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6892Scientific valueInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 10 (3): 189-202. 1996.Abstract Criteria of scientific value are of different kinds. This paper concerns ultimate criteria, i.e. the axiology of science. Most ultimate criteria are multi?dimensional. This gives rise to an aggregation problem, which cannot be adequately solved with reference to attitudes and behaviour within the scientific community. Therefore, in many cases, there is no fact of the matter as to whether one theory is better than another. This, in turn, creates problems for methodology
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6786Death and Eternal RecurrenceIn Johansson Feldman Bradley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death, Oxford U P. 2013.
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5944Putnam on the Fact-Value DichotomyCroatian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2): 117-129. 2002.In Reason, Truth and History and certain related writings, Hilary Putnam attacked the fact-value distinction. This paper criticizes his arguments and defends the distinction. Putnam claims that factual statements presuppose values, that “the empirical world depends upon our criteria of rational acceptability,” and that “we must have criteria of rational acceptability to even have an empirical world.” The present paper argues that these claims are mistaken.
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2391Davidsons's Objections to Quine's EmpiricismIn G. Segal P. Pagin P. Kotatko (ed.), Interpreting Davidson, Csli Publications. 2001.
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1369Quine's relativismTheoria 72 (4): 286-298. 2006.Keywords: W.V.Quine claimed that relativism is paradoxical and unacceptable; nevertheless, his own views concerning truth and the underdetermination of theories by data amount to an interesting and plausible form of relativism.
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836Underdetermination of Physical TheoryIn Roger F. Gibson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Quine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 91--114. 2006.
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736Quine and the A PrioriIn Ernie Lepore & Gilbert Harman (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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466Notes on the value of scienceIn D. Prawitz, B. Skyrms & D. Westerståhl (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IX, Elsevier Science B. V.. 1994.
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306Meaning and moralsIn R. E. Olson & A. M. Paul (eds.), Contemporary Philosophy in Scandinavia, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1972.
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122A Defense of Quinean NaturalismIn Chase B. Wrenn (ed.), Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology, Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2008.This paper argues that a naturalized epistemology of the kind presented by W.V. Quine preserves everything worthwhile in traditional epistemology. Arguments against Quinean naturalism by such writers as Laurence BonJour, Jaegwon Kim, Richard Rorty, Barry Stroud, and Donald Davidson are criticized. Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Quinean naturalism does not reject a priori justification. The important point is that epistemology is contained in science. There is no ‘first philosophy’, and, …Read more
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101On the Coherence of Act-UtilitarianismAnalysis 33 (3). 1973.The article is a reply to professor castaneda's criticism of a recursive formulation of act-utilitarianism which i have suggested in an earlier paper (analysis 29.2) and which was intended to satisfy the deontic principle that 'ought' is distributable over conjunctions. i argue that castaneda's arguments against my formulation are inconclusive
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55Explanation and interpretation of actionInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4 (1): 3-15. 1990.Abstract Contrary to what is usually taken for granted, the traditional positivistic and hermeneutic accounts of explanations of human actions do not really contradict one another. There is no logical or epistemological difference between explanations in this area and explanations in the natural sciences. However, if W. V. Quine and D. Davidson are right, there may be an ontological difference between the explanation of natural events and the interpretation of actions
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53Gary Kemp Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. 191 pp. isbn 978‐0‐19‐969562‐1 (review)Theoria 80 (3): 283-287. 2014.
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51Thomas Nagel - Recipient of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, 2008Theoria 75 (2): 76-78. 2009.
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