Peter Achinstein

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Peter Achinstein is affiliated with the following schools: Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Yeshiva University, Harvard University

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Epistemology

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#367

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#711

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Achinstein is an American philosopher of science at Johns Hopkins University. Biography Achinstein is the son of Betty and economist Asher Achinstein. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard with a dissertation on Carnap's theory of probability. It was the German philosopher Carl G. Hempel, in a visit to Harvard in 1953–4 , who motivated him to pursue philosophy of science. Upon getting a Harvard Traveling Fellowship, Achinstein spent a year in Oxford in 1959 working under the guidance of P. F. Strawson. In Oxford he attended seminars and lectures delivered by Gilbert Ryle, A.J. Ayer, and J.L. Austin. Achinstein specializes in philosophy of science with strong interests in the history of science.

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Peter Achinstein's Published Works

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Published Works

The Book of Evidence (2001) (280)
The Nature Of Explanation (1983) (211)
Concepts of Science: A Philosophical Analysis (1968) (143)
On the new Riddle of induction (1960) (103)
Observation, experiment, and hypothesis in modern physical science (1986) (100)
Between science and philosophy (1968) (93)
The Legacy of Logical Positivism (1970) (84)
Concepts of Evidence (1978) (78)
On the Meaning of Scientific Terms (1964) (70)
Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics (1987) (64)
Scientific Explanation, Space, and Time: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (1964) (59)
Models, Analogies, and Theories (1964) (47)
IS THERE A VALID EXPERIMENTAL ARGUMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC REALISM (2002) (45)
Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (1991) (41)
Observation and Theory (2017) (36)
The Concept of Evidence (1984) (36)
Hypotheses, Probability, and Waves (1990) (34)
Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science (1971) (29)
Inference of scientific laws (1970) (28)
Why Philosophical Theories of Evidence Are (And Ought to Be) Ignored by Scientists (2000) (28)
The Causal Relation (1979) (27)
Inference to the best explanation: Or, who won the Mill-Whewell debate?: Peter Lipton (London: Routledge, 1991), x+194 pp. ISBN 0-415-05886-4 Cloth £35.00 (1992) (27)
Explanation v. Prediction: Which Carries More Weight? (1994) (26)
Scientific Discovery and Maxwell's Kinetic Theory (1987) (26)
The Legacy of Logical Positivism: Studies in the Philosophy of Science (1969) (25)
Evidence, explanation, and realism : essays in the philosophy of science (2010) (25)
Variety and Analogy in Confirmation Theory (1963) (25)
Function Statements (1977) (22)
How to Defend a Theory Without Testing It: Niels Bohr and the “Logic of Pursuit” (1993) (21)
THEORETICAL MODELS* (1965) (20)
The Pragmatic Character of Explanation (1984) (20)
THEORETICAL TERMS AND PARTIAL INTERPRETATION* (1963) (17)
Evidence and Method: Scientific Strategies of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell (2013) (16)
Can there be a model of explanation? (1981) (16)
Science rules : a historical introduction to scientific methods (2004) (16)
Causation, Transparency, and Emphasis (1975) (14)
Who Really Discovered the Electron (2001) (14)
Discovery and Rule-Books (1980) (13)
Particles And Waves (1991) (13)
The War on Induction: Whewell Takes On Newton and Mill (Norton Takes On Everyone) (2010) (12)
Confirmation Theory, Order, and Periodicity (1963) (10)
Scientific evidence : philosophical theories & applications (2005) (10)
Swimming in Evidence: A Reply to Maher (1996) (8)
