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205Freedom in a Scientific Society: Reading the Context of Reichenbach's ContextsIn Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle (eds.), Revisiting Discovery and Justification, Springer. pp. 41--54. 2006.The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification, this distinction dear to the projects of logical empiricism, was, as is well known, introduced in precisely those terms by Hans Reichenbach in his Experience and Prediction (Reichenbach 1938). Thus, while the idea behind the distinction has a long history before Reichenbach, this text from 1938 plays a salient role in how the distinction became canonical in the work of philosophers of science in the mid twentieth century. The n…Read more
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12The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and ComplexityRoutledge. 2004.The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant results of a largely unprecedented combination of cultural and cognitive analysis. The authors explore both narrative and dramatic genres, uncovering the tensions among presumably universal cog…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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81Toward a History of Scientific PhilosophyPerspectives on Science-Historical Philosophical and Social 5 (3): 418--451. 1997.Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, philosophers of various sorts, including Helmholtz, Avenarius, Husserl, Russell, Carnap, Neurath, and Heidegger, were united in promulgating a new, “scientific” philosophy. This article documents some of the varieties of scientific philosophy and argues that the history of scientific philosophy is crucial to the development of analytic philosophy and the division between analytic and continental philosophy. Scientific philosophy defin…Read more
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58The geometry of knowledge: Lewis, Becker, Carnap and the formalization of philosophy in the 1920sStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1): 165-182. 2003.On an ordinary view of the relation of philosophy of science to science, science serves only as a topic for philosophical reflection, reflection that proceeds by its own methods and according to its own standards. This ordinary view suggests a way of writing a global history of philosophy of science that finds substantially the same philosophical projects being pursued across widely divergent scientific eras. While not denying that this view is of some use regarding certain themes of and particu…Read more
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Friedrich Stadler: The Vienna Circle: Studies in the Origins, Development and Influence of Logical EmpiricismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (1): 169-172. 2003.
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37Carnap's Construction of the World (G. Kemp and A. Richardson)Philosophical Books 40 (3): 89-101. 1999.
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'The Fact of Science' and the Critique of Knowledge: Exact Science as Problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-KantianismIn Michael Friedman & Alfred Nordmann (eds.), The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science, Mit Press. pp. 211-226. 2006.
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29Objectivity, 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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47Due Process and Standard-setting: An Analysis of Due Process in Three Canadian Accounting and Auditing Standard-setting BodiesJournal of Business Ethics 81 (3): 679-696. 2008.Due process is the means by which ethical constraints are placed on administrative decision-making. I have developed a model of variation in due process and use this model to explore the implementation of “due process” norms by three standard-setting bodies that are created, funded, and overseen by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants – the Accounting Standards Board, the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, and the Public Sector Accounting Standards Board. I conducted two analyses…Read more
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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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46Nikolay Milkov and Volker Peckhaus, eds. The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (1): 174-77. 2015.This is an important volume for rounding out our understanding of the origins and dimensions of the logical empiricist project. While the existence of a Berlin wing of logical empiricism—personified principally in Hans Reichenbach and Carl G. Hempel—has been well known, in the recent reappraisal literature the spotlight has been firmly on the Vienna Circle. [...] The essays give an expansive sense of the German-Berlin context of the work of not only Reichenbach and Hempel but also their philosop…Read more
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15The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (review)Isis 100 (1): 202-203. 2009.
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43Scientific Philosophy as a Topic for History of ScienceIsis 99 (1): 88-96. 2008.In lieu of a programmatic argument about the general relations of history of science and philosophy of science, this essay offers a particular topic in the history of philosophy of science that should be of interest to both historians and philosophers of science. It argues that questions typical of contemporary history of science could illuminate the recent history of philosophy of science and analytic philosophy. It also suggests that the history of scientific philosophy is a particularly fruit…Read more
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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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31Thomas S. Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 50th anniversary ed. Introductory essay by Ian Hacking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xlvi+217. $15.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (1): 151-154. 2013.
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212508Occasions for an Empirical History of Philosophy of Science: American Philosophers of Science at Work in the 1950s and 1960sHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (1): 1-20. 2012.The text- and argument-focused histories of philosophy that we have are mainly interested in teasing out the details of the positions taken on philosophical issues by individual philosophers. But this is a long way from having a historical explanation of the larger-scale trajectory of philosophical development. An empirical history of philosophy, however, examines the institutionalized places and venues for philosophical work that provide a rich, shared structure for the promotion of particular …Read more
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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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Carnap's place in analytic philosophy and philosophy of scienceIn Pierre Wagner (ed.), Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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108Pierre Wagner : Carnap’s logical syntax of language. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009, 288pp, £57.00 HB (review)Metascience 20 (3): 599-600. 2011.Pierre Wagner (ed.): Carnap’s logical syntax of language . Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009, 288pp, £57.00 HB Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9522-8 Authors Alan Richardson, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall—E370, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Canada Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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32Review of A.W. Carus, Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (6). 2009.