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75Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 5 11-13. 2007.
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2Singular Causation and LawPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1): 537-543. 1990.Humean accounts of law are at the same time accounts of causation. Accordingly, since laws of nature are nothing but contingent cosmic regularities, to be a cause is just to be an instance of such a law. It follows from this view that it is logically impossible that there be causally related events which are not law-governed. Any particular cause-effect pair instantiates some law of nature, where the law is understood as a regularity. The regularity itself may be understood phenomenalistically, …Read more
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4Causal Modeling and the Statistical Analysis of CausationPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 12-23. 1986.Recent studies on probabilistic causation and statistical explanation (Cartwright 1979; Salmon 1984), I believe, have opened up the possibility of a genuine unification between philosophical approaches and causal modeling (CM) in the social, behavioral and biological sciences (Wright 1934; Blalock 1964; Asher 1976). This unification rests on the statistical tools employed, the principle of common cause, the irreducibility of causation to probability or statistics, and the idea of causal process …Read more
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1739What Is Epistemic Public Trust in Science?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 70 (4): 1145-1166. 2019.We provide an analysis of the public's having warranted epistemic trust in science, that is, the conditions under which the public may be said to have well-placed trust in the scientists as providers of information. We distinguish between basic and enhanced epistemic trust in science and provide necessary conditions for both. We then present the controversy regarding the connection between autism and measles–mumps–rubella vaccination as a case study to illustrate our analysis. The realization of…Read more
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1342Distributive Epistemic Justice in ScienceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 2021.This article develops an account of distributive epistemic justice in the production of scientific knowledge. We identify four requirements: (a) science should produce the knowledge citizens need in order to reason about the common good, their individual good and pursuit thereof; (b) science should produce the knowledge those serving the public need to pursue justice effectively; (c) science should be organized in such a way that it does not aid the wilful manufacturing of ignorance; and (d) whe…Read more
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38Responsible research and innovation: coming to grips with an ambitious conceptSynthese 198 (Suppl 19): 4627-4633. 2019.This Introduction to the Special Issue on “Responsible Research and Innovation” outlines features of the philosophical debate about the concepts involved and summarizes the papers assembled in this issue. The topic of RRI is widely discussed in science studies and has made its way into science policy. This SI is intended to make the contributions of philosophers of science more visible. The philosophically relevant parts of the field concern, among others, the processes of public participation i…Read more
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125Introduction to the Synthese special issue on Hans Reichenbach, Istanbul, and Experience and PredictionSynthese 181 (1): 1-2. 2011.The papers collected in this Synthese special issue are the result of a conference that one of us (ES) casually suggested and the other (GI) organized, which took place at Bo˘gaziçi University in Istanbul, in May 2008, to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Experience and Prediction. These papers are historical and philosophical in varying degrees. Reichenbach is now often lumped together with the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle, but his ideas, especially those …Read more
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669Well-ordered science and public trust in scienceSynthese 198 (Suppl 19): 4731-4748. 2021.Building, restoring and maintaining well-placed trust between scientists and the public is a difficult yet crucial social task requiring the successful cooperation of various social actors and institutions. Kitcher’s takes up this challenge in the context of liberal democratic societies by extending his ideal model of “well-ordered science” that he had originally formulated in his. However, Kitcher nowhere offers an explicit account of what it means for the public to invest epistemic trust in sc…Read more
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21History and Philosophy of Science-Based Approach to Science Teaching at its BestScience & Education 24 (7-8): 1001-1008. 2015.
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30Kuhn, Carnap, and logical empiricismIn Thomas Uebel (ed.), The Handbook of Logical Empiricism, Routledge. 2017.According to the conventional wisdom, Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions played a major role in the demise of logical empiricism by demolishing its key tenets and replacing them with an alternative picture of science that has virtually nothing in common with them. However, the relationship between Kuhn’s views and LE is not at all as straightforward as this claim suggests. While is undoubtedly correct, the revisionist historiography of LE in the last two-and-a-half decades documen…Read more
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1Changing Conceptions of Rationality from Logical Empiricism to PostpositivismIn Irzik Gürol (ed.), Logical Empiricism, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 325--348. 2003.
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25Incredulity towards Lyotard: a critique of a postmodernist account of science and knowledgStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (2): 391-421. 2003.Philosophers of science have paid little attention, positive or negative, to Lyotard’s book The postmodern condition, even though it has been popular in other fields. We set out some of the reasons for this neglect. Lyotard thought that sciences could be justified by non-scientific narratives. We show why this is unacceptable, and why many of Lyotard’s characterisations of science are either implausible or are narrowly positivist. One of Lyotard’s themes is that the nature of knowledge has chang…Read more
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25Whorfian variations on Kantian themes: Kuhn's linguistic turnStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (2): 207-221. 1998.Thomas Kuhn's post-1980 writings have increasingly emphasized the role played by language in the characterization of scientific revolutions and incommensurability. We argue that Kuhn's `linguistic turn' can be understood best against the background of a Whorfian conception of language and certain neo-Kantian themes. While this enables Kuhn to refine and unify his earlier views, it also creates some difficulties.
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18Volume IntroductionThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 5 11-13. 2007.
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22Cartwright, Capacities, and ProbabilitiesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.I argue that Nancy Cartwright's largely methodological arguments for capacities and against Hume's regularity account of causation are only partially successful. They are especially problematic in establishing the primacy of singular causation and the reality of mixed-dual capacities. Therefore, her arguments need to be supported by ontological ones, and I propose the propensity interpretation of causal probabilities as a natural way of doing this.
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90Causal modeling: New directions for statistical explanationPhilosophy of Science 54 (4): 495-514. 1987.Causal modeling methods such as path analysis, used in the social and natural sciences, are also highly relevant to philosophical problems of probabilistic causation and statistical explanation. We show how these methods can be effectively used (1) to improve and extend Salmon's S-R basis for statistical explanation, and (2) to repair Cartwright's resolution of Simpson's paradox, clarifying the relationship between statistical and causal claims
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117Back to Basics: A Philosophical Critique of ConstructivismStudies in Philosophy and Education 20 (2): 157-175. 2001.
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149Singular Causation and LawPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. 1990.Humean accounts of law are at the same time accounts of causation. Accordingly, since laws are nothing but contingent cosmic regularities, to be a cause is just to be an instance of such a law. Every particular cause-effect pair, according to these accounts, instantiates some law of nature. I argue that this claim is false. Singular causation without being governed by any law is logically and physically possible. Separating causes from laws enables us to see the distinct role each plays in scien…Read more
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242 Kuhn and Logical PositivismIn Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited, Routledge. pp. 15. 2012.
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262Can causes be reduced to correlations?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 249-270. 1996.This paper argues against Papineau's claim that causal relations can be reduced to correlations and defends Cartwright's thesis that they can be nevertheless boot-strapped from them, given sufficiently rich causal background knowledge.
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111Popper's piecemeal engineering: What is good for science is not always good for societyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1): 1-10. 1985.
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