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9The Critical Naturalism Manifesto: Some CommentsKrisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 43 (1): 114-116. 2023.The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the s…Read more
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4Field Philosophy and the Societal Value of Basic ResearchKrisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 39 (1): 123-126. 2019.Review of: Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle (2016) Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 167 pp.
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10Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its EmergenceGlobal Philosophy 33 (1): 1-23. 2022.This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts is shown to be the result of multifaceted, cognitive processes, which require both material realization and conceptual interpretation. Generally speaking, the meaning of empirical concepts consists of several distinct components, but it includes at least a structuring and an abstracting component. These two meaning components are abstract entities, …Read more
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6Building bridges: connecting science, technology and philosophy: essays presented to Hans Radder (edited book)VU University Press. 2014.What is the future of science and technology? Will academic research become a commodity like so much else? Will technology and science become ever more intertwined? Such questions concern anyone to whom science and technology matter. A philosophical approach can shed light on them, as Hans Radder has amply shown. This volume contains essays by colleagues and friends that highlight the wide variety of topics he has addressed in his work. Whether it is the interaction between science, technology a…Read more
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4From commodification to the common good: reconstructing science, technology, and societyUniversity of Pittsburgh Press. 2019.The commodification of science—often identified with commercialization, or the selling of expertise and research results and the “capitalization of knowledge” in academia and beyond—has been investigated as a threat to the autonomy of science and academic culture and criticized for undermining the social responsibility of modern science. In From Commodification to the Common Good, Hans Radder revisits the commodification of the sciences from a philosophical perspective to focus instead on a pote…Read more
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Which science, which freedom, and which democracy?In Péter Hartl & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Science, Freedom, Democracy, Routledge. 2021.
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19Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its EmergenceAxiomathes 33 (1): 1-23. 2023.This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts is shown to be the result of multifaceted, cognitive processes, which require both material realization and conceptual interpretation. Generally speaking, the meaning of empirical concepts consists of several distinct components, but it includes at least a structuring and an abstracting component. These two meaning components are abstract entities, …Read more
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7Field philosophy and the societal value of basic researchKrisis 39 (1): 123-126. 2019.Review of: Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 167 pp.
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Scientific and Social Problems and Perspectives of Alternative Medicine: analysis of a Dutch ControversyRadical Philosophy 41 2. 1985.
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17Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real CausationJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 52 (4): 597-608. 2021.In this article, I put forward a basic philosophical claim: empirical scientific knowledge, that is, knowledge generated in experimental and observational practices, presupposes real causation. My discussion exploits two core notions from the philosophical analysis of scientific experimentation and observation: the aim of realizing object-apparatus correlations and the required control of the relevant interactions between environment and experimental or observational system. The conclusion is th…Read more
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3Book Review: The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (review)Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (4): 520-527. 2000.
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5Book Review: The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (review)Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (4): 538-545. 2000.
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29The chinese practice‐oriented views of science and their political groundsZygon 55 (3): 591-614. 2020.In China, practice‐oriented views of science can be traced back to antiquity. In ancient times, the Chinese people independently created and developed application‐oriented sciences, but they ignored basic science. In modern times, China learned and introduced Western science and technology as a practical instrument to protect the nation and make it prosperous and powerful. Through technology and production, science has been playing an immediate and major role in the development of socialism sinc…Read more
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13Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci (eds.): Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2017, 320 pp, $35.00 (Paper), ISBN: 9780226498140 (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 50 (4): 593-597. 2019.
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24Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci : Science Unlimited? The Challenges of ScientismJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 50 (4): 593-597. 2019.
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193Strukturwandel der Wissenschaft (edited book). 2014.Mit Robotik, Digitalisierung, softwaregesteuerten Präzisionsinstrumenten und hochkomplexen Simulationsverfahren wird heute Technik zur treibenden Kraft der wissenschaftlichen Forschungspraxis. Gleichzeitig sieht sich die universitäre Forschung wachsenden gesellschaftlichen Einflüssen ausgesetzt und nähert sich selbst immer mehr der Industrieforschung an, woraus sich neue Fragen nach den Werten und der Objektivität der Wissenschaft ergeben. Derartig weitreichende Veränderungen haben zahlreiche Sp…Read more
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18Substantiële filosofie: met niet-discursieve inhoud maar zonder naturalismeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 109 (2): 223-229. 2017.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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12Don Ihde and Evan Selinger , Chasing Technoscience. Matrix for Materiality. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press , xii+249 pp., $54.95 , $27.95 (review)Philosophy of Science 71 (4): 614-618. 2004.
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13An immanent criticism of Lakatos' account of the ‘degenerating phase’ of Bohr's atomic theoryZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 13 (1): 99-109. 1982.
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42Which Scientific Knowledge is a Common Good?Social Epistemology 31 (5): 431-450. 2017.In this article, I address the question of whether science can and should be seen as a common good. For this purpose, the first section focuses on the notion of knowledge and examines its main characteristics. I discuss and assess the core view of analytic epistemology, that knowledge is, basically, justified true belief. On the basis of this analysis, I then develop an alternative, multi-dimensional theory of the nature of knowledge. Section 2 reviews and evaluates several answers to the questi…Read more
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Scientific and social problems and perspectives of alternative medicineRadical Philosophy 41 2-9. 1985.
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Do technologies have normative propertiesIn Anthonie W. M. Meijers (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, . 2009.
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The appropriate realization of agricultural biotechnologyIn T. B. Mepham, G. A. Tucker & J. Wiseman (eds.), Issues in Agricultural Bioethics, Nottingham University Press. 1995.
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25How Inclusive Is European Philosophy of Science?International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (2): 149-165. 2015.The main question of this article is given by its title: how inclusive is European philosophy of science? Phrased in this way, the question presupposes that, as a mature discipline, philosophy of science should provide an inclusive account of its subject area. I first provide an explanation of the notion of an inclusive philosophy of science. This notion of an inclusive philosophy of science is specified by discussing three general topics that seem to be missing from, or are quite marginal in, r…Read more
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Experimenting in the natural sciencesIn Jed Z. Buchwald (ed.), Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics, University of Chicago Press. 1995.
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14Conceptual and connectionist analyses of observation: a critical evaluationStudies in History and Philosophy of Science 30 455-477. 1999.
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14The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003.Since the late 1980s, the neglect of experiment by philosophers and historians of science has been replaced by a keen interest in the subject. In this volume, a number of prominent philosophers of experiment directly address basic theoretical questions, develop existing philosophical accounts, and offer novel perspectives on the subject, rather than rely exclusively on historical cases of experimental practice. Each essay examines one or more of six interconnected themes that run throughout the …Read more
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15Universities are occupied by Management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability' through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence', and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation's absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how Management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university, more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation. We suggest some provocative …Read more
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