Alan W Richardson

Biographic Data

ID1020533
NAMEAlan W Richardson
GIVEN NAMESAlan W
FAMILY NAMERichardson
SIGNATURERICHARDSON A W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher

    Open AccessAlan W Richardson, Alan RichardsonARTICLESynthese2021References: 16

  • Introduction. Scientific Ethos

    Judy Z Segal, Judy Segal et al.ARTICLEConfigurations2003

    Ethos is most saliently in sociology a concept of Robert K. Merton's, characterizing the social norms constitutive of science.1 Ethos is most saliently in rhetoric a concept of Aristotle's, referring to the persuasive appeal from the character of the speaker.2 While the classical rhetorical term ethos was quite self-consciously chosen by Merton, sociological accounts of ethos are not obviously compatible with rhetorical ones; the classical rhetor…

  • Engineering Philosophy of Science

    Open AccessAlan W Richardson, Alan RichardsonARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2002Cited by: 4References: 3

    This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy's embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey's pragmatism. It places both movements within scientific philosophy and finds two key points on which they agreed: their revolutionary ambitions and their social engineering sensibility. The essay suggests that the disagreement over emotivism in ethics should be placed with…

  • Measurement of the people, by the people, and for the people

    Open AccessErnst Hamm, E P HAMM et al.ARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2001

  • Science as Will and Representation

    Open AccessAlan W Richardson, Alan RichardsonARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2000Cited by: 2References: 5

    This essay explores some of the issues raised as regards the relations of philosophy and sociology of science in the work of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. It argues that Hans Reichenbach's distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification should not be seen as erecting a principled normative/descriptive distinction that demarcates philosophy of science from sociology of science. The essay also raises certain issues about the r…

  • Carnap's Construction of the World

    Thomas Uebel, Alan W Richardson et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2000

  • Carnap's Construction of the World

    Robert Hanna, Alan W Richardson et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2000Cited by: 6

  • Carnap's construction of the world

    Alan W RichardsonBOOKCarnap's construction of the world1998

    This book is a major contribution to the history of analytic philosophy in general and of logical positivism in particular. It provides the first detailed and comprehensive study of Rudolf Carnap, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy. The focus of the book is Carnap's first major work, Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World). It reveals tensions in that work by placing it within the context…

  • Logical idealism and Carnap's construction of the world

    Open AccessAlan W Richardson, Alan RichardsonARTICLESynthese1992Cited by: 2References: 12

  • On Predicting Pragmatic Relations

    Open AccessJames F Richardson, John F Richardson et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1990

    Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 498-508