Peter Machamer
Biographic Data
| ID | 447161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Machamer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Machamer |
| SIGNATURE | MACHAMER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thomas Hobbes
In this essay, I present an overview of Hobbes as a consistent philosopher, perhaps the most consistent in the Early Modern period. First, I sketch how his endeavors have a cogency that is unrivalled, in many ways even to this day. Section 2 outlines Hobbes’s conception of philosophy and his causal materialism. Section 3 deals briefly with Hobbes’s discussion of sensation and then presents his views on the nature and function of language and how …
Phenomena, data and theories: A special issue of Synthese
Philosophy of science and the study of religion
This paper responds to the six papers from the Tokyo IAHR session
Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science
Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics
Neuroscience and Theoretical Psychology: What's to Worry About
This paper explores three connected claims about the interrelation of psychology and neuroscience that occur in discussions within theoretical psychology. The first and second claims are that neuroscience cannot offer a complete account of human psychology because it can show only correlations between neural events and cognitive or behavioral events. The third claim is that neuroscience ultimately is incomplete or irrelevant to psychological acco…
Descartes’s changing mind
Activities and Causation: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Mechanisms
This article deals with mechanisms conceived as composed of entities and activities. In response to many perplexities about the nature of activities, a number of arguments are developed concerning their epistemic and ontological status. Some questions concerning the relations between cause and causal explanation and mechanisms are also addressed.
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science
Biographies of Scientific Objects. Lorraine Daston
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions
Scientific controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
"Recently, social constructivists have claimed that the outcomes of scientific debates are strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the rival researchers. The collection presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructivist perspective, yet indicate the need for a richer and more realistic account of scientific ration…
Thinking about Mechanisms
The concept of mechanism is analyzed in terms of entities and activities, organized such that they are productive of regular changes. Examples show how mechanisms work in neurobiology and molecular biology. Thinking in terms of mechanisms provides a new framework for addressing many traditional philosophical issues: causality, laws, explanation, reduction, and scientific change
How values are in science
Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind
-- 4 From Arab System to Middle Eastern System?: Regional Pressures and Constraints -- 5 Regional Leadership: Balancing off Costs and Dividends in the Foreign Policy of Egypt -- 6 Foreign Policy under Occupation: Does Iraq Need a Foreign Policy
Kitcher and the Achievement of Science
Perhaps, the best way to approach a book with as broad a scope and as great an ambition as Philip Kitcher's The Advancement of Science is to think about its main goal. What vision is it trying to convey? Is it a worthy vision? Later one can ask how well it was done. Interestingly, the how-well-is-it-done question is essentially Kitcher's model of rationality. Rationality is a means-end equilibration, deciding what is rational in terms of how well…
Crises and cures in contemporary society
Motion and Time, Space and Matter: Interrelations in the History of Philosophy and Science
Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler . David C. Lindberg
Aristotle on Natural Place and Natural Motion
Feyerabend and Galileo: The interaction of theories, and the reinterpretation of experience
A Recent Drawing of the Theory/Observation Distinction
James Cornman has recently offered a definition for ‘observation term’ which he takes to meet most, if not all, of the standard objections to such definitions. He also employs this definition against certain materialists, but in what follows I wish only to address myself to the proposed definition. I shall argue that he has failed to show any logical difference between “observation terms,” as he defines them, and terms which are not so classified…
Thinking about Mechanisms
The concept of mechanism is analyzed in terms of entities and activities, organized such that they are productive of regular changes. Examples show how mechanisms work in neurobiology and molecular biology. Thinking in terms of mechanisms provides a new framework for addressing many traditional philosophical issues: causality, laws, explanation, reduction, and scientific change
Feyerabend and Galileo: The interaction of theories, and the reinterpretation of experience
Phenomena, data and theories: A special issue of Synthese
Aristotle on Natural Place and Natural Motion
A Recent Drawing of the Theory/Observation Distinction
James Cornman has recently offered a definition for ‘observation term’ which he takes to meet most, if not all, of the standard objections to such definitions. He also employs this definition against certain materialists, but in what follows I wish only to address myself to the proposed definition. I shall argue that he has failed to show any logical difference between “observation terms,” as he defines them, and terms which are not so classified…
Descartes’s changing mind
A Recent Drawing of the Theory/Observation Distinction
James Cornman has recently offered a definition for ‘observation term’ which he takes to meet most, if not all, of the standard objections to such definitions. He also employs this definition against certain materialists, but in what follows I wish only to address myself to the proposed definition. I shall argue that he has failed to show any logical difference between “observation terms,” as he defines them, and terms which are not so classified…
Feyerabend and Galileo: The interaction of theories, and the reinterpretation of experience
Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler . David C. Lindberg
Aristotle on Natural Place and Natural Motion
Motion and Time, Space and Matter: Interrelations in the History of Philosophy and Science
Crises and cures in contemporary society
Kitcher and the Achievement of Science
Perhaps, the best way to approach a book with as broad a scope and as great an ambition as Philip Kitcher's The Advancement of Science is to think about its main goal. What vision is it trying to convey? Is it a worthy vision? Later one can ask how well it was done. Interestingly, the how-well-is-it-done question is essentially Kitcher's model of rationality. Rationality is a means-end equilibration, deciding what is rational in terms of how well…
Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind
-- 4 From Arab System to Middle Eastern System?: Regional Pressures and Constraints -- 5 Regional Leadership: Balancing off Costs and Dividends in the Foreign Policy of Egypt -- 6 Foreign Policy under Occupation: Does Iraq Need a Foreign Policy
How values are in science
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions
Scientific controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
"Recently, social constructivists have claimed that the outcomes of scientific debates are strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the rival researchers. The collection presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructivist perspective, yet indicate the need for a richer and more realistic account of scientific ration…
Thinking about Mechanisms
The concept of mechanism is analyzed in terms of entities and activities, organized such that they are productive of regular changes. Examples show how mechanisms work in neurobiology and molecular biology. Thinking in terms of mechanisms provides a new framework for addressing many traditional philosophical issues: causality, laws, explanation, reduction, and scientific change
Biographies of Scientific Objects. Lorraine Daston
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science
Activities and Causation: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Mechanisms
This article deals with mechanisms conceived as composed of entities and activities. In response to many perplexities about the nature of activities, a number of arguments are developed concerning their epistemic and ontological status. Some questions concerning the relations between cause and causal explanation and mechanisms are also addressed.
Descartes’s changing mind
Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics
Neuroscience and Theoretical Psychology: What's to Worry About
This paper explores three connected claims about the interrelation of psychology and neuroscience that occur in discussions within theoretical psychology. The first and second claims are that neuroscience cannot offer a complete account of human psychology because it can show only correlations between neural events and cognitive or behavioral events. The third claim is that neuroscience ultimately is incomplete or irrelevant to psychological acco…
Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of science and the study of religion
This paper responds to the six papers from the Tokyo IAHR session
Phenomena, data and theories: A special issue of Synthese
Thomas Hobbes
In this essay, I present an overview of Hobbes as a consistent philosopher, perhaps the most consistent in the Early Modern period. First, I sketch how his endeavors have a cogency that is unrivalled, in many ways even to this day. Section 2 outlines Hobbes’s conception of philosophy and his causal materialism. Section 3 deals briefly with Hobbes’s discussion of sensation and then presents his views on the nature and function of language and how …
Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (9 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works) · Physics (4 works)