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Robert Crease

State University of New York, Stony Brook
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  • State University of New York, Stony Brook
    Department of Philosophy
    Professor
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy
General Philosophy of Science
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  •  2
    Scientific mythbusting: Alberto A. Martínez: Science secrets: The truth about Darwin’s finches, Einstein’s wife, and other myths. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011, 344pp, $24.95 HB (review)
    Metascience 22 (2): 509-511. 2013.
  •  1
    Dogmatism rampant: Henry H. Bauer: Dogmatism in science and medicine: How dominant theories monopolize research and stifle the search for truth. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012, 301pp, $35.00 PB (review)
    Metascience 23 (3): 547-549. 2014.
  •  15
    Heidegger And The Empirical Turn In Continental Philosophy Of Science
    In Trish Glazebrook (ed.), Heidegger on Science, State University of New York Press. pp. 225-237. 2012.
    Martin Heidegger
  •  77
    Interview with physicist Christopher Fuchs
    with James Sares
    Continental Philosophy Review 54 (4): 541-561. 2021.
    QBism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that posits quantum probabilities as subjective Bayesian probabilities, whence its name. By avoiding experientially unfulfilled speculations about what exists prior to measurement, QBism seems to make a close encounter with the phenomenological method. What follows is an interview with QBism’s founder and principal champion, the physicist Christopher Fuchs.
    PhenomenologyPhilosophy of Science, MiscBayesian ReasoningQuantum Mechanics
  •  312
    Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
    with Kyle Powys Whyte
    Synthese 177 (3): 411-425. 2010.
    Trust is a central concept in the philosophy of science. We highlight how trust is important in the wide variety of interactions between science and society. We claim that examining and clarifying the nature and role of trust (and distrust) in relations between science and society is one principal way in which the philosophy of science is socially relevant. We argue that philosophers of science should extend their efforts to develop normative conceptions of trust that can serve to facilitate tru…Read more
    Trust is a central concept in the philosophy of science. We highlight how trust is important in the wide variety of interactions between science and society. We claim that examining and clarifying the nature and role of trust (and distrust) in relations between science and society is one principal way in which the philosophy of science is socially relevant. We argue that philosophers of science should extend their efforts to develop normative conceptions of trust that can serve to facilitate trust between scientific experts and ordinary citizens. The first project is the development of a rich normative theory of expertise and experience that can explain why the various epistemic insights of diverse actors should be trusted in certain contexts and how credibility deficits can be bridged. The second project is the development of concepts that explain why, in certain cases, ordinary citizens may distrust science, which should inform how philosophers of science conceive of the formulation of science policy when conditions of distrust prevail. The third project is the analysis of cases of successful relations of trust between scientists and non-scientists that leads to understanding better how ‘postnormal’ science interactions are possible using trust.
    Science and ValuesTrustSociology of Science
  •  86
    Celebrating science: Sander Bais: In praise of science: Curiosity, understanding, and progress. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010, 192pp, $24.95, £18.95 HB
    Metascience 21 (1): 207-209. 2011.
    Celebrating science Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9545-1 Authors Robert P. Crease, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 213 Harriman Hall, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
  •  16
    The second creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physics
    Rutgers University Press. 1996.
    The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and th…Read more
    The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and the human story of the physicists who set out to find the "theory of everything."
    Philosophy of Physical Science
  •  12
    The workshop and the world: what ten thinkers can teach us about science and authority
    W.W. Norton & Company. 2019.
    Francis Bacon's New Atlantis -- Galileo and the authority of science -- Rene Descartes : workshop thinking -- Giambattista Vico : going mad rationally -- Mary Shelley's hideous idea -- Auguste Comte's religion of humanity -- Max Weber : authority and bureaucracy -- Kemal Atatørk : science and patriotism -- Edmund Husserl : cultural crisis -- Hannah Arendt : action -- Conclusion.
