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67Book Reviews : Steve Fuller, Social Epistemology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington/ Indianapolis, 1988. Pp. xv, 316, US$22.00 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (1): 121-125. 1991.
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17Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation, and Reality in the Natural and Social Sciences. Richard W. MillerIsis 79 (3): 492-493. 1988.
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22Claude Blanckaert. La nature de la société: Organicisme et sciences sociales au XIXe siècle. 158 pp., bibl., index. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004. €14 (review)Isis 97 (3): 563-564. 2006.
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29Social science, epistemology, and the problem of relativism: Reply to Meja and StehrSocial Epistemology 2 (3). 1988.
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13Review of Lawrence E. Cahoone, Cultural Revolutions: Reason Versus Culture in Philosophy, Politics, and Jihad (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (8). 2005.
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43This Article does not have an abstract
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54Whither social epistemology? A reply to FullerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (2): 196-202. 1991.
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45Evolutionary and Neuroscience Approaches to the Study of CognitionPhilosophy of Science 72 (5): 675-686. 2005.There is a lack of connection between the cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary approaches to the study of the mind, in philosophy as well as the sciences. For instance, although Millikan may display a thorough understanding of evolutionary theory in her arguments for the adaptive value of substance concepts, she gives scant attention to what could be the neural substrates of these concepts. Neuroscience research calls into question her assumption that substance concepts play a role in practic…Read more
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15The Empirical Character of Methodological RulesPhilosophy of Science 63 (5). 1996.Critics of Laudan's normative naturalism have questioned whether methodological rules can be regarded as empirical hypotheses about relations between means and ends. Drawing on Laudan's defense that rules of method are contingent on assumptions about the world, I argue that even if such rules can be shown to be analytic in principle, in practice the warrant for such rules will be empirical. Laudan's naturalism, however, acquires normative force only by construing both methods and epistemic goals…Read more
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10Book Reviews : Helen E. Longino, Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. Pp. xii, 262, $35.00 (cloth), $13.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (4): 562-566. 1993.
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26Reasons, causes, and the 'strong programme' in the sociology of knowledgePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (2): 189-196. 1985.
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64Book Reviews : Helen E. Longino, Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. Pp. xii, 262, $35.00 (cloth), $13.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (4): 562-566. 1993.
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221Functionalism and the meaning of social factsPhilosophy of Science 66 (3): 323. 1999.This paper defends a social functionalist interpretation, modeled on psychological functionalism, of the meanings of social facts. Social functionalism provides a better explanation of the possibility of interpreting other cultures than approaches that identify the meanings of social facts with either mental states or behavior. I support this claim through a functionalist reinterpretation of sociological accounts of the categories that identify them with their collective representations. Taking …Read more
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23Although standpoint theorists tend to characterize a scientist’s social situation in terms of her position in a hierarchy of power within the larger society, her social situation could also be characterized in terms of the degree to which she is integrated into the scientific community. The latter concept of social location may prove helpful in explaining a scientist’s potential for contributing to the growth of knowledge. It may also provide an independent measure of marginalization that makes …Read more
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3Review (review)Economics and Philosophy 11 (1): 203-208. 1995.The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory, Marwell Gerald and Oliver PamelaOn Social Facts, Gilbert Margaret.
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75Kant's reception in France: Theories of the categories in academic philosophy, psychology, and social sciencePerspectives on Science 11 (1): 3-34. 2003.: It has been said that Kant's critical philosophy made it impossible to pursue either the Cartesian rationalist or the Lockean empiricist program of providing a foundation for the sciences (e.g., Guyer 1992). This claim does not hold true for much of nineteenth century French philosophy, especially the eclectic spiritualist tradition that begins with Victor Cousin (1792-1867) and Pierre Maine de Biran (1766-1824) and continues through Paul Janet (1823-99). This tradition assimilated Kant's tran…Read more
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61The empirical character of methodological rulesPhilosophy of Science 63 (3): 106. 1996.Critics of Laudan's normative naturalism have questioned whether methodological rules can be regarded as empirical hypotheses about relations between means and ends. Drawing on Laudan's defense that rules of method are contingent on assumptions about the world, I argue that even if such rules can be shown to be analytic in principle (Kaiser 1991), in practice the warrant for such rules will be empirical. Laudan's naturalism, however, acquires normative force only by construing both methods and e…Read more
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39A Reappraisal Of Comte's Three-state LawHistory and Theory 21 (2): 248-266. 1982.Comte's three-state law concerns the historical development of our methods of cognitive inquiry. Comte believes he can defend his three-state law either by :,rational proofs" based upon our knowledge of the human mind or upon 'historical verifications." Comte then uses the three-state law of scientific progress to argue for the existence of industrial and multistate political laws of progress. Here Comte strays from his positivism. He attributes a kind of causal efficacy to scientific progress w…Read more
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80Science and the Social Contract in RenouvierHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (1): 73-100. 2011.Renouvier criticized Comte’s positivist philosophy of science and proposed a social contract approach for dealing with normative questions in philosophy of science as well as moral philosophy. Renouvier then questioned Kant’s distinction between practical and theoretical reason and argued that judgments concerning epistemic warrant must be freely made in the same way that moral judgments are made. What counts as scientific knowledge depends on a consensus within the scientific community that dev…Read more
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6Rethinking Durkheim and His TraditionCambridge University Press. 2004.This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories, as revealed by Warren Schmaus, is an attempt to provide an alternative way of understanding Kant. For Durkheim the categories are necessary conditions for human society. The concepts of causality, space and time underpin the …Read more
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