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7Overstated or Understated: The Role of Regimes in Creating and Addressing Environmental Problems (review)Metascience 16 (3): 515-517. 2007.
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15Journals Under Threat: A Joint Response From HSTM Editors (review)Metascience 18 (1): 1-4. 2009.
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12Evolutionary Biology: Causes, Consequences and Controversies (review)Metascience 16 (3): 437-445. 2007.
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2Book Review (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2): 194-195. 2009.
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5Andrew Watson. The Quantum Quark. x + 464 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. $30 (review)Isis 97 (1): 191-192. 2006.
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10Understanding Scientific Theories: An Assessment of Developments, 1969–1998 (review)Philosophy of Science 67 (3). 2000.The positivistic Received View construed scientific theories syntactically as axiomatic calculi where theoretical terms were given a partial semantic interpretation via correspondence rules connecting them to observation statements. This paper assesses what, with hindsight, seem the most important defects in the Received View; surveys the main proposed successor analyses to the Received View—various Semantic Conception versions and the Structuralist Analysis; evaluates how well they avoid those …Read more
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40Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions (review)Metascience 9 (3): 347-498. 2000.
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54What is a Naturalized Principle of Composition?American Philosophical Quarterly 60 (1): 21-36. 2023.Van Inwagen's General Composition Question (GCQ) asks what conditions on an object and its constituents make the object a whole that these constituents compose, as opposed to an object linked to the constituents by a relation other than composition. The answer is traditionally expected to cite no mereological terms, to hold of metaphysical necessity and to be such that no defeating scenarios can be conceived (e.g., a scenario in which the conditions are met but the constituents fail to genuinely…Read more
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89Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science, by Ted SiderMind 131 (521): 361-369. 2022.According to one prominent view, current metaphysics is hopelessly disconnected from the implications of modern science and as a result should be abandoned fort.
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