Institut International de Philosophie

James Robert BROWN

Professeur

General philosophy of science Thought experiments Philosophy of mathematics History of modern philosophy and science Foundations of physics Science, Religion, and Society

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

PERSONAL

Citizenship: Canadian

Home address: 191 Bridport Street, London, Ontario N6A 2A9

Home phone: (519) 439-2889

University address: Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Room 514, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8

Cell phone: 519-854-0131

E-mail: jrbrown@chass.utoronto.ca

Home page: www.chass.utoronto.ca/~jrbrown

DEGREES

B.A. University of Guelph, 1973

M.A. University of Guelph, 1975

Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 1981

Thesis: Models of Rationality and the History of Science (Supervisor: R.E. Butts)

EMPLOYMENT

Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario, 1975-79

Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, 1979-80

Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, 1980-81

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1981-88

Associate Professor, University of Toronto, 1988-92

Professor, University of Toronto, 1992-2017

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, 2017-

Appointed to graduate school 1982 (temporary), 1988 (permanent)

Affiliate member, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 1987-

Affiliate member, Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, 1994-2000

Tenured 1988

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Editor of the journal, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1996–2001

Co-Editor of the book series, Toronto Studies in Philosophy, 1990–2001

Co-Director of Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies (philosophy of science section), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1984-

Secretary/Treasurer of The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. 1986-92

Board of Editors of the journal, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1986-96, 2001-

Board of Editors, Mind & Society, 2002-

Board of Editors, Science and Education, 2003-

Board of Editors: Minerva, 2007-

Board of Editors: Epistemologia, 2011-2016

Board of Editors: Axiomathes, 2016-

Consulting Editor and member of the Executive Committee, Episteme, 2002-2010

Section Chair: Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (History and Sociology of Science Section) (Meeting in Spain, August 2003)

Member of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities (Rep. for Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science), 1993-96, 1996-97

Member of:

Canadian Philosophical Association (1977- )

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (1980- )

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (1990- )

Philosophy of Science Association (1978- )

British Society for the Philosophy of Science (1978-2001)

Leibniz Society (1982-2000)

American Association of Physics Teachers (1979-2000)

Mathematical Association of America (1995-2001)

American Mathematical Society (1995-2001)

European Philosophy of Science Association (2007- )

GRANTS RECEIVED (minor grants not listed)

S.S.H.R.C. grant for Leibniz conference Nov. 1982, $6,250.

S.S.H.R.C. conference grant (with A. Irvine), 1988, $5000.

S.S.H.R.C. conference grant (with G. Hunter), 1989, $5500.

S.S.H.R.C. Research Grant, July 1991 − April 1994, $40,000.

S.S.H.R.C. Research Grant, July 1994 − April 1997, $10,000.

S.S.H.R.C. Research Grant, April 1998 − March 2001, $28,000.

S.S.H.R.C. Research Grant, April 2001 − March 2004, $31,000.

Humboldt Foundation Research Award, 2004, 50,000€

S.S.H.R.C. Research Grant, April 2004 – March 2008, $130,000.

S.S.H.R.C. Conference Grant, “Difference and Dissent”, June 2006, $8000

Humboldt Trans-coop, “Science and Values”, 2007 – 2009, 45,000€

S.S.H.R.C. Research Grant, April 2008 – March 2012, $115,000.

Numerous small grants ($750 – $3500) for travel or miscellaneous expenses.

HONOURS

Connaught Fellowship, 1995-96

Connaught Fellowship 2002-03

Humboldt Research Award, 2004

Elected: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004

Elected: Royal Society of Canada, 2007

Elected: Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, 2010

Elected: L’Institut international de philosophie, 2021

EXTENDED LECTURES

Vaughan Memorial Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford, November 1992

Machette Lecturer, Purdue University, February 1996

The Steinkraus Lecture 2003, SUNY Oswego, October 2003

Numerous “keynote” lectures

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS, VISITOR, ETC.

