John Worrall (worrall-j)

Cited in the following articles

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Cheyne, Colin and Worrall, John, eds. 2006. Rationality and Reality. Conversations with Alan Musgrave. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: Springer.
Scerri, Eric R. and Worrall, John. 2001. “Prediction and the Periodic Table.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32(3): 407–452.
Worrall, John. 1976. “Imre Lakatos (1922–1974): Philosopher of Mathematics and Philosopher of Science.” in Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos, edited by Robert S. Cohen, Paul K. Feyerabend, and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 1–8. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 39. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Worrall, John. 1978a. “The Ways in which the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Improves on Popper’s Methodology.” in Progress and Rationality in Science, edited by Gerard A. Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson, pp. 45–70. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 58. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Worrall, John. 1978b. “Research Programmes, Empirical Support, and the Duhem Problem: Replies to Criticism.” in Progress and Rationality in Science, edited by Gerard A. Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson, pp. 321–338. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 58. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Worrall, John. 1985a. “The Background to the Forefront: A Response to Levi (1985) and Shapere (1985).” 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. 672–682. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Worrall, John. 1985b. “Scientific Discovery and Theory-Confirmation.” in Change and Progress in Modern Science, edited by Joseph C. Pitt, pp. 301–332. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 27. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Worrall, John. 1989a. “Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds?” Dialectica 43(1–2): 99–124, doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.1989.tb00933.x.
Worrall, John. 1989b. “Why Both Popper and Watkins Fail to Solve the Problem of Induction.” in Freedom and Rationality. Essays in Honor of John Watkins from his Colleagues and Friends, edited by Fred B. D’Agostino and Ian C. Jarvie, pp. 257–296. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 117. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Worrall, John. 1990. “Scientific Revolutions and Scientific Rationality: The Case of the Elderly Holdout.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 319–354. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Worrall, John. 1991. “Feyerabend and the Facts.” in Beyond Reason. Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend, edited by Gonzalo Munévar, pp. 329–354. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 132. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Worrall, John. 1993. “Falsification, Rationality, and the Duhem Problem. Grünbaum versus Bayes.” in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by John S. Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher, pp. 329–369. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Worrall, John. 1994. “How to Remain (Reasonably) Optimistic: Scientific Realism and the ‘Luminiferous Ether’ .” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 334–342. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Worrall, John. 1995. “Revolution in Permanence: Popper on Theory-Change in Science.” in Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 75–102. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Worrall, John. 1998. “Philosophy and the Natural Sciences.” in Philosophy 2: Further through the Subject, edited by Anthony C. Grayling, pp. 197–266. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Worrall, John. 2000. “Kuhn, Bayes and ‘Theory-Choice’: How Revolutionary is Kuhn’s Account of Theoretical Change?” in After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend. Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method, edited by Robert Nola and Howard Sankey, pp. 125–152. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 15. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Worrall, John. 2001a. “Pragmatic Factors in Theory Acceptance.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 349–357. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Worrall, John. 2001b. “Defining Disease: Much Ado about Nothing?” in Life: Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition, edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Evandro Agazzi, pp. 33–56. Analecta Husserliana n. 72. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Worrall, John. 2002a. “Philosophy of Science: Classic Debates, Standard Problems, Future Prospects.” in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Michael Silberstein, pp. 18–36. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756614.
Worrall, John. 2002b. “New Evidence for Old.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science XI: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume One of the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999, edited by Peter Gärdenfors, Jan Woleński, and Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, pp. 191–212. Synthese Library n. 315. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Worrall, John. 2003. “Normal Science and Dogmatism, Paradigms and Progress: Kuhn ‘versus’ Popper and Lakatos.” in Thomas Kuhn, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 65–100. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Worrall, John. 2004. “Science Discredits Religion.” in Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. VanArragon, pp. 59–71. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 1. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Worrall, John. 2006. “Theory-Confirmation and History.” in Rationality and Reality. Conversations with Alan Musgrave, edited by Colin Cheyne and John Worrall, pp. 31–62. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: Springer.
Worrall, John. 2007a. “Miracles and Models: Why reports of the death of Structural Realism may be exaggerated.” in Philosophy of Science, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 125–154. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Worrall, John. 2007b. “Evidence in Medicine and Evidence-Based Medicine.” Philosophy Compass 2(6): 981–1022.
Worrall, John. 2008. “Theory-Change in Science.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 281–291. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Worrall, John. 2011a. “The No Miracles Intuition and the No Miracles Argument.” in Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation, edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas E. Uebel, and Marcel Weber, pp. 11–22. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 2. Berlin: Springer.
Worrall, John. 2011b. “Underdetermination, Realism and Empirical Equivalence.” Synthese 180(2): 157–172.
Worrall, John. 2012. “Miracles and Structural Realism.” in Structural Realism. Structure, Object, and Causality, edited by Elaine M. Landry and Dean P. Rickles, pp. 77–97. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 77. Dordrecht: Springer.
Worrall, John. 2014. “Prediction and Accommodation Revisited.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 45: 54–61.

Further References

Levi, Isaac. 1985. “Messianic vs Myopic Realism.” 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. 617–636. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Shapere, Dudley. 1985. “Objectivity, Rationality, and Scientific Change.” 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. 637–663. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.