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  1. Post-Truth.Lee C. McIntyre - unknown
    What is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth.
     
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  2. The case for the philosophy of chemistry.Eric Scerri & Lee McIntyre - 1997 - Synthese 111 (3):213-232.
    The philosophy of chemistry has been sadly neglected by most contempory literature in the philosophy of science. This paper argues that this neglect has been unfortunate and that there is much to be learned from paying greater philosophical attention to the set of issues defined by the philosophy of chemistry. The potential contribution of this field to such current topics as reduction, laws, explanation, and supervenience is explored, as are possible applications of insights gained by such study to the philosophy (...)
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    How to talk to a science denier: conversations with flat Earthers, climate deniers, and others who defy reason.Lee McIntyre - 2021 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience.
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    The scientific attitude: defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience.Lee McIntyre - 2019 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is “only a theory,” and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are (...)
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    Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science.Michael Martin & Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - MIT Press.
  6. Emergence and reduction in chemistry: Ontological or epistemological concepts?Lee McIntyre - 2007 - Synthese 155 (3):337-343.
    In this paper I argue that the ontological interpretation of the concepts of reduction and emergence is often misleading in the philosophy of science and should nearly always be eschewed in favor of an epistemological interpretation. As a paradigm case, an example is drawn from the philosophy of chemistry to illustrate the drawbacks of “ontological reduction” and “ontological emergence,” and the virtues of an epistemological interpretation of these concepts.
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    Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age.Lee C. McIntyre - 2015 - New York: Routledge.
    Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs. But in his newest book, philosopher Lee McIntyre shows how we've now reached a watershed moment for ignorance in the modern era, due to the volume of misinformation, the speed with which it can be digitally disseminated, and the savvy exploitation of our cognitive weaknesses by those who wish to advance their ideological agendas. In _Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age_, McIntyre issues a (...)
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    A companion to public philosophy.Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.) - 2022 - Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Will have appeal to a very diverse range of philosophers, across all traditional branches of philosophy (nearly all major areas are covered). Combines substantive philosophical work on the various philosophical areas, with detailed methodological work, and introductory chapters exploring the nature of public philosophy per se.
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    Laws And Explanation In The Social Sciences: Defending A Science Of Human Behavior.Lee C. Mcintyre - 1996 - Westview Press.
    Pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, Lee McIntyre, in this first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant.
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  10. Science denial, polarization, and arrogance.Lee McIntyre - 2020 - In Alessandra Tanesini & Michael P. Lynch (eds.), Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives. London, UK: Routledge.
     
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  11. Accomodation, prediction, and confirmation.Lee McIntyre - 2001 - Perspectives on Science 9 (3):308-323.
    : In this paper I argue that belief in the greater confirmatory value of prediction over accommodation can best be understood as a function of the practice rather than the logic of science. Attempts to account for this asymmetry within the logic of science have revealed no non-arbitrary way to address the problem of underdetermination as it applies to prediction and thus have failed to account for the preference for prediction over accommodation on logical grounds. Instead, I propose a model (...)
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  12. Complexity and social scientific laws.Lee C. McIntyre - 1993 - Synthese 97 (2):209 - 227.
    This essay defends the role of law-like explanation in the social sciences by showing that the "argument from complexity" fails to demonstrate a difference in kind between the subject matter of natural and social science. There are problems internal to the argument itself - stemming from reliance on an overly idealized view of natural scientific practice - and reason to think that, based upon an analogy with a more sophisticated understanding of natural science, which makes use of "redescriptions" in the (...)
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    The emergence of the philosophy of chemistry.Lee McIntyre - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (1):57-63.
    After a long period of neglect, the philosophy of chemistry is slowly being recognized as a newly emerging branch of the philosophy of science. This paper endorses and defends this emergence given the difficulty of reducing all of the philosophical problems raised by chemistry to those already being considered within the philosophy of physics, and recognition that many of the phenomena in chemistry are epistemologically emergent.
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    Philosophy of chemistry: synthesis of a new discipline.Davis Baird, Eric R. Scerri & Lee C. McIntyre (eds.) - 2006 - Dordrecht: Springer.
