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Peter Lipton

Philosophy

#1996

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#3503

Historical Rank

#748

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Epistemology

#103

World Rank

#132

Historical Rank

#55

USA Rank

Logic

#4550

World Rank

#5859

Historical Rank

#805

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Peter Lipton's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Lipton was the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and a fellow of King's College, until his unexpected death in November 2007. According to his obituary on the Cambridge web site, he was "recognized as one of the leading philosophers of science and epistemologists in the world."

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Peter Lipton's Published Works

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Ischemic cell death in brain neurons. (1999) (3006)
Inference to the best explanation (1993) (1029)
Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science (1993) (327)
The epistemology of testimony (1998) (311)
Mechanisms involved in irreversible anoxic damage to the in vitro rat hippocampal slice (1982) (268)
Do active cerebral neurons really use lactate rather than glucose? (2001) (257)
Reduced ATP concentration as a basis for synaptic transmission failure during hypoxia in the in vitro guinea‐pig hippocampus (1982) (217)
Contrastive Explanation (1990) (197)
Effects of membrane depolarization on light scattering by cerebral cortical slices (1973) (167)
Calcium and long‐term transmission damage following anoxia in dentate gyrus and CA1 regions of the rat hippocampal slice. (1986) (160)
Preparative methods for brain slices: a discussion (1995) (153)
Pairing the cholinergic agonist carbachol with patterned Schaffer collateral stimulation initiates protein synthesis in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell dendrites via a muscarinic, NMDA-dependent mechanism (1993) (148)
Cytosolic Ca2+ Changes during In VitroIschemia in Rat Hippocampal Slices: Major Roles for Glutamate and Na+-Dependent Ca2+ Release from Mitochondria (1999) (139)
Intracellular calcium levels and calcium fluxes in the CA1 region of the rat hippocampal slice during in vitro ischemia: relationship to electrophysiological cell damage (1993) (138)
The effect of hypoxia on evoked potentials in the in vitro hippocampus. (1979) (133)
Mechanism of glutamate release from rat hippocampal slices during in vitro ischemia (1996) (120)
Glycolysis and brain function: [K+]o stimulation of protein synthesis and K+ uptake require glycolysis. (1983) (108)
Testing Hypotheses: Prediction and Prejudice (2005) (105)
Making the best of brain slices; comparing preparative methods (1995) (104)
Cerebral Synaptic Transmission During Anoxia Is Protected by Creatine (1981) (103)
Protection of hippocampal slices from young rats against anoxic transmission damage is due to better maintenance of ATP. (1989) (100)
σ-Ligands and non-competitive NMDA antagonists inhibit glutamate release during cerebral ischemia (1990) (96)
Energy Metabolism and Brain Slice Function (1984) (95)
N‐Methyl‐D‐Aspartate Receptor Activation and Ca2+ Account for Poor Pyramidal Cell Structure in Hippocampal Slices (1990) (89)
What Good is an Explanation (2001) (81)
THE EFFECT OF EXTRACELLULAR POTASSIUM CONCENTRATION ON PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN GUINEA‐PIG HIPPOCAMPAL SLICES 1, 2 (1977) (79)
Lysosomal release of cathepsins causes ischemic damage in the rat hippocampal slice and depends on NMDA‐mediated calcium influx, arachidonic acid metabolism, and free radical production (2008) (78)
Effects of membrane depolarization on nicotinamide nucleotide fluorescence in brain slices. (1973) (78)
All Else Being Equal (1999) (75)
In vitro ischemia and protein synthesis in the rat hippocampal slice: the role of calcium and NMDA receptor activation (1990) (71)
Effects of aldosterone and vasopressin on electrolytes of toad bladder epithelial cells. (1971) (71)
IS THE BEST GOOD ENOUGH (1993) (63)
The Best Explanation (1991) (58)
Cytosolic Ca 2 1 Changes during In Vitro Ischemia in Rat Hippocampal Slices : Major Roles for Glutamate and Na 1-Dependent Ca 2 1 Release from Mitochondria (1999) (54)
IS EXPLANATION A GUIDE TO INFERENCE? A REPLY TO WESLEY C. SALMON (2001) (49)
Mechanisms of intracellular calcium accumulation in the CA1 region of rat hippocampus during anoxia in vitro. (1990) (46)
Effect of changes in osmolarity on sodium transport across isolated toad bladder. (1972) (41)
Pharmacogenetics: ethical problems and solutions (2004) (38)
Vasopressin augments depolarization-induced release and synthesis of serotonin in hippocampal slices (1982) (36)
Pharmacogenetics: the ethical issues (2003) (36)
What can Bas believe? Musgrave and van Fraassen on observability (2006) (35)
Tracking Track Records (2000) (35)
The Medawar Lecture 2004 The truth about science (2005) (33)