  •  38
    Missed Connection: James Baldwin’s Hangup on Hannah Arendt
    Arendt Studies 6 29-42. 2023.
    Hannah Arendt
  •  71
    Introduction: Phenomenology of Quantum Mechanics
    with Delicia Antoinette Kamins and Paul Rubery
    Continental Philosophy Review 54 (4): 405-412. 2021.
    The collection of essays in this special issue point toward the rich and diverse themes under which the phenomenologist might analyze quantum mechanics. The authors in the collection demonstrate that the tradition inaugurated by Husserl promises to dispel the many experiential quandaries of quantum mechanics. They interrogate the meaning of the theoretical entities described by the mathematical equations and analyze their manner of appearing to the physicist. To this end, the efforts of the auth…Read more
    The collection of essays in this special issue point toward the rich and diverse themes under which the phenomenologist might analyze quantum mechanics. The authors in the collection demonstrate that the tradition inaugurated by Husserl promises to dispel the many experiential quandaries of quantum mechanics. They interrogate the meaning of the theoretical entities described by the mathematical equations and analyze their manner of appearing to the physicist. To this end, the efforts of the authors show that increased clarity at forefront of physics requires more than progressively refined models and instruments, but understanding how the subject grasps nature.
    Continental PhilosophyQuantum Mechanics
  •  17
    Theory and Theoretical Objects in an Existential/Hermeneutic Conception of Science
    Balkan Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 121-130. 2012.
  •  23
    On Not Being Able to Dance: The Interring
    In Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie & Matthew Wagner (eds.), Performance Phenomenology: To The Thing Itself, Springer Verlag. pp. 205-215. 2019.
    What makes it hard to dance? Twentieth-century phenomenologists drew attention to the importance of the lived body, and dance is the art form for which the lived body is literally central. Why then isn’t dance the easiest art form to engage in? Phenomenologists are drawn to situations where a phenomenon breaks down, which can open insights into the phenomenon itself. Here the phenomenon is the ability to dance where one might normally expect to. This paper invokes Marion Milner’s book On Not Bei…Read more
    What makes it hard to dance? Twentieth-century phenomenologists drew attention to the importance of the lived body, and dance is the art form for which the lived body is literally central. Why then isn’t dance the easiest art form to engage in? Phenomenologists are drawn to situations where a phenomenon breaks down, which can open insights into the phenomenon itself. Here the phenomenon is the ability to dance where one might normally expect to. This paper invokes Marion Milner’s book On Not Being Able to Paint. It discusses views of David Kleinberg-Levin, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Iris Young, and others. Parallel to Heidegger’s notion of the Enframing, what causes the disappearing dimensions of animate formanimate form is the Interring.
  •  53
    Arendt and the Authority of Science in Politics
    Arendt Studies 1 43-60. 2017.
    Arendt’s explorations of the dynamics of politics, facts, and truth in the public sphere contain important insights into the authority of science and science denial. This article reviews and contextualizes Arendt’s views on modern science and technology, discusses her views on authority, and identifies some insights that her writings provide on the dynamics of science denial. Arendt’s writings point to another possible source of authority besides Weber’s three categories (traditional, legal-rati…Read more
    Arendt’s explorations of the dynamics of politics, facts, and truth in the public sphere contain important insights into the authority of science and science denial. This article reviews and contextualizes Arendt’s views on modern science and technology, discusses her views on authority, and identifies some insights that her writings provide on the dynamics of science denial. Arendt’s writings point to another possible source of authority besides Weber’s three categories (traditional, legal-rational, charismatic), based on a relationship between ruler and ruled that precedes the issuance of commands. Her writings help clarify what makes scientific findings vulnerable to denial, expose some of the specific tactics of science denial, and include some clues for what it would take to keep the public space open, and to nourish the compelling element that would have to underlie scientific authority.
    Hannah Arendt
  •  68
    Missing Ihde
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20 (2): 95-104. 2016.
