John Worrall (philosopher)
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John Worrall is a professor of philosophy of science
at the London School of Economics
. He is also associated with the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the same institution.
He has published in journals and anthologies, edited Imre Lakatos
's collected works, and a recent volume on The Ontology of Science. He was editor-in-chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
from 1974 to 1983.
Philosophy of science
The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth...
at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He is also associated with the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the same institution.
He has published in journals and anthologies, edited Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his...
's collected works, and a recent volume on The Ontology of Science. He was editor-in-chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is a philosophy journal that encourages the use of philosophical methods in addressing issues raised in the natural and human sciences....
from 1974 to 1983.
Publications
- Why Science Discredits Religion in M. Peterson and R. Vanarragon (eds) Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell, 2004
- Normal Science and Dogmatism, Paradigms and Progress: Kuhn versus Popper and Lakatos in T. Nickles (ed): Thomas Kuhn. Cambridge University Press, 2003
- What Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine, Philosophy of Science, September 2002 (with E. Scerri)
- Prediction and the periodic table, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Vol 32/3, 2001;
- Kuhn, Bayes and "Theory-Choice": How Revolutionary is Kuhn's Account of Theoretical Change? in R. Nola and H. Sankey (eds): After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method, 2000;
- The Scope, Limits and Distinctiveness of the Method of "Deduction from the Phenomena": Some Lessons from Newton's "Demonstrations" in Optics, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2000;
- Two Cheers for Naturalised Philosophy of Science, Science and Education, July 1999;
- Structural Realism: the Best of Both Worlds in D. Papineau (ed) The Philosophy of Science (Oxford 1996).
- Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Subject Editor for Philosophy of Science), (Routledge, 1998)
- Philosophy and Natural Science in A C Grayling (Ed.), Philosophy 2. Further through the subject (Oxford University Press, 1998)
- Revolution in Permanence": Karl Popper on theory-change in science, Karl Popper: Problems and Philosophy (CUP, 1995)
- The Ontology of Science, ed (Dartmouth Publishing Co, 1994)