Peter Achinstein (achinstein)

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Achinstein, Peter. 1964a. “Models, Analogies, and Theories.” Philosophy of Science 31(4): 328–350.
Achinstein, Peter. 1964b. “On the Meaning of Scientific Terms.” The Journal of Philosophy 61(20): 497–509.
Achinstein, Peter. 1965a. “ ‘Defeasible’ Problems.” The Journal of Philosophy 62(21): 629–633.
Achinstein, Peter. 1965b. “The Problem of Theoretical Terms.” American Philosophical Quarterly 2(1): 1–11. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 266–285).
Achinstein, Peter. 1967. “Comments [on Feyerabend (1967)]: Acute Proliferitis.” in Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964–1966. In Memory of Norwood Russell Hanson, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 416–424. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 3. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Achinstein, Peter. 1968. Concepts of Science. A Philosophical Analysis. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1970a. “Inference to Scientific Laws.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume V: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, edited by Roger H. Stuewer, pp. 87–103. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1970b. “Reply to Koslow (1970) and to Bowman (1970).” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume V: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, edited by Roger H. Stuewer, pp. 109–111. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1971. Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1973. “Macrotheories and Microtheories.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress in Bucharest 1971, edited by Patrick Suppes, Leon Henkin, Athanase Joja, and Gr.C. Moisil, pp. 533–566. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics n. 74. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
Achinstein, Peter. 1974a. “History and Philosophy of Science: A Reply to Cohen (1974).” in The Structure of Scientific Theories, edited by Frederick Suppe, pp. 350–360. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Second edition: Suppe (1977).
Achinstein, Peter. 1974b. “The Identity of Properties.” American Philosophical Quarterly 11(4): 257–275.
Achinstein, Peter. 1975a. “The Object of Explanation.” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 1–44. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1975b. “Reply [to Hesse (1975) and Harré (1975)].” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 66–74. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1977. “Function Statements.” Philosophy of Science 44: 341–367. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 181–209).
Achinstein, Peter. 1979. “The Causal Relation.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4: Studies in Metaphysics, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 369–386. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1980. “Discovery and Rule-Books.” in Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 117–138. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 56. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Achinstein, Peter. 1981. “Can there be a Model of Explanation?” Theory and Decision 13: 201–227. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 143–167).
Achinstein, Peter. 1982. The Nature of Explanation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter, ed. 1983. The Concept of Evidence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1984. “A Type of Non-Causal Explanation.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9: Causation and Causal Theories, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 221–243. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1985. “The Pragmatic Character of Explanation.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 275–292. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 123–142).
Achinstein, Peter. 1986. “Theoretical Derivations.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 17. Reprinted in Achinstein (1991a, 165–206).
Achinstein, Peter. 1987a. “Light Hypotheses.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 18. Reprinted in Achinstein (1991a, 69–116).
Achinstein, Peter. 1987b. “Scientific Discovery and Maxwell’s Kinetic Theory.” Philosophy of Science 54. Reprinted in Achinstein (1991a, 233–258).
Achinstein, Peter. 1990a. “Hypotheses, Probability, and Waves.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41. Reprinted in Achinstein (1991a, 117–149).
Achinstein, Peter. 1990b. “The Only Game in Town.” Philosophical Studies 58: 179–201. Reprinted in Achinstein (1991a, 259–279), doi:10.1007/BF00368281.
Achinstein, Peter. 1990c. “Newton’s Corpuscular Query and Experimental Philosophy.” in Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, edited by Phillip Bricker and R. I. G. Hughes, pp. 135–174. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Reprinted in Achinstein (1991a, 31–68).
Achinstein, Peter. 1991a. Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1991b. “General Introduction.” in Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 3–11. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1991c. “Introduction [to ‘Theories of Light: Particles versus Waves’].” in Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 13–30. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1991d. “Introduction [to ‘Maxwell and the Kinetic Theory of Gases’].” in Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 151–164. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1991e. “Maxwell’s Analogies and Kinetic Theory.” in Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 207–232. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1991f. “Introduction [to ‘Cathode Rays and the Electron’].” in Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 281–298. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1991g. “Theory, Experiment, and Cathode Rays.” in Particles and Waves. Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 299–334. New York: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1993a. “How to Defend a Theory Without Testing It: Niels Bohr and the ‘Logic of Pursuit’ .” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18: Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 90–120. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 1993b. “Waves and Scientific Method.” in PSA 1992: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Kathleen Okruhlik, pp. 193–204. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 85–101).
