MIRIAM
SOLOMON: PUBLICATIONS
Social Empiricism , MIT Press ( Bradford Books), October 2001.
Edited Collections
• Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 2:1 (June 2005). Guest editor for special issue on the topic of Rationality.
• Philosophy of Science 72:5 (December 2005). Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers.
• Philosophy of Science 73:5 (December 2006). Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia Papers
• "Quine's Point of View," Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 86 No. 3, March 1989, pp. 113-136.
• "On Putnam's Argument for the Inconsistency of Relativism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 213-220
• "Apriority and Metajustification in BonJour's Structure of Empirical Knowledge ," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Vol. L, No. 4., June 1990, pp. 767-777.
• "Extensionality, Underdetermination and Indeterminacy," Erkenntnis 33, November 1990, pp. 211-221.
• "Scientific Rationality and Human Reasoning," Philosophy of Science 59:3 (1992), pp. 439-455.
• "Social Empiricism," Nous 28:3 (1994), pp. 325-343
• "A More Social Epistemology," in Fred Schmitt (ed.) (1994) Socializing Epistemology (Roman and Littlefield), pp. 217-233.
• "The Pragmatic Turn in Naturalistic Philosophy of Science," Perspectives on Science , Vol. 3, No. 2 (1995) pp. 206-230.
• "Legend Naturalism and Scientific Progress". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26:2 , (1995) pp. 205-218.
• "Multivariate Models of Scientific Change". PSA 1994 , Volume II, pp. 287-297.
• "Naturalism and Generality". Philosophical Psychology , 8:4 (1996) pp. 353-363.
• “Social Epistemology,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement (1996), pp. 546-548.
• “Information and the Ethics of Information Control in Science,” Perspectives on Science 4:2 (1996), pp. 195-206.
• “Happily Ever After With Consensus?” Feneomenologia e societa 21:1 (1998), pp. 58-65; a special issue devoted to social epistemology.
• "Frank Sulloway's Born to Rebel ," Philosophy of Science 65:1 (1998), pp. 171-181.
• "Consensus in Science" Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 10 , ed. Tian Yu Cao (2001), pp. 193-204. Bowling Green , KY : Philosophy Documentation Center .
• "It Isn't the Thought That Counts," Argumentation 15:1 (2001), pp. 67-76. Special issue edited by Eugene Garver on new topics in critical thinking.
• “The Whiptail Lizard Reconsidered,” Perspectives on Science 11:3 (2003), pp. 316-323.
• “A Critical Context for Longino's Critical Contextual Empiricism”. With Alan Richardson ( University of British Columbia ). Review essay on Helen Longino's The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2002), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 36:1 (2005), pp. 211-222.
• “ Groupthink versus The Wisdom of Crowds : The Social Epistemology of Deliberation and Dissent.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2006) , Volume XLIV, Supplement (special issue on Social Epistemology based on the Spindel Conference, September 2005), pp. 28-42.
• “Social Epistemology,” (expansion and update of article for