-
1Proceedings of the Second Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association. (edited book)Springer. 2012.
-
7Tekenen van waarheid: C.S. Peirce en de hedendaagse wetenschapsfilosofie (edited book)Tilburg University Press. 1993.
-
5Democratie, vrijheid van meningsuiting en wetenschapAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 114 (4): 375-390. 2022.Democracy, freedom of speech, and science The On Liberty arguments of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor are still strong arguments for an unrestricted freedom of speech. For them, freedom of speech is closely linked to the idea of truth-finding, and truth-finding is crucial for a democratic society like ours and the development of its participants. In short, without freedom of speech, the tyranny of the majority looms. However, it is also reasonable to restrict freedom of action if expressions…Read more
-
15De beste truc om kritisch te leren denkenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 110 (1): 27-44. 2018.The Best Trick to Teach Critical Thinking. How philosophy of science and magic make young people resilient to nonsense. In a world of ‘alternative facts’ and fact-free opinions, all readily available through the internet, young people can easily fall prey to nonsense, thus running the risk to act on false information. Critical thinking is usually seen as a remedy against accepting and acting on such falsehoods. Under a pragmatist-naturalist interpretation of science, critical thinking is synonym…Read more
-
4To Believe in BeliefJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 37 (1): 21-39. 2006.SummaryTake the following version of scientific realism: we have good reason to believe that (some of the) current scientific theories tell us something specific about the underlying, i.e. unobservable, structures of the world, for instance that there are electrons with a certain electric charge, or that there are viruses that cause certain diseases. Popper, the rationalist, would not have adhered to the proposed formulation of scientific realism in terms of the rationality of existential belief…Read more
-
Tekenen van waarheid. C.S. Peirce en de hedendaagse wetenschapsfilosofieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 57 (2): 387-387. 1995.
-
53Cognitive-neuroscience approaches to issues of philosophy-of-mindConsciousness and Cognition 19 (1): 460-461. 2010.
-
37The Functional View of Science: Nozick and the American Pragmatist TraditionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (4): 779-795. 2005.
-
29Peirce's Pragmatism, Scientific Realism, and the Problem of UnderdeterminationTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 35 (2): 374-397. 1999.
-
18[H. de Regt is ‘co-supervisor’ of the current UvT PhD project ‘Consciousness: Science Says It All?’ (drs. A. Frantzen; supervisor: prof. em. dr. A. A. Derksen). This project (in which the problem of phenomenal consciousness is approached via the work of the American pragmatist John Dewey) is absorbed in the programme Pragmatism: Living versus Paper Doubt. In order to realize the project described below he has provisionally planned (a) further collaboration with prof. dr. C.J.M. Schuyt (Universit…Read more
-
1Representing the world by scientific theories: the case for scientific realismTilburg University Press. 1994.
-
2The sad but true story of entity realismIn A. A. Derksen (ed.), The Scientific Realism of Rom Harré, Tilburg University Press. 1994.
-
15How to Begin to Make Peirce's Ideas ClearTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 195-197. 2008.
-
2To Believe in BeliefJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 37 (1): 21-39. 2006.SummaryTake the following version of scientific realism: we have good reason to believe that (some of the) current scientific theories tell us something specific about the underlying, i.e. unobservable, structures of the world, for instance that there are electrons with a certain electric charge, or that there are viruses that cause certain diseases. Popper, the rationalist, would not have adhered to the proposed formulation of scientific realism in terms of the rationality of existential belief…Read more