Fred Chernoff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1164581 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fred Chernoff |
| PRENOMES | Fred |
| SOBRENOME | Chernoff |
| ASSINATURA | CHERNOFF F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9450-4821 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function
This paper examines several aspects of Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science . The paper questions the nature of the task, as ontologies are debated in a scientific field once there is a widely accepted substantive theory that stands in need of interpretation, as with Newtonian physics or quantum mechanics; doing this job for international relations (IR) is highly questionable give that there is no widely accepted substantive theory o…
Pragmatism, pluralism, and eclecticism
This paper seeks to show ways in which analytic eclecticism can be strengthened to encourage hybrid theorizing capable of yielding more practically useful principles for foreign policy decision-makers. The paper also seeks to show that some of the advantages of analytic eclecticism are overstated, notably the ability to sidestep difficult questions in the philosophy of social science. Nevertheless, with a proper deepening of their discussion of p…
Analytic eclecticism and International Relations
Some scholars in International Relations and comparative politics continue to debate how to obtain the strongest explanatory theory whereas others hold that each approach should be treated as its own area of research. Both of these groups tend to agree that factors from across paradigms cannot be coherently combined with each other. On the contrary, Sil and Katzenstein have argued for analytic eclecticism in scholarship, which would not treat res…
Explanation and Progress in Security Studies
Science, Progress and Pluralism in the Study of International Relations
The article looks at one of the central arguments of Patrick Jackson’s book The Conduct of Enquiry in International Relations: the attempt to advance methodological pluralism and dialogue among contending metatheoretical schools of International Relations. The article supports the goal of pluralism but argues that there is a significant gap in Jackson’s support of it and that his version of pluralism inhibits metatheoretical engagement of differe…
Defending foundations for International Relations theory
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The Ontological Fallacy
This article argues that scientific and critical realism have embraced several mistaken claims, among them that social science enquiry cannot proceed unless the theoretical objects of study are specified in advance. The article argues, rather, that although pre-scientific , observable objects and events must be specified from the outset, theoretical objects come to our attention only in the course of formulating theories. The article advances an …
Conventionalism as an Adequate Basis for Policy-Relevant IR Theory
This article considers three factual observations about the history of the study of International Relations and examines how well several different metatheories of IR can account for them. The three facts are, first, that there has been persisting disagreement between supporters of contending theoretical approaches; second, that there have been occasional cases in which opposing scholars have converged on certain conclusions; and third, that the …
International Relations, Paleontology, and Scientific Progress
Journal Article International Relations, Paleontology, and Scientific Progress: Parallels between Democratic Peace Studies and the Meteor Impact Extinction Hypothesis Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 90–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2007.00318.x Published: 01 Februa…
Theory and Metatheory in International Relations
This book uses three controversial contemporary American foreign policy problems to introduce students to the 'new debates' in international relations, in which the criticisms of constructivism, inter
Critical Realism, Scientific Realism, and International Relations Theory
Theory and Metatheory in International Relations
The book is an introduction to new debates in international relations. It shows why anyone who wants the best answer to foreign policy problems, like how to deal with North Korea's nuclear arms program, must look at debates in IR theory, and also debates in metatheory. The latter involve questions about whether IR is much or little like the natural sciences, whether prediction is possible, and the like. The book poses policy questions intended to…
The power of international theory
The Study of Democratic Peace and Progress in International Relations
This essay argues that the field of international relations has exhibited “progress” of the sort found in the natural sciences. Several well-known accounts of “science” and “progress” are adumbrated; four offer positive accounts of progress (those of Peirce, Duhem, Popper, and Lakatos) and one evidences a negative assessment (Kuhn). Recent studies of the democratic peace—both supporting and opposing—are analyzed to show that they satisfy the term…
Scientific Realism as a Meta-Theory of International Politics
The recent increase in interest in scientific realist foundations for international relations theory, spearheaded by Wendt in various works, most fully articulated in his Social Theory of International Politics, and supported by a number of other authors, has brought to the fore a set of related issues in the philosophy of the social sciences. The advocacy of scientific realism in the international relations literature has largely taken the form …
After Bipolarity
The demise of the Soviet threat has compelled the United States and Europe to reassess how they deal with each other and with the rest of the world. For the past forty-five years, NATO has been the centerpiece of U.S.-European security relations, but some analysts now argue that the alliance can no longer survive. Should NATO states continue to rely on the NATO alliance for security?Several theories have been advanced to help answer this question…
After Polarity
Can Nato Outlive the USSR
Ending the Cold War
Journal Article Ending the Cold War: the Soviet retreat and the US military buildup Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 111–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621222 Published: 01 January 1991
