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948Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 1996.List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 3 2 Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutions 40 3 Descartes’s Scientific Illustrations and ’la grande mecanique de la nature’ 86 4 Illustrating Chemistry 135 5 Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century 164 6 Visual Representation in Archaeolo…Read more
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215Caring as the unacknowledged matrix of evidence-based nursingJournal of Medical Ethics. 2023.In this article, we explicate evidence-based nursing (EBN), critically appraise its framework and respond to nurses’ concern that EBN sidelines the caring elements of nursing practice. We use resources from care ethics, especially Vrinda Dalmiya’s work that considers care as crucial for both epistemology and ethics, to show how EBN is compatible with, and indeed can be enhanced by, the caring aspects of nursing practice. We demonstrate that caring can act as a bridge between ‘external’ evidence …Read more
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211The New Science: Kepler, Galileo, MersenneIn Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Kepler's New Astronomy Kepler's New Science of Vision Galileo and the Telescope Galileo and the Creation of Mathematical Physics Mersenne and the New Science.
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134A symposium on the role of the philosopher among the scientists: Nuisance or necessity?Social Epistemology 3 (4). 1989.
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132A Reappraisal of Duhem's Conception of Scientific ProgressRevue Internationale de Philosophie 46 (182): 344-360. 1992.
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130HPS and the Classic Normative Mission (2nd ed.)PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994 (Symposia and Invited Papers): 420-427. 1994.The new inter-disciplinary eclecticism championed by many philosophers of science has generated a heterogeneous family of science studies projects. Philosophers who favor an inter-disciplinary approach face many problems if they are to successfully forge a hybrid science studies that does not violate their integrity as philosophers in particular, they must isolate an intellectual space in which traditional agendas, such as the concern for the clarification of concepts, can hold court. In this pa…Read more
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120Relevance, Validity, and Evidential Reasoning in Clinical PracticeJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 26 1341-1343. 2020.
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107What Confidence Should We Have in Grade?Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24 1240-1246. 2018.Rationale, Aims, and Objectives: Confidence (or belief) that a therapy is effective is essential to practicing clinical medicine. GRADE, a popular framework for developing clinical recommendations, provides a means for assigning how much confidence one should have in a therapy's effect estimate. One's level of confidence (or “degree of belief”) can also be modelled using Bayes theorem. In this paper, we look through both a GRADE and Bayesian lens to examine how one determines confidence in the e…Read more
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106Siegel on the rationality of sciencePhilosophy of Science 55 (3): 435-441. 1988.Harvey Siegel's (1985) attempts to revive the traditional epistemological formulation of the rationality of science. Contending that "a general commitment to evidence" is constitutive of method and rationality in science, Siegel advances its compatibility with specific, historically attuned formulations of principles of evidential support as a virtue of his aprioristic candidate for science's rationality. In point of fact, this account is compatible with virtually any formulation of evidential s…Read more
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106The Draughtsman Reconsidered: Popper and the Ontology of Natural ScienceProceedings of the Sixth International Wittgenstein Symposium 361-363. 1981.
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101Interpreting Risk as Evidence of Causality: Lessons Learned from a Legal Case to Determine Medical MalpracticeJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 22 515-521. 2016.Translating risk estimates derived from epidemiologic study into evidence of causality for a particular patient is problematic. The difficulty of this process is not unique to the medical context; rather, courts are also challenged with the task of using risk estimates to infer evidence of cause in particular cases. Thus, an examination of how this is done in a legal context might provide insight into when and how it is appropriate to use risk information as evidence of cause in a medical contex…Read more
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98René Descartes (1596-1650)In The Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology, Garland Publishing Company. pp. 160-164. 1992.
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98Going from Evidence to Recommendations: Can GRADE Get Us There?Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24 1232-1239. 2018.The evidence based medicine movement has championed the need for objective and transparent methods of clinical guideline development. The Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) framework was developed for that purpose. Central to this framework is criteria for assessing the quality of evidence from clinical studies and the impact that body of evidence should have on our confidence in the clinical effectiveness of a therapy under examination. Grades of Recommend…Read more
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97The Brave New World of Pandemic ResilienceJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 28 (3): 1-6. 2022.
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85On consensus and stability in scienceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (4): 435-458. 1992.
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84Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, Before and After Newton's "Principia": an Essay on the Transformation of Scientific ProblemsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 18 (2): 177. 1987.
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84The Invention of Light Writing or How the Cosmos Came to Draw ItselfOptics and Photonics News 14 26-29. 2003.
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80Covid-19 and the Generation of Novel Scientific Knowledge: Research Questions and Study DesignsJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 27 (3): 708-715. 2021.Rationale, aims, and objectives: One of the sectors challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic is medical research. COVID-19 originates from a novel coronavirus (SARSCoV- 2) and the scientific community is faced with the daunting task of creating a novel model for this pandemic or, in other words, creating novel science. This paper is the first part of a series of two papers that explore the intricate relationship between the different challenges that have hindered biomedical research and the generatio…Read more
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78What Counts as Evidence in an Evidence Based World?Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 25 533-535. 2019.
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74Covid-19 and the Generation of Novel Scientific Knowledge: Evaluating and Reporting Novel Scientific KnowledgeJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 27 (3): 694-707. 2021.Rationale, aims and objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every facet of society, including medical research. This paper is the second part of a series of articles that explore the intricate relationship between the different challenges that have hindered biomedical research and the generation of novel scientific knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first part of this series, we demonstrated that, in the context of COVID-19, the scientific community has been faced with numerou…Read more
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69Descartes' Mechanical CosmologyIn Baigrie Brian (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology, Garland Publishing Company. 1992.
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusInstitute for the History and Philosophy of ScienceRegular Faculty
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Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |