Richard N. Boyd (boyd-ri)

My contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Boyd, Richard N. 1973. “Realism, Underdetermination, and a Causal Theory of Evidence.” Noûs 7(1).
Boyd, Richard N. 1979. “Metaphor and Theory Change: What is ‘Metaphor’ a Metaphor For?” in Metaphor and Thought, edited by Andrew Ortony, pp. 481–532. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Substantially revised in the second edition (Ortony 1993).
Boyd, Richard N. 1980. “Materialism Without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail.” in Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology. Volume I, edited by Ned Block, pp. 67–106. Language and Thought. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1981. “Scientific Realism and Naturalistic Epistemology.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 613–662. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Boyd, Richard N. 1983. “On the Current Status of Scientific Realism.” Erkenntnis 19(1–3): 45–90. Reprinted in Hempel, Putnam and Essler (1983, 45–90), in Boyd, Gasper and Trout (1991) and in Leplin (1984, 41–82).
Boyd, Richard N. 1985a. “Observations, Explanatory Power, and Simplicity: Toward a Non-Humean Account.” in Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Science, edited by Peter Achinstein and Owen Hannaway. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Reprinted and revised in Boyd, Gasper and Trout (1991).
Boyd, Richard N. 1985b. “Lex Orandi est Lex Credendi.” in Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, pp. 1–34. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1985c. “The Logician’s Dilemma: Deductive Logic, Inductive Inference and Logical Empiricism.” Erkenntnis 22(1–3): 197–252. Reprinted in Essler, Putnam and Stegmüller (1985, 197–252).
Boyd, Richard N. 1988. “How to Be a Moral Realist.” in Essays on Moral Realism, pp. 181–228. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1989. “What Realism Implies and What it Does Not.” Dialectica 43(1–2): 5–29.
Boyd, Richard N. 1990a. “Realism, Conventionality, and ‘Realism About’ .” in Meaning and Method – Essays in Honour of Hilary Putnam, edited by George Boolos, pp. 171–196. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1990b. “Realism, Approximate Truth, and Philosophical Method.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 355–391. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1991. “Introductory Essay: Confirmation, Semantics, and the Interpretation of Scientific Theories.” in The Philosophy of Science, edited by Richard N. Boyd, Philip Gasper, and J. D. Trout, pp. 3–36. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1992. “Constructivism, Realism, and Philosophical Method.” in Inference, Explanation and Other Philosophical Frustrations, edited by John S. Earman, pp. 131–198. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 1995. “Postscript to Boyd (1988).” in Contemporary Materialism. A Reader, edited by Paul K. Moser and J. D. Trout, pp. 357–370. London: Routledge.
Boyd, Richard N. 1999. “Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa.” in Species. New Interdisciplinary Essays, edited by Robert A. Wilson, pp. 141–185. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/6396.003.0012.
Boyd, Richard N. 2001. “Reference, (In)commensurability and Meanings: Some (Perhaps) Unanticipated Complexities.” in Incommensurability and Related Matters, edited by Paul Hoyningen-Huene and Howard Sankey, pp. 1–64. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 216. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Boyd, Richard N. 2002a. “Scientific Realism.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2002/entries/scientific-realism/.
Boyd, Richard N. 2002b. “Truth Through Thick and Thin.” in What is Truth?, edited by Richard Schantz, pp. 38–59. Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy n. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Boyd, Richard N. 2003a. “Finite Beings, Finite Goods: The Semantics, Metaphysics and Ethics of Naturalist Consequentialism, Part I.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66(3): 505–553.
Boyd, Richard N. 2003b. “Finite Beings, Finite Goods: The Semantics, Metaphysics and Ethics of Naturalist Consequentialism, Part II.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67(1): 24–47.
Boyd, Richard N. 2009. “Imperial Fathers and Favorite Sons: J.S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Nineteenth-Century Visions of Empire.” in Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville, edited by Jill Locke and Eileen Margaret Botting Hunt, pp. 225–252. Rereading the Canon. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 2010. “Realism, Natural Kinds, and Philosophical Methods.” in The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, edited by Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary, pp. 212–234. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 1. London: Routledge.
Boyd, Richard N. 2013a. “Semantic Externalism and Knowing Our Own Minds: Ignoring Twin-Earth and Doing Naturalistic Philosophy.” Theoria 79(3): 204–228.
Boyd, Richard N. 2013b. “What of Pragmatism with the World Here?” in Reading Putnam, edited by Maria Baghramian, pp. 39–94. London: Routledge.
Boyd, Richard N. 2013c. “Adam Smith on Civility and Civil Society.” in The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith, edited by Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli, and Craig A. Smith, pp. 443–463. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Boyd, Richard N. 2015. “Justice, Beneficence, and Boundaries: Rousseau and the Paradox of Generality.” in The General Will. The Evolution of a Concept, edited by James Farr and David Lay Williams, pp. 247–269. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781107297982.
Boyd, Richard N. 2016a. “How Philosophers ‘Learn’ from Biology – Reductionist and Antireductionist ‘Lessons’ .” in How Biology Shapes Philosophy. New Foundations for Naturalism, edited by David Livingstone Smith, pp. 276–301. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781107295490.
Boyd, Richard N. 2016b. “Locke on Property and Money.” in A Companion to Locke, edited by Matthew Stuart, pp. 394–412. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781118328705.
Boyd, Richard N. 2021. “The Accommodation Theory of Reference.” in The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, edited by Stephen Biggs and Heimir Geirsson, pp. 345–358. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Boyd, Richard N., Gasper, Philip and Trout, J. D., eds. 1991. The Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Further References

Essler, Wilhelm K., Putnam, Hilary and Stegmüller, Wolfgang, eds. 1985. Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science. Essays in Honour of Carl G. Hempel on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, January 8th 1985. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Hempel, Carl Gustav, Putnam, Hilary and Essler, Wilhelm K., eds. 1983. Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Stegmüller on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, June 3rd 1983. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7676-5.
Leplin, Jarrett, ed. 1984. Scientific Realism. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, doi:10.2307/jj.2430495.