Dalhousie University, Halifax, summer 1979, 1983

Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, fall 1988

Academy of Sciences, Moscow, summer 1989

Konstanz University, summer 2001

Bielefeld University, summer 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012

Fellow, ZiF yearlong workshop on Science and Values (2006-07)

Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, fall 2008

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, fall 2010

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, July, 2011

University of Vienna (Vienna Circle Institute), Summer 2018

Bibliographie

Books

The Rational and the Social, Routledge 1989, Reissue: The Rational and the Social: How to Understand Science in a Social World, 2014
The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences, Routledge 1991 (Revised paper edition, 1993; second edition 2010)
Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality, Routledge 1994
Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures, Routledge 1999 (Second edition: 2008)
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars, Harvard 2001
Platonism, Naturalism and Mathematical Knowledge, Routledge 2012 (Paper edition 2014)
On Foundations of Seismology: Bringing Idealization Down to Earth (with M. Slawinski), World Scientific (2017)
Forthcoming: Philosophy of Science (Palgrave)
Forthcoming: Subtle Matter: Aether From Aristotle to Dark Energy (Oxford)

Books Edited

Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, 1984
The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz (co-edited with K. Okruhlik), 1985
Constructivism and Science (co-edited with R.E. Butts), 1989
An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (co-edited with J. Mittelstrass) 1989
Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers, Continuum 2012, 2nd ed 2021
Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (co-edited with M. Frappier and L. Meynell), Routledge 2012
Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, (co-edited with Y. Fehige and M. Stuart) Routledge, 2017

PUBLICATIONS (Everything academic: books, articles, reviews, etc.)

[1979]

Review of Bronowsky, A Sense of the Future, Dialogue, 1979

[1980]

“History and the Norms of Science”, Asquith and Giere (eds) PSA 1980 (vol. I), 236-48
“Counting Proper Classes”, Analysis, vol. 40, No. 3, 1980, 123-26
“Lakatos on Appraisal vs. Advice”, Methodology and Science, June 1980, 27-31
Review of Howson (ed), Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences, Dialogue, 1980

[1981]

Review of Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society, Dialogue, 1981
Review of Rescher, Scientific Progress, Social Indicators Research, 1981
Review of Hilpinen (ed), Rationality in Science, Social Indicators Research, 1981

[1982]

“Is There a Problem of Circularity in Historically-Oriented Methodology?”, Methodology and Science, June 1982
“The Miracle of Science”, Philosophical Quarterly, July 1982, 232-44
“Realism, Miracles and the Common Cause”, Asquith and Nickles (eds) PSA 1982, vol. I, 98-106
Review of O’Hear, Karl Popper, Dialogue, 1982
Review of Michalos, North American Social Report, Social Indicators Research, 1982
Review of Gutting (ed), Paradigms and Revolutions, Dialogue, 1982

[1983]

“Newton-Smith on the Facts of the Matter”, Nature and System, vol. 5, March-June 1983, 115-17
“The Rationality of Science” (A critical notice of Newton-Smith’s The Rationality of Science, Dialogue, XXII 1983, 299-309
“Recent Work on the Philosophy of Leibniz”, (with K. Okruhlik), Studia Leibnitiana, 1983
Review of Barnes, T. S. Kuhn and Social Science, Communiqué, 1983
Review of Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, International Philosophical Quarterly, 1983
Review of Lukes and Hollis (eds.), Rationality and Relativism, Dialogue, 1983

[1984]

Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, (editor), Reidel, 1984
“The Sociological Turn”, Brown (ed), Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, Reidel, 3-40
“Realism and the Anthropocentrics”, Asquith and Kitcher (eds.), PSA 1984, vol. I, 202-10
“Reply to Puccetti”, Philosophical Quarterly, January 1984
“Vintage Popper: The Postscript After Fifty Years” (A critical notice of Popper’s three volume Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery), Dialogue, 1984, 677-682
Review of Harré, Great Scientific Experiments, Communiqué, 1984

[1985]

The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, (edited with K. Okruhlik), Reidel 1985
“The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz”, (with Kathleen Okruhlik), in Brown and Okruhlik (eds), The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, Reidel 1985
“Von Neumann and the Anti-realists”, Erkenntnis, 1985, 149-59
“Explaining the Success of Science”, Ratio, 1985, 49-66. A German translation of this paper has also appeared, “Ist der Erfolg der Wissenschaft erklarbar?”, in the German edition of Ratio, 42-57. English version reprinted in Curd and Cover (eds) Philosophy of Science, New York: Norton, 1998
“Rescher’s Evolutionary Epistemology”, Philosophia, 1985, 287-300
“Bloor’s Strong Programme”, Methodology and Science, 1985, 199-224
“Realism, Anti-Realism and the Quantum Theory”, Dalhousie Review.
Review of Giedymin, Science and Convention, Philosophy of Science, 1985
Review of Shea (ed.) Otto Hahn and the Rise of Nuclear Physics, Philosophy of Science, 1985
Review of Stove, Popper and After, Dialogue, 1985

[1986]

“Thought Experiments Since the Scientific Revolution”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. I, no 1. 1986, 1-15
“Reply to Tennesson”, Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 1986, 17-21

