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  1. Mantegna and francisque Pellegrin.W. McAllister Johnson - 1969 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 (1):394.
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    Ronsard et la renommée du louvre.W. McAllister Johnson & Victor E. Graham - forthcoming - Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance.
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    Francisci Petrarchae Epistolae Selectae.W. P. Mustard & A. F. Johnson - 1924 - American Journal of Philology 45 (2):197.
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    Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra. Vol. I. ĀdīśṿaracaritraTrisastisalakapurusacaritra. Vol. I. Adisvaracaritra.W. Norman Brown & Helen M. Johnson - 1932 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 52 (1):86.
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    Algorithmic randomness in empirical data.James W. McAllister - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (3):633-646.
    According to a traditional view, scientific laws and theories constitute algorithmic compressions of empirical data sets collected from observations and measurements. This article defends the thesis that, to the contrary, empirical data sets are algorithmically incompressible. The reason is that individual data points are determined partly by perturbations, or causal factors that cannot be reduced to any pattern. If empirical data sets are incompressible, then they exhibit maximal algorithmic complexity, maximal entropy and zero redundancy. They are therefore maximally efficient carriers (...)
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  6. Levelt, WJM, B25.M. Brysbaert, W. Fias, R. Frank, S. A. Gelman, R. J. Gerrig, F. Gobet, G. Gutheil, R. Hamel, W. S. Horton & E. C. Johnson - 1998 - Cognition 66:309.
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  7. Beauty and Revolution in Science.James W. Mcallister - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (194):125-128.
  8. Model selection and the multiplicity of patterns in empirical data.James W. McAllister - 2007 - Philosophy of Science 74 (5):884-894.
    Several quantitative techniques for choosing among data models are available. Among these are techniques based on algorithmic information theory, minimum description length theory, and the Akaike information criterion. All these techniques are designed to identify a single model of a data set as being the closest to the truth. I argue, using examples, that many data sets in science show multiple patterns, providing evidence for multiple phenomena. For any such data set, there is more than one data model that must (...)
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  9. Theory-assessment in the historiography of science.James W. McAllister - 1986 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (3):315-333.
    This paper argues that evaluation of the truth and rationality of past scientific theories is both possible and profitable. The motivation for this enterprise is traced to recent discussions by I. Lakatos, L. Laudan and others on the import of history for the philosophy of science; several objections to it are considered and T. S. Kuhn is found to advance the most substantive. An argument for establishing judgements of rationality and truth in the face of scientific revolutions is presented; finally (...)
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    (1 other version)Editor’s Report, 2009.James W. McAllister - 2010 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (3):237-239.
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  11. P. Redondi and PV Pillai, eds., The History of Sciences: The French Debate (London: Sangam Books, 1989).J. W. McAllister - 1990 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4 (2):221-223.
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  12. Phenomena and patterns in data sets.James W. McAllister - 1997 - Erkenntnis 47 (2):217-228.
    Bogen and Woodward claim that the function of scientific theories is to account for 'phenomena', which they describe both as investigator-independent constituents of the world and as corresponding to patterns in data sets. I argue that, if phenomena are considered to correspond to patterns in data, it is inadmissible to regard them as investigator-independent entities. Bogen and Woodward's account of phenomena is thus incoherent. I offer an alternative account, according to which phenomena are investigator-relative entities. All the infinitely many patterns (...)
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    Book Symposium: David W. Johnson, Watsuji on Nature.David W. Johnson, Bernard Stevens, Augustin Berque, Hideki Mine & Hans Peter Liederbach - 2021 - European Journal of Japanese Philosophy 6:133–215.
    [Open access] In this book symposium the author takes up questions from phenomenology, hermeneutics, ethical theory, and intellectual history raised by a group of scholarly interlocutors from a range of backgrounds. In the course of engaging with these issues, he discusses, inter alia, McDowell’s realism, Jonathon Lear’s work on the end of a world, Michael Oakeshott’s view of selfhood, Heidegger’s conception of Jemeinigkeit, Uexküll’s notion of Umwelt, and Gadamer’s hermeneutic conception of truth.
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  14. Is Beauty a Sign of Truth in Scientific Theories?J. W. McAllister - unknown
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    Editor's Report, 2004.J. W. McAllister - 2005 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 19 (2):101-103.
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    The evidential significance of thought experiment in science.James W. McAllister - 1996 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 27 (2):233-250.
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    Editor’s Report, 2014.James W. McAllister - 2015 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (3):229-231.
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    Editor’s Report, 2016.James W. McAllister - 2017 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (3):225-227.
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    Avoidance conditioning in two species of platy.Edward W. C. McAllister - 1973 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 1 (6):389-390.
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    Author’s response.James W. McAllister - 1998 - Metascience 7 (1):112-116.
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  21. Dilemmas in Science: What, Why, and How.J. W. McAllister - unknown
     
