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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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62Nikolay 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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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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55Scientific 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 Alan Richardson & Thomas Uebel (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 346--370. 2007.
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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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212549Occasions 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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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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3PrefacePhilosophy 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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Carnap's Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of ScienceIn Pierre Wagner (ed.), Carnap's ideal of explication and naturalism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.History of analytic philosophy has been an active, going concern within analytic philosophy for decades — one can scarcely imagine analytic philosophy being continued with some serious attention paid to the work of founders such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. History of philosophy of science has become an explicit part of the philosophical agenda in the past quarter century or so. These areas of research importantly overlap — logical empiricism, in particular, was a…Read more
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116Pierre 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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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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14PrefacePhilosophy 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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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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156This essay examines the perspective from which Bas van Fraassen, in his book, The Empirical Stance, explains the project of empiricism. I argue that this perspective is a robustly transcendental perspective, which suggests that the tradition of empiricism lacks the resources to explain itself. I offer an alternative history of epistemic voluntarism in twentieth-century philosophy to the history van Fraassen himself provides, one that finds the novelty in van Fraassen's own views to be precisely …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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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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60The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2007.If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central place in the project. The second wave of i…Read more