[1987]

“Unravelling Holism” (A critical notice of Laudan’s Science and Values), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1987, 427-33
“The Nature and Rationality of Piaget’s Revolution” (with K. Covell), Methodology and Science, 1987, 97-119
“Einstein’s Brand of Verificationism”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1987, 33-54

[1988]

“Platonic Explanation, Or What Abstract Entities Can Do For You”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1988, 51-67
“The Experimenter’s Social Circle”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1988, 101-06
“Laudan on Holism and Truth”, (in Romanian) Metamorfoze Actuale in Filosofia Stiintei, 1988
Review of Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds, Dialogue
Review of Fine, The Shaky Game, Dialogue
Review (with K. Peacock) of Redhead, Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

[1989]

The Rational and the Social, Routledge, 1989
Constructivism and Science (edited with R.E. Butts) Kluwer, 1989
An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to R.E. Butts on His 60th Birthday (edited with J. Mittelstrass), Kluwer, 1989
“Introduction” (with R.E. Butts) in Butts and Brown (ed.) Constructivism and Science
“Introduction” in Brown and Mittelstrass (eds.) An Intimate Relation
“Learning From the Past” in Brown and Mittelstrass (eds.) An Intimate Relation, 343-67
“Quantum Mechanics and the Problem of Realism”, (in Bulgarian) Philosophyska Mysal.
“Philosophy of Science in China” (with A. Wylie) Communiqué, 1989
Review of Hale, Abstract Objects, Dialogue

[1990]

“π in the Sky” in Irvine (ed.) Physicalism in Mathematics, Kluwer, 1990, 95-120
Critical Notice of Ruse, Taking Darwin Seriously, Canadian J. of Philosophy, 129-146
“Proof and Truth in Lakatos’s Masterpiece”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 117-30

[1991]

The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences, Routledge
“Gedanken Experiments and the Unity of Mathematics and Physics”, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (ed.) Einheit der Wissenschaften, Berlin: de Gruyter, 60-74
“Thought Experiments: A Platonic Account”, Massey and Horowitz (eds) Thought Experiments, Rowman and Littlefield, 1991 119-28. (A Romanian version of this paper may also have appeared, but I am not sure.)
“Latour’s Prosaic Science”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 245-61
“Recent Work on the Foundations of Physics”, Communiqué
“Recent Philosophical Work on Bohr”, Communiqué
Review of Tiles, The Philosophy of Set Theory, Dialogue

[1992]

Review of L. Laudan, Science and Relativism, Dialogue

[1993]

“EPR as A Priori Science”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Supplementary Volume), 253-72
“Why Empiricism Won't Work”, D. Hull, M. Forbes, and K. Okruhlik (eds.) PSA 1992, vol. II, 271-79
“Abstract Phenomena”, in A. Botez (ed.) (In a Romanian journal, but I don’t know which one.)

[1994]

Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality, Routledge (Selections reprinted in Klee ed., Scientific Inquiry, Oxford, 1999, and in Schick (ed.) Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Mayfield, 2000.)
“Reply to Norton”, Metascience
“Platonism and Laws: A Reply”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 243-46
Review of Barrow, Pi in the Sky, in Philosophia Mathematica

[1995]

“Papineau’s Naturalism,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
“Underdetermination and the Social Side of Science”, Dialogue, 1995, 147-61
Critical Notice: Sorensen, Thought Experiments, Canadian J. of Philosophy, 135-56
Review of Shapiro, Foundations without Foundationalism, Dialogue

[1996]

“Phenomena” in Cohen et. al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Beijing Philosophy of Science Conference, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 117-30
“Illustrations and Inference” in B. Baigrie (ed.) Illustrations in Art & Science, 250-68
“Thought Experiments” Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (an electronic publication, periodically updated, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/)
“Experimentele Mentale: O Ipotea Platonista”, A. Botez (ed.) Filosofia Mentalului Intentionalitate Si Experiment, Buchuresti,
Review of Sierpinska, Understanding in Mathematics, Philosophia Mathematics

[1997]

“Proofs and Pictures”, British J. Phil. Science, 161-80
“What is Applied Mathematics?” Foundations of Science, 21-37
“Academic Freedom, Affirmative Action, and the Advance of Knowledge”, Interchange, 381-88
“Affirmative Action and Epistemology”, R. Post and M Rogin (eds) Race and Representations , New York: Zone Books
“Reply to Forge” Metascience
“Reply to Foss”, Dialogue, 843-48
Obituary of R.E. Butts (with M. Morrison), Dialogue
Review of Ewald, (ed.) From Kant to Hilbert, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

