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120Causal explanations of behaviorPhilosophy of Science 70 (4): 720-738. 2003.Most discussions of causal explanations of behavior focus on the problem of whether it makes sense to regard reasons as causes of human behavior, whether there can be laws connecting reasons with behavior, and the like. This essay discusses explanations of human behavior that do not appeal to reasons. Such explanations can be found in several areas of the social sciences. Moreover, these explanations are both causal and non-reductionist. Historical linguists, for example, offer causal explanatio…Read more
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112Introduction to logic and critical thinkingWadsworth. 2013.Designed for students with no prior training in logic, INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING offers an accessible treatment of logic that enhances understanding of reasoning in everyday life. The text begins with an introduction to arguments. After some linguistic preliminaries, the text presents a detailed analysis of inductive reasoning and associated fallacies. This order of presentation helps to motivate the use of formal methods in the subsequent sections on deductive logic and fallac…Read more
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85Reasoning in the social sciencesSynthese 97 (2). 1993.In 1981, A. C. Crombie identified six “styles of scientific thinking in the European tradition” that constitute our ways of reasoning in the natural sciences. In this paper, I try to show that these styles constitute reasoning in the social sciences as well, and that, as a result, the differences between reasoning about the physical world and about human beings are not so different as some interpretevists have supposed
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58Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003.This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science
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43Relativist ethics, scientific objectivity, and concern for human rightsScience and Engineering Ethics 5 (3): 311-318. 1999.This paper comments on the conflict between ethical relativism and anthropologists’ concerns with rights, and tries to show that neither scientific objectivity nor respect for cultural diversity require denying an extracultural stance for ethical judgments.
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37Ethics in science: Special problems in anthropology and archaeologyScience and Engineering Ethics 5 (3): 307-310. 1999.
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37Analyzing Conversational ReasoningInformal Logic 17 (1). 1995.This work discusses an empirical study of reasoning as it occurs in conversations. Reasoning in this context has features not usually accounted for in standard methods for describing argumentation (e.g., Toulmin, (1964), Toulmin, Rieke, and Janik (1984)). For example, insufficient attention has been paid to challenges which can be used to shift the ground of an argument and to the development of multiple conversational grounds. Moreover, even though the value of cooperative efforts in building a…Read more
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33Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1992.A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction to the philosophy of science focused on cultivating an understanding of both the workings of science and its historical and social context. Selections range from discussions of topics in general methodology to a sampling of foundational problems in various physical, biological, behavioral, and soci…Read more
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30Standards of Evidence in Anthropological ReasoningSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1): 129-145. 1996.
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21In every poll asking the public to rank professions by prestige, scientists excel. They command great respect and earn high marks for trustworthiness. They consistently compare well to judges and rank much higher than lawmakers. Scientists also outrank polltakers, which I suppose reveals the public’s view that polls are not scientific. In democratic societies, however, despite general esteem for scientists, political authorities and members of the public often ignore or override what scientists …Read more
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20Art or Science? A Controversy about the Evidence for CannibalismIn Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 199. 2000.
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19Ascribing Functions to Archaeological ObjectsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (1): 19-26. 1981.
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16Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological InterpretationPhilosophy of Science 46 (3): 494-495. 1979.
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10On Russell's "Brief But Notorious Flirtation with Phenomenalism"Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 16 (n/a): 13. 2014.
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10Scientific Anthropology--Scientific Anthropological Archaeology: Comments on Dunnell and JarviePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984. 1984.
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8Processos causals, realisme i mecànica quànticaEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 169-179. 2005.https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/v37-suarez.
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4The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. Burks, with His Responses (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1990.This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen tieth century: semantics and ontology, induction, the nature of prob ability, the foundations of science, scientific objectivity, the theory of naming, the logic of conditionals, simulation modeling, the relatiOn be…Read more
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3A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction to the philosophy of science focused on cultivating an understanding of both the workings of science and its historical and social context. Selections range from discussions of topics in general methodology to a sampling of foundational problems in various physical, biological, behavioral, and soci…Read more
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