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Selected Papers,
Essays and Editions |
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2007 |
“To the Icy
Slopes of Logic: Logical Empiricism, the Unity of
Science Movement and the Cold War,” Cambridge
Companion to Logical Empiricism, Alan Richardson and
Thomas Uebel, eds. Cambridge University Press.
Pink Floyd and
Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene! (edited
by George A. Reisch), Open Court Publishing Company. |
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2006 |
"Monty Python's
Utterly Devastating Critique of Ordinary Language
Philosophy" in Gary Hardcastle & George A. Reisch, eds.
Monty Python and Philosophy Chicago: Open Court,
pp. 231-242.
"A Theory of
Bullshit: Intelligently Designed" in Hardcastle &
Reisch, ed. Bullshit and Philosophy: Guaranteed
to Get Perfect Results Every Time. Chicago:
Open Court.
With Gary L. Hardcastle,
"What's All This, Then? The Introduction" in Gary
Hardcastle & George A. Reisch, eds. Monty Python and
Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court, pp. 1-10. |
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2005 |
“McCarthyism in
philosophy and the end of the unity of science ideology”
in Pursuing the Unity of Science: Ideology and
Scientific Practice Between the Great War and the Cold
War, ed. Geert Somsen and Harmka Kamminga, Cambridge
University Press.
How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science:
To the Icy Slopes of Logic, Cambridge University
Press, 432 pages.
“‘Doomed in Advance to Defeat’? John Dewey on
Reductionism, Values and the Unity of Science Movement”
in Paris–Wien: Enzyklopaedien im Vergleich, E.
Nemeth & N. Roudet, eds., Springer: Wien & New York. |
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2003 |
“Anticommunism,
the Unity of Science Movement and Kuhn’s
Structure of
Scientific Revolutions” Social Epistemology,
v. 17, nos. 2 & 3, pp. 271-75. |
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2002 |
Review. John
McCumber, Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and
the McCarthy Era (Northwestern University Press,
2001) Philosophy of Science, 69, no. 2.
“The Neurath-Carnap Disputes in the Context of World War
Two” in Logical Empiricism: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Paolo Parrini, Wesley
Salmon, and Merilee Salmon. University of Pittsburgh
Press. |
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2001 |
“‘The Cultural
Significance of Science’: an unpublished lecture by
Charles Morris,”edited with an Introduction by George A.
Reisch, Recherche Semiotique/Semiotic Inquiry (RS-SI),
21, pp. 73-99.
“Against a Third Dogma of Logical Empiricism: Otto
Neurath and “‘Unpredictability In Principle,’” International
Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15, pp.
199-209. |
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1999 |
“The Nature of
Science: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Science,”
with Julie Eflin & Stuart Glennan, Journal of
Research in Science Teaching, 36, pp. 107-116. |
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1998 |
“Pluralism,
Logical Empiricism, and the Problem of Pseudoscience,”
Philosophy of Science, 65, pp. 333-348. |
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1997 |
“Epistemologist,
Economist...and Censor? On Otto Neurath's Infamous Index
Verborum Prohibitorum,” Perspectives on Science
vol 5, no. 3, pp. 452-480.
Review. Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and
Politics by Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck,
and Thomas Uebel (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
ISIS, 88, pp. 561-62.
“How Postmodern was Neurath's Idea of Unified Science?”
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 28,
pp. 439-451. |
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1996 |
“Terminology in
Action: Neurath and the International Encyclopedia of
Unified Science” in Encyclopedia and Utopia,
Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, E. Nemeth and F.
Stadler, eds., Kluwer, pp. 79-86. |
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1995 |
“Scientism
Without Tears: A Reply to Roth and Ryckman” History
and Theory, 34, pp. 45-58. |
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1994 |
“Planning
Science: Otto Neurath and the International Encyclopedia
of Unified Science,” British Journal for the History
of Science, 27, pp. 153-175. |
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1993 |
Review. Conceptual Revolutions by Paul Thagard.
Quarterly Review of Biology, 68, 3, pp. 415-416.
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1991 |
“Did Kuhn Kill
Logical Empiricism?” Philosophy of Science, 58,
2, pp. 264-277.
“Chaos, History and Narrative” History and Theory,
30, 1, pp. 1-20.
Guide to the John A. Simpson Papers. Printed and
distributed by University of Chicago Archives,
Department of Special Collections, The University of
Chicago Library, 230 pp. |
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1985 |
1985. “Magnetic
Field Effects on the Lifetime and Luminescence Spectrum
of Tetrakis(u-Diphosphito)Diplatinate(II)” with W.A.
Turner and M.R. Corson, Chemical Physics Letters
117 6. |
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