Theodore Bach
Biographic Data
| ID | 95738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore Bach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore |
| FAMILY NAME | Bach |
| SIGNATURE | BACH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3638-2365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Importance of Realism about Gender Kinds
Beauvoir’s The Second Sex stands out as a master class in the accommodation of conceptual and inferential practices to real, objective gender kinds. Or so I will argue. To establish this framing, we will first need in hand the kind of scientific epistemology that correctly reconciles epistemic progress and error, particularly as pertains to the unruly social sciences. An important goal of the paper is to develop that epistemological framework and…
Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences
In Defence of Armchair Expertise
In domains like stock brokerage, clinical psychiatry, and long‐term political forecasting, experts generally fail to outperform novices. Empirical researchers agree on why this is: experts must receive direct or environmental learning feedback during training to develop reliable expertise, and these domains are deficient in this type of feedback. A growing number of philosophers resource this consensus view to argue that, given the absence of dir…
Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)
There is growing support for the view that social categories likemenandwomenrefer to "objective types." An objective type is a similarity class for which the axis of similarity is an objective rather than nominal or fictional property. Such types are independently real and causally relevant, yet their unity does not derive from an essential property. Given this tandem of features, it is not surprising why empirically-minded researchers interested…
Analogical Cognition
Analogical cognition refers to the ability to detect, process, and learn from relational similarities. The study of analogical and similarity cognition is widely considered one of the 'success stories' of cognitive science, exhibiting convergence across many disciplines on foundational questions. Given the centrality of analogy to mind and knowledge, it would benefit philosophers investigating topics in epistemology and the philosophies of mind a…
Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)
There is growing support for the view that social categories likemenandwomenrefer to "objective types." An objective type is a similarity class for which the axis of similarity is an objective rather than nominal or fictional property. Such types are independently real and causally relevant, yet their unity does not derive from an essential property. Given this tandem of features, it is not surprising why empirically-minded researchers interested…
Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences
Analogical Cognition
Analogical cognition refers to the ability to detect, process, and learn from relational similarities. The study of analogical and similarity cognition is widely considered one of the 'success stories' of cognitive science, exhibiting convergence across many disciplines on foundational questions. Given the centrality of analogy to mind and knowledge, it would benefit philosophers investigating topics in epistemology and the philosophies of mind a…
Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)
There is growing support for the view that social categories likemenandwomenrefer to "objective types." An objective type is a similarity class for which the axis of similarity is an objective rather than nominal or fictional property. Such types are independently real and causally relevant, yet their unity does not derive from an essential property. Given this tandem of features, it is not surprising why empirically-minded researchers interested…
In Defence of Armchair Expertise
In domains like stock brokerage, clinical psychiatry, and long‐term political forecasting, experts generally fail to outperform novices. Empirical researchers agree on why this is: experts must receive direct or environmental learning feedback during training to develop reliable expertise, and these domains are deficient in this type of feedback. A growing number of philosophers resource this consensus view to argue that, given the absence of dir…
Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences
The Importance of Realism about Gender Kinds
Beauvoir’s The Second Sex stands out as a master class in the accommodation of conceptual and inferential practices to real, objective gender kinds. Or so I will argue. To establish this framing, we will first need in hand the kind of scientific epistemology that correctly reconciles epistemic progress and error, particularly as pertains to the unruly social sciences. An important goal of the paper is to develop that epistemological framework and…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Normative (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works)