Monday, June 1, 2020

This blog is retired, new blogging at wescholars.org

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I have moved my blog and professional information to a new site: https://wescholars.org/blog/ Please check there for occasional posts on my...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

A Gentle Introduction to Scientific Realism

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Here are some notes for a discussion that I led yesterday at Ohio State's Philosophy Club. There is nothing really new here, but these n...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Special Journal Issue: Indispensability and Explanation

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There is a great new special issue of Synthese that brings together a number of new papers on explanatory indispensability arguments. The ...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Scientia Salon Discussion of Abstract Explanation Preprint

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There is lively discussion of my preprint "Abstract Explanations in Science" ( BJPS ) over at Scientia Salon. Readers of this blo...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Paperback of Mathematics and Scientific Representation is out!

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Thanks to some good work at Oxford, the paperback edition of my 2012 book is now available. (It is listed on Amazon at least, and should be...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

My PSA 2014 talk (title, abstract and change in time)

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This week is the 2014 edition of the Philosophy of Science Association conference. A great program has been assembled here . Due to an ove...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Two new papers on abstract (mathematical) explanation

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There has not been much activity here lately, but I wanted to link to two new papers of mine that tackle the vexing issue of mathematical ex...