• The Determination of Physical Theory
    Dissertation, University of Southern California. 1990.
    It is argued that the concept of observational equivalence can be made coherent, and that observationally equivalent theories can be theoretically incompatible. However, it is also argued that observationally equivalent, theoretically incompatible theories are difficult to generate in a way that leaves even a prima facie epistemological problem, for they will usually involve superfluous expansions. An account, involving a discussion of scientific realism, is given as to why superfluous expansion…Read more
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    Against neural chauvinism
    Philosophical Studies 48 (July): 111-27. 1985.