Stability and Alliance Cohesion
There are differences between what the United States says and does with regard to strategic arms. There are also differences between policies that are ideal from a uniquely U.S. perspective and from a broader alliance perspective. These two sets of differences correspond to one another; the latter help to explain the former. Furthermore, recent discussions of arms reduction options, such as Nalebuff (1988), fail to consider the differences betwee…
Improving Conventional Stability in Europe
Negotiating security and disarmament in Europe
Journal Article Negotiating security and disarmament in Europe Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 429–437, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617572 Published: 01 July 1984
Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles
Journal Article Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 123, April 1981, Pages 126–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218719 Published: 01 April 1981
The Study of Democratic Peace and Progress in International Relations
This essay argues that the field of international relations has exhibited “progress” of the sort found in the natural sciences. Several well-known accounts of “science” and “progress” are adumbrated; four offer positive accounts of progress (those of Peirce, Duhem, Popper, and Lakatos) and one evidences a negative assessment (Kuhn). Recent studies of the democratic peace—both supporting and opposing—are analyzed to show that they satisfy the term…
Scientific Realism as a Meta-Theory of International Politics
The recent increase in interest in scientific realist foundations for international relations theory, spearheaded by Wendt in various works, most fully articulated in his Social Theory of International Politics, and supported by a number of other authors, has brought to the fore a set of related issues in the philosophy of the social sciences. The advocacy of scientific realism in the international relations literature has largely taken the form …
Critical Realism, Scientific Realism, and International Relations Theory
Ending the Cold War
Journal Article Ending the Cold War: the Soviet retreat and the US military buildup Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 111–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621222 Published: 01 January 1991
Stability and Alliance Cohesion
There are differences between what the United States says and does with regard to strategic arms. There are also differences between policies that are ideal from a uniquely U.S. perspective and from a broader alliance perspective. These two sets of differences correspond to one another; the latter help to explain the former. Furthermore, recent discussions of arms reduction options, such as Nalebuff (1988), fail to consider the differences betwee…
Science, Progress and Pluralism in the Study of International Relations
The article looks at one of the central arguments of Patrick Jackson’s book The Conduct of Enquiry in International Relations: the attempt to advance methodological pluralism and dialogue among contending metatheoretical schools of International Relations. The article supports the goal of pluralism but argues that there is a significant gap in Jackson’s support of it and that his version of pluralism inhibits metatheoretical engagement of differe…
Conventionalism as an Adequate Basis for Policy-Relevant IR Theory
This article considers three factual observations about the history of the study of International Relations and examines how well several different metatheories of IR can account for them. The three facts are, first, that there has been persisting disagreement between supporters of contending theoretical approaches; second, that there have been occasional cases in which opposing scholars have converged on certain conclusions; and third, that the …
Analytic eclecticism and International Relations
Some scholars in International Relations and comparative politics continue to debate how to obtain the strongest explanatory theory whereas others hold that each approach should be treated as its own area of research. Both of these groups tend to agree that factors from across paradigms cannot be coherently combined with each other. On the contrary, Sil and Katzenstein have argued for analytic eclecticism in scholarship, which would not treat res…
Defending foundations for International Relations theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Ontological Fallacy
This article argues that scientific and critical realism have embraced several mistaken claims, among them that social science enquiry cannot proceed unless the theoretical objects of study are specified in advance. The article argues, rather, that although pre-scientific , observable objects and events must be specified from the outset, theoretical objects come to our attention only in the course of formulating theories. The article advances an …
International Relations, Paleontology, and Scientific Progress
Journal Article International Relations, Paleontology, and Scientific Progress: Parallels between Democratic Peace Studies and the Meteor Impact Extinction Hypothesis Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 90–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2007.00318.x Published: 01 Februa…
Negotiating security and disarmament in Europe
Journal Article Negotiating security and disarmament in Europe Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 429–437, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617572 Published: 01 July 1984
Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles
Journal Article Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 123, April 1981, Pages 126–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218719 Published: 01 April 1981
Negotiating security and disarmament in Europe
Journal Article Negotiating security and disarmament in Europe Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 429–437, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617572 Published: 01 July 1984
Improving Conventional Stability in Europe
Stability and Alliance Cohesion
There are differences between what the United States says and does with regard to strategic arms. There are also differences between policies that are ideal from a uniquely U.S. perspective and from a broader alliance perspective. These two sets of differences correspond to one another; the latter help to explain the former. Furthermore, recent discussions of arms reduction options, such as Nalebuff (1988), fail to consider the differences betwee…
