Curriculum Vitae
26 January 2012
Professor Alexander James BIRD
Nationality British
Address Department of Philosophy, The University of Bristol, 9 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB
tel: 0117 928 7826 email: [email protected] webpage: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/index.html
Career
Current post Professor of Philosophy (since 08/2003) Department of Philosophy, and Faculty of Arts Research Director (since 01/2007) University of Bristol
Previous post Head of Department of Philosophy (08/2005–07/2008)
Previous employment
10/1993–07/2003 Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Lecturer (10/1993–08/2002) Reader and Head of Department of Philosophy (08/2002–07/2003)
09/1991–09/1993 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food Higher Executive Officer (Development), two senior posts covering plant health and the single European market, policy on non-food crops, and Common Agricultural Policy regimes. Branch Treasurer and Membership Secretary, and Fast-Stream Committee member, Association of First Division Civil Servants.
Visiting posts
• James Collins Visiting Professor, Saint Louis University (August–October 2011) • Visiting Scholar, Monash University (June–July 2009) • Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (September–December 1999) • Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, N.H. (June–August 1999) • Visiting Lecturer, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy (January 1999) • Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, N.H. (June–August 1997) • Visiting Lecturer, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy (March 1997) • Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, N.H. (September–December 1996) • Visiting Lecturer, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France (December 1995) • Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, N.H. (June–September 1995)
University education
• King's College, Cambridge University 10/1988–09/1991 Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ph.D. Thesis Arithmetic, Grammar, and Ontology, defending neo-logicism. Research topics: philosophy and history of mathematics; ontology; language; Wittgenstein.
• St Edmund's College, Cambridge University 10/1987–09/1988 Department of History and Philosophy of Science. M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science.
• Ludwig-Maximilians Universität and Stiftung Maximilianeum, Munich 10/1986–08/1987 Mathematics and Philosophy
• St John's College, Oxford University 10/1983–07/1986 Physics and Philosophy (Hon Mods). Politics, Philosophy and Economics (B.A.).
Academic awards, grants, and prizes
(Totals: £928,895 as PI, £403,900 as Co-I, £14,400 in conference grants)
• AHRC Fellowship “Scientific Knowledge” £48,257 (2011–12) • Grants for Conference “Progress in Medicine” £9,900 (2010) (Wellcome Trust £4,500, British Academy £2,150, Mind Association £2,000, British Society for the Philosophy of Science £750, Aristotelian Society £500). • Partner Investigator, “Neglected Problems of Time: Metaphysical and topological issues arising from the physics of time” (PI Toby Handfield, Monash University) Australian Research Council £192,000 (2009–11). • International Partner, “The Semantics and Metaphysics of Dispositions” (PI Sungho Choi, Kyung Hee University, Korea) National Research Foundation of Korea £101,900 (2009–11). • Principal Investigator, “Philosophy of quantum mechanics and the metaphysics of dispositional properties” (Co-Investigator Tomasz Bigaj, University of Warsaw) FP7 Marie Curie Programme £88,610 (2008–9). • Wellcome Trust Conference Grant “Concepts of Infection” £2,500 (2007). • Co-Investigator “Why “Why?”: Philosophical and methodological issues at the physics-biology interface”, (PI Prof. Wilson Poon, Physics, University of Edinburgh) Cambridge Templeton Consortium £110,000 (2007–9). • Principal Investigator, “Metaphysics of Science: causes, laws, kinds, and dispositions” £748,644 (Co- Investigators Helen Beebee, University of Birmingham, and Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham; total project value £935,805) AHRC Research Project Grant (2006–10) (output rated ‘outstanding’). • Philosophical Quarterly essay prize £2,500 (2006). • Principal Investigator, “Applied Logic in the Methodology of Science” (Co-Investigator Hannes Leitgeb) European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop £13,173 (2006). • Mind Association Major Conference Grant “Dispositions and Causes” £2,000 (2005). • Principal Investigator, British Academy Visiting Fellowship, £3,000, and, Partner Academy Joint Project, £2,000, (plus £2,000 from Australian Academy of the Humanities) “Powers that be: dispositions in a world of physical causes” (CI Toby Handfield) (2005). • AHRB Research Leave Scheme £14,013 (2005) (output rated ‘outstanding’). • Leverhulme Trust Fellowship £11,198 (1999–2000). • British Academy Major and Minor Awards (1987–90). • Stiftung Maximilianeum Scholarship, Munich (1986–87). • Thomas White Scholar (open scholarship), St John's College, Oxford (1983–86). • Queen's Scholar, Westminster School (1978–82).
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Publications
Please see attached list
Teaching
Areas of teaching specialism
• metaphysics • epistemology • general philosophy of science • philosophy and history of medicine • philosophy of mathematics
Areas of teaching competence
• philosophy of the physical sciences • history of modern philosophy (esp. Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) • Wittgenstein • formal and mathematical logic • philosophical logic and philosophy of language
Teaching experience
• ten years as lecturer/reader in philosophy, University of Edinburgh, and eight years as professor of philosophy, University of Bristol. • visiting lecturer or professor at the University of Caen, University of Siena (twice), Dartmouth College, U.S.A. (four times), Saint Louis University, U.S.A. • continuing education lectures at the Open University, University of Oxford, University of Bristol. • supervisor for the philosophy tripos and history and philosophy of science in the natural sciences tripos, University of Cambridge (three and a half years, while a graduate student).
Graduate teaching
• nine completed PhDs; six current PhD students. • MA/MSc courses in philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy and history of medicine.
Current internal administrative and other organisational responsibilities at Bristol
• Research Director, Faculty of Arts. • University Research Committee. • Bristol Ethical Review Group (overseeing implementation of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986). • University Review Panel (Professorial Salary Review). • Faculty of Arts Planning and Resources Committee. • Faculty of Arts Finance Sub-committee. • Faculty of Arts Research Committee (chair).
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Past internal administrative and other organisational responsibilities
University of Bristol
• Head of Department of Philosophy (08/2005–07/2008). • Senate. • WUN (World Universities Network) Steering Group. • Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Department of Philosophy. • Chair of Research Committee, Department of Philosophy. • Faculty research and graduate committees. • University Information Services and Systems Committee.
University of Edinburgh
• Head of Department (previously Deputy Head of Department). • School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Linguistics Management Committee. • Member of Senatus. • Gifford Lectureship Committee. • Senior Tutor (with responsibility for all undergraduate teaching and curriculum issues). • Teaching Quality Assurance co-ordinator. • Director of Postgraduate Studies; creating the Department’s postgraduate information webpage. • Course organizer for Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Science 1h. • Director of Studies. • Schools liaison officer and open day organizer. • Dartmouth exchange coordinator and acting Director of Studies for Dartmouth Students. • ERASMUS/SOCRATES coordinator. • Senatus representative on the Edinburgh University Students’ Association Committee of Management. • Faculty Curriculum Committee. • Edinburgh University Library Steering Group on Special Collections.
Conferences and workshops organised
• Progress in Medicine conference (13–15/04/2010) • AHRC Metaphysics of Science Workshop (29–31/03/2010) • Philosophy of Medicine workshop (28/10/2009) • AHRC Metaphysics of Science Workshop (03/09/2008) • Concepts of Infection conference (29–31/03/2007) • AHRC Metaphysics of Science Workshop on Natural Kinds (16/03/2007) • What is this Thing Called Science? Colloquium on the nature of science (8/12/2006) • European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop in Applied Logic in the Methodology of Science (8–10/09/2006) • History and Philosophy of Mathematics Day (23/05/2006) • Dispositions and Causes workshop and conference (1–4/12/2005) • Lisbon Earthquake 250th anniversary conference (28–29/10/2005) • Metaphysics of Science (6–7/12/2002) • New Work on the Legacy of Thomas Kuhn (30/08/2002) • Dispositions (28–29/01/2000) • The Legacy of Empiricism (13–15/09/1996)
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External academic activities and marks of peer esteem
Service to the academic profession
• Chair of the REF2014 Philosophy sub-panel (2010–) • British Philosophical Association, Women in Philosophy Committee (2010–). • Research Excellence Framework (REF) Expert Advisory Groups (2009). • AHRC Block Grant Partnership Moderating Panel (2007–8). • Philosophy sub-panel RAE2008 (2005–8). • AHRC Peer Review College member (2005–8).