Regulation of Serotonin Release from the In Vitro Rat Hippocampus: Effects of Alterations in Levels of Depolarization and in Rates of Serotonin Metabolism (1985) (33)
Where guesses come from: Evolutionary epistemology and the anomaly of guided variation (1989) (31)
Alien Abduction: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Management of Testimony (2007) (31)
Contrastive Explanation and Causal Triangulation (1991) (30)
Lysosomal Membrane Permeabilization as a Key Player in Brain Ischemic Cell Death: a “Lysosomocentric” Hypothesis for Ischemic Brain Damage (2013) (30)
VI*-IS THE BEST GOOD ENOUGH? (1993) (28)
MECHANISM OF EXTRACELLULAR POTASSIUM STIMULATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN THE IN VITRO HIPPOCAMPUS 1 (1978) (28)
Regulation of glycogen in the dentate gyrus of the in vitro guinea pig hippocampus; effect of combined deprivation of glucose and oxygen (1989) (27)
Quests of a realist (2001) (25)
NMDA receptor activation accelerates ischemic energy depletion in the hippocampal slice and the demonstration of a threshold for ischemic damage to protein synthesis (1990) (24)
1.2 Glucose, Oxidative Energy Metabolism, and Neural Function in Brain Slices—Glycolysis Plays a Key Role in Neural Activity (2007) (22)
Prediction and prejudice (1990) (22)
I–John Worrall (2000) (20)
The World of Science (2007) (20)
Modeling molecular pathways of neuronal ischemia. (2014) (18)
Kant on wheels (2003) (18)
Discussion – epistemic options (2004) (16)
Long-Term Inhibition of Synaptic Transmission and Macromolecular Synthesis Following Anoxia in the Rat Hippocampal Slice: Interaction between Ca2+ and NMDA Receptors (1988) (16)
Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief (2002) (16)
Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties, the Woodbridge Lectures 1983 (1987) (10)
A real contrast (1987) (9)
Autoradiographic measurements of protein synthesis in hippocampal slices from rats and guinea pigs. (1999) (8)
Causation and Explanation (2009) (7)
Précis of Inference to the Best Explanation, 2nd Edition* (2007) (7)
Review. Philosophy of science. Alexander Bird (1999) (7)
Brain Slices: Uses and Abuses (1986) (6)
The New Brain Sciences: Genetic and generic determinism: a new threat to free will? (2004) (6)
Explanation as a guide to inference (2004) (6)
Measurement of Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal Slices: in vitro versus in vivo (1987) (6)
The Best Explanation of a Scientific Paper (1998) (6)
Popper and Reliabilism (1995) (5)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics consultation. (2003) (4)
Cerebral Neuronal Transmission (1981) (4)
Does the Truth Matter in Science? (2005) (4)
Concepts of Reduction in Physical Science (1980) (3)
The seductive-nomological model (1992) (3)
Theory, evidence, and explanation (1995) (3)
The Ravens Revisited (2007) (3)
Explanation and its Limits: Contrastive Explanations (1991) (3)
Waiting for Hume (2005) (3)
Empiricism, History of (2001) (2)
Truth and explanation (2004) (2)
Brain Ischemia and Stroke (2014) (2)
The causal model (2004) (2)
CP Laws, Reduction, and Explanatory Pluralism* (2008) (1)
Proving the rule (1995) (1)
The raven paradox (2003) (1)
Is the Best Good Enough? (journal article) (2005) (1)
The Ravens Revisited (2007) (1)
10. Regulation of protein synthesis and flow in dendrites of hippocampal slice neurons: Possible relationship to plasticity (1994) (0)
Cambridge Contributions: Cambridge contributions: the philosophy of science (1998) (0)
More like a book (1999) (0)
Epistemic Options (journal article) (2005) (0)
Susan Haack.Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Science and Cynicism. 411 pp., bibl., index. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. $28 (cloth). (2006) (0)
PHS volume 27 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
Accommodation or prediction? [2] (multiple letters) (2005) (0)
Lysosomal Membrane Permeabilization as a Key Player in Brain Ischemic Cell Death: a “Lysosomocentric” Hypothesis for Ischemic Brain Damage (2013) (0)
Waiting for Hume (article) (2004) (0)
NAGEL REVISITED* (1982) (0)
PHS volume 27 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose. Cambridge University Press, 1997, xviii + 185 pp. £14.95 (1998) (0)
Underdetermining the truth (1996) (0)
Waiting for Hume (article) (2004) (0)
Commitment without Belief (2013) (0)
Coordinating science (1993) (0)
The Epistemology of Testimony (journal article) (2003) (0)
Karl Popper: Popper and Reliabilism (1996) (0)
In memoriam (1966) (0)
Pr?cis of Inference to the Best Explanation, 2 nd Edition (2007) (0)
The effect of depolarizing agents on synaptic transmission failure during hypoxia (1978) (0)
Making a Difference (1993) (0)
Binding the Mind (article) (2005) (0)
Hume's meek philosophy among the Milanese (2005) (0)
Loveliness and truth (2004) (0)
Causation Outside the Law (article) (2005) (0)
Popper and Reliabilism (article) (2005) (0)
Preface (1995) (0)

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