Paul Dicken
Paul Dicken is an Affiliated Lecturer, and Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College. His research is in the philosophy of science, in particular, the epistemological issues surrounding the scientific realism debate. He is also interested in logical positivism and the philosophy of modality.
Publications
Constructive Empiricism: Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2010)
‘Constructive Empiricism and the Vices of Voluntarism’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2009), pp. 189-201.
‘On the Syntax and Semantics of Observability: A Reply to Muller and van Fraassen’, Analysis 69 (2009), pp. 38-42.
‘Conditions May Apply’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008), pp. 290-293
‘Constructive Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Modality’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (2007), pp. 605-612
‘What Can Bas Believe? Musgrave and van Fraassen on Observability’, Analysis 66 (2006), pp. 226-233 [with Peter Lipton]
‘Can the Constructive Empiricist Be a Nominalist? Quasi-Truth, Commitment and Consistency’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37 (2006), pp. 191-209
Current Teaching
Part IB
- Constructive Empiricism
Lecture 1 Handout
Lecture 2 Handout
Lecture 3 Handout
Lecture 4 Handout
Other
Director of Studies in Philosophy, Pembroke College.
Director of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Churchill College.
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Email address: ped21@cam.ac.uk
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