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    Logical Empiricism in North America.Gary L. Hardcastle & Alan W. Richardson (eds.) - 2003 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    "An essential overview of an important intellectual movement, Logical Empiricism in North America offers the first significant, sustained, and multidisciplinary attempt to understand the intellectual, cultural, and political dimensions of ...
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    Presentism and the Indeterminacy of Translation.Gary L. Hardcastle - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (2):321-345.
  3. A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science.Gary Hardcastle & Matthew H. Slater - 2014 - Philosophy of Science 81 (5):1184-1196.
    We describe a simple, flexible exercise that can be implemented in the philosophy of science classroom: students are asked to determine the contents of a closed container without opening it. This exercise has revealed itself as a useful platform from which to examine a wide range of issues in the philosophy of science and may, we suggest, even help us think about improving the public understanding of science.
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    S. S. Stevens and the origins of operationism.Gary L. Hardcastle - 1995 - Philosophy of Science 62 (3):404-424.
    Despite influencing the social sciences since the 1930s, S. S. Stevens' "operationist" philosophy of science has yet to be adequately understood. I reconstruct Stevens' operationism from his early work and assess the influence of various views (logical positivism, behaviorism and the "operational viewpoint" of P. W. Bridgman, among others) on Stevens. Stevens' operationism emerges, on my reconstruction, as a naturalistic methodological directive aimed at agreement, founded in turn on the belief that agreement is constitutive of science, the scientific community, and (...)
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    Are there scientific goals?Gary Hardcastle - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 30 (3):297-311.
    This paper argues that, as all available accounts of how scientific and non-scientific goals might be distinguished rely upon distinctions as much in need of explication as the notion of scientific goals itself, naturalized accounts of science should reject the notion that there are characteristically scientific goals for a given time and place and instead countenance only the goals which happen to be had by individual scientists or their communities. This argument and the recommendation that follows from it are illustrated (...)
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  6. A Problem-Solving Account of Scientific Explanation.Gary Hardcastle - manuscript
    An account of scientific explanation is presented according to which (1) scientific explanation consists in solving “insight” problems (Metcalfe and Wiebe 1984) and (2) understanding is the result of solving such problems. The theory is pragmatic; it draws upon van Fraassen’s (1977, 1980) insights, avoids the objections to pragmatic accounts offered by Kitcher and Salmon (1987), and relates scientific explanation directly to understanding. The theory also accommodates cases of explanatory asymmetry and intuitively legitimate rejections of explanation requests.
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    The Oxbay Ojectpray: A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science.Gary Hardcastle & Matthew Slater - unknown
    We describe a simple, flexible exercise that can be implemented in the philosophy of science classroom: students are asked to determine the contents of a closed container, over the course of a semester, without opening it. This exercise has proved a useful platform from which to examine a wide range of issues in the philosophy of science and may, we suggest, even help us think about improving the public understanding of science.
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    Go west for Moscow.Gary Hardcastle - 2000 - The Philosophers' Magazine 11:29-31.
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  9. Logical empiricism.Gary Hardcastle - 2005 - In Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeifer (eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. pp. 458--465.
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    Parrots and positivists.Gary Hardcastle - 1999 - The Philosophers' Magazine 7 (7):18-19.
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  11. Preston on Analytic Philosophy.Gary Hardcastle - 2007 - The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly 136.
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    Quine’s 1934 “Lectures on Carnap‘.Gary Hardcastle - unknown
    In November of 1934, over successive Thursdays, the 26-year-old Willard van Orman Quine gave three “Lectures on Carnap” at Harvard University, the ostensive aim of which was a presentation of the “central doctrine” of Carnap’s Logische Syntax der Sprache, “that philosophy is syntax.” These were among Quine’s very first public lectures, and they constituted the American premier of Carnap’s logische Syntax program. As such, these lectures are of considerable significance to the history of analytic philosophy. They show, for example, one (...)
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    Quine's Ontological Relativity.Gary L. Hardcastle - 2010 - In Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 588–603.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Introduction The Inscrutability of Objectual Reference Empiricism, Naturalism, and Provincialism References.
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    The Modern History of Scientific Explanation.Gary Hardcastle - 2002 - Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9:137-145.
    To be a philosopher of science means, among other things, to have an account of what scientific explanation is, or, at the very least, to have a response to various accounts of scientific explanation on offer from other philosophies of science while earnestly working toward what one hopes will be one’s own, original account. One presumption clearly and often lying behind such work is that science provides two kinds of knowledge. There is propositional knowledge, “knowledge that” or “knowledge what,” and (...)
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    What Horwich's Minimal Theory of Truth Does Not Explain.Gary L. Hardcastle - 2010 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 34 (2):135-146.
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    Gary L. Hardcastle, Review of Osiris, Volume 10: Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science by Arnold Thackray. [REVIEW]Gary L. Hardcastle - 1998 - Philosophy of Science 65 (2):373-375.
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    Joel Isaac. Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 314. $49.95. [REVIEW]Gary L. Hardcastle - 2014 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 4 (1):154-157.
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    (1 other version)Michael Friedman;, Richard Creath . The Cambridge Companion to Carnap. xviii + 371 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. $29.99. [REVIEW]Gary Hardcastle - 2009 - Isis 100 (2):419-420.
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    Thomas E. Uebel, "Overcoming Logical Positivism from Within: The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence Debate". [REVIEW]Gary L. Hardcastle - 1994 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4):685.
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    The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of Rene Descartes. John R. Cole. [REVIEW]Gary Hardcastle - 1994 - Philosophy of Science 61 (4):677-679.