Major academic review responsibilities
• College of reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs Program. • European Science Foundation pool of peer reviewers. • Independent referee, Royal Society of New Zealand (fellowship election). • Expert assessor, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). • Expert assessor, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). • Expert assessor, Austrian Science Fund (FWF). • Expert assessor, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). • European Research Council reviewer. • Review of research, Philosophy Field, University of West of England (2010). • Review of research, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh (2010).
Senior appointment panels, tenure assessments
• Professorial appointments committees, adviser to or membership of: • University of Nottingham • University of Stirling • University of Toronto • Tenure assessments: • University at Buffalo • Swarthmore College • University of Toronto • Habilitation committee: Université de Paris I.
External examining
• External examiner for PhD theses: • Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science) (twice); • Cambridge (Philosophy); • Lancaster; • Leeds (twice); • London (twice—KCL, UCL); • Nottingham (twice); • Open University; • Oxford (twice). • External examiner for MPhil theses: • St Andrews; • London. • External examiner for BPhil , University of Oxford (2009–) • Assessor for Cambridge College Research Fellowships, Fitzwillliam, Emmanuel, and Peterhouse.
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• External examiner, University of Nottingham (2005–2008). • External examiner, University of Glasgow (2001–4).
Services to philosophy
• Royal Institute of Philosophy: Council and Executive Committee member (2010–). • Aristotelian Society: Committee and Council member (2003–06). • British Society for the Philosophy of Science: Committee member (2002–2011). • Scots Philosophical Club: Finance committee (2001–03). • Chair of the Sir Karl Popper Prize panel (2005–09). • Programme Committee, Societé de Philosophie des Sciences (France), annual conference 2009. • Programme Committee, Individuals Across Sciences: a revisionary metaphysics?, conference Paris 2012.
Editorial and related
• Editor British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (with James Ladyman) (2004–11). • Series editor, Acumen Philosophy and Science. • Advisory editor, Oxford University Press, Oxford Philosophy Online (2008–9). • International Advisory Board and Scientific Committee Lato Sensu, Revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences (2011–) • Associate editor, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1998–2004). • Editorial board, Philosophical Quarterly (to 2002). • Editorial board, Journal of Scottish Philosophy (to 2003). • Reader for Routledge, Oxford University Press, Blackwell, Edinburgh University Press, Acumen, Polity Press, Cambridge University Press. • Referee for Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, Mind, Noûs, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Theoria.
Keynote conference addresses since 01/2003
(Listed below are the international conferences at which I have been a principal/plenary invited speaker since January 2003, and do not include workshop invitations or departmental talks. I have given the latter in almost all U.K. departments and have been invited to give talks and workshop presentations in the following countries: U.S., Australia, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey.)
• 50 Years Since Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions Boston, 23/03/2012. • American Philosophical Association annual conference (Central Division), 16–18/02/2012. • Reasoning and Personhood, Queen Mary, University of London, 13/02/2012. • Metaphysics of Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, 3–5/07/2010. • Metaphysics of Science, Melbourne, 2–5/07/2009. • American Philosophical Association annual conference (Central Division), Book symposium on my Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties (OUP), Chicago, 18–21/02/2009. • Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 10–16/08/2008. • Powers: Their Grounding and Their Realization, Oxford, 7–8/07/2008. • Carving Nature at its Joints, Inland Northwestern Philosophy Conference, Moscow, ID, 15–17/03/2008. • Nature and its Classification, Birmingham, 12–14/10/2007. • Kuhn and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Cambridge, 20–21/03/2006. • Formal vs. Historical Accounts of Scientific Theory Change, Paris, 13–14/12/2004. • Rethinking the Comparative Evaluation of Scientific Theories: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? Nancy, 24–26/06/2004.
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• Metaphysics of Science, Ratio conference, Reading, 01/05/2004. • British Society for the Philosophy of Science annual conference, Belfast, 16–18/07/2003.
Public engagement activities nationally or locally
• Talk to sixth form Philosophy Society, North London Collegiate School (12 March 2009). • Interviewed by BBC Radio Somerset on philosophy for children (8 February 2008). • Talk to Burnham Philosophical Society (7 June 2006). • Talk to Year 4 children at Westbury Park School (11 March 2004).
7 Alexander Bird – Publications
Books
• Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007) (231pp). (Reviewed by Helen Beebee Times Literary Supplement 5511 (14 November 2008), John Carroll Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
• Thomas Kuhn Chesham: Acumen Press; Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000) (308pp). (Spanish edition Thomas Kuhn Madrid: Tecnos (2002) trans. Carmen Garcia Trevijano.) (Reviewed by Francis Remedios Philosophy in Review 22 (2001), Edward Rothstein New York Times (21 July 2001) and La Nacion (25 August 2001), James Robert Brown Brit. J. Phil. Science 53 (2002), Howard Sankey Philosophical Quarterly 52 (2002), William Lynch Isis 93 (2002), Steve Fuller Metascience 11 (2002), and by Samuel Doble-Gutierrez Laguna: Revista de Filosofia 13 (2003).)
• Philosophy of Science London: Routledge; Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (1998) (313pp). (Reviewed by Peter Lipton Brit. J. Phil. Science 50 (1999), Eduardo Flichman Revista Patagonica de Filosofia 1 (1999), Michael Ashooh International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (2000), and by Stephen Mumford Mind 109 (2000).)
Edited books
• Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the metaphysics of realism edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey. New York: Routledge (2011) (270pp).
• Arguing About Science edited with 10 original co-authored essays by James Ladyman and Alexander Bird. Abingdon: Routledge (forthcoming).
Journal
I was co-editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, with James Ladyman (09/2004– 08/2011).
Journal special/guest editions
• Synthese 149 (2006) special edition on metaphysics in science, co-edited with Johannes Persson, with co-authored introduction. • Theoria 51 (2004) edition on dispositions, causes, and propensities in science, guest edited with Mauricio Suárez.
Articles forthcoming
[78] “Referring to Natural Kind Thingamajigs, and What They Are: A Reply to Needham” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming 2012). [77] “Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Social Study of Science” in Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited (eds. V. Kindi and T. Arabatzis) (Routledge, forthcoming 2012). [76] “Dispositional Expressions” Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (eds Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara) (Routledge, forthcoming 2012).