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  22. Thought experiments and the belief in phenomena.James W. McAllister - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (5):1164-1175.
    Thought experiment acquires evidential significance only on particular metaphysical assumptions. These include the thesis that science aims at uncovering "phenomena"universal and stable modes in which the world is articulatedand the thesis that phenomena are revealed imperfectly in actual occurrences. Only on these Platonically inspired assumptions does it make sense to bypass experience of actual occurrences and perform thought experiments. These assumptions are taken to hold in classical physics and other disciplines, but not in sciences that emphasize variety and contingency, such (...)
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    Does Artistic Value Pose a Special Problem for Time Travel Theories?James W. McAllister - 2020 - British Journal of Aesthetics 60 (1):61-69.
    Michael Dummett and Storrs McCall have claimed that time travel scenarios in which an artist copies an artwork from a reproduction of it that has been sent from the future introduce a causal loop of a new kind: one involving artistic value. They have suggested that this poses a hitherto unacknowledged challenge to time travel theories. I argue that their conclusion depends on some unstated essentialist assumptions about metaphysics of art and the status of representations. By relaxing these assumptions, I (...)
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  24. The Ontology of Patterns in Empirical Data.James W. McAllister - 2010 - Philosophy of Science 77 (5):804-814.
    This article defends the following claims. First, for patterns exhibited in empirical data, there is no criterion on which to demarcate patterns that are physically significant and patterns that are not physically significant. I call a pattern physically significant if it corresponds to a structure in the world. Second, all patterns must be regarded as physically significant. Third, distinct patterns must be regarded as providing evidence for distinct structures in the world. Fourth, in consequence, the world must be conceived as (...)
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  25. Recent work on aesthetics of science.James W. McAllister - 2002 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16 (1):7 – 11.
    This introduction to the special issue on "Aesthetics of Science" reviews recent philosophical research on aesthetic aspects of science. Topics represented in this research include the aesthetic properties of scientific images, theories, and experiments; the relation of science and art; the role of aesthetic criteria in scientific practice and their effect on the development of science; aesthetic aspects of mathematics; the contrast between a classic and a Romantic aesthetic; and the relation between emotion, cognition, and rationality.
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    Competition Among Scientific Disciplines in Cold Nuclear Fusion Research.James W. McAllister - 1992 - Science in Context 5 (1):17-49.
    The ArgumentIn the controversy in 1989 over the reported achievement of cold nuclear fusion, parts of the physics and chemistry communities were opposed in both a theoretic and a professional competition. Physicists saw the chemists' announcement as an incursion into territory allocated to their own discipline and strove to restore the interdisciplinary boundaries that had previously held. The events that followed throw light on the manner in which scientists' knowledge claims and metascientific beliefs are affected by their membership of disciplinary (...)
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  27. Editor's Report, 2002.James W. Mcallister - 2003 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 (2).
  28. The Impulsive Client: Theory, Research, and Treatment.W. McCown, J. Johnson & M. Shure (eds.) - 1993 - American Psychological Association.
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  29. Scientific realism and the criteria for theory-choice.James W. McAllister - 1993 - Erkenntnis 38 (2):203 - 222.
    The central terms of certain theories which were valued highly in the past, such as the phlogiston theory, are now believed by realists not to refer. Laudan and others have claimed that, in the light of the existence of such theories, scientific realism is untenable. This paper argues in response that realism is consistent with — and indeed is able to explain — such theories' having been highly valued and yet not being close to the truth. It follows that the (...)
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    Editor's Report, 2008.James W. McAllister - 2009 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23 (2):119-121.
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  31. The Future of the sciences and humanities: four analytical essays and a critical debate on the future of scholastic endeavour.James W. McAllister, Peter A. J. Tindemans, Verrijn Stuart, A. A. & Robert Paul Willem Visser (eds.) - 2002 - Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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    Editor’s Report, 2015.James W. McAllister - 2016 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 30 (3):197-199.
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    Editor's Report, 2010.James W. McAllister - 2011 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (3):203 - 204.
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 203-204, September 2011.
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  34. Mathematical Beauty and the Evolution of the Standards of Mathematical Proof.J. W. McAllister - unknown
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    Editor’s Report, 2007.James W. McAllister - 2008 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (2):115-117.
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  36. Emotion, Rationality, and Decision Making in Science.J. W. McAllister - unknown
     
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  37. Historical and Structural Approaches in the Natural and Human Sciences.J. W. McAllister - unknown
     
