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    Interview with physicist Christopher Fuchs
    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.
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    Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    Introduction: Phenomenology of Quantum Mechanics
    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
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    Theory and Theoretical Objects in an Existential/Hermeneutic Conception of Science
    Balkan Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 121-130. 2012.
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    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
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    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
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    Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson (review)
    Isis 92 755-755. 2001.
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    Covariant Realism
    Human Affairs 19 (2). 2009.
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    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
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    Dreyfus 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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    The Pleasure of Popular Dance
    Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 29 (2): 106-120. 2002.
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    Review: Science as Erotic Service (review)
    Human Studies 28 (2). 2005.
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    Imagined Worlds. Freeman Dyson
    Isis 92 (4): 755-755. 2001.
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    Das Spiel der Natur: Experimentieren als Vorführung
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (3): 419-438. 1994.
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    What is an Artifact?
    Philosophy Today 42 (Supplement): 160-168. 1998.
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    Merleau-ponty. From dialectic to hyperdialectic'
    with Jacques Taminiaux
    Research in Phenomenology 10 (1): 58-76. 1980.
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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
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    Science as Erotic Service
    Human Studies 28 (2): 227-230. 2005.