Articles published
[75] “What Can Philosophy Tell Us About Evidence-Based Medicine?” International Journal of Person- Centered Medicine 1 (2012) 642–8. [74] “Monistic Dispositional Essentialism” in Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the metaphysics of realism (eds.Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey) New York: Routledge (2011) 35–41. [73] “What are Natural Kinds?” (with Katherine Hawley) Philosophical Perspectives 25 (2011) 205–21. [72] “The Epistemological Function of Hill's Criteria” Preventive Medicine 53 (2011) 242–5. [71] “Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals” Topics in Contemporary Philosophy vol.8: Carving Nature at its Joints (eds Joseph Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew Slater) Cambridge MA: MIT Press (2011) 85–96. [70] “Are Any Kinds Ontologically Fundamental?” Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (ed. Tuomas Tahko) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2011) 94–104. [69] “Waismann Versus Ewing on Causality” Friedrich Waismann—Causality and Logical Positivism (ed. Brian McGuinness) (Vienna Institute Yearbook vol.14, ed. Friedrich Stadler) Dordrecht: Springer (2011) 207–24. [68] “Philosophy of Science and Epistemology” Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science (eds Steven French and Juha Saatsi) London: Continuum (2011) 15–32. [67] “Inductive Knowledge” Routledge Companion to Epistemology (eds Sven Bernecker and Duncan Pritchard) Abingdon: Routledge (2011) 271–82. [66] “Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy” Blackwell Companion to Relativism (ed. Steven Hales) Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell (2011) 456–74. [65] “Eliminative Abduction—Examples from Medicine” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41 (2010) 345–52. [64] “Social Knowing” Philosophical Perspectives 24 (2010) 23–56. [63] “The Epistemology of Science—A Bird's-Eye View” Synthese 175 (2010) 5–16. [62] “Causation and the Manifestation of Powers” The Metaphysics of Powers. Their Grounding and their Manifestations (ed. Anna Marmodoro) Abingdon: Routledge (2010) 160–8. [61] “A Posteriori Knowledge of Natural Kind Essences: A Defense” Philosophical Topics 35 (2010) 293–312. [60] “Discovering the Essences of Natural Kinds” The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds (eds Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton–Leary) Abingdon: Routledge (2010) 125–36. [59] “Are Natural Kinds Reducible?” Reduction–Abstraction–Analysis (eds Alexander Hieke and Hannes Leitgeb) Frankfurt: Ontos (2009) 127–36. [58] “. . . And Then Again, He Might Not Be” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009) 517–21. [57] “Essences and Natural Kinds” Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (ed. Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross Cameron) Abingdon: Routledge (2009) 497–506. [56] “Kripke” Twelve Modern Philosophers (eds Christopher Belshaw and Gary Kemp) Chichester: Wiley–Blackwell (2009) 153–72.
2 [55] “Structural Properties Revisited” Dispositions and Causes (ed. Toby Handfield) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009) 215–41. [54] “Natural Kinds” (with Emma Tobin) Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 edition), (ed. Edward N. Zalta). [53] “Lowe on A Posteriori Essentialism” Analysis 68 (2008) 336–44. [52] “Remarks on Our Knowledge of Modal Facts” Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift 43 (2008) 54–60. [51] “Dispositions, Rules, and Finks” (with Toby Handfield) Philosophical Studies 140 (2008) 285–98. [50] “Scientific Progress as Accumulation of Knowledge—A Reply to Rowbottom” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008) 279–81. [49] “The Epistemological Argument Against Lewis's Regularity View of Laws” Philosophical Studies 138 (2008) 73–89. [48] “The Historical Turn in the Philosophy of Science” in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science (eds Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd) Abingdon: Routledge (2008) 67–77. [47] “Causal Exclusion and Evolved Emergent Properties” Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science (ed. Ruth Groff) Abingdon: Routledge (2008) 163–78. [46] “The Regress of Pure Powers?” Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007) 513–34 (winner of the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize ‘06). [45] “Scientific and Theological Realism” Realism and Religion (eds Andrew Moore and Michael Scott) Aldershot: Ashgate (2007) 61–81. [44] “Inference to the Only Explanation” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007) 424– 32. [43] “Incommensurability Naturalized” in Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 255, eds Léna Soler, Howard Sankey, and Paul Hoyningen-Huene) Dordrecht: Spinger (2007) 21–39. [42] “What is Scientific Progress?” Noûs 41 (2007) 64–89. [41] “Underdetermination and Evidence” Images of Empiricism (ed. Bradley Monton) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007) 62–82. [40] “Justified Judging” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007) 81–110. [39] “Selection and Explanation” Rethinking Explanation (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 252, eds. Johannes Persson and Petri Ylikoski) (2006) 131–6. [38] “Looking for Laws” Metascience 15 (2006) 441–54. [37] “Potency and Modality” Synthese 149 (2006) 447–52. (Translated as “Capacité et modalité” Études de Philosophie 9-10 (2011) 66–85.) [36] “Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference” in Oxford Studies in Epistemology 1 (eds. Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005) 1–31. [35] “Unexpected A Posteriori Necessary Laws of Nature” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005) 533–48. [34] “Laws and Essences” Ratio 18 (2005) 437–61. (Reprinted in Alice Drewery (ed.) Metaphysics in Science Oxford: Blackwell (2006) 63–87.) [33] “The Dispositionalist Conception of Laws” Foundations of Science 10 (2005) 353–70. [32] “Explanation and Metaphysics” Synthese 143 (2005) 89–107. [31] “Naturalizing Kuhn” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (2005) 109–27. [30] “The Ultimate Argument Against Armstrong's Contingent Necessitation View of Laws” Analysis 65 (2005) 147–55.
