Richard Boyd

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Richard Newell Boyd (born May 19, 1942 in Washington, DC ) is an American philosopher and science theorist . He is one of the representatives of scientific realism .

Boyd received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970 with Hilary Putnam . His academic positions were at Harvard University , the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley . Since 1972 he has been a professor at the Sage School Faculty , Cornell University , specializing in philosophy of science , epistemology and philosophy of language as well as ethics , social and political philosophy , especially Marxism and the philosophy of biology .

Publications

  • A Recursion-Theoretic Characterization of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy , with Gustav Hensel and Hilary Putnam, in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 141 (Jul., 1969), 37-62 (dissertation topic)
  • Realism and Scientific Epistemology. Unpublished 1971
  • Determinism, Laws and Predictability in Principle, Philosophy of Science 39 (1972): 431-50.
  • Realism, Underdetermination, and a Causal Theory of Evidence. in: Nous 7 (1973): 1-12.
  • Approximate Truth and Natural Necessity , in: The Journal of Philosophy Vol. 73, No. 18, Seventy-Third Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (Oct. 1976), 633-635
  • Metaphor and Theory Change in: A. Ortony (ed.): Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail. In: Readings in Philosophy of Psychology , ed. N. Block, vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press 1980.
  • Scientific Realism and Naturalistic Epistemology, PSA 80, vol. 2 (Philosophy of Science Association) (ed RN Giere / PD Asquith) (1982).
  • On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism, Knowledge (1983) 19: 45-90.
  • Observations, Explanatory Power and Simplicity, in: Observation, Experiment and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science, ed. Achinstein and Hannaway (1985).
  • Lex Orandi est Lex Credendi, in: Images of Science: Scientific Realism Versus Constructive Empiricism, ed. Churchland and Hooker, Chicago 1985.
  • The Logician's Dilemma: Deductive Logic, Inductive Inference and Logical Empiricism, Knowledge (1985).
  • Realism and the Moral Sciences. Unpublished 1987
  • How to be a Moral Realist, in: Moral Realism, ed.Sayre McCord, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1988.
  • What Realism implies and What It Does Not , in: Dielactica (1989)
  • Realism, Conventionality, and 'Realism About , in: Boolos (ed.): Meaning and Method , Cambridge 1990
  • Realism, Approximate Truth and Philosophical Method , in: Wade Savage (ed.): Scientific Theories, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 14 . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1990)
  • Realism, Anti-Foundationalism and the Enthusiasm for Natural Kinds , in: Philosophical Studies 61 (1991), 127-148
  • Constructivism, Realism, and Philosophical Method , in: J. Earman (Ed.): Inference, Explanation, and Other Philosophical Frustrations . Berkeley: University of California Press (1992).
  • Metaphor and Theory Change, in Metaphor and Thought, ed.Ortony, New York 1993.
  • Kinds as the "Workmanship of Men. Realism, Constructivism, and Natural Kinds , in: Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.) Rationalität, Realismus, Revision: Proceedings of the Third International Congress, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie . Berlin: de Gruyter (1999 ).
  • Kinds, Complexity and Multiple Realizations: Comments on Millikan's 'Historical Kinds and the Special Sciences' , in: Philosophical Studies
  • Homeostasis, Species, and Higher Taxa , in: R. Wilson (ed.): Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays , Cambdrige: MIT Press
  • Scientific Realism , in: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002)

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