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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Robert Brown is a Canadian philosopher of science. He is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. In the philosophy of mathematics, he has advocated mathematical Platonism, visual reasoning, and in the philosophy of science he has defended scientific realism mostly against anti-realist views associated with social constructivism. He has also argued for the socialization of medical research . He is largely known for his work on thought experiments.
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- Automated collection of quality-of-life data: a comparison of paper and computer touch-screen questionnaires. (1999) (346)
- Evidence-based guidelines for interpreting change scores for the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30. (2012) (320)
- The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences (1993) (246)
- An international field study of the reliability and validity of a disease-specific questionnaire module (the QLQ-MY20) in assessing the quality of life of patients with multiple myeloma. (2007) (187)
- What is Applied Mathematics? (1997) (174)
- Self-reported quality of life of individual cancer patients: concordance of results with disease course and medical records. (2001) (127)
- Who rules in science? : an opinionated guide to the wars (2001) (122)
- What is a Definition? (1998) (88)
- Thought experiments since the scientific revolution (1986) (86)
- Philosophy of Mathematics: A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures (2008) (82)
- A Preliminary Report of Long-term Elimination of Detectable Mutans Streptococci in Man (1988) (79)
- Lifting as an industrial hazard. (1973) (76)
- The Natural philosophy of Leibniz (1985) (75)
- Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (1983) (74)
- Proofs and Pictures (1997) (67)
- The rational and the social (1989) (65)
- Clinical Trial in Adults of an Antimicrobial Varnish for Reducing Mutans Streptococci (1991) (59)
- Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons (2000) (58)
- Valuing temporary and chronic health states associated with breast screening. (1998) (57)
- Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality (1994) (55)
- The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (2017) (50)
- Peeking into Plato’s Heaven (2004) (46)
- Disease-specific and generic health outcomes: a model for the evaluation of long-term intrathecal opioid therapy in noncancer low back pain patients. (1999) (42)
- Why Empiricism Won't Work (1992) (39)
- Heavy metal concentrations in Ontario fish (1977) (34)
- An Intimate Relation (1989) (30)
- Constructivism and Science (1989) (29)
- Developing a useful, user-friendly website for cancer patient follow-up: users' perspectives on ease of access and usefulness. (2012) (28)
- Reviews-Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures (2005) (24)
- Constructivism and science : essays in recent German philosophy (1989) (22)
- Comparative study of DDT and its derivatives in human blood samples in norfolk county and Holland Marsh, Ontario (1975) (21)
- Funding, objectivity and the socialization of medical research (2002) (21)
- Philosophy of Mathematics (1999) (21)
- Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge (2011) (20)
- The Promise and Perils of Thought Experiments (2006) (18)
- The effect of environmental and dietary stress on the concentration of 1,1-Bis (4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-trichloroethane in rats. (1970) (17)
- Politics, Method, and Medical Research (2008) (16)
- Thought experiments in philosophy, science and the arts (2013) (15)
- The role of a pre-scored multi-attribute health classification measure in validating condition-specific health state descriptions. (1999) (14)
- Postmodernism and Science Education: An Appraisal (2014) (13)
- Zirconium lactate and barium zirconate. Acute toxicity and inhalation effects in experimental animals. (1963) (12)
- Counter Thought Experiments (2007) (12)
- Money, Method and Medical Research (2004) (11)
- Philosophy of science : the key thinkers (2012) (11)
- On the Plurality of Worlds David Lewis Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. Pp. 276. $58.00, $27.00 paper (1987) (11)
- Observations on halogens as bathing water disinfectants. (1966) (11)
- Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and Mathematics (2007) (10)
- Human blood cholinesterase activity—Holland Marsh, Ontario, 1976 (1978) (10)
- Proofs and Guarantees (2017) (10)
- π in the Sky (1990) (10)
- Forward and inverse problems (2017) (9)
- History and the Norms of Science (1980) (9)
- How Do Feynman Diagrams Work? (2018) (8)
- Introduction: The Sociological Turn (1984) (8)
- 8. Illustration and Inference (1996) (8)
- Thought Experiments: State of the Art (2018) (7)
- Science in the looking glass: what do scientists really know? (2005) (7)
- Naturalism, Pictures, and Platonic Intuitions (2005) (7)
- Systematic review of the use of translated patient-reported outcome measures in cancer trials (2021) (6)
- THE MIRACLE OF SCIENCE (1982) (6)
- Academic Freedom, Affirmative Action, and the Advance of Knowledge (1997) (6)
- Rescher's evolutionary epistemology (1985) (6)
