Philosophy Program
Staff Profiles
Research Interests
- Logic
Substitutional semantics
- Metaphysics
nominalism
theories of truth
- Philosophical Logic
semantic paradoxes
- Philosophy of Mathematics
foundations of mathematics
- Philosophy of Psychotherapy
evidence for psychoanalytic theory
- Philosophy of Science
Post-Popperian philosophy of science
Strong research programmes and the sociology of science
- War and Peace
Criteria for just wars; war and respect for human rights
Pacifism; nuclear deterrence
Publications
'Appraising Lakatos', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 59, 1981, y-z.
'Truthmaker', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 65, 1987, pp. 188-207.
'It's All in the Day's Work: a study of the ethnomethodology of science' in R. Nola (ed.) Realism and Relativism in Science, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp.59-80.
'What Were Tarski's Truth-Definitions For?', History and Philosophy of Logic 10, 1989, pp. 165-179.
'How Must Relativism be Construed to be Coherent?', Philosophy of the Social Sciences 24, 1994, pp. 55-75.
'Towards Metamethodology', in P. Riggs (ed.) Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1996.
'Deductivism Surpassed', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77, 1999, pp. 447-464.
"With Friends Like These… What is Inductivism and Why is it Off the Agenda?" in R. Nola & H. Sankey (eds.), After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 2000.
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