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34Solomon's Science without Conscience, or, on the Coherence of Epistemic NewtonianismPerspectives on Science 16 (3). 2008.This essay has three goals. First, it argues that Solomon's claim that consensus is not a telos of science is both original and striking. Second, it raises doubts about whether Solomon's arguments support it. Third, it asks whether the claim is coherent at all.
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30Objectivity, Diversity, Democracy: Locating Social Theory in Objectivity and DiversityPhilosophical Studies 174 (7): 1819-1827. 2017.Reprising and revising a question from Longino regarding an earlier phase of standpoint theory, I raise some issues regarding the place of a substantive normative social theory in the strong objectivity project in Harding’s recent book, Objectivity and Diversity. I offer reasons to think the issue needs to be reframed in the co-constructionist and pluralist setting of the new book but that interesting issues continue to arise in thinking about the philosophical resources feminist philosophies of…Read more
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29Book Review:Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel (review)Philosophy of Science 65 (2): 369-. 1998.
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26Overcoming Logical Positivism From Within: The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence DebatePhilosophical Books 35 (3): 180-182. 1994.
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20Reviews (review)Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 7 347-363. 1999.Richardson’s study on Carnap’s early philosophy culminating in Der logische Aufbau der Welt of 1928 ,presents a comprehensive and sustained effort at understanding it as deeply rooted in neo-Kantian patterns of thought: thus it belongs to a more recent tradition of viewing the emergence of Carnap’s thought, alternative to the older approach of interpreting it against the background of empiricist themes, and well deserves to be labelled the most thoroughgoing expression this more recent tradition…Read more
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16The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (review)Isis 100 (1): 202-203. 2009.
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13Esse gênero de imagem quotidiana do positivismo lógicoCritica 2 -. 2012.É uma questão de algum interesse histórico e filosófico pensar por que razão o empirismo lógico veio a perder o seu estatuto de projeto filosófico a adotar, e como tal aconteceu. Afinal, como este volume amplamente demonstrou, o empirismo lógico foi um projeto de ponta na filosofia analítica num passado não tão distante, e, de fato, o projeto preeminente em certos ramos da filosofia, como a filosofia da ciência. Algo de substancial tem de ter acontecido para tal projeto ter declinado tão conside…Read more
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12Logical Empiricism is commonly regarded as uninterested in, if not hostile to sociological investigations of science. This paper reconstructs the views of Otto Neurath and Philipp Frank on the legitimacy and relevance of sociological investigations of theory choice. It is argued that while there obtains a surprising degree of convergence between their programmatic pronouncements and the Strong Programme, the two types of project nevertheless remain distinct. The key to this difference lies in th…Read more
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11PrefacePhilosophy of Science 76 (5): 569-569. 2009.This contributed-papers volume is the first volume of essays from the PSA 2008 program. The vast majority of the work in putting together this volume fell to the program committee. The members of this committee began the adjudication process with over 200 submitted papers and went through two rounds of selection, first for the program and then for this volume. Throughout, they all worked diligently and in good humor. So, I would like to thank Ken Aizawa, Rachel Ankeny, Davis Baird, Paul Bartha, …Read more
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10How not to Russell Carnap’s AufbauPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1): 2-14. 1990.Rudolf Carnap is principally renowned for stating with remarkable precision and rigor a rich variety of philosophical doctrines — doctrines which, thanks mainly to Carnap’s meticulous formulations, the philosophical world now holds to be clearly and fundamentally mistaken. Thus, it is Carnap who, in Meaning and Necessity (Carnap 1947), presents in detail the linguistic doctrine of logical truth and the semantic underpinnings of the analytic/synthetic distinction, providing thereby the grist for …Read more
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8Nicholas Griffin., Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship; Peter Hylton, Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy (review)International Studies in Philosophy 26 (2): 121-123. 1994.
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7Logical Empiricism as Scientific PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2024.This Element offers a new account of the philosophical significance of logical empiricism that relies on the past forty years of literature reassessing the project. It argues that while logical empiricism was committed to empiricism and did become tied to the trajectory of analytic philosophy, neither empiricism nor logical analysis per se was the deepest philosophical commitment of logical empiricism. That commitment was, rather, securing the scientific status of philosophy, bringing philosophy…Read more
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6Review of Wesley C. Salmon and Gereon Wolters: Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (4): 617-620. 1995.
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5Carnap on Unity of ScienceIn Alan W. Richardson & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Interpreting Carnap: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2024.It is no secret that various versions of logical empiricism argued for the importance of unified science. Carnap was a proponent of unity of science views, although he expressed this in different idioms at different times. In the Aufbau (1928) he spoke of the unity of the object domain secured through definability in the constitutional system, in his physicalist period he argued that a physicalist language could serve as the universal language of science, and in his mature philosophical work he …Read more
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3Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman : Kantian or Hegelian dynamics of reason?In Michael Friedman, Mary Domski & Michael Dickson (eds.), Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science, Open Court. 2010.
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3'That Sort of Everyday Image of Logical Positivism': Thomas Kuhn and the Decline of Logical Empiricist Philosophy of ScienceIn A. Richardson & T. Uebel (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 346--370. 2007.
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2Taking the Measure of Carnap's Philosophical Engineering: Metalogic as MetrologyIn Erich H. Reck (ed.), The Historical turn in Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 60--77. 2013.
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1Interpreting Carnap: Critical Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2024.A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap's philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science.
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1PrefacePhilosophy of Science 77 (5): 647-647. 2010.This symposia-papers volume is the second volume of essays from the PSA 2008 program. The vast majority of the work in putting together this volume fell to the program committee. The members of this committee began the adjudication process with over 200 submitted papers and went through two rounds of selection, first for the program and then for this volume. Throughout, they all worked diligently and in good humor. So, I would like to thank Ken Aizawa, Rachel Ankeny, Davis Baird, Paul Bartha, An…Read more
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1Philosophy of Science in AmericaIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Friedrich Stadler: The Vienna Circle: Studies in the Origins, Development and Influence of Logical Empiricism (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (1): 169-172. 2003.
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From Troubled Marriage to Uneasy Colocation: Thomas Kuhn, Epistemological Revolutions, Romantic Narratives, and History and Philosophy 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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Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (review)Isis 97 (1): 196-197. 2006.