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#3415

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#5530

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#1088

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#5654

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#7071

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#899

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PhD Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Philosophy Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Kyle Stanford is an American philosophy professor at the University of California, Irvine, who specializes in the philosophy of science. Education and career He earned his B.A. with Honors in Philosophy and Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991, and did his graduate work at the University of California, San Diego, earning his M.A. in philosophy, 1994, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy/Science Studies, in 1997, under the direction of Philip Kitcher.

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Kyle Stanford's Published Works

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Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives (2006) (445)
Exceeding Our Grasp (2006) (301)
Refusing the Devil's Bargain: What Kind of Underdetermination Should We Take Seriously? (2001) (112)
Refining the Causal Theory of Reference for Natural Kind Terms (2000) (80)
For Pluralism and against Realism about Species (1995) (76)
An Antirealist Explanation of the Success of Science (2000) (73)
Unconceived alternatives and conservatism in science: the impact of professionalization, peer-review, and Big Science (2019) (53)
No Refuge for Realism: Selective Confirmation and the History of Science (2003) (53)
Pyrrhic victories for scientific realism (2003) (52)
Grasping At Realist Straws (2009) (43)
The difference between ice cream and Nazis: Moral externalization and the evolution of human cooperation (2017) (35)
Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and a Scientific Realism Debate That Makes a Difference (2015) (31)
Scientific Realism, the Atomic Theory, and the Catch-All Hypothesis: Can We Test Fundamental Theories Against All Serious Alternatives? (2009) (25)
No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments about Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children (2016) (14)
Darwin's Pangenesis and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives1 (2006) (12)
A Fond Farewell to "Approximate Truth"? (2018) (12)
"Atoms Exist" Is Probably True, and Other Facts That Should Not Comfort Scientific Realists (2015) (10)
Reference and Natural Kind Termas: The Real Essence of Locke's View (1998) (10)
The Manifest Connection: Causation, Meaning, and David Hume (2002) (9)
Damn the Consequences: Projective Evidence and the Heterogeneity of Scientific Confirmation (2011) (9)
August Weismann's theory of the germ-plasm and the problem of unconceived alternatives. (2006) (6)
Bending toward Justice (2017) (5)
Getting Real: The Hypothesis of Organic Fossil Origins (2010) (4)
Naturalism without Scientism (2016) (4)
Reading Nature: the Interpretation of Scientific Theories (3)
Resisting Scientific Realism with or Without van Fraassen’s Darwinian Explanation (2020) (3)
Correction: No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments about Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children (2016) (3)
The Units Of Selection And The Causal Structure Of The World (2001) (2)
Francis Galton’s theory of inheritance and the problem of unconceived alternatives (2006) (2)
Moral externalization and normativity: The errors of our ways (2018) (1)
Protecting rainforest realism James Ladyman , Don Ross : Everything must go : metaphysics naturalized (2010) (1)
Unconceived Alternatives and the Strategy of Historical Ostension (2017) (1)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (2017) (1)
Unconceived alternatives and conservatism in science: the impact of professionalization, peer-review, and Big Science (2015) (0)
Science without Realism (2006) (0)
Realism, Pessimism, and Underdetermination (2006) (0)
Book reviews (2009) (0)
Prediction ( forthcoming in The Philosophy of Science : An Encyclopedia (2016) (0)
Preaching to the Choir ? Robert Klee and the Latest Face of Scientific Realism (1999) (0)
Deus Ex Machina: A Cautionary Tale for Naturalists (2012) (0)
Reviewed Work ( s ) : Unto Others : The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober and (2016) (0)
Darwin and Pangenesis (2006) (0)
Selective Confirmation and the Historical Record (2006) (0)
Galton and the Stirp Theory (2006) (0)
A pragmatic theory of causation (1997) (0)
Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker and Xiang Chen, The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+199. ISBN 978-0-521-85575-4. £45.00 (hardback). (2008) (0)
Underdetermination (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (2009) (0)

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