John Worrall (philosopher)

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John Worrall is currently Professor of Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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He has published widely in journals and anthologies, edited Imre Lakatos's collected works and a recent volume on The Ontology of Science. He was editor of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1974 to 1983, and is currently completing a book on theory-change.

  • Why Science Discredits Religion in M. Peterson and R. Vanarragon (eds) Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell, 2004
  • Normal Science and Dogmatism, Paradigms and Progress: Kuhn versus Popper and Lakatos in T. Nickles (ed): Thomas Kuhn. Cambridge University Press, 2003
  • What Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine, Philosophy of Science, September 2002 (with E. Scerri)
  • Prediction and the periodic table, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Vol 32/3, 2001;
  • Kuhn, Bayes and "Theory-Choice": How Revolutionary is Kuhn's Account of Theoretical Change? in R. Nola and H. Sankey (eds): After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method, 2000;
  • The Scope, Limits and Distinctiveness of the Method of "Deduction from the Phenomena": Some Lessons from Newton's "Demonstrations" in Optics, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2000;
  • Two Cheers for Naturalised Philosophy of Science, Science and Education, July 1999;
  • Structural Realism: the Best of Both Worlds in D. Papineau (ed) The Philosophy of Science (Oxford 1996).
  • Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Subject Editor for Philosophy of Science), (Routledge, 1998)
  • Philosophy and Natural Science in A C Grayling (Ed.), Philosophy 2. Further through the subject (Oxford University Press, 1998)
  • Revolution in Permanence": Karl Popper on theory-change in science, Karl Popper: Problems and Philosophy (CUP, 1995)
  • The Ontology of Science, ed (Dartmouth Publishing Co, 1994)
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