Re: BHA: RE: Note re: Howard re: Ronny

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Quoting Marshall Feldman <marsh@xxxxxxx>:

> Hi all,
>
> Could someone provide references for Ellis' work? And Caroline Lierse?

Brian Ellis [2001] Scientific Essentialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press)

Brian Ellis [2002] Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism
(London: Acumen)

Brian Ellis [1999] "Causal Powers and Laws of Nature" in Howard Sankey [1999]
Causation and Laws of Nature (Dordrecht: Kluwer)

Brian Ellis [2001] "The New Essentialism and the Scientific Image of Mankind"
Epistemologia (Italian) ##

Brian Ellis [2001] "Causal Laws and Singular Causation" Journal of Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research ##

Brian Ellis [1998] "An Essentialist Perspective on the Problem of Induction"
Principia 2

Brian Ellis; Caroline Lierse [1994] "Dispositional Essentialism" Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 72

John Bigelow; Brian Ellis; Caroline Lierse [1992] "The World as one of a Kind:
Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature" British Jornal for the Philosophy of
Science 43

Carlone Lierse [1996] "The Jerrybuilt House of Modern Humeanism" in P. J.
Riggs [1996] Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology
(Dordrecht: Kluwer)

> Also, I'm looking for a good summary of criticisms of positivism. I'm aware
> of many individual ones (by Bhaskar, Hacking, and others) as well as the
> classic "anti-positivist" work (Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend) that attacks
> positivist principles. What I'm looking for is more of an overview and
> chronology. Does anyone out there know of one?

On Positivism:

I don't know about any general study of positivism, but the best critique of
positivism, I think, is still Rom Harr's Principles of Scientific Thinking
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)

Best Regards,

Ronny


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