Ernan Mcmullin

Biographic Data

ID142728
NAMEErnan Mcmullin
GIVEN NAMESErnan
FAMILY NAMEMcmullin
SIGNATUREMCMULLIN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS125
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX3

  • Newton on Matter and Activity

    Ernan McmullinBOOKNewton on Matter and Activity2016

  • Van Fraassen's Unappreciated Realism

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2003Cited by: 1References: 8

    What is not often noted about Bas van Fraassen's distinctive approach to the scientific realism issue is that constructive empiricism, as he defines it, seems to involve a distinctively realist stance in regard to large parts of natural science. This apparent defection from the ranks of his more uncompromisingly anti-realist colleagues raises many questions. Is he really leaning to realism here? If he is, why is this not more widely noted? And, m…

  • Response

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2001

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  • The Impact of Newton's Principia on the Philosophy of Science

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2001Cited by: 4References: 15

    As the seventeenth century progressed, there was a growing realization among those who reflected on the kind of knowledge the new sciences could afford (among them Kepler, Bacon, Descartes, Boyle, Huygens) that hypothesis would have to be conceded a much more significant place in natural philosophy than the earlier ideal of demonstration allowed. Then came the mechanics of Newton's Principia , which seemed to manage quite well without appealing t…

  • Cosmic Purpose and the Contingency of Human Evolution

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLETheology Today1998

    Some understand the evolutionary process as more or less predictable; others stress its contingency. I argue that both Christian evolutionists who have assumed that the purposes of the Creator can be realized only through more or less predictable processes as well as those who infer from the contingency of the evolutionary process to the lack of purpose in the universe generally, are mistaken if the Creator escapes from the limits imposed on the …

  • Physics and our View of the World

    Open AccessGerard't Hooft, John D Barrow et al.BOOKPhysics and Our View of the World1994

    One of the central questions of physics is whether or not a Theory of Everything is possible. Many physicists believe that such a theory might be attainable, a belief which has led to speculation that we might one day 'know the mind of God'. But what would be the philosophical implications of having a blueprint for the Universe? In this fascinating book, a group of distinguished physicists and philosophers examine not only the claims of modern ph…

  • Scientific Classics and Their Fates

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEPSA Proceedings of the Biennial…1994

    The term ‘classic’ runs a risk that all our terms of approbation face in these inflationary times, the risk, that is, of losing its ability to mark off singular works of human achievement. A “classic” today might be anything from a horse-race to a hairstyle. But it was not always so. There is some debate about the origins of the term (“of the highest class”? “books for class use”?), but it long ago came to designate those works of Greek and Latin…

  • The Social Dimensions of Science

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1994

    Journal Article Book Notes Get access The Social Dimensions of Science. Edited By Ernan Mcmullin. ( Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 299. Price £30.50 h/b, £15.95 p/b.) L.F. S L.F. S Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 174, January 1994, Page 135, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220164 Published: 01 January 1994

  • Inventer l'univers: Le probleme de la connaissance et les modeles cosmologiques . Luc Brisson, E. Walter Meyerstein

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1993

  • Indifference principle and anthropic principle in cosmology

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…1993Cited by: 3References: 8

  • Our Place in the Universe: A Metaphysical Discussion . J. J. C. Smart

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1991

  • The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's "A Defence of Tycho against Ursus" with Essays on Its Provenance and Significance. Nicholas Jardine

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1987

  • Bruno and Copernicus

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1987Cited by: 2

  • Is Science Progressive?Ilkka Niiniluoto

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1987

  • Giordano Bruno at Oxford

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1986

  • Openness and Secrecy in Science: Some Notes on Early History

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values1985Cited by: 2

    It has long been taken for granted that ought to be an open enterprise, that it is of its nature public, and that knowledge is most effectively pursued when disseminated without hindrance. I want to look briefly into the origins of this presupposition. It goes back, I think, to the very beginnings, to the time when the notion of science first took shape in the Greek-speaking world more than two millennia ago

  • Galilean idealization

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…1985Cited by: 113References: 7

  • The Rational and the Social in the History of Science

    Ernan McmullinCHAPTERScientific Rationality1984

  • On Hypothetical Approaches Science and Hypothesis: Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology . Larry Laudan

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1984

  • Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1984

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  • Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook . J. E. McGuire , Martin Tamny

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1984

  • William A. Wallace, Prelude to Galileo . Boston: Reidel (1981), xvi + 369 pp

    Open AccessErnan McmullinARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1983

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  • Science, Revolution, and Discontinuity . John Krige

    Ernan McmullinARTICLEIsis1983

  • The Role of 'Values' in Understanding Science

    Ernan Mcmullin, Loren R GrahamARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1982

    H s w is the historian of science to deal with the interactions of science and values in the twentieth The distinguished historian of Soviet science, Loren Graham, has followed up his earlier Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union with a broader and more ambitious work entitled Between Science and Values, in which he advances a challenging and controversial answer to this question. It is challenging and controversial not because of the materi…

  • Newton on Matter and Activity

    Ralph C S Walker, Ernan McmullinARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1980

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Newton on Matter and Activity. By Ernan McMullin. ( University of Notre Dame Press. 1978. Pp. viii + 160. Price $3.95) Ralph C. S. Walker Ralph C. S. Walker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219249 Published: 01 July 1980