Robert Nola
Biographic Data
| ID | 1153275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Nola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Nola |
| SIGNATURE | NOLA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science
Foucault
Five eminent critics explore the validity of Foucault's ideas on such questions as the fit between power and knowledge and the tension between historicist and universalist claims.The very possibility of a critical stance is a recurring theme in all of Foucault's works, and the contributors vary in the ways that they relate to his key views on truth and reason in relation to power and government.
New Directions for Nature of Science Research
Varieties of structuralism
A Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science for Science Education
Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism
A new program of philosophical analysis that reconciles a certain account of analysis with philosophical naturalism is applied to a range of philosophical issues. Many philosophical naturalists eschew analysis in favor of discovering metaphysical truths from the a posteriori, contending that analysis does not lead to philosophical insight. A countercurrent to this approach seeks to reconcile a certain account of conceptual analysis with philosoph…
Rescuing Reason
Rescuing reason
An Archaeological Dig Through Foucault’s Texts
Incredulity towards Lyotard
Knowledge, discourse, power and genealogy in Foucault
Constructivism in Science and Science Education
Post‐modernism, a French cultural Chernobyl
Foucault appears to challenge traditional views of truth, reason, and knowledge in the doctrine of power/knowledge developed in his post‐1970 writings. This doctrine applies to all the sciences (and to non‐scientific and non‐discursive practices that are not discussed here). Foucault's notions of discourse (1) and power (3) are sufficiently discussed to set out his explanatory theory of the cause of our discourses and their change. In (4) three t…
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Ordinary Human Inference as Refutation of the Strong Programme
8. As examples I would cite Donald MacKenzie, Statistics in Britain: 1865-1930 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981); many of the articles cited in Steven Shapin, 'History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions', History of Science, Vol. 20 (1982), 157-211; and the articles of Andy Pickering which were then incorporated into his book on constructing quarks. 9. I made a similar point in Explaining Science (op. cit. note 2, 169-70)…
H. Siegel [1987]
Nietzsche's Theory of Truth and Belief
The thesis of this paper is that, on the whole, Nietzsche operated with two theories of truth, a correspondence and a pragmatic theory, the pragmatic theory of being derivative from a more fundamental pragmatic theory of belief. A version of the correspondence theory is presupposed in Nietzsche's claim that his conception of the world as a matrix of forces and powers is a true account of how the world really is. It is also presupposed in his clai…
The Status of Popper's Theory of Scientific Method
Paradigms lost, or the world regained’ —An excursion into realism and idealism in science
Fixing the Reference of Theoretical Terms
Kripke and Putnam have proposed that terms may be introduced to refer to theoretical entities by means of causal descriptions such as 'whatever causes observable effects O '. It is argued that such a reference-fixing definition is ill-formed and that theoretical beliefs must be involved in fixing the reference of a theoretical term. Some examples of reference-fixing are discussed e.g., the term 'electricity'. The Kripke-Putnam theory can not give…
A Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science for Science Education
Fixing the Reference of Theoretical Terms
Kripke and Putnam have proposed that terms may be introduced to refer to theoretical entities by means of causal descriptions such as 'whatever causes observable effects O '. It is argued that such a reference-fixing definition is ill-formed and that theoretical beliefs must be involved in fixing the reference of a theoretical term. Some examples of reference-fixing are discussed e.g., the term 'electricity'. The Kripke-Putnam theory can not give…
Incredulity towards Lyotard
Ordinary Human Inference as Refutation of the Strong Programme
8. As examples I would cite Donald MacKenzie, Statistics in Britain: 1865-1930 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981); many of the articles cited in Steven Shapin, 'History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions', History of Science, Vol. 20 (1982), 157-211; and the articles of Andy Pickering which were then incorporated into his book on constructing quarks. 9. I made a similar point in Explaining Science (op. cit. note 2, 169-70)…
Nietzsche's Theory of Truth and Belief
The thesis of this paper is that, on the whole, Nietzsche operated with two theories of truth, a correspondence and a pragmatic theory, the pragmatic theory of being derivative from a more fundamental pragmatic theory of belief. A version of the correspondence theory is presupposed in Nietzsche's claim that his conception of the world as a matrix of forces and powers is a true account of how the world really is. It is also presupposed in his clai…
H. Siegel [1987]
Paradigms lost, or the world regained’ —An excursion into realism and idealism in science
Fixing the Reference of Theoretical Terms
Kripke and Putnam have proposed that terms may be introduced to refer to theoretical entities by means of causal descriptions such as 'whatever causes observable effects O '. It is argued that such a reference-fixing definition is ill-formed and that theoretical beliefs must be involved in fixing the reference of a theoretical term. Some examples of reference-fixing are discussed e.g., the term 'electricity'. The Kripke-Putnam theory can not give…
Nietzsche's Theory of Truth and Belief
The thesis of this paper is that, on the whole, Nietzsche operated with two theories of truth, a correspondence and a pragmatic theory, the pragmatic theory of being derivative from a more fundamental pragmatic theory of belief. A version of the correspondence theory is presupposed in Nietzsche's claim that his conception of the world as a matrix of forces and powers is a true account of how the world really is. It is also presupposed in his clai…
The Status of Popper's Theory of Scientific Method
H. Siegel [1987]
Ordinary Human Inference as Refutation of the Strong Programme
8. As examples I would cite Donald MacKenzie, Statistics in Britain: 1865-1930 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981); many of the articles cited in Steven Shapin, 'History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions', History of Science, Vol. 20 (1982), 157-211; and the articles of Andy Pickering which were then incorporated into his book on constructing quarks. 9. I made a similar point in Explaining Science (op. cit. note 2, 169-70)…
Post‐modernism, a French cultural Chernobyl
Foucault appears to challenge traditional views of truth, reason, and knowledge in the doctrine of power/knowledge developed in his post‐1970 writings. This doctrine applies to all the sciences (and to non‐scientific and non‐discursive practices that are not discussed here). Foucault's notions of discourse (1) and power (3) are sufficiently discussed to set out his explanatory theory of the cause of our discourses and their change. In (4) three t…
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Constructivism in Science and Science Education
Knowledge, discourse, power and genealogy in Foucault
Rescuing Reason
Rescuing reason
An Archaeological Dig Through Foucault’s Texts
Incredulity towards Lyotard
Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism
A new program of philosophical analysis that reconciles a certain account of analysis with philosophical naturalism is applied to a range of philosophical issues. Many philosophical naturalists eschew analysis in favor of discovering metaphysical truths from the a posteriori, contending that analysis does not lead to philosophical insight. A countercurrent to this approach seeks to reconcile a certain account of conceptual analysis with philosoph…
A Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science for Science Education
Varieties of structuralism
Foucault
Five eminent critics explore the validity of Foucault's ideas on such questions as the fit between power and knowledge and the tension between historicist and universalist claims.The very possibility of a critical stance is a recurring theme in all of Foucault's works, and the contributors vary in the ways that they relate to his key views on truth and reason in relation to power and government.
New Directions for Nature of Science Research
Revisiting the Foundations of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science
Epistemology (16 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works)