James W. McAllister (mcallister-jw)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

McAllister, James W. 1991. “The Simplicity of Theories: Its Degree and Form.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 22(1): 1–14.
McAllister, James W. 1996a. “The Evidential Significance of Thought Experiment in Science.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 27(2): 233–250.
McAllister, James W. 1996b. “Scientists’ Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises.” in The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science, edited by Aflred I. Tauber, pp. 169–188. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 182. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
McAllister, James W. 2001a. “Relativism.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 405–407. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
McAllister, James W. 2001b. “Unification of Theories.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 537–539. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
McAllister, James W. 2003a. “Effective Complexity as a Measure of Information Content.” Philosophy of Science 70(2): 302–307.
McAllister, James W. 2003b. “Algorithmic Randomness in Empirical Data.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34(3): 633–646.
McAllister, James W. 2011. “What do Patterns in Empirical Data Tell Us about the Structure of the World?” Synthese 182(1): 73–87.
McAllister, James W. 2014. “Methodological Dilemmas and Emotion in Science.” Synthese 191(13): 3143–3158.
McAllister, James W. 2017. “Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison.” in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, edited by Michael T. Stuart, Joerg H. Yiftach Fehige, and James Robert Brown, pp. 425–438. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315175027.