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279Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of scienceSynthese 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
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91Dreyfus on expertise: The limits of phenomenological analysis (review)Continental Philosophy Review 35 (3): 245-279. 2002.Dreyfus's model of expert skill acquisition is philosophically important because it shifts the focus on expertise away from its social and technical externalization in STS, and its relegation to the historical and psychological context of discovery in the classical philosophy of science, to universal structures of embodied cognition and affect. In doing so he explains why experts are not best described as ideologues and why their authority is not exclusively based on social networking. Moreover,…Read more
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86The Play of Nature: Experimentation as PerformanceIndiana 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
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54Celebrating 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.
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52Book 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)Philosophy and Technology 26 (2): 227-246. 2013.
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49Interview with physicist Christopher FuchsContinental 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.
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49Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, the primacy of movementContinental Philosophy Review 35 (1): 103-107. 2002.
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36Sheets-Johnstone, M. the primacy of movementPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (1): 69-83. 2003.
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30Introduction: Phenomenology of Quantum MechanicsContinental 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
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28Arendt and the Authority of Science in PoliticsArendt 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
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28Missing IhdeTechné: 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
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25The sculpture and the electron: Hermeneutics of the experimental objectScience & Education 4 (2): 109-114. 1995.
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20Covariant RealismHuman Affairs 19 (2): 223-232. 2009.Covariant Realism Hermeneutic phenomenology of science implies a particular version of realism. It approaches scientific entities in a twofold perspective: in their relation to other parts of the theory (as elements in a theoretical "language"), and in relation to the lifeworld as mediated by laboratory practices; as "fulfilled" in laboratory situations that "produce" worldly objects. The question then arises of the relation between the two perspectives; as Ginev has pointed out, there is danger…Read more
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18From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Harry E. GoveIsis 92 (3): 632-633. 2001.
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16Able, 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)Perspectives on Science 7 (2). 1999.
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13The Metroscape: Phenomenology of MeasurementIn D. Ginev (ed.), The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Springer. pp. 81--87. 2014.
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13MYLES JACKSON, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. (review)In Julie Thompson Klein & Carl Mitcham (eds.), Annals of Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 79. 2010.
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11From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry by Harry E. Gove (review)Isis 92 632-633. 2001.
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10Missing IhdeTechné: 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
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10On Not Being Able to Dance: The InterringIn 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
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