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88Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science (edited book)Continuum. 2011.A one volume reference guide To The latest research in Philosophy of Science, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
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Symmetry, Invariance and ReferenceiIn W. K. Essler & M. Frauchiger (eds.), Representation, Evidence, and Justification: Themes From Suppes, Ontos Verlag. pp. 2--127. 2008.
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277Models, Theories, and Structures: Thirty Years onPhilosophy of Science 67 (S1). 2000.Thirty years after the conference that gave rise to The Structure of Scientific Theories, there is renewed interest in the nature of theories and models. However, certain crucial issues from thirty years ago are reprised in current discussions; specifically: whether the diversity of models in the science can be captured by some unitary account; and whether the temporal dimension of scientific practice can be represented by such an account. After reviewing recent developments we suggest that thes…Read more
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306A green Parrot is just as much a red Herring as a white shoe: A note on confirmation, background knowledge and the logico-probabilistic approachBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39 (4): 531-535. 1988.
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194Realism and its representational vehiclesSynthese 194 (9): 3311-3326. 2017.In this essay I shall focus on the adoption of the Semantic Approach by structural realists, including myself, who have done so on the grounds that it wears its structuralist sympathies on its sleeve. Despite this, the SA has been identified as standing in tension with the ontological commitments of the so-called ’ontic’ form of this view and so I shall explore that tension before discussing the usefulness of the SA in framing scientific representation and concluding with a discussion of the imp…Read more
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