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37Metaphysics and Idealism in the AufbauGrazer Philosophische Studien 43 (1): 45-72. 1992.The received view of the anti-metaphysics of Camap's Aufbau finds that it rests exclusively on verificationism. Alberto Coffa has recently put forward an interpretation of the antimetaphysical stance that claims that Camap was confusedly moving from ontological to semantical ideahsm. After raising objections to both of these views another interpretation is put forward. The crucial aspect of Camap's rejection of metaphysics rests on his reinterpretation of epistemology as the logic of objective k…Read more
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36Thomas 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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34Review of A.W. Carus, Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (6). 2009.
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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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20Cognitive science and the future of literary studiesPhilosophy and Literature 23 (1): 157-173. 1999.
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19Reviews (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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17The 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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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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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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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 PhilosophyInternational Studies in Philosophy 26 (2): 121-123. 1994.
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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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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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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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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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1Philosophy of science in AmericaIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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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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Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (review)Isis 97 (1): 196-197. 2006.