[1998]

“What is a Definition?”, Foundations of Science, 111-32

[1999]

Philosophy of Mathematics: The World of Proofs and Pictures, London and New York: Routledge
“The Role of Reason Explanation in Social Studies of Science”, Solis (ed.) Homage to Kuhn
“Einstein’s Principle Theories”, ProtoSoziologia
“Editorial: Intellectual Tithing”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
“Greek Traditions in Quantum Mechanics”, D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed) Aristotle and Modern Science, Berlin: Peter Lang,
“Editorial: Dubrovnik”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Reprint: “Explaining the Success of Science” (1985) in Curd and Cover (eds) Philosophy of Science, New York: Norton
Reprint: “A Critiques of Social Construction” (from Smoke and Mirrors) , Klee (ed) Scientific Inquiry, Oxford
Reprint: “Realism, Anti-realism, and NOA” (from Smoke and Mirrors) , Klee (ed) Scientific Inquiry, Oxford
Reprint: Selections from Smoke and Mirrors in T. Schick (ed) Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Mayfield Pub. Co., 1999
Review (with Urquhart) Morton and Stich (eds.) Benacerraf and His Critics, Dialogue
“La science prosaique de Bruno Latour”, Kremer-Marietti (ed.), Sociologie de la science, Paris, 151-70
Review, Marion (ed.) Philosophy of Science in Quebec (2 vols.), Dialogue
Review of Barnes, et al, Scientific Knowledge and of Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Review of Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Review: Gould, Rocks of Ages, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

[2000]

“Privatizing the University”, Science, December 2000 (available on line at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/290/5497/1701?ijkey=sNF3wpAqZfUk), (Reprinted in CAUT Bulletin, Jan 2001, On Campus, March 2001, UCCB Newsletter, Ciencia Hoy in Argentina, and 20 others)
“Thought Experiments”, Newton-Smith (ed.), Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, 528-31
“The Role of Mathematics in Science”, Newton-Smith (ed.), Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, 257-64
“Social Factors in Science”, Newton-Smith (ed.), Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell, 442-50
Review: Ruse, Mystery of Mysteries, University of Toronto Quarterly, 2000
Review: Jammer, Einstein and Religion, ISPS,
Review of Ziman, Real Science, for Physics World

[2001]

Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars, Harvard, 2001
“Who Gets Einstein?” Queen’s Quarterly, Spring 2001, 73-83
“Many Methods, One Truth”, Polish volume stemming from a conference in Krakow, May 1998
“Editorial”, ISPS, vol. 15-2, 2001
Reprint: Excerpts from Who Rules in Science? published in Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec 2001
Review of Ruse, Mystery of Mysteries, U of T Quarterly
Review of Netz, The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics, in Philosophia Mathematica (with Mary Leng)
Review, Michael Ruse, Mystery of Mysteries, U of T Quarterly, 2001

[2002]

“Funding, Objectivity, and the Socialization of Medical Research”, Science and Engineering Ethics, vol 8, 2002, pp 295-308
Review, Alexander Bird, Thomas Kuhn, BJPS, 2002 143-149
Review, Stephen Weinberg, Facing Up, TLS, January 11, 2002

[2003]

“Science and Constructive Mathematics”, Analysis, 63.1, Jan. 2003, 48-51
“Kitcher’s Mathematical Naturalism”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2003, 1-20
Revisions and corrections for 3rd printing of my book, Philosophy of Mathematics
Review: George and Velleman, Philosophies of Mathematics, Mind
Review: Peat, From Certainty to Uncertainty, Physics World
Review: Tasić, Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought, Philosophia Mathematica, 2003
Review: Vucinich, Einstein and Soviet Ideology, Contemporary Sociology, 32(2), 2003, 200-02
Review: Giaquinto, The Search For Certainty, Mind

[2004]

“Why Thought Experiments Transcend Experience”, Hitchcock (ed) Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell
“Platonism, Metaphor, and Mathematics” (with Glenn Parsons), Dialogue
“Money, Method and Medical Research” Episteme
“Объяснение Успешности Науки”, ИАУКА [Отв. ред. Е. А. Мамчур]. Москва, 2003 (Adapted from Smoke and Mirrors)
Review: Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India by Meera Nanda, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Review: Ruse, Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?, EMBO Reports, vol 5, No 7, 667

[2005]

