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2From Quantum Holism to the Disunity of Science and Social Activism: The Cat-Feyerabend CorrespondenceInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1-48. forthcoming.This essay offers a discussion and contextualisation of a series of letters exchanged between Jordi Cat and Paul Feyerabend from 1989 to 1994. These letters provide insights into Feyerabend’s later thought on a variety of themes including quantum holism, the disunity of science, the development of logical empiricism, and science activism. In doing so, we provide some original analysis and exegesis of Feyerabend’s evolving views on scientific methodology and quantum mechanics by focusing on Feyer…Read more
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95Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown (edited book)Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Springer. forthcoming.This book (edited by Jonathan Y. Tsou, Jamie Shaw, and Carla Fehr) offers eighteen original historical and philosophical essays focused on values in science, scientific pluralism, and pragmatism. These themes have been central in the work of Matthew J. Brown, and the book frames these topics through an engagement with Brown’s broadly ranging work on values in science. The themes of this book are integrated and unified in the pragmatic and value-laden ideal of science defended by Professor Brown …Read more
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48Bias, Lotteries, and Affirmative Action in Science Funding PolicyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.
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45Empty terms: The Ny?ya and the Buddhists (review)Journal of Indian Philosophy 2 (3-4): 332-343. 1972.
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49Navya-Nyāya on Subject–Predicate and Related PairsJournal of Indian Philosophy 38 (6): 625-642. 2010.This paper focuses on the relevance of Indian epistemology and the philosophy of language to contemporary Western philosophy. Hence it discusses (1) how perceptual, inferential and verbal cognitions are related to the same object, (2) how to draw the distinction in meaning between transformationally equivalent sentences, such as ‘Brutus killed Caesar’ and ‘Caesar was killed by Brutus’, and (3) why the predicate-expression is to be considered as unsaturated but the subjectexpression as saturated.…Read more
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46Causality: SÄmkhya, Bauddha and NyÄya (review)Journal of Indian Philosophy 30 (3): 213-270. 2002.
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89Conditions for understanding the meaning of a sentence: The nyāya and the advaita vedānta (review)Journal of Indian Philosophy 28 (3): 273-293. 2000.
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87Universal sentences: Russell, Wittgenstein, prior, and the nyāya (review)Journal of Indian Philosophy 19 (2): 103-119. 1991.
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80The nyāya on existence, knowability and nameabilityJournal of Indian Philosophy 5 (3): 255-266. 1977.One of the aims of this paper is to discuss the different senses of the term 'existence' as used by the nyaya philosophers. this discussion leads us to a discussion on absence or negation and its role in logic. a discussion on empty terms has also been introduced in this context. according to the nyaya, existence, knowability and nameability are considered as universal properties. the distinction between these universal properties has been discussed in this context. i have also discussed the que…Read more
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63Number: From the nyāya to Frege-RussellStudia Logica 41 (2-3). 1982.The aim of this paper is to present the Nyāya concept of number in the light of contemporary philosophy and to show that the Frege-Russell concept of number does not contradict the Nyāya concept of number but rather supplements it
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46Feyerabend and the Philosophy of PhysicsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 35 (1): 1-4. 2022.In a reference letter for Feyerabend’s application to UC Berkeley, Carl Hempel writes that ‘Mr. Feyerabend combines a forceful and penetrating analytic mind with a remarkably thorough training and...