    This article investigates how lack of a phenomenology of technology has hurt understanding of the lifeworld. One way, as Ihde has shown, involves a failure to appreciate the instrumental mediation of experience and the extension of perception. But Ihde also fails to notice the background in which these mediations are taking place and which shapes the mediations themselves and our interpretation of them; not even the research of technoscientists takes place in a neutral atmosphere that does not a…Read more
    This article investigates how lack of a phenomenology of technology has hurt understanding of the lifeworld. One way, as Ihde has shown, involves a failure to appreciate the instrumental mediation of experience and the extension of perception. But Ihde also fails to notice the background in which these mediations are taking place and which shapes the mediations themselves and our interpretation of them; not even the research of technoscientists takes place in a neutral atmosphere that does not affect how we work. This article also discusses hermeneutic distortion, or the gap in collective interpretive resources that occurs when the technoscientific infrastructure withdraws and becomes all but invisible, encouraging the tendency to treat scientific conclusions as mere opinions, and technoscientific devices as accessory rather than integral to the modern world.
    Philosophy of Technology, Misc
  •  31
    Das Spiel der Natur: Experimentieren als Vorführung
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (3): 419-438. 1994.
  •  8
    Vico in English: A Bibliography of Writings by and about Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744
    . 1978.
    Giovanni Battista Vico
  •  70
    Science as Erotic Service
    Human Studies 28 (2): 227-230. 2005.
    Ethics
  •  44
    Henning Schmidgen. Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography. Translated by Gloria Custance. xiv + 175 pp., bibl., index. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. $22 (review)
    Isis 107 (3): 677-679. 2016.
  •  88
    Merleau-ponty. From dialectic to hyperdialectic'
    with Jacques Taminiaux
    Research in Phenomenology 10 (1): 58-76. 1980.
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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    The Pleasure of Popular Dance
    Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 29 (2): 106-120. 2002.
    Philosophy of Sport
  •  67
    Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, the primacy of movement
    Continental Philosophy Review 35 (1): 103-107. 2002.
    Continental Philosophy20th Century PhilosophyPhenomenology
  •  62
    Exploring Animate Form: A Review Essay
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (1): 69-83. 2003.
    Applied EthicsAspects of ConsciousnessEmbodiment and Situated Cognition
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    What is an Artifact?
    Philosophy Today 42 (Supplement): 160-168. 1998.
    Artifacts
  • Science as foundational?
    In Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), Questioning Foundations: Truth, Subjectivity and Culture, Routledge. pp. 5--44. 1993.
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    Imagined Worlds. Freeman Dyson
    Isis 92 (4): 755-755. 2001.
    History of Science
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    Able, Kenneth P. Gathering of Angels: Migrating Birds and their Ecology. Ithaca: Cornell Univerity Press, 1999. Pp. xi+ 193. Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the Scholastics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xi+ 230. $42.50 (cloth). Basos, Cristiana. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Bloom (review)
    with Michel Blay, Randall Collins, and W. Michael Dickson
    Perspectives on Science 7 (2). 1999.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
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    The Play of Nature: Experimentation as Performance
    Indiana University Press. 1993.
    "Crease’s brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." —Robert C. Scharff Crease attacks the "mystical" account of experimentation embraced by the positivist and Kantian varieties of philosophy of science, according to which experimentation takes a backseat to theory
  •  7
    Phenomenology and Natural Science
    In James Fieser & Bradley Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2011.
    Edmund HusserlHusserl: Philosophy of Mind
  •  65
    From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Harry E. Gove
    Isis 92 (3): 632-633. 2001.
    History of Science
  •  74
    Book Symposium on Robert P. Crease’s World in the Balance: the Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 (review)
    with Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Robert C. Scharff, and Donn Welton
    Philosophy and Technology 26 (2): 227-246. 2013.
    Scientific PracticePhilosophy, Misc
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