- Medical Market Failures and Their Remedy (2011) (6)
- Foundations without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic Stewart Shapiro Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, xx + 277 pp. (1996) (5)
- ACUTE TOXICITY OF THREE EPISULPHIDE COMPOUNDS IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS. (1964) (5)
- Socializing Medical Research (2017) (5)
- Underdetermination and the Social Side of Science (1995) (4)
- Science in a Free Society by Paul Feyerabend; New Left Books; London, 1978; Pp. 221. (1981) (4)
- Silica flour exposures in Ontario. (1978) (4)
- Can individual patients assess differences in quality of life between groups of patients? (2014) (4)
- Preparing Nursing and Social Work Students to Care for Patients in Acute Alcohol Withdrawal (2017) (4)
- Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc. (1999) (4)
- Patents and Progress (2016) (3)
- Learning from the Past (1989) (3)
- Thought Experiments in Biology (2017) (3)
- On Foundations of Seismology: Bringing Idealizations Down to Earth (2014) (3)
- Special issue on visual representations and reasoning (2013) (3)
- Einstein's brand of verificationism (1987) (3)
- Science and constructive mathematics (2003) (3)
- Explaining, Seeing, and Understanding in Thought Experiments (2014) (3)
- Rigour and Thought Experiments: Burgess and Norton (2021) (3)
- Von Neumann and the anti-realists (1985) (3)
- Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science Larry Laudan Chicago: University of Chicago, Press, 1990. xii + 180 p., $16.85 (1992) (2)
- Latour’s Prosaic Science (1991) (2)
- Thermal stress: the need for an international standard. (1977) (2)
- Prevalence of Work-Related Neck and Shoulder Disorders with Associated Risk Factors and Disability among Primary School Teachers in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia (2019) (2)
- Distribution of organochlorine pesticides in an agricultural environment, Holland Marsh, Ontario--1970-72. (1975) (2)
- Realism, Miracles, and the Common Cause (1982) (2)
- Bacterial Degradation of Crude Oil and Oil Components in Pure and Mixed Culture Systems (1980) (2)
- Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? by Michael Ruse (review) (2014) (2)
- Seeing With the Mind’s Eye (2021) (2)
- Ethics and the Continuum Hypothesis (2019) (1)
- Neurocognitive outcomes of head and neck chemoradiotherapy: A pilot study. (2009) (1)
- A dust dispenser for deliquescent-material. (1962) (1)
- Kitcher's mathematical naturalism (2003) (1)
- EPR As A Priori Science (1992) (1)
- Counter Thought Experiments (2007) (1)
- Acute oral and parenteral toxicity of four titanate compounds in the rat. (1962) (1)
- Social Factors in Science (2017) (1)
- Swinburne on God and Simplicity. (2011) (1)
- Paradigms and Revolutions: Applications and Appraisals of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science Garry Gutting, editor University of Notre Dame Press, 1980. Pp. 339. U.S. $7.95 (1982) (1)
- Science, Truth, and Democracy (2004) (1)
- A guide to effective geophysical writing and presentation (2004) (1)
- 1267PQUALITY-OF-LIFE (QOL), TOLERABILITY, AND SUPPORTIVE CARE RESULTS: NECITUMUMAB PHASE 3 SQUIRE STUDY. (2014) (1)
- Mathematics, Role in Science (2017) (1)
- 3 Kuhn, Nisbett, Thought Experiments, and the Needham Question (2016) (1)
- The Experimenters' Social Circle (1988) (1)
- Why Spacetime Has a Life of Its Own (2017) (1)
- Legitimate Mathematical Methods (2020) (1)
- Platonism, Metaphor, and Mathematics (2004) (1)
- Proof and truth in Lakatos's masterpiece (1990) (1)
- Platonic explanation: Or, what abstract entities can do for you (1988) (0)
- Picture-proofs and Platonism (2010) (0)
- A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy . By Jacob Bronowski. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1977 xi + 286 pages. $12.50 (1979) (0)
- Platonism and laws: A reply to Demetra Sfendoni‐Mentzou (1994) (0)
- Benacerraf and His Critics Adam Morton and Stephen Stich, editors Philosophers and Their Critics, vol. 8 Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996, xi + 271 pp., $54.95 (1998) (0)
- Michael Redhead , Incompleteness, Nonlocality, and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics . Reviewed by (1988) (0)
- 5. Self-Censorship (2006) (0)
- Another fine footnote to Plato (2018) (0)
- The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Introduction to Cantor's Paradise Mary Tiles Oxford: Blackwell, 1989, x + 239 p. £30 (1990) (0)
- The legacy of Darwin (2004) (0)
- Books for review and for listing here should be addressed to Emily Zakin, Review Editor, Teaching Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 (2000) (0)
- Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling, eds, Emotions in the History of Witchcraft (2017) (0)
- A Study of New Versions (2016) (0)
- Abstract Objects Bob Hale Oxford: Blackwell, 1987. Pp. 282. $75.00 (1988) (0)
- Traditional Knowledge and the Smallpox Eradication Campaign (2012) (0)
- Einstein’s Principle Theory (1998) (0)
- Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Approach and Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (1998) (0)
- PMH45 CROSS-SECTIONAL EVALUATION OF HEALTH STATE UTILITY IN SWEDISH OUTPATIENTS SUFFERING FROM MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (2010) (0)
