Mark Wilson (wilson-m)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Parsons, Graham and Wilson, Mark, eds. 2023. How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781108992640.
Wilson, Mark. 1979. “Maxwell’s Condition – Goodman’s Problem.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30: 107–123. Reprinted in Elgin (1997, 257–273).
Wilson, Mark. 1981. “The Double Standard in Ontology.” Philosophical Studies 39: 409–427.
Wilson, Mark. 1985a. “What is this thing called ‘Pain’? – The Philosophy of Science behind the Contemporary Debate.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 66: 227–267.
Wilson, Mark. 1985b. “What Can Theory Tell Us About Observation?” in Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, pp. 222–243. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, Mark. 1988. “Nature’s Demand on Language.” Philosophical Topics 16(1): 285–336.
Wilson, Mark. 1991. “Law along the Frontier: Differential Equations and Their Boundary Conditions.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 565–575. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Wilson, Mark. 1992. “Frege: The Royal Road from Geometry (with a Postscript).” Noûs 26: 149–180. Reprinted in Demopoulos (1995, 108–162).
Wilson, Mark. 1993a. “There’s a Hole and a Bucket, Dear Leibniz.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18: Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 202–241. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Wilson, Mark. 1993b. “Honorable Intensions.” in Naturalism. A Critical Appraisal, edited by Steven J. Wagner and Richard Warner, pp. 53–94. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Wilson, Mark. 1994. “Can we Trust Logical Form.” The Journal of Philosophy 91(10): 519–544.
Wilson, Mark. 1997. “Wittgenstein: Physica Sunt, Non Leguntur.” Philosophical Topics 25(2): 289–316.
Wilson, Mark. 1999. “To Err is Humean.” Philosophia Mathematica 7(3): 247–257.
Wilson, Mark. 2000a. “Inference and Correlational Truth.” in Circularity, Definition, and Truth, edited by André Chapuis and Anil Gupta, pp. 371–396. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
Wilson, Mark. 2000b. “The Unreasonable Uncooperativeness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” The Monist 83(2): 296–314.
Wilson, Mark. 2000c. “Where did the Notion that Forces are Unobservable come from?” in The Reality of the Unobservable. Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism, edited by Evandro Agazzi and Massimo Pauri, pp. 231–240. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 215. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Wilson, Mark. 2000d. “On the Mathematics of Spilt Milk.” in Third Wave Feminism. A Critical Exploration, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford, pp. 143–152. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wilson, Mark. 2004. “Theory Façades.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104: 273–288.
Wilson, Mark. 2006. Wandering Significance: An Essay on Conceptual Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269259.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2007a. “Frege and Russell: Does Science Talk Sense?” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 3(2): 179–190.
Wilson, Mark. 2007b. “Semantics Balkanized [on Camp (2002)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(3): 709–719.
Wilson, Mark. 2008. “Beware of the Blob: Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians.” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume IV, edited by Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 275–320. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199542987.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2010a. “What Can Contemporary Philosophy Learn from Our ‘ “Scientific Philosophy” ’ Heritage?” Noûs 44(3): 545–570. Reprinted in Ross, Ladyman and Kincaid (2013, 151–181).
Wilson, Mark. 2010b. “Frege’s Mathematical Setting.” in The Cambridge Companion to Frege, edited by Michael D. Potter and Thomas G. Ricketts, pp. 379–412. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wilson, Mark. 2010c. “Back to ‘Back to Kant’ .” in Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, pp. 553–567. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Wilson, Mark. 2012. “Long Ago, in a Context Far Away.” in Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences. Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos, edited by Mélanie Frappier, Derek Henry Brown, and Robert DiSalle, pp. 57–74. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 78. Dordrecht: Springer.
Wilson, Mark. 2013a. “Some Remarks on ‘Naturalism,’ as We Now Have It.” in Scientific Metaphysics, edited by Don Ross, James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid, pp. 198–207. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696499.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2013b. “Enlarging One’s Stall or How Did All of These Sets Get in Here?” Philosophia Mathematica 21(2): 157–179.
Wilson, Mark. 2013c. “What is ‘Classical Mechanics’ Anyway?” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, edited by Robert W. Batterman, pp. 43–106. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392043.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2015a. “Stitching Together a Language for Science.” Analytic Philosophy 56(4): 338–353.
Wilson, Mark. 2015b. “Review of Sklar (2013).” The Philosophical Review 124(2): 269–272.
Wilson, Mark. 2017a. Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017b. “Pragmatic’s Place at the Table.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 1–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017c. “Physics Avoidance.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 51–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017d. “From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 99–135. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017e. “Two Cheers for Anti-Atomism.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 136–200. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017f. “The Greediness of Scales.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 201–240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017g. “Believers in the Land of Glory.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 241–286. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017h. “Is there Life in Possible Worlds?” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 287–323. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017i. “Semantic Mimicry.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 324–361. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2017j. “A Second Pilgrim’s Progress.” in Physics Avoidance. And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy, pp. 362–422. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
Wilson, Mark. 2021. Imitation of Rigor. An Alternative History of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192896469.001.0001.

Further References

Camp, Joseph L., Jr. 2002. Confusion. A Study in the Theory of Knowledge. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Demopoulos, William, ed. 1995. Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Elgin, Catherine Z., ed. 1997. The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman. New York: Garland Publishing Co.
Ross, Don, Ladyman, James and Kincaid, Harold, eds. 2013. Scientific Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696499.001.0001.
Sklar, Lawrence. 2013. Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.