Achinstein, Peter. 1994a. “Explanation v. Prediction: Which Carries More Weight?” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 156–164. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 168–180).
Achinstein, Peter. 1994b. “Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality.” Perspectives on Science 2: 396–427. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 237–265).
Achinstein, Peter. 1997. “The Empirical Character of Evidence.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science X: Logic and Scientific Methods – Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Florence, 1995, edited by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Kees Doets, Daniele Mundici, and Johan van Benthem, pp. 23–34. Synthese Library n. 260. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Achinstein, Peter. 2000a. “Why Philosophical Theories of Evidence Are (and Ought to Be) Ignored by Scientists.” Philosophy of Science 67(suppl.): S180–S192. PSA 1998: Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers; reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 34–46).
Achinstein, Peter. 2000b. “The Symmetry Thesis.” in Science, Explanation, and Rationality. Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 167–185. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 2001a. The Book of Evidence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195143892.001.0001.
Achinstein, Peter. 2001b. “The Grue Paradox.” in Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, edited by Yuri Balashov and Alexander Rosenberg, pp. 307–320. Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. London: Routledge. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 47–60).
Achinstein, Peter. 2001c. “Who Really Discovered the Electron?” in Histories of the Electron. The Birth of Microphysics, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick, pp. 403–424. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 309–331).
Achinstein, Peter. 2001d. “Observation and Theory.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 325–334. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Achinstein, Peter. 2002. “Is there a Valid Experimental Argument for Scientific Realism?” The Journal of Philosophy 99(9): 470–495. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 211–236).
Achinstein, Peter. 2008. “Evidence.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 337–348. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Achinstein, Peter. 2010a. Evidence, Explanation, and Realism. Essays in the Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 2010b. “Concepts of Evidence.” in Evidence, Explanation, and Realism. Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 3–33. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 2010c. “The War on Induction. Whewell Takes on Newton and Mill (Norton Takes on Everyone).” in Evidence, Explanation, and Realism. Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 61–84. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Achinstein, Peter. 2010d. “An Illocutionary Theory of Explanation.” in Evidence, Explanation, and Realism. Essays in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 103–122. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted from Achinstein (1982).
Achinstein, Peter. 2010e. “What to Do if you Want to Defend a Theory You Can’t Prove. A Method of ‘Physical Speculation’ .” The Journal of Philosophy 107. Reprinted in Achinstein (2010a, 286–308).
Achinstein, Peter. 2011. “Scientific Knowledge.” in The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, edited by Sven Bernecker and Duncan Pritchard, pp. 346–357. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Achinstein, Peter. 2013. Evidence and Method. Scientific Strategies of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199921850.001.0001.
Achinstein, Peter. 2018. Speculation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190615055.001.0001.
Achinstein, Peter. 2024. “Positive Relevance.” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, edited by Maria Lasonen-Aarnio and Clayton Littlejohn, pp. 104–112. Routledge Handbooks. New York: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315672687.
Achinstein, Peter and Barker, Stephen F., eds. 1969. The Legacy of Logical Positivism: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.
Achinstein, Peter and Hannaway, Owen, eds. 1985. Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Achinstein, Peter and Snyder, Laura J., eds. 1994. Scientific Methods: Conceptual and Historical Problems. Huntington, New York: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co.
Barker, Stephen F. and Achinstein, Peter. 1960. “On the New Riddle of Induction.” The Philosophical Review 69(4): 511–522, doi:10.2307/2183485.
Kargon, Robert H. and Achinstein, Peter, eds. 1987. Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics. Studies from the John Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Further References

Bowman, Peter A. 1970. “Comment on Achinstein (1970a).” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume V: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, edited by Roger H. Stuewer, pp. 107–108. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Cohen, I. Bernard. 1974. “History and the Philosopher of Science.” in The Structure of Scientific Theories, edited by Frederick Suppe, pp. 308–349. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Second edition: Suppe (1977).
Feyerabend, Paul K. 1967. “On the Improvement of the Sciences and Arts, and the possible Identity of the Two.” in Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964–1966. In Memory of Norwood Russell Hanson, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 387–415. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 3. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harré, Rom. 1975. “Comment on Achinstein (1975a).” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 54–65. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Hesse, Mary B. 1975. “Comment on Achinstein (1975a).” in Explanation: Papers and Discussions, edited by Stephan Körner, pp. 45–53. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Koslow, Arnold. 1970. “Comment on Achinstein (1970a).” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume V: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives of Science, edited by Roger H. Stuewer, pp. 104–106. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.