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4Philosophy of History of ScienceIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Critical Narratives Rival Reconstructions Philosophical Problems Bibliography.
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59Hermeneutic strategies in Gerd Buchdahl’s Kantian philosophy of scienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1): 183-208. 2003.Gerd Buchdahl’s international reputation rests on his masterly writings on Kant. In them he showed how Kant transformed the philosophical problems of his predecessors and he minutely investigated the ways in which Kant related his critical philosophy to the contents and methods of natural science. Less well known, if only because in large part unpublished, are the writings in which Buchdahl elaborated his own views on the methods and status of the sciences. In this paper I examine the roles of h…Read more
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52Uses and abuses of anachronism in the history of the sciencesHistory of Science 38 (3): 251-270. 2000.
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14The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science by Alfred I. Tauber (review)Isis 88 747-748. 1997.
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54Splendours and miseries of the science warsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 28 (2): 219-235. 1997.
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4„Realistischer“ Realismus und der Fortschritt der WissenschaftIn Philip Pettit & Christopher Hookway (eds.), Handlung Und Interpretation: Studien Zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften, De Gruyter. pp. 136-159. 1982.
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54Explanatory genealogies and historical testimonyEpisteme 5 (2). 2008.This article proposes that a general theory of assessment of historical testimony should do justice to the long tradition of adjudication in accordance with maxims of reliability and competence. I argue that an explanatory genealogical theory (along lines first adumbrated by Charles Seignobos) satisfies this condition, and that it has further notable virtues: respect for the strengths of rival theories, regard for the links between adjudication of testimony and other basic procedures of historic…Read more
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Turning to Ontology in Studies of Distant SciencesIn Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd & Aparecida Vilaça (eds.), Science in the forest, science in the past, Hau Books. 2020.
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21Hélène Metzger on Precursors: A Historian and Philosopher of Science Confronts Her Evil DemonHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (2): 331-353. 2021.The historian and philosopher of science Hélène Metzger (1889–1944) delivered “Le rôle des précurseurs dans l’évolution de la science” in 1939 as a lecture of the Institut d’Histoire des Sciences et Techniques of the University of Paris, later published in their journal Thalès. In this talk, Metzger not only attacks the notion of “precursor” and a history of science focused on “great men” and their discoveries, but also makes a strong case for the philosophical value of the history of science. W…Read more
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26Science in Culture René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy. Translated, with explanatory notes, by V. R. Miller and R. P. Miller. Synthese Historical Library, Vol. 24. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983. Pp xxviii + 325. Cloth Dfl. 135/$59.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 17 (2): 245-245. 1984.
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96The concept of homology in biologyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 18 (2): 125-139. 1967.
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6The Scenes of Inquiry: On the Reality of Questions in the SciencesOxford University Press UK. 1991.The Scenes of Inquiry advocates a radical shift of concern in philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of the sciences, from answers and doctrines to questions and problems, and explores the consequences of such a shift. Nicholas Jardine has expanded the book considerably for this paperback edition, adding a substantial preface, an extensive bibliography, and three new essays which develop the book's themes and pursue its aims further. 'Philosophers, historians, sociologists, and not …Read more
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85The Forging of Modern Realism: Clavius and Kepler against the ScepticsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 10 (2): 141. 1979.
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WARTOFSKY, M. W., R. S. COHEN and P. K. FEYERABEND "Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos" (review)Philosophy 53 (n/a): 119. 1978.
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38Whigs and stories: Herbert Butterfield and the historiography of scienceHistory of Science 41 (1): 125--40. 2003.
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59Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos Edited by R. S. Cohen, P. K. Feyerabend and M. W. Wartofsky (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. xxxix; Synthese Library, Vol. 99) D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland/Boston, U.S.A., 1976. xi + 768pp. Cloth $62.00; Paper $34.00 (review)Philosophy 53 (203): 119-. 1978.
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44The pasts, presents, and futures of testimonyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 52 95-100. 2015.
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18Seventeenth Century Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum: The secret of the universe. Translation by A. M. Duncan, Introduction and Commentary by E. J. Aiton, with a Preface by I. Bernard Cohen. New York: Abaris Books, 1981. Pp. 267. ISBN 0-913870-64-1. £13 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 17 (1): 108-109. 1984.
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18Whigs and Stories: Herbert Butterfield and the Historiography of ScienceHistory of Science 41 (2): 125-140. 2003.
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50The matching of parts of thingsStudia Logica 27 (1). 1971.An axiomatic treatment of the relation part of is shown to lead naturally to an account of the ways in which parts of things are matched. The determination of matchings by the properties of parts and by the relations between parts is discussed and shown to be relevant to certain classificatory problems in science. The connexions between matchings and symmetries of parts are explored, and a general account is given of the ways in which ambiguities in the matching of parts may be resolved.
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34The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science. Kepler's `A Defence of Tycho against Ursus' with Essays on its Provenance and SignificancePhilosophical Quarterly 35 (140): 311. 1985.Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus. He accompanies this with essays on the provenance of the treatise - the circumstances which provoked Kepler to write it, an analysis of its strategy, style and historical sources and of the contents of Ursus' Treatise on Astronomical Hypotheses to which Kepler was replying. Dr Jardine also provides three extended interpretive essays on the intrinsic interest and h…Read more
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39The scenes of inquiry: on the reality of questions in the sciencesOxford University Press. 1991.This book advocates a radical shift of concern in philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of the sciences, and explores the consequences of such a shift. The historically-oriented first part of the work deals with the ways in which ranges of questions become real and cease to be real for communities of inquirers. The more philosophically-oriented second part of the work introduces the notion of absolute reality of questions, and addresses doubt about the claims of the sciences to hav…Read more
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