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    Book Review: What’s So Social about Social Knowledge? (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (1): 98-125. 2005.
    Although Longino and Solomon are interested in what social conditions will produce better science, neither philosopher has provided a sufficient analysis of the social character of science. For instance, neither considers the social character of discovery as well as that of justification, or that an individual scientist’s social status and social relations may be important for understanding her role in both processes. The contributors to Schmitt’s volume are interested in whether the terms that …Read more
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    Not Your Doktorvater’s Logical Positivism
    Metascience 17 (3): 489-493. 2008.
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    The Value of Values
    Metascience 14 (2): 265-268. 2005.
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    The Empirical Character of Methodological Rules
    Philosophy 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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    Brown's Rationality
    with Sonia Ryang, Steven I. Miller, Carl Matheson, Harold Brown, Govindan Parayil, Steven Yearley, and Stephen Turner
    Social Epistemology 6 (1): 35-43. 1992.
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    Historical Laws and the History and Philosophy of Science
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 647-651. 1988.
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    1. Preface Preface (pp. i-ii)
    with Marcel Weber, Heather A. Jamniczky, Gry Oftedal, Robert C. Bishop, Axel Gelfert, Mathias Frisch, Daniel Parker, Mario Castagnino, and Olimpia Lombardi
    Philosophy of Science 72 (5): 687-698. 2005.
    The study of similarity is fundamental to biological inquiry. Many homology concepts have been formulated that function successfully to explain similarity in their native domains, but fail to provide an overarching account applicable to variably interconnected and independent areas of biological research despite the monistic standpoint from which they originate. The use of multiple, explicitly articulated homology concepts, applicable at different levels of the biological hierarchy, allows a mor…Read more
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    Recent controversy over whether the Vienna Circle can provide a model for today’s political turn in the philosophy of science indicates the need to clarify just what is meant by the term political philosophy of science. This paper finds fourteen different meanings of the term, including both descriptive and normative usages, having to do with the roles of political values in the sciences, the political consequences and significance of the sciences and scientific modes of thought, and political p…Read more
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    Research programs as intellectual niches
    Social Epistemology 6 (1). 1992.
    No abstract
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    Renouvier had argued that Comte's philosophy of science yielded very conservative normative advice regarding the sciences. Fedi, Becquemont, Logue, and Mouy have suggested the same charge could be leveled at Renouvier regarding evolutionary theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and set theory. This paper shows Renouvier's views were not unreasonable given what was known at the time. Further, Renouvier had a deeper appreciation than Comte of human fallibility and did not proscribe any area of research,…Read more
  •  6
    No Title available: Reviews
    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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    The Concept of Analysis in Comte’s Philosophy of Mathematics
    Philosophy Research Archives 8 205-222. 1982.
    This paper traces August Comte’s attempts to get clear about the concept of mathematical analysis at various stages in his intellectual development. Comte was especially concerned with distinguishing a method of analysis for the resolution of complex prolems from analysis in the sense of a method of drawing inferences. Geometrical analysis serves as his model for the former. In his attempt to get clear about this notion, he discovers an historical succession of different methods all of which may…Read more
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    In this demonstration of the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice, Warren Schmaus argues that Durkheim's philosophy is crucial to his sociology. Through a reinterpretation of the relation between Durkheim's major philosophical and sociological works, Schmaus argues that Durkheim's sociology is more than a collection of general observations about society—it reflects a richly constructed theory of the meanings and causes of social life. Schmaus shows how Durkheim sought to ma…Read more
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    Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition
    Cambridge 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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    Review (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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    Fraud and the Norms of Science
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 8 (4): 12-22. 1983.
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    Special Issue : nineteenth-century french philosophy of science : positivism and its continuations
    Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (2): 421-427. 2021.
    International audience.