Ending the Cold War
Journal Article Ending the Cold War: the Soviet retreat and the US military buildup Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 111–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621222 Published: 01 January 1991
Can Nato Outlive the USSR
After Bipolarity
The demise of the Soviet threat has compelled the United States and Europe to reassess how they deal with each other and with the rest of the world. For the past forty-five years, NATO has been the centerpiece of U.S.-European security relations, but some analysts now argue that the alliance can no longer survive. Should NATO states continue to rely on the NATO alliance for security?Several theories have been advanced to help answer this question…
After Polarity
Scientific Realism as a Meta-Theory of International Politics
The recent increase in interest in scientific realist foundations for international relations theory, spearheaded by Wendt in various works, most fully articulated in his Social Theory of International Politics, and supported by a number of other authors, has brought to the fore a set of related issues in the philosophy of the social sciences. The advocacy of scientific realism in the international relations literature has largely taken the form …
The Study of Democratic Peace and Progress in International Relations
This essay argues that the field of international relations has exhibited “progress” of the sort found in the natural sciences. Several well-known accounts of “science” and “progress” are adumbrated; four offer positive accounts of progress (those of Peirce, Duhem, Popper, and Lakatos) and one evidences a negative assessment (Kuhn). Recent studies of the democratic peace—both supporting and opposing—are analyzed to show that they satisfy the term…
The power of international theory
Theory and Metatheory in International Relations
This book uses three controversial contemporary American foreign policy problems to introduce students to the 'new debates' in international relations, in which the criticisms of constructivism, inter
Critical Realism, Scientific Realism, and International Relations Theory
Theory and Metatheory in International Relations
The book is an introduction to new debates in international relations. It shows why anyone who wants the best answer to foreign policy problems, like how to deal with North Korea's nuclear arms program, must look at debates in IR theory, and also debates in metatheory. The latter involve questions about whether IR is much or little like the natural sciences, whether prediction is possible, and the like. The book poses policy questions intended to…
International Relations, Paleontology, and Scientific Progress
Journal Article International Relations, Paleontology, and Scientific Progress: Parallels between Democratic Peace Studies and the Meteor Impact Extinction Hypothesis Get access Fred Chernoff Fred Chernoff Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 90–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2007.00318.x Published: 01 Februa…
Defending foundations for International Relations theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Ontological Fallacy
This article argues that scientific and critical realism have embraced several mistaken claims, among them that social science enquiry cannot proceed unless the theoretical objects of study are specified in advance. The article argues, rather, that although pre-scientific , observable objects and events must be specified from the outset, theoretical objects come to our attention only in the course of formulating theories. The article advances an …
Conventionalism as an Adequate Basis for Policy-Relevant IR Theory
This article considers three factual observations about the history of the study of International Relations and examines how well several different metatheories of IR can account for them. The three facts are, first, that there has been persisting disagreement between supporters of contending theoretical approaches; second, that there have been occasional cases in which opposing scholars have converged on certain conclusions; and third, that the …
Science, Progress and Pluralism in the Study of International Relations
The article looks at one of the central arguments of Patrick Jackson’s book The Conduct of Enquiry in International Relations: the attempt to advance methodological pluralism and dialogue among contending metatheoretical schools of International Relations. The article supports the goal of pluralism but argues that there is a significant gap in Jackson’s support of it and that his version of pluralism inhibits metatheoretical engagement of differe…
Explanation and Progress in Security Studies
Pragmatism, pluralism, and eclecticism
This paper seeks to show ways in which analytic eclecticism can be strengthened to encourage hybrid theorizing capable of yielding more practically useful principles for foreign policy decision-makers. The paper also seeks to show that some of the advantages of analytic eclecticism are overstated, notably the ability to sidestep difficult questions in the philosophy of social science. Nevertheless, with a proper deepening of their discussion of p…
Analytic eclecticism and International Relations
Some scholars in International Relations and comparative politics continue to debate how to obtain the strongest explanatory theory whereas others hold that each approach should be treated as its own area of research. Both of these groups tend to agree that factors from across paradigms cannot be coherently combined with each other. On the contrary, Sil and Katzenstein have argued for analytic eclecticism in scholarship, which would not treat res…
‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function
This paper examines several aspects of Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science . The paper questions the nature of the task, as ontologies are debated in a scientific field once there is a widely accepted substantive theory that stands in need of interpretation, as with Newtonian physics or quantum mechanics; doing this job for international relations (IR) is highly questionable give that there is no widely accepted substantive theory o…
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