Thomas Nickles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 444032 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Nickles |
| PRENOMES | Thomas |
| SOBRENOME | Nickles |
| ASSINATURA | NICKLES T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1094-9976 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Bounded rationality, scissors, crowbars, and pragmatism
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
Scientific Discovery
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
Scientific Revolutions
Scientific revolutions and the problem of understanding deep scientific change became central topics in philosophy of science with Thomas S. Kuhn's publication in 1962 of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (see Kuhn 1970, cited under General Overviews). Kuhn attacked the received view of the logical empiricists and Popperians that scientific change is cumulative. He claimed that there have been several revolutions since the so-called scienti…
Thomas Kuhn
The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought
Kuhnian Puzzle Solving and Schema Theory
Looking at Thomas Kuhn's work from a cognitive science perspective helps to articulate and to legitimize, to some degree, his rejection of traditional views of concepts, categorization, theory structure, and rule-based problem solving. Whereas my colleagues focus on the later Kuhn of the MIT years, I study the early Kuhn as an anticipation of case-based reasoning and schema theory. These recent developments in cognitive psychology and artificial …
Kuhn, Historical Philosophy of Science, and Case-Based Reasoning
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 1, Winter 1998
Beauty and Revolution in Science . James W. McAllister
Engaging Science
Criticism and the History of Science
Philosophy of Science and History of Science
Scientific Discovery
How to Talk with Sociologists (or Philosophers)
Social Epistemology. Steve Fuller
Relativism and Realism in Science. Robert Nola
Historicism and Scientific Practice IScrutinizing Science
Methodology, Heuristics, and Rationality
Lakatosian Heuristics and Epistemic Support
Remarks on the use of history as evidence
Beyond Divorce
Does the viability of the discovery program depend on showing either (1) that methods of generating new problem solutions, per se , have special probative weight (the per se thesis); or, (2) that the original conception of an idea is logically continuous with its justification (anti-divorce thesis)? Many writers have identified these as the key issues of the discovery debate. McLaughlin, Pera, and others recently have defended the discovery progr…
A Revolution that Failed
Modern philosophy of science has allowed an extra dimension time into descriptions of the nature of scientific knowledge'. With these words, Harry Collins opened the Special Issue of Social Studies of Science (Vol. 11, No. 1, February 1981) devoted to the 'relativist' programme pioneered by Collins some years ago at the University of Bath Science Studies Centre. Collins is of course referring to the work of Thomas Kuhn, and to the 'historical tur…
What is a problem that we may solve it
The Rational Explanation of Historical Discoveries
What is a problem that we may solve it
Philosophy of Science and History of Science
Beyond Divorce
Does the viability of the discovery program depend on showing either (1) that methods of generating new problem solutions, per se , have special probative weight (the per se thesis); or, (2) that the original conception of an idea is logically continuous with its justification (anti-divorce thesis)? Many writers have identified these as the key issues of the discovery debate. McLaughlin, Pera, and others recently have defended the discovery progr…
Remarks on the use of history as evidence
Lakatosian Heuristics and Epistemic Support
A Revolution that Failed
Modern philosophy of science has allowed an extra dimension time into descriptions of the nature of scientific knowledge'. With these words, Harry Collins opened the Special Issue of Social Studies of Science (Vol. 11, No. 1, February 1981) devoted to the 'relativist' programme pioneered by Collins some years ago at the University of Bath Science Studies Centre. Collins is of course referring to the work of Thomas Kuhn, and to the 'historical tur…
On the Independence of Singular Causal Explanation in Social Science
Covering Law Explanation
A serious problem for covering law explanation is raised and its consequences for the Hempelian theory of explanation are discussed. The problem concerns an intensional feature of explanations, involving the manner in which theoretical law statements are related to the events explained. The basic problem arises because explanations are not of events but of events under descriptions ; moreover, in a sense, our linguistic descriptions outrun laws. …
Bounded rationality, scissors, crowbars, and pragmatism
Scientific Revolutions
Scientific revolutions and the problem of understanding deep scientific change became central topics in philosophy of science with Thomas S. Kuhn's publication in 1962 of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (see Kuhn 1970, cited under General Overviews). Kuhn attacked the received view of the logical empiricists and Popperians that scientific change is cumulative. He claimed that there have been several revolutions since the so-called scienti…
Kuhn, Historical Philosophy of Science, and Case-Based Reasoning
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 1, Winter 1998
Covering Law Explanation
A serious problem for covering law explanation is raised and its consequences for the Hempelian theory of explanation are discussed. The problem concerns an intensional feature of explanations, involving the manner in which theoretical law statements are related to the events explained. The basic problem arises because explanations are not of events but of events under descriptions ; moreover, in a sense, our linguistic descriptions outrun laws. …
Two Concepts of Intertheoretic Reduction
Explanation and Description-Relativity
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On Some Autonomy Arguments in Social Science
My aim in this necessarily compact paper is to sketch a philosophical defense of the kind of position assumed by the later Kroeber, when he wrote: ... That which is specifically characteristic and distinctively significant of phenomena of a level [of organization] is intelligible only in terms of the other phenomena, qualities, or regularities of that same level. The most characteristic qualities or phenomena are never explained by what we know o…
On the Independence of Singular Causal Explanation in Social Science
The Rational Explanation of Historical Discoveries
What is a problem that we may solve it
A Revolution that Failed
Modern philosophy of science has allowed an extra dimension time into descriptions of the nature of scientific knowledge'. With these words, Harry Collins opened the Special Issue of Social Studies of Science (Vol. 11, No. 1, February 1981) devoted to the 'relativist' programme pioneered by Collins some years ago at the University of Bath Science Studies Centre. Collins is of course referring to the work of Thomas Kuhn, and to the 'historical tur…
Beyond Divorce
Does the viability of the discovery program depend on showing either (1) that methods of generating new problem solutions, per se , have special probative weight (the per se thesis); or, (2) that the original conception of an idea is logically continuous with its justification (anti-divorce thesis)? Many writers have identified these as the key issues of the discovery debate. McLaughlin, Pera, and others recently have defended the discovery progr…
Remarks on the use of history as evidence
Methodology, Heuristics, and Rationality
Lakatosian Heuristics and Epistemic Support
Historicism and Scientific Practice IScrutinizing Science
How to Talk with Sociologists (or Philosophers)
Social Epistemology. Steve Fuller
Relativism and Realism in Science. Robert Nola
Scientific Discovery
Philosophy of Science and History of Science
Criticism and the History of Science
Beauty and Revolution in Science . James W. McAllister
Engaging Science
Kuhn, Historical Philosophy of Science, and Case-Based Reasoning
Configurations - Volume 6, Number 1, Winter 1998
Kuhnian Puzzle Solving and Schema Theory
Looking at Thomas Kuhn's work from a cognitive science perspective helps to articulate and to legitimize, to some degree, his rejection of traditional views of concepts, categorization, theory structure, and rule-based problem solving. Whereas my colleagues focus on the later Kuhn of the MIT years, I study the early Kuhn as an anticipation of case-based reasoning and schema theory. These recent developments in cognitive psychology and artificial …
The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought
Thomas Kuhn
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