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6Social Practices as Biological Niche ConstructionThe University of Chicago Press. 2023.The book integrates humans’ biological lives as animals with acculturation and interaction within diverse social worlds. Recent work in evolutionary biology, the social theory of practices, and cognition as embodied and enactive shows how aspects of human life often treated as social or cognitive are integrated “naturecultural” phenomena. Human evolution enables people’s varied biological development in practice-differentiated environments sustained by ongoing niche reconstruction. These naturec…Read more
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8Arguing for the Natural Ontological AttitudePSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 (1): 294-301. 1988.In several recent papers, Arthur Fine has developed a far-reaching attack upon both the standard realist interpretations of science and their most prominent anti-realist alternatives (1986a, 1986b, 1986c). In their place, Fine proposes not another position on the realist/anti-realist axis, but an attitude toward science, the “natural ontological attitude” (NOA), which is supposed to remove any felt need for a philosophical interpretation of science.In this paper I will be concerned with Fine’s r…Read more
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9Heidegger's Philosophy of ScienceIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Wiley-blackwell. 2005.
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8Heidegger on Science and NaturalismIn Gary Gutting (ed.), Continental Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Science and Philosophy in Being and Time BACHELARD The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking.
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61Temporal Externalism and the Normativity of Linguistic PracticeJournal of the Philosophy of History 8 (1). 2014.Temporal externalists expand Putnam’s and Burge’s semantic externalisms to argue that later uses of words transform the semantic significance of earlier uses. Conflicting intuitions about temporal externalism often turn on different conceptions of linguistic practice, which have mostly not been thematically explicated. I defend a version of temporal externalism that replaces the familiar regularist and normative-regulist conceptions of linguistic practice or use. This alternative identifies prac…Read more
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183Social practices and normativityPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (1): 46-56. 2007.The Social Theory of Practices effectively criticized conceptions of social practices as rule-governed or regularity-exhibiting performances. Turners criticisms nevertheless overlook an alternative, "normative" conception of practices as constituted by the mutual accountability of their performances. Such a conception of practices also allows a more adequate understanding of normativity in terms of accountability to what is at issue and at stake in a practice. We can thereby understand linguist…Read more
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28Review: Vampires: Social Constructivism, Realism, and Other Philosophical Undead (review)History and Theory 41 (1): 60-78. 2002.Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science by Andre Kukla The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking.
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32Barad's Feminist NaturalismHypatia 19 (1): 142-161. 2004.Philosophical naturalism is ambiguous between conjoining philosophy with science or with nature understood scientifically. Reconciliation of this ambiguity is necessary but rarely attempted. Feminist science studies often endorse the former naturalism but criticize the second. Karen Barad's agential realism, however, constructively reconciles both senses. Barad then challenges traditional metaphysical naturalisms as not adequately accountable to science. She also contributes distinctively to fem…Read more
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123. Interpretation in Natural and Human ScienceIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 42-56. 1991.
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31Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific ImageUniversity of Chicago Press. 2015.Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself. In Art…Read more
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56Beyond Realism and Antirealism ---At Last?Spontaneous Generations 9 (1): 46-51. 2018.This paper recapitulates my four primary lines of argument that what is wrong with scientific realism is not realist answers to questions to which various anti-realists give different answers, but instead assumptions shared by realists and anti-realists in framing the question. Each strategy incorporates its predecessors as a consequence. A first, minimalist challenge, taken over from Arthur Fine and Michael Williams, rejects the assumption that the sciences have a general aim or goal. A second …Read more
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26Truth, Scientific Understanding, and Haugeland’s Existential OntologyPhilosophical Topics 27 (2): 149-176. 1999.
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45Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of SciencePhilosophical Review 99 (3): 474. 1990.
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The Phenomenology of Observation in the Natural SciencesDissertation, Northwestern University. 1977.
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1Two concepts of practicesIn Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki & Eike von Savigny (eds.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge. pp. 189--198. 2000.
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94 From Realism or Antirealism to Science as SolidarityIn Charles Guignon & David R. Hiley (eds.), Richard Rorty, Cambridge University Press. pp. 81. 2003.
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35Feminism and the social construction of scientific knowledgeIn Lynn Hankinson Nelson & Jack Nelson (eds.), Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, . pp. 195--215. 1996.
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54Should We Ask the Question that Scientific Realism Would Answer?Modern Schoolman 76 (2-3): 121-124. 1999.
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42Kierkegaard on TruthIdealistic Studies 18 (2): 145-171. 1988.Johannes Climacus’s reflections on truth in Concluding Unscientific Postscript have not fared well in subsequent philosophical discussion. Those who write about truth almost never pay attention to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous account. Even those writing about Kierkegaard often ignore it, or discuss it only peripherally. Among those who do consider his position, two mistaken interpretations are common. Some critics regard Kierkegaard’s claim that truth is subjectivity as a bad answer to traditional…Read more
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65The narrative reconstruction of scienceInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 33 (2). 1990.In contrast to earlier accounts of the epistemic significance of narrative, it is argued that narrative is important in natural scientific knowledge. To recognize this, we must understand narrative not as a literary form in which knowledge is written, but as the temporal organization of the understanding of practical activity. Scientific research is a social practice, whereby researchers structure the narrative context in which past work is interpreted and significant possibilities for further w…Read more
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Power? KnowledgeIn Gary Gutting (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Cambridge University Press. 1994.
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25Remedios and Fuller on normativity and sciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 33 (4): 464-471. 2003.
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75New philosophies of science in north America — twenty years laterJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 29 (1): 71-122. 1998.This survey of major developments in North American philosophy of science begins with the mid-1960s consolidation of the disciplinary synthesis of internalist history and philosophy of science (HPS) as a response to criticisms of logical empiricism. These developments are grouped for discussion under the following headings: historical metamethodologies, scientific realisms, philosophies of the special sciences, revivals of empiricism, cognitivist naturalisms, social epistemologies, feminist theo…Read more
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