3 [29] “Antidotes All the Way Down?” Theoria 51 (2004) 259–69. (Translated as “Antidotes: pas moyen d’y échapper?” Études de Philosophie 9-10 (2011) 86–102.) [28] “Thomas Kuhn” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2004 edition), (ed. Edward N. Zalta). [27] “Strong Necessitarianism: the Nomological Identity of Possible Worlds” Ratio 17 (2004) 256–76. [26] “Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Positivist Legacy” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) 337–56. [25] “Kuhn and Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science” Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12 (2004) 1–14. [24] “Kuhn on Reference and Essence” Philosophia Scientiae 8 (2004) 39–71. [23] “Is Evidence Non–Inferential?” Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2004) 253–65. [22] “Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism” Philosophy of Science 70 (2003) 690–719. [21] “Three Conservative Kuhns” Social Epistemology 17 (2003) 125–31. [20] “Nozick’s Fourth Condition” Facta Philosophica 5 (2003) 141–51. [19] “Resemblance Nominalism and Counterparts” Analysis 63 (2003) 221–8. [18] “Philosophy of Science” Fundamentals of Philosophy (ed. John Shand) London: Routledge (2003) 297–324. [17] “Thomas Samuel Kuhn” Dictionary of Literary Biography (2003) 154–66. [16] “Structural Properties” in Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor (eds. Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra) London: Routledge (2003) 154–68. [15] “Laws and Criteria” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (2002) 511–41. [14] “What is in a Paradigm?” Richmond Journal of Philosophy 2 (2002) 11–20. [13] “On Whether Some Laws are Necessary” Analysis 62 (2002) 257–70. [12] “Kuhn’s Wrong Turning” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33 (2002) 443–63. [11] “Illocutionary Silencing” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2002) 1–15. [10] “Necessarily, Salt Dissolves in Water” Analysis 61 (2001) 267–74. [9] “Scepticism and Contrast Classes” Analysis 61 (2001) 97–107. [8] “Il concetto di metodo scientifico e spegazione” (“The concept of scientific method and explanation”) Interpretare (Italy) 3 (2000) 116–49. [7] “Further Antidotes: A Response to Gundersen” Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2000) 229–33. [6] “Scientific Revolutions and Inference to the Best Explanation” Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 34 (1999) 25–42. [5] “Explanation and Laws” Synthese 120 (1999) 1–18. [4] “Dispositions and Antidotes” Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1998) 227–34. [3] “The Logic in Logicism” Dialogue 36 (1997) 341–60. [2] “Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry” J. History of Ideas 57 (1996) 217–31. [1] “Rationality and the Structure of Self-Deception” in European Review of Philosophy 1 (1994) 19– 38.
All the above papers are available online from: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/research.html For details of citations see: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8PytVRIAAAAJ
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Reviews
• Mumford, S. David Armstrong in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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