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    What needs to be explained about modern science? (review)
    British Journal for the History of Science 44 (3): 449-454. 2011.
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    Artisanal knowledge
    Acta Baltica Historiae Et Philosophiae Scientiarum 1 (1): 5-34. 2013.
    This essay is about the ensuing problem that in general it is nothelpful to talk about non-standard knowledge practices as modeled after our Western ideas of what knowledge is. It negotiates this problem by arguing that artisanal knowledge is an independent and self-contained mode of knowledge and is arranged in three parts. In the first part an outline is given of the key assumptions of the interactionist conception of knowledge that needs to be put in place as an alternative to the basically K…Read more
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    On Fuller and Kuhn
    Social Epistemology 17 (2-3): 267-269. 2003.
    No abstract
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    Dijksterhuis: een biografie (review)
    British Journal for the History of Science 33 (2): 231-254. 2000.
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    Cognitive Relativism and Social Science
    with Lieteke Van Vucht Tijssen and Jan De Wolf
    Transaction Publishers. 1992.
    Modern epistomology has been dominated by an empiricist theory of knowledge that assumes a direct individualistic relationship between the knowing subject and the object of knowledge. Truth is held to be universal, and non-individualistic social and cultural factors are considered sources of distortion of true knowledge. Since the late 1950s, this view has been challenged by a cognitive relativism asserting that what is true is socially conditioned. This volume examines the far-reaching implicat…Read more
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    Etnocentrisme-kritiek? Daarom!
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 4. 2006.
  • Incommensurabel, incompatibel, onvergelijkbaar
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 86 (3): 183-206. 1994.
  • Studien zum Wiener Kreis. Ursprung, Entwicklung und Wirkung des Logischen Empirismus (review)
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 3. 2000.