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154Peirce as a philosopher of science: T. L. Short: Charles Peirce and modern science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 300 pp, $99.99 HB (review)Metascience 33 (1): 61-64. 2023.
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190The Art of Abduction. By Igor Douven. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. Pp. xx + 349. Price $50.00.) (review)Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 881-884. 2022.One of the many notable virtues of Igor Douven's The Art of Abduction is that it is open access. Since a well-written chapter-by-chapter overview of the book is.
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254An Armstrongian defense of dispositional monist accounts of laws of natureEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (3): 1-15. 2022.Bird reveals an important problem at the heart of Armstrong’s theory of laws of nature: to explain how a law necessitates its corresponding regularity, Armstrong is committed to a vicious regress. In his very brief response, Armstrong gestures towards an argument that, as he admits, is more of a “speculation.” Later, Barker and Smart argue that a very similar problem threatens Bird’s dispositional monist theory of laws of nature and he is committed to a similar vicious regress. In this paper, fi…Read more
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284Virtues of ‘values’ and ‘virtues’: on theoretical virtues and the aim of scienceMetascience 31 (3): 297-302. 2022.
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48Theoretical virtues and theorizing in physics: against the instrumentalist view of simplicitySynthese 199 (1-2): 4819-4828. 2021.I argue that if simplicity is a theoretical virtue and some theoretical virtues are the constituents of the aims of theorizing in physics—i.e., theory choice and theory development in physics—and scientific rationality is instrumental rationality, then simplicity cannot be a mere means to achieve the aims. I do this by showing that considering simplicity as a mere means brings about counterintuitive ramifications concerning scientific rationality. These counterintuitive ramifications can be avoi…Read more
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480If consciousness causes collapse, the zombie argument failsSynthese 199. 2021.Many non-physicalists, including Chalmers, hold that the zombie argument succeeds in rejecting the physicalist view of consciousness. Some non-physicalists, including, again, Chalmers, hold that quantum collapse interactionism, i.e., the idea that non-physical consciousness causes collapse of the wave function in phenomena such as quantum measurement, is a viable interactionist solution for the problem of the relationship between the physical world and the non-physical consciousness. In this pap…Read more
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1445Abduction − the context of discovery + underdetermination = inference to the best explanationSynthese 198 (5): 4205-4228. 2021.The relationship between Peircean abduction and the modern notion of Inference to the Best Explanation is a matter of dispute. Some philosophers, such as Harman :88–95, 1965) and Lipton, claim that abduction and IBE are virtually the same. Others, however, hold that they are quite different :503, 1998; Minnameier in Erkenntnis 60:75–105, 2004) and there is no link between them :419–442, 2009). In this paper, I argue that neither of these views is correct. I show that abduction and IBE have impor…Read more
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537Beyond the Instinct-Inference Dichotomy: A Unified Interpretation of Peirce's Theory of AbductionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (2): 138-160. 2019.I examine and resolve an exegetical dichotomy between two main interpretations of Peirce’s theory of abduction, namely, the Generative Interpretation and the Pursuitworthiness Interpretation. According to the former, abduction is the instinctive process of generating explanatory hypotheses through a mental faculty called insight. According to the latter, abduction is a rule-governed procedure for determining the relative pursuitworthiness of available hypotheses and adopting the worthiest one fo…Read more