Publications


SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

"Bas van Fraassen's Philosophy of Science and His Epistemic Voluntarism”. Philosophy Compass (2014): 1-9, 10.1111/phc3.12158.

“Science, Sex, and Pictures: Reflections on van Fraassen’s Use of Perspectival Representations”. Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science, Guichun Gao and Chuang Liu (eds.). Singapore: World Scientific, 2014, 156–169.

“Birth of a New Physics or Death of Nature?” older paper anthologized in Echoes from the Cave: Philosophical Conversations since Plato, (Lisa Gannett, editor) OUP 2014.

“Feminist Epistemology and Postcolonial Science Studies” in Sciences and Narratives of Nature: East and West.  
Editors: Sundar Sarukkai, Gordon McOuat, Jobin Kanjirakkat. Routledge. 2015.

 

SOME OLDER PAPERS AND EDITED VOUMES:

SELECTED PAPERS:

“Critical Notice of Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C. van Fraassen, Canadian Journal of Philosophy vol.39, no.4 (December 2009), pp. 673-696.

"Logical Empiricism, Feminism, and Neurath’s Auxiliary Motive”.  Hypatia 19.1, Winter 2004, pp. 48-72.

Critical Notice of Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics by Nancy Cartwright et al, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1998.

“Gender Bias in the Biological and Social Sciences”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary volume, 1995.  Reprinted in Philosophy of Science.  The Central Issues, ed. by Martin Curd and Jan Cover (W.W. Norton Co., 1998).

“Birth of a New Physics or Death of Nature? ”in E. Harvey and K. Okruhlik (eds.) Women and Reason, University of Michigan Press, 1992.

“The Foundation of All Philosophy: Newton’s Third Rule”, in J. Brown and J. Mittelstrass (eds.) An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.

 “Kant on Realism and Methodology”, Butts (ed.) Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science: die Metaphysiche Anfangsgrunde der Naturwissenschaften, 1786-1986, Reidel, 1986:307-329.

 “Philosophical Feminism: Challenges to Science”, with A. Wylie, Resources for Feminist Research, vol. 16, no. 3, 1988, pp. 379-388.

 “Leibniz on the Status of Scientific Laws”, The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, (eds.) J. Brown and K. Okruhlik, Reidel, 1985, pp. 183-206. 

“Ghosts in the World Machine: The Mechanical Philosophy Under Strain”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, (ed.) J. Pitt, Reidel, 1984, pp. 85-106.

 “Kant and the Foundation of Science”, Nature Mathematized: Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Classical Modern Natural Philosophy, (ed.) W. Shea, Reidel 1982, pp. 249-266.

 "The Interplay Between Theory and Observation in the Solar Model of Hipparchus and Ptolemy”, PSA 1978, (eds.) Asquith and Hacking, pp. 73-82.


EDITED VOLUMES:

The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, (edited with J. Brown), Reidel, 1985, vii + 342 pp.

 Women and Reason (edited with E. Harvey), University of Michigan Press, 1992, 294 pp.

 PSA 1992, volume one (edited with D. Hull and M. Forbes), Philosophy of Science Association, 1992, xxx +552 pp.

 PSA 1992, volume two (edited with D. Hull and M. Forbes), Philosophy of Science Association, 1993, xix + 496 p

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