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38What good is realism about natural kinds?Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. 2018.Classifications are useful and efficient. We group things into kinds to facilitate the acquisition and transmission of important, often tacit, information about a particular entity qua member of some kind. Whilst it is universally acknowledged that classifications are useful, some scientific classifications (e.g. chemical elements) are held to higher epistemic standards than folk classifications (e.g. bugs). Scientific classifications in terms of ‘natural kinds’ are considered to be more reliabl…Read more
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90Perspectival InstrumentsPhilosophy of Science 89 (3): 521-541. 2022.Despite its potential implications for the objectivity of scientific knowledge, the claim that “scientific instruments are perspectival” has received little critical attention. I show that this claim is best understood as highlighting the dependence of instruments on different perspectives. When closely analyzed, instead of constituting a novel epistemic challenge, this dependence can be exploited to mount novel strategies for resolving two old epistemic problems: conceptual relativism and theor…Read more
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25Diagnosing disagreements: The authentication of the positron 1931–1934Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 70 28-38. 2020.
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