, see Coffa 1991; Friedman 1983; Hailer 1982, 1985; Kraft 1950; and Proust 1986, 1989). Without question, however, the crucial, formative, early intellectual experience of at least Schlick, Reichenbach, and Carnap, the experience that did most to give form and content to their emergent philosophies of science, was their engagement with relativity theory. Thus, after a few early writings on more general philosophical themes, Schlick first cau…Read more
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1Emergence in the physical sciences: lessons from the particle physics and condensed matter debateIn Nancey C. Murphy & William R. Stoeger (eds.), Evolution and emergence: systems, organisms, persons, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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11Artificial Moral Cognition: Moral Functionalism and Autonomous Moral AgencyIn Thomas M. Powers (ed.), Philosophy and Computing: Essays in epistemology, philosophy of mind, logic, and ethics, Springer. 2017.This paper proposes a model of the Artificial Autonomous Moral Agent (AAMA), discusses a standard of moral cognition for AAMA, and compares it with other models of artificial normative agency. It is argued here that artificial morality is possible within the framework of a “moral dispositional functionalism.” This AAMA is able to “read” the behavior of human actors, available as collected data, and to categorize their moral behavior based on moral patterns herein. The present model is based on s…Read more
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18Revisiting the Einstein-Bohr DialogueIyyun 57. forthcoming.as the chief novelty in the quantum description of nature, Einstein for having found vindication in 3 relativity theory for either positivism or realism, depending upon whom one asks. Famous as is each in his own domain, they are famous also, together, for their decades-long disagreement over the future of fundamental physics, their respective embrace and rejection of quantum indeterminacy being only the most widely-known point of contention.
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7Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural" : Einstein, general relativity, and the contingent a prioriIn Michael Friedman, Mary Domski & Michael Dickson (eds.), Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science, Open Court. pp. 333--355. 2010.
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106A minimalist model of the artificial autonomous moral agent (AAMA)In Ioan Muntean & Don Howard (eds.), A minimalist model of the artificial autonomous moral agent (AAMA), Aaai. 2016.This paper proposes a model for an artificial autonomous moral agent (AAMA), which is parsimonious in its ontology and minimal in its ethical assumptions. Starting from a set of moral data, this AAMA is able to learn and develop a form of moral competency. It resembles an “optimizing predictive mind,” which uses moral data (describing typical behavior of humans) and a set of dispositional traits to learn how to classify different actions (given a given background knowledge) as morally right, wro…Read more
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5Artificial moral agents: creative, autonomous, social. An approach based on evolutionary computationIn Johanna Seibt, Raul Hakli & Marco Norskov (eds.), Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations: Proceedings of Robo-Philosophy, Ios Press. 2014.
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11The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008.ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4317-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8229-4317-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Science — Philosophy. 2. Science — Social aspects. 3. Values. 4. Science and civilization. I. Carrier, Martin. II. Howard, Don, professor. III. Kourany ...
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