Atom's Empirical Eve: Methodological Disputes and How to Evaluate Them (2007) (7)
Circularity and Induction (1963) (7)
A Challenge to Positive Relevance Theorists: Reply to Roush* (2004) (7)
Are Empirical Evidence Claims A Priori? (1995) (6)
On Evidence: A Reply to Bar-Hillel and Margalit (1981) (5)
Exploring Science: A Cognitive Approach (1990) (5)
Speculation: Within and About Science (2018) (5)
WHAT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO DEFEND A THEORY YOU CANNOT PROVE: A METHOD OF PHYSICAL SPECULATION (2010) (5)
Stronger Evidence (1994) (5)
Subjective Views of Kuhn (2001) (4)
The Circularity of a Self-Supporting Inductive Argument (1962) (4)
The evidence against Kronz (1992) (4)
The Foundations of Scientific Inference. (1969) (4)
Scientific Methods: Conceptual and Historical Problems (1994) (3)
The only game in town (1990) (3)
Models and Analogies: A Reply to Girill (1972) (2)
Explanation and “Old Evidence” (1993) (2)
Speculation (2018) (2)
Experiment and Conceptual Change-Evidence, Data Generation, and Scientific Practice: Toward a Reliabilist Philosophy of Experiment-Why Philosophical Theories of Evidence Are (and Ought to Be) (2000) (1)
A Type of Non‐Causal Explanation1 (1984) (1)
A Problem About Evidence (2013) (1)
Comments: Acute Proliferitis (1967) (1)
Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality (1994) (1)
Explanation and acceptability (1989) (1)
THE IDENTITY HYPOTHESIS (1962) (1)
Induction and Severe Testing (2009) (1)
Objective Epistemic Probability (2001) (1)
Studies in the philosophy of science (1969) (1)
Foresight and Understanding. Stephen Toulmin (1963) (1)
Waves and Scientific Method (1992) (1)
Book review (1987) (0)
What to Do If You Cannot Establish a Theory (2013) (0)
Old‐Age and New‐Age Holism (2001) (0)
How the Great Scientists Reasoned: The Scientific Method in Action (2013) (0)
Positive relevance: A defense and a challenge (2005) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1994) (0)
What's Wrong With These Probabilistic Theories of Evidence? (2001) (0)
On Evidence: a Reply to McGrew (1997) (0)
Notes for Contributors (1999) (0)
Disregarding evidence: Reasonable options for Newton and Rutherford? (2023) (0)
Scientific Speculation (2018) (0)
Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science. (1972) (0)
From Success to Truth (1960) (0)
Explanation Versus Prediction: Which Carries More Evidential (2001) (0)
Two Paradoxes of Evidence: Ravens and Grue (2001) (0)
Evidence for Molecules: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality (2001) (0)
The Complex Story of Simplicity (2018) (0)
Concepts of Evidence, or How the Electron Got Its Charge (2001) (0)
Newtonian Extensions, a Rival, Justifying Induction, and Evidence (2013) (0)
Macrotheories and Microtheories (1973) (0)
Scientific Realism: What’s All the Fuss? (2020) (0)
Prepared by Aron Edidin and Paul Boghossian (1980) (0)
Evidence, High Probability, and Belief (2001) (0)
Light problems: Reply to Chen (1990) (0)
Two Major Probabilistic Theories of Evidence (2001) (0)
Final Definitions and Realism (2001) (0)
Objective evidence and rules of strategy: Achinstein on method (2014) (0)
The Ultimate Speculation (2018) (0)
Objective evidence and rules of strategy: Achinstein on method (2014) (0)
Explanation : papers and discussions (1975) (0)
Summing Up (2018) (0)
Is The World Completely Intelligible? A Very Short Course (2014) (0)
Holism vs. Particularism (2018) (0)
Michael Ruse The Philosophy of Biology, (J .M. Dent Don Mills 1973) (1975) (0)
The Dean's Challenge (2001) (0)
Non-Epistemic Simplicity (2018) (0)
A Defense of Achinstein’s Pragmatism about Explanation (2013) (0)
10. Selection, Drift, and the “Forces” of Evolution Selection, Drift, and the “Forces” of Evolution (pp. 550-570) (2004) (0)
Acknowledgements (2013) (0)
The Empirical Character of Evidence (1997) (0)
The Explanatory Connection (2001) (0)

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