    This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the still emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. With selections drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, philosophers, chemists, and historians of science here converge to ask some of the most fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry. What can chemistry teach us about longstanding disputes in the philosophy of science over such issues as reductionism, autonomy, and supervenience? And what new issues may chemistry bring to (...)
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    Objectivity.Lee McIntyre & Alex Rosenberg - 2016 - In Lee C. McIntyre & Alexander Rosenberg (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science. New York: Routledge. pp. 281-291.
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    Complexity: a philosopher's reflections.Lee McIntyre - 1998 - Complexity 3 (6):26-32.
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    Gould on laws in biological science.Lee Mcintyre - 1997 - Biology and Philosophy 12 (3):357-367.
    Are there laws in evolutionary biology? Stephen J. Gould has argued that there are factors unique to biological theorizing which prevent the formulation of laws in biology, in contradistinction to the case in physics and chemistry. Gould offers the problem of complexity as just such a fundamental barrier to biological laws in general, and to Dollos Law in particular. But I argue that Gould fails to demonstrate: (1) that Dollos Law is not law-like, (2) that the alleged failure of Dollos (...)
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    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science.Lee C. McIntyre & Alexander Rosenberg (eds.) - 2016 - New York: Routledge.
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for (...)
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    The Hidden Dangers of Fake News in Post-Truth Politics.Lee McIntyre - 2021 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 3:113-124.
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    Science denial, post‐truth and our new dark age: Lee McIntyre interviewed by Richard Marshall.Richard Marshall & Lee McIntyre - 2021 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 55 (4-5):829-836.
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    Editorial introduction.Lee Mcintyre & Eric Scerri - 1997 - Synthese 111 (3):211-212.
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    Intentionality, pluralism, and redescription.Lee McIntyre - 2004 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (4):493-505.
    Donald Davidson, and others, have sometimes claimed that the subject matter of social science properly consists only of intentional actions. The author disputes this claim and explores an example drawn from social psychology that shows that some social scientific phenomena cannot be explained unless they are redescribed in nonintentional language. Key Words: intentionality • explanation • redescription • social science • Donald Davidson.
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    Supervenience and Explanatory Exclusion.Lee McIntyre - 2002 - Critica 34 (100):87-101.
    This paper argues that there is an inconsistency between Jaegwon Kim's earlier work on supervenience and his more recent work on explanatory exclusion. In his work on supervenience Kim advocates an explanatory agnosticism that, by the time of his later work, is replaced by an endorsement of reductive explanation. My argument is that this tension between Kim's early and later work is unfortunate since explanatory exclusion is highly questionable in its own right and is not reconcilable with his earlier work (...)
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    What Is Public Philosophy?Lee McIntyre - 2022 - In Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–8.
    The appearance of so many works in the last decade that fall under the banner of “public philosophy” has done much to enhance the idea that one can engage in public philosophy and still be a first‐class scholar, and even to broaden our understanding of scholarship to include public engagement. Philosophy abandoned its concern with the “meaning of life” and focused most of its attention on the “meaning of words.” Public philosophy has been the subject of a great deal of (...)
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    Introduction to the volume.Lee McIntyre - 2021 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 297 (3):5-10.
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  26. Davidson and social scientific laws.Lee McIntyre - 1999 - Synthese 120 (3):375-394.
    This article critically examines Donald Davidson's argument against social scientific laws. Set within the context of his larger thesis of anomalous monism, this piece identifies three main flaws in Davidson's alleged refutation of the possibility of psychological laws, and suggests a collateral flaw within his account of anomalous monism as well.
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  27. Introduction: The invisibility of chemistry.Davis Baird, Eric Scerri & Lee Mcintyre - 2005 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 242:3-18.
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    A trip to Mount Everest: looking for the laws of scientific change: Hakob Barseghyan: The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer, 2015, 275pp, $51.75 HB.Lee McIntyre - 2016 - Metascience 25 (2):289-292.
