Thomas Nickles (nickles-t)

My contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Asquith, Peter D. and Nickles, Thomas, eds. 1982. PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Asquith, Peter D. and Nickles, Thomas, eds. 1983. PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia and Invited Papers. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Asquith, Peter D. and Nickles, Thomas, eds. 1984. PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Nickles, Thomas. 1973. “Two Concepts of Intertheoretic Reduction.” The Journal of Philosophy 70(7): 181–201.
Nickles, Thomas. 1974. “Heuristics and Justification in Scientific Research: Comments on Shapere (1974).” in The Structure of Scientific Theories, edited by Frederick Suppe, pp. 571–599. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Second edition: Suppe (1977).
Nickles, Thomas. 1976a. “Theory Generalization, Problem Reduction and the Unity of Science.” in PSA 1974: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, edited by Robert S. Cohen, Clifford A. Hooker, Alex C. Michalos, and James W. van Evra, pp. 33–75. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 32. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas. 1976b. “On some Autonomy Arguments in Social Science.” in PSA 1976: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers & Special Sessions, edited by Frederick Suppe and Peter D. Asquith, pp. 12–24. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Nickles, Thomas. 1977. “Davidson on Explanation.” Philosophical Studies 31(2): 141–145.
Nickles, Thomas. 1978. “Scientific Problems and Constraints.” in PSA 1978: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ian Hacking, pp. 134–148. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Nickles, Thomas, ed. 1980a. Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 56. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas, ed. 1980b. Scientific Discovery: Case Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 60. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas. 1980c. “Scientific Discovery and the Future of Philosophy of Science.” in Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 1–60. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 56. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas. 1980d. “Can Scientific Constraints Be Violated Rationally?” in Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 285–316. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 56. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas. 1980e. “Scientific Problems: Three Empiricist Models.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 3–11. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Nickles, Thomas. 1984. “Positive Science and Discoverability.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 13–27. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Nickles, Thomas. 1987a. “Methodology, Heuristics, and Rationality.” in Rational Changes in Science. Essays on Scientific Reasoning, edited by Joseph C. Pitt and Marcello Pera, pp. 103–134. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 98. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas. 1987b. “From Natural Philosophy to Metaphilosophy of Science.” in Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, edited by Robert H. Kargon and Peter Achinstein, pp. 507–541. Studies from the John Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Nickles, Thomas. 1988. “Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment.” in Theory and Experiment. Recent Insights and New Perspectives on Their Relation, edited by Diderik Batens and Jean Paul van Bendegem, pp. 33–54. Synthese Library n. 195. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Nickles, Thomas. 1989. “Truth or Consequences? Generative versus Consequential Justification in Science.” in PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Jarrett Leplin, pp. 393–405. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Nickles, Thomas. 1990. “Discovery.” in Companion to the History of Modern Science, edited by Robert C. Olby, Geoffrey N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie, and Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, pp. 148–165. London: Routledge.
Nickles, Thomas. 2001a. “Discovery.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 85–96. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Nickles, Thomas. 2001b. “Lakatos.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 207–212. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Nickles, Thomas. 2002. “From Copernicus to Ptolemy: Inconsistency and Method.” in Inconsistency in Science, edited by Joke Meheus, pp. 1–34. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0085-6.
Nickles, Thomas, ed. 2003a. Thomas Kuhn. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nickles, Thomas. 2003b. “Introduction.” in Thomas Kuhn, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 1–18. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nickles, Thomas. 2003c. “Normal Science: From Logic to Case-Based and Model-Based Reasoning.” in Thomas Kuhn, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 142–177. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nickles, Thomas. 2005. “Problem Reduction: Some Thoughts.” in Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry, edited by Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, and Jeanne Peijnenburg, pp. 107–133. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities n. 84. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Nickles, Thomas. 2006. “Heuristic Appraisal: Context of Discovery or Justification?” in Revisiting Discovery and Justification. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction, edited by Jutta Schickore and Friedrich Steinle, pp. 159–182. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology n. 14. Dordrecht: Springer.
Nickles, Thomas. 2008a. “Scientific Discovery.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 442–451. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Nickles, Thomas. 2008b. “Disruptive Scientific Change.” in Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?, edited by Léna Soler, Howard Sankey, and Paul Hoyningen-Huene, pp. 351–380. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 255. Dordrecht: Springer.
Nickles, Thomas. 2009. “Scientific Revolutions.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/scientific-revolutions/.
Nickles, Thomas. 2012. “Dynamic Robustness and Design in Nature and Artifact.” in Characterizing the Robustness of Science. After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science, edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Thomas Nickles, and William C. Wimsatt, pp. 329–360. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 292. Dordrecht: Springer.
Nickles, Thomas. 2013. “Scientific Revolutions.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2013/entries/scientific-revolutions/.
Nickles, Thomas. 2016. “Perspectivism Versus a Completed Copernican Revolution.” Axiomathes 26(4): 367–382.
Nickles, Thomas. 2017a. “Cognitive Illusions and Nonrealism: Objections and Replies.” in Varieties of Scientific Realism. Objectivity and Truth in Science, edited by Evandro Agazzi, pp. 151–164. Berlin: Springer.
Nickles, Thomas. 2017b. “Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/rationality-historicist/.
Nickles, Thomas. 2017c. “Scientific Revolutions.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/scientific-revolutions/.
Nickles, Thomas and McCollum-Nickles, Gaye. 2002. “James on Bootstraps, Evolution, and Life.” in Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God. Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J., edited by Babette E. Babich, pp. 361–376. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 225. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Soler, Léna, Trizio, Emiliano, Nickles, Thomas and Wimsatt, William C., eds. 2012. Characterizing the Robustness of Science. After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 292. Dordrecht: Springer.

Further References

Shapere, Dudley. 1974. “Scientific Theories and Their Domains.” in The Structure of Scientific Theories, edited by Frederick Suppe, pp. 518–565. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Reprinted in Shapere (1984, 273–319).
Shapere, Dudley. 1984. Reason and the Search for Knowledge. Investigations in the Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 78. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.