“Naturalism, Pictures, and Platonic Intuitions”, in Mancosu, Jorgensen, and Pedersen (eds), Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics (Danish vol.)
“The Reality of Formal Causes” in Wolters and Carrier (eds) Homo Sapiens und Homo Faber, Berlin: de Gruyter, 101-112
Review: Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy, Journal of Philosophy, 599-606
“Peeking into Plato’s Heaven”, Philosophy of Science
“Boundaries, Reason, and Ideology: Reply to Sismondo” Episteme
Review: Davies, Science in the Looking Glass, Mathematical Intelligencer
Review: Cohen, Wittgenstein’s Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Review: Corfield, Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics, Studia Logica 81, 443-47

[2006]

“Self-censorship”, in Lemmens and Waring (eds.) New Directions in Biomedical Research, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
“The Promise and Perils of Thought Experiments”, Interchange, Vol 27/1, 2006, 63-75
“The Paradigm Wars: Competing Models of Understanding”, EOLSS (UNESCO)
Reprint of selections from Who Rules in Science? in Irvine (ed) In the Agora, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Reprint of selections from “Privatizing the University — The New Tragedy of the Commons” in Irvine (ed) In the Agora, Toronto: University of Toronto Press

[2007]

“Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and Mathematics”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy (special issue on my work on thought experiments), VIII, Part I, 19, 3-27 and Part II, “Comments and Replies”, 249-268
“Counter Thought Experiments,” Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 61, 2007, 155-177. Also published in Philosophy of Science (ed. By Anthony O’Hear), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review: Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, American Scientist (Letter to Editor, replying to Shermer, included in on-line issue. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookshelfLetterTypeDetail/assetid/55115)
Review: Norman, After Euclid: Visual Reasoning and the Epistemology of Diagrams, Meta-Science (2007) 16: 131-135 (with Kathryn Mann)
Review: Roberts, King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry, Philosophia Mathematica

[2008]

“Community of Science®,” Carrier, Howard, and Kourany (eds) The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
Philosophy of Mathematics, second edition, London and New York: Routledge
“Comments and Replies”, (Special issue, Part II on my stuff on thought experiments), Croatian Journal of Philosophy, Vol VII, No. 20, (2007) 249-268
Interview with Laurent Mayet, Science et Avenir, Jan/Feb. 2008
“Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now ”, Idea&s, Spring 2008
“Politics, Method, and Medical Research”, Philosophy of Science, 75 (December 2008)

[2009]

“Может ли математика объяснять?,” (“Can mathematics explain?”) Зпистлоия & Философия науки, 2009, 16-32
“Dubrovnik Reminiscences” in Fragments of Memories, B. Dragicevic and Ø. Øyen (eds.), Dubrovnik: IUC Publications pp. 36-38
“Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science”, The Canadian Encyclopaedia, on line at

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC915656

Review: Sankey, Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science, for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Review: Chakravartty, A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable, for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Review: Sherwin and Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Quarterly

[2010]

(With Mark Shumelda) “Thought Experiments and Inertial Motion: A Golden Thread in the Development of Mechanics”, Rivista di Estetica n.s., 42 (3/2009) 71-96
“One-shot Science” H. Radder (ed), Commodification of Academic Research U of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, pp 90-109
Review: Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe, in Hist. Phil. Life Sci., 31 (2009), 481-483
Review: Bostock, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophia Mathematica
Review: Mancosu (ed), The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, International J. Phil. Studies
Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences, 2nd edition, London and New York: Routledge
Review with James Davies: Carrie Jenkins, Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge and Susan Carey, The Origin of Concepts, Philosophical Quarterly 2010

[2011]

Translation of Who Rules in Science? into Japanese
“Medical Market Failures and Their Remedy” Science in the Context of Application, M. Carrier and A. Nordmann, eds. Dordrecht: Springer
“The Good Old Days,” Science and Its Recent History: Epochal Break or Business as Usual? Edited by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder and Gregor Schiemann, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
“Über das Leben im Labor des Geistes,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 65-73
“Does Math have a Life of its Own?” Critical review of Maddy, Second Philosophy, in Metaphilosophy
“Swinburne on God and Simplicity,” European J. for Philosophy of Religion, 2011

[2012]

Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers, Editor, Continuum
Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge, Routledge
Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts, Routledge: London and New York, edited by Frappier, Meynell, and Brown
“Introduction” Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (ed with L. Meynall and M. Frappier), Routledge 2011
“What Do We See in a Thought Experiment?,” in Frappier, Mynell, and Brown (eds.) Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts, Routledge: London and New York
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