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  29. Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy.Lee McIntyre, Nancy McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.) - 2022
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    (1 other version)Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior.Lee C. McIntyre - 2006 - Bradford.
    During the Dark Ages, the progress of Western civilization virtually stopped. The knowledge gained by the scholars of the classical age was lost; for nearly 600 years, life was governed by superstitions and fears fueled by ignorance. In this outspoken and forthright book, Lee McIntyre argues that today we are in a new Dark Age--that we are as ignorant of the causes of human behavior as people centuries ago were of the causes of such natural phenomena as disease, famine, and (...)
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    Explaining Explanation: Essays in the Philosophy of the Special Sciences.Lee C. McIntyre - 2012 - Lanham, Maryland: Upa.
    This book is a collection of Lee McIntyre’s philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. Explaining Explanation focuses on the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry, but also covers more general problems such as underdetermination, explanatory exclusion, the accommodation-prediction debate, and laws in biological science.
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    Editorial introduction: Empiricism in the philosophy of social science.Lee C. McIntyre - 1993 - Synthese 97 (2):159-159.
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    Explanatory Power, Individualism and Neoclassical Economics: Comments on Kincaid.Lee McIntyre - 1995 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1):179-181.
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    Manufacturing doubt: David Harker: Creating scientific controversies: uncertainty and bias in science and society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 260pp, $99.99 HB, $27.99 PB.Lee McIntyre - 2016 - Metascience 25 (3):451-453.
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    Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline.Eric Scerri & Lee McIntyre (eds.) - 2014 - Springer.
    This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which the field has developed in the ten years since the previous volume was conceived and introduces several new authors who did not contribute to the first edition. The editors are well placed to assemble this book, as they are the editor (...)
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    Redescription and Descriptivism in the Social Sciences.Lee C. McIntyre - 2004 - Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):453 - 464.
    In its quest to become more scientific, many have held that social science should more closely emulate the methodology of natural science. This has proven difficult and has led some to assert the impossibility of a science of human behavior. I maintain, however, that many critics of empirical social science have misunderstood the foundation for the success of the natural sciences, which is not that they have discovered the "true vocabulary of nature," but—on the contrary—that they have realized the benefits (...)
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  37. Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science.Michael McIntyre & Lee McIntyre (eds.) - 1994 - MIT Press.
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  38. Reduction, Supervenience, and the Autonomy of Social Scientific Laws.Lee C. McIntyre - 2000 - Theory and Decision 48 (2):101-122.
    Many have felt that it is impossible to defend autonomous laws of social science: where the regularities upheld are law-like it is argued that they are not at base social scientific, and where the phenomena to be explained would seem to require social descriptions, it is argued that laws governing the phenomena are unavailable at that level. But is it possible to develop an ontology that supports the dependence of the social on the physical, while nonetheless supporting the explanatory power (...)
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    Teaching the Fallacy of Conversion.Lee McIntyre - 1999 - Teaching Philosophy 22 (2):135-140.
    In this paper, the author reflects on why students so frequently have the false intuition that statements like (i) “If someone is a criminal then he comes from a single parent family,” imply their converse, namely (ii) “If someone comes from a single parent family then he is a criminal.” The author argues that this intuition is not baseless. In everyday speech, conditional statements very often refer to finite populations, meaning that while (i) does not imply (ii), (i) stands in (...)
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    Taking Underdetermination Seriously.Lee C. McIntyre - 2003 - SATS 4 (1):59-72.
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    Book Review:Measuring the Intentional World J. D. Trout. [REVIEW]Lee McIntyre - 2001 - Philosophy of Science 68 (4):576-.
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    Book Review: The objects of social science. [REVIEW]Lee McIntyre - 2006 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (1):116-118.
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    Bent Flyvbjerg: Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. [REVIEW]Lee McIntyre - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (3):418-421.
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    Eric Scerri: Collected papers on philosophy of chemistry: Imperial College Press, 1st edn , ISBN-10: 1848161379, ISBN-13: 978-1848161375. [REVIEW]Lee McIntyre - 2009 - Foundations of Chemistry 11 (3):181-182.