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441A Diagrammatic Notation for Visualizing Epistemic Entities and RelationsScientonomy 4. 2021.This paper presents a diagrammatic notation for visualizing epistemic entities and relations. The notation was created during the Visualizing Worldviews project funded by the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute and has been further developed by the scholars participating in the university’s Research Opportunity Program. Since any systematic diagrammatic notation should be based on a solid ontology of the respective domain, we first outline the current state of the scientonomic o…Read more
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15Scientonomy: The Challenges of Constructing a Theory of Scientific Change (edited book)Vernon Press. 2021.During the so-called 'historical turn' in the philosophy of science, philosophers and historians boldly argued for general patterns throughout the history of science. From Kuhn's landmark "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" until the "Scrutinizing Science" project led by Larry Laudan, there was optimism that there could be a general theoretical approach to understanding the process of scientific change. This optimism gradually faded as historians and philosophers began to focus on the details …Read more
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31Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding PolicyPhilosophy of Science 1-15. forthcoming.Recent science funding policy scholars and practitioners have advocated for the use of lotteries, or elements of random chance, as supplementations of traditional peer review for evaluating grant applications. One of the primary motivations for lotteries is their purported openness to innovative research. The purpose of this paper is to argue that current proponents of funding science by lottery overestimate the viability of peer review and thus unduly restrict the scope of lotteries in science …Read more
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Feyerabend never was an eliminative materialist : Feyerabend's meta-philosophy and the mind-body problemIn Karim Bschir & Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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Introduction: Paul Feyerabend's philosophy in the 21st centuryIn Karim Bschir & Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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45Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding PolicyJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 53 (4): 477-499. 2022.There has been a resurgence between two closely related discussions concerning modern science funding policy. The first revolves around the coherence and usefulness of the distinction between basic and applied science and the second concerns whether science should be free to pursue research according to its own internal standards or pursue socially responsible research agendas that are held accountable to moral or political standards. In this paper, I argue that the distinction between basic and…Read more
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106On the very idea of pursuitworthinessStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 91 (C): 103-112. 2022.Recent philosophical literature has turned its attention towards assessments of how to judge scientific proposals as worthy of further inquiry. Previous work, as well as papers contained within this special issue, propose criteria for pursuitworthiness (Achinstein, 1993; Whitt, 1992; DiMarco & Khalifa, 2019; Laudan, 1977; Shan, 2020; Šešelja et al., 2012). The purpose of this paper is to assess the grounds on which pursuitworthiness demands can be legitimately made. To do this, I propose a chall…Read more
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50A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend's Well-Ordered ScienceDissertation, University of Western Ontario. 2018.The goal of this dissertation is to reconstruct, critically evaluate, and apply the pluralism of Paul Feyerabend. I conclude by suggesting future points of contact between Feyerabend’s pluralism and topics of interest in contemporary philosophy of science. I begin, in Chapter 1, by reconstructing Feyerabend’s critical philosophy. I show how his published works from 1948 until 1970 show a remarkably consistent argumentative strategy which becomes more refined and general as Feyerabend’s thought m…Read more
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What Theoretical Ecology Reveals about Knowledge TransferStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 1-20. forthcoming.Well-known epistemologies of science have implications for how best to understand knowledge transfer (KT). Yet, to date, no serious attempt has been made to explicate these particular implications. This paper infers views about KT from two popular epistemologies; what we characterize as incommensurabilitist views (after Devitt, 2001; Bird, 2002, 2008; Sankey and Hoyningen-Huene 2013) and voluntarist views (after Van Fraassen, 1984; Dupré, 2001; Chakravartty, 2015). We argue views of the former s…Read more
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74Feyerabend, funding, and the freedom of science: the case of traditional Chinese medicineEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (2): 1-27. 2021.From the 1970s onwards, Feyerabend argues against the freedom of science. This will seem strange to some, as his epistemological anarchism is often taken to suggest that scientists should be free of even the most basic and obvious norms of science. His argument against the freedom of science is heavily influenced by his case study of the interference of Chinese communists in mainland China during the 1950s wherein the government forced local universities to continue researching traditional Chine…Read more
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63Duhem on Good Sense and Theory Pursuit: From Virtue to Social EpistemologyInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 33 (2): 67-85. 2020.ABSTRACT The emerging consensus in the secondary literature on Duhem is that his notion of ‘good sense’ is a virtue of individual scientists that guides them choosie between empirically equal rival theories : 149–159; Ivanova 2010. “Pierre Duhem’s Good Sense as a Guide to Theory Choice.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 41 : 58–64; Fairweather 2011. “The Epistemic Value of Good Sense.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 : 139–146; Bhakthavatsalam. “Duhemian…Read more
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47Feyerabend’s well-ordered science: how an anarchist distributes fundsSynthese 198 (1): 419-449. 2018.To anyone vaguely aware of Feyerabend, the title of this paper would appear as an oxymoron. For Feyerabend, it is often thought, science is an anarchic practice with no discernible structure. Against this trend, I elaborate the groundwork that Feyerabend has provided for the beginnings of an approach to organizing scientific research. Specifically, I argue that Feyerabend’s pluralism, once suitably modified, provides a plausible account of how to organize science. These modifications come from C…Read more
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusInstitute for the History and Philosophy of SciencePost-doctoral Fellow
Toronto, Ontario, Canada