- The effect of dursban on micro-flora in non-saline waters. (1975) (0)
- Development of clinical research process metrics and tracking improvement in quality assurance in clinical trials. (2011) (0)
- Quality of Life of Patients with Multiple Myeloma Questionnaire (2021) (0)
- Improving quality assurance in clinical trials (CT) through standardization: A review of source documentation practices at a large Canadian cancer center. (2011) (0)
- Auditory Acuity of the Native Population at Igloolik, Keewatin, N.W.T. (1975) (0)
- P.3.a.042 Clinical course, social functioning, quality of life & medication tolerability in previously untreated patients with schizophrenia: 36-month results from the European schizophrenia outpatient health outcomes (SOHO) study (2006) (0)
- PDB44 IS DIABETES KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG ENGLISH-SPEAKING SUBJECTS WITH DIABETES IN SINGAPORE? (2010) (0)
- Keith Parsons (ed.),The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books (2003), 300 pp., $21 (paper). (2005) (0)
- An automated saccade analysis system (1977) (0)
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND ITS LOGIC (1989) (0)
- Introduction (2018) (0)
- Roy Sorensen, Thought Experiments. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press1992. Pp. xii + 318. (1995) (0)
- Grounding Concepts: an Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge – C.S. Jenkins (2011) (0)
- Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists David Stove Oxford: Pergamon, 1982. Pp. 116. $9.95 paper (also available in hardcover) (1985) (0)
- The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (2010) (0)
- The Rationality of Science (1983) (0)
- Unravelling Holism (1987) (0)
- Realism and the Anthropocentrics (1984) (0)
- Russell Marcus and Mark McEvoy, eds. An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics: A Reader. (2017) (0)
- A dialogue with the damned (2019) (0)
- Thought Experiments and Inertial Motion: A Golden Thread in the Development of Mechanics (2009) (0)
- The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory) : How to Understand Science in a Social World (2014) (0)
- Tennessen and the Problem of Conceptual Schemes (1986) (0)
- Certain confusion over uncertainty (2002) (0)
- Intertheory and intratheory relations (2017) (0)
- Editorial (2001) (0)
- Comments and Replies (2007) (0)
- Continuum mechanics: General principles, constitutive relations (2017) (0)
- Seeing is Reasoning (2007) (0)
- David Bostock. Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction (2010) (0)
- Michael Ruse Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy. Oxford and New York: Blackwell1986. Pp. xvi+303 (1990) (0)
- Smooth move Einstein (2016) (0)
- Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany by Abraham A. Fraenkel; edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield (2018) (0)
- On continua and models (2017) (0)
- Scientific life in the brave new world (2000) (0)
- Review of Otávio Bueno and Steven French's Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretations (2019) (0)
- Katerina Ierodiakonou and Sophie Roux, eds. Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. vii+233. €99.00 (2013) (0)
- Otavio Bueno and Steven French, Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), 288 pp., $60.00 (cloth). (2020) (0)
- REVIEW: Katerina Ierodiakonou and Sophie Roux, eds. Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts (2013) (0)
- A MUSE OF FIRE (2014) (0)
- Siobhan Roberts. King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry (2007) (0)
- Thought Experiments in Ethics (2017) (0)
- Natural Science and Supernatural Thought Experiments (2019) (0)
- Review: Philosophies of Mathematics (2002) (0)
- Science and Convention. Jerzy Giedymin (1985) (0)
- The Reality of Formal Causes (2005) (0)
- Is the World Really What Science Tells Us It Is?: A Summer Debate at Dalhousie (1984) (0)
- Review Article: Latour's Prosaic Science (2016) (0)
- Introduction to the special issue on rationality (1999) (0)
- Attacks and Defenses (2021) (0)
- Reply to Foss (1997) (0)
- What is Naturalism (2013) (0)
- Essay review (1996) (0)
- Reviews-Thomas Kuhn (2002) (0)
- Critical Studies/Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke (review) (2009) (0)
- Introduction: The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz (1985) (0)
- Aspects of seismological theory (2017) (0)
- Vintage Popper: The Postscript, After Fifty Years (1984) (0)
- Boundaries, Reasons, and Ideology: Reply to Sismondo (2005) (0)
- Reply to Puccetti (1984) (0)
- Does mathematics have a life of its own? (2011) (0)
- Plato's Heaven: A User's Guide (2021) (0)
- Nature of science and its methods (2017) (0)
- Karl Popper Anthony O'Hear London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. 219. $30 (1982) (0)
- Marco Panza and Andrea Sereni. Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-0-230-36548-3 (hbk); 978-0-230-36549-0 (pbk); 978-1-13726147-2 (e-book); 978-1-13729813-3 (pdf). Pp. xi + 306 (2014) (0)
- Rationality and Relativism Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes, editors Oxford: Blackwell, 1982. Pp. 312. $34.25, cloth; $18.25, paper (1983) (0)
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