Dudley Shapere
Biographic Data
| ID | 976268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dudley Shapere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dudley |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapere |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPERE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Churchland on Cognitive Creativity and the Understanding of Science
Kitcher on Advancing Science
Kitcher attempts to stake out a middle ground between two extremes. On one side, logical empiricism and a broader took it for granted that every scientist is a rational agent, having all available information in mind, and making scientific decisions in terms of those reasons alone, so that science always changes for the right reasons. These mistaken claims missed the extent to which changes in the history of science have not been based on logic; …
Leplin on Essentialism
Jarrett Leplin has recently criticized a number of aspects of my views of the aims and goals of science, of the rationale of scientific change, and of the consequent relations between science and the philosophy of science, and in particular of the methodology of the latter (Leplin 1984, 1987, 1988a, 1988b). Here I will respond to those criticisms, and also reply to some related criticisms made by other writers
The Origin and Nature of Metaphysics
L'A. considere la metaphysique, et plus particulierement en son sein le concept d'existence, a partir de la theorie de l'evolution. Il cherche l'origine de la metaphysique dans les circonstances primitives d'affrontement (de l'espece humaine avec son environnement)
Evolution and Continuity In Scientific Change
The alleged problem of “incommensurability” is examined, and attempts to explain scientific change in terms of concepts of meaning and reference are analyzed and rejected. A way of understanding scientific change through a properly developed concept of “reasons” is presented, and the issues of reasons, meaning, and reference are placed in the context of this broader interpretation of scientific change
The Genesis of the Copernican World
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.Hans Blumenberg is Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at the University of Munster in Wes…
Strengthening Academic Science
Certain Philosophical Questions
A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Science, 1945-1981 . Richard J. Blackwell
The Concept of Observation in Science and Philosophy
Through a study of a sophisticated contemporary scientific experiment, it is shown how and why use of the term ‘observation’ in reference to that experiment departs from ordinary and philosophical usages which associate observation epistemically with perception. The role of “background information” is examined, and general conclusions are arrived at regarding the use of descriptive language in and in talking about science. These conclusions bring…
Reason, Reference, and the Quest for Knowledge
This paper examines the “causal theory of reference”, according to which science aims at the discovery of “essences” which are the objects of reference of natural kind terms (among others). This theory has been advanced as an alternative to traditional views of “meaning”, on which a number of philosophical accounts of science have relied, and which have been criticized earlier by the present author. However, this newer theory of reference is show…
Philosophy of Natural Science.
Galileo
by well-chosen experiments, become the foundation
The Causal Efficacy of Space
Through an analysis of conditions under which the question of spatial anisotropy can be raised, the present paper brings out intimate conceptual relationships between the scientific concept of space and the concepts of entities, behavior, and explanation specified by scientific theories. Thus scientific departures from ordinary usage (or from usage in other scientific theories) of the term “space” entail corresponding shifts in the use of other t…
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Descartes and Plato
Mathematical Ideals and Metaphysical Concepts
The Concept of Observation in Science and Philosophy
Through a study of a sophisticated contemporary scientific experiment, it is shown how and why use of the term ‘observation’ in reference to that experiment departs from ordinary and philosophical usages which associate observation epistemically with perception. The role of “background information” is examined, and general conclusions are arrived at regarding the use of descriptive language in and in talking about science. These conclusions bring…
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Genesis of the Copernican World
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.Hans Blumenberg is Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at the University of Munster in Wes…
Evolution and Continuity In Scientific Change
The alleged problem of “incommensurability” is examined, and attempts to explain scientific change in terms of concepts of meaning and reference are analyzed and rejected. A way of understanding scientific change through a properly developed concept of “reasons” is presented, and the issues of reasons, meaning, and reference are placed in the context of this broader interpretation of scientific change
Reason, Reference, and the Quest for Knowledge
This paper examines the “causal theory of reference”, according to which science aims at the discovery of “essences” which are the objects of reference of natural kind terms (among others). This theory has been advanced as an alternative to traditional views of “meaning”, on which a number of philosophical accounts of science have relied, and which have been criticized earlier by the present author. However, this newer theory of reference is show…
The Causal Efficacy of Space
Through an analysis of conditions under which the question of spatial anisotropy can be raised, the present paper brings out intimate conceptual relationships between the scientific concept of space and the concepts of entities, behavior, and explanation specified by scientific theories. Thus scientific departures from ordinary usage (or from usage in other scientific theories) of the term “space” entail corresponding shifts in the use of other t…
Descartes and Plato
Mathematical Ideals and Metaphysical Concepts
Descartes and Plato
The Causal Efficacy of Space
Through an analysis of conditions under which the question of spatial anisotropy can be raised, the present paper brings out intimate conceptual relationships between the scientific concept of space and the concepts of entities, behavior, and explanation specified by scientific theories. Thus scientific departures from ordinary usage (or from usage in other scientific theories) of the term “space” entail corresponding shifts in the use of other t…
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Galileo
by well-chosen experiments, become the foundation
Philosophy of Natural Science.
The Concept of Observation in Science and Philosophy
Through a study of a sophisticated contemporary scientific experiment, it is shown how and why use of the term ‘observation’ in reference to that experiment departs from ordinary and philosophical usages which associate observation epistemically with perception. The role of “background information” is examined, and general conclusions are arrived at regarding the use of descriptive language in and in talking about science. These conclusions bring…
Reason, Reference, and the Quest for Knowledge
This paper examines the “causal theory of reference”, according to which science aims at the discovery of “essences” which are the objects of reference of natural kind terms (among others). This theory has been advanced as an alternative to traditional views of “meaning”, on which a number of philosophical accounts of science have relied, and which have been criticized earlier by the present author. However, this newer theory of reference is show…
A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Science, 1945-1981 . Richard J. Blackwell
Certain Philosophical Questions
Strengthening Academic Science
Evolution and Continuity In Scientific Change
The alleged problem of “incommensurability” is examined, and attempts to explain scientific change in terms of concepts of meaning and reference are analyzed and rejected. A way of understanding scientific change through a properly developed concept of “reasons” is presented, and the issues of reasons, meaning, and reference are placed in the context of this broader interpretation of scientific change
The Genesis of the Copernican World
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.Hans Blumenberg is Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at the University of Munster in Wes…
The Origin and Nature of Metaphysics
L'A. considere la metaphysique, et plus particulierement en son sein le concept d'existence, a partir de la theorie de l'evolution. Il cherche l'origine de la metaphysique dans les circonstances primitives d'affrontement (de l'espece humaine avec son environnement)
Leplin on Essentialism
Jarrett Leplin has recently criticized a number of aspects of my views of the aims and goals of science, of the rationale of scientific change, and of the consequent relations between science and the philosophy of science, and in particular of the methodology of the latter (Leplin 1984, 1987, 1988a, 1988b). Here I will respond to those criticisms, and also reply to some related criticisms made by other writers
Kitcher on Advancing Science
Kitcher attempts to stake out a middle ground between two extremes. On one side, logical empiricism and a broader took it for granted that every scientist is a rational agent, having all available information in mind, and making scientific decisions in terms of those reasons alone, so that science always changes for the right reasons. These mistaken claims missed the extent to which changes in the history of science have not been based on logic; …
Churchland on Cognitive Creativity and the Understanding of Science
Epistemology (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy of science (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Contemporary philosophy (3 works) · General interest (3 works)