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55Theories of explanation (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1988.Since the publication of Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim's ground-breaking work "Studies in the Logic of Explanation," the theory of explanation has remained a major topic in the philosophy of science. This valuable collection provides readers with the opportunity to study some of the classic essays on the theory of explanation along with the best examples of the most recent work being done on the topic. In addition to the original Hempel and Oppenheim paper, the volume includes Scriven's critica…Read more
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4Theory Change and InstrumentationIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: References and Further Reading.
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8Reenacting Galileo's Experiments: Rediscovering the Techniques of Seventeenth‐Century Science (review)Isis 100 661-662. 2009.
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1Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Testability and Explanation in Economics held at Virginia Polytechnics Institute and State University, April 1979.
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44Philosophy of Economics, Wolfgang Balzer and Bert Hamminga . Dordrecht: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1989, 270 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 7 (1): 122-128. 1991.
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101It’s Not About TechnologyKnowledge, Technology & Policy 23 (3): 445-454. 2010.It is argued that the question “Can we trust technology?” is unanswerable because it is open-ended. Only questions about specific issues that can have specific answers should be entertained. It is further argued that the reason the question cannot be answered is that there is no such thing as Technology _simpliciter_. Fundamentally, the question comes down to trusting people and even then, the question has to be specific about trusting a person to do this or that.
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13The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Job KozhamthadamIsis 86 (3): 485-486. 1995.
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Comments on Rescher's "Noumenal Causality"Société Française de Philosophie, Bulletin 65 (1): 78. 1974.
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21Philosophy at Virginia Tech. He recently published Thinking About Tech-nology (Seven Bridges Press, 2000) and is co-editor of the forthcoming Pro-duction and Diffusion of Publish Choice (Blackwells, 2003). He is currently working on a new project concerning the role of innovative instrumenta (review)Perspectives on Science 9 (4). 2001.
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9New Directions in the Philosophy of TechnologySpringer Verlag. 1995.In this collection we finally find the philosophy of technology, a young and rapidly developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology, and mainstream epistemological and metaphysical issues. The sophistication of these papers indicates the maturity of the field as it moves away from the advocacy of anti-technology ideological posturing toward a deeper understanding of the options and restraints technological developments provide. The papers presented h…Read more
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43Hume and Peirce on Belief, or, Why Belief Should Not Be Considered an Epistemic CategoryTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (2). 2005.
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21The Character of Galilean EvidencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.We examine Galileo's theory of evidence as presented in his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems. It is argued that for Galileo evidence not only had to be tied to the senses, but, that for purposes of evidential relevance, epistemologically significant experience is only of terrestrial objects and events. This account forms the first part of an argument for understanding Galileo as an instrumentalist. The second part of the argument consists in examining Galileo's views on the limits of know…Read more
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25Review of Carla Rita Palmerino (ed.), J.m.M.h. Thijssen (ed.), The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (7). 2005.
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51On the Philosophy of Technology, Past and FutureTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 1 (1-2): 18-22. 1995.
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5Introduction: Through the Looking GlassIn Joseph Pitt (ed.), The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions, D. Reidel. pp. 1--18. 1978.
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