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    Unification of Theories.James W. McAllister - 2000 - In W. Newton-Smith (ed.), A companion to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 537–539.
    Unification of theories is achieved when several theories T 1, T 2, …, Tn previously regarded as distinct are subsumed into a theory of broader scope T*. Classic examples are the unification of theories of electricity, magnetism, and light into Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics, and the unification of evolutionary and genetic theory in the modern synthesis (Mayr and Provine 1980).
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  39. Waarheid en schoonheid in de wetenschap.James W. McAllister - 1999 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 91 (3):153-167.
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  40. Truth and beauty in scientific reason.James W. Mcallister - 1989 - Synthese 78 (1):25 - 51.
    A rationalist and realist model of scientific revolutions will be constructed by reference to two categories of criteria of theory-evaluation, denominated indicators of truth and of beauty. Whereas indicators of truth are formulateda priori and thus unite science in the pursuit of verisimilitude, aesthetic criteria are inductive constructs which lag behind the progression of theories in truthlikeness. Revolutions occur when the evaluative divergence between the two categories of criteria proves too wide to be recomposed or overlooked. This model of revolutions (...)
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  41. (2 other versions)Analysis of Thinking.W. E. Johnson - 1918 - Philosophical Review 27:337.
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  42. Dirac and the Aesthetic Evaluation of Theories.J. W. McAllister - unknown
     
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  43. Effective complexity as a measure of information content.James W. McAllister - 2003 - Philosophy of Science 70 (2):302-307.
    Murray Gell-Mann has proposed the concept of effective complexity as a measure of information content. The effective complexity of a string of digits is defined as the algorithmic complexity of the regular component of the string. This paper argues that the effective complexity of a given string is not uniquely determined. The effective complexity of a string admitting a physical interpretation, such as an empirical data set, depends on the cognitive and practical interests of investigators. The effective complexity of a (...)
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  44. Universal regularities and initial conditions in Newtonian physics.James W. Mcallister - 1999 - Synthese 120 (3):325-343.
    The Newtonian universe is usually understood to contain two classes of causal factors: universal regularitiesand initial conditions. I demonstrate that,in fact, the Newtonian universe contains no causal factors other thanuniversal regularities: the initial conditions ofany physical system are merely theconsequence of universal regularities acting on previoussystems. It follows that aNewtonian universe lacks the degree of contingency that is usually attributed to it. This is a necessary precondition for maintaining that the Newtonian universe is a block universe that exhibits no temporal (...)
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  45. The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics.J. W. McAllister - unknown
     
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    Methodological dilemmas and emotion in science.James W. McAllister - 2014 - Synthese 191 (13):3143-3158.
    Inconsistencies in science take several forms. Some occur at the level of substantive claims about the world. Others occur at the level of methodology, and take the form of dilemmas, or cases of conflicting epistemic or cognitive values. In this article, I discuss how methodological dilemmas arise. I then consider how scientists resolve them. There are strong grounds for thinking that emotional judgement plays an important role in resolving methodological dilemmas. Lastly, I discuss whether and under what conditions this reliance (...)
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  47. 10 Unexplored Areas of Parapsychology Charles W. Johnson, Jr.Charles W. Johnson Jr - 1974 - In John Warren White (ed.), Frontiers of consciousness: the meeting ground between inner and outer reality. New York: Julian Press.
     
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    Relations between emotion, memory encoding, and time perception.Laura W. Johnson & Donald G. MacKay - 2018 - Cognition and Emotion 33 (2):185-196.
    ABSTRACTThis study examined duration judgments for taboo and neutral words in prospective and retrospective timing tasks. In the prospective task, participants attended to time from the beginning and generated shorter duration estimates for taboo than neutral words and for words that they subsequently recalled in a surprise free recall task. These findings suggested that memory encoding took priority over estimating durations, directing attention away from time and causing better recall but shorter perceived durations for taboo than neutral words. However, in (...)
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    Thought Experiment as Bridge Between Science and Common Sense.James W. McAllister - 2024 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 24 (71):155-161.
    This reflection on the recent work of Nenad Miščević on thought experiment pursues two themes. One is the congruence between the historical development of the practice of thought experiment in science over the centuries and the development of philosophical accounts of thought experiment. The second is the idea that thought experiment provides a point of contact between common-sense and scientific conceptions of particular phenomena.
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    Absence of contingency in the Newtonian universe.James W. McAllister - 2004 - Foundations of Science 9 (2):191-210.
    I argue that, contrary to thestandard view, the Newtonian universe containsno contingency. I do this by arguing (i) thatno contingency is introduced into the Newtonianuniverse by the initial conditions of physicalsystems in the universe, and (ii) that theclaim that the Newtonian universe as a wholehas contingent properties leads to incoherence.This result suggests that Newtonian physics iseither inconsistent or incomplete, since thelaws of Newtonian physics are too weak todetermine all the properties of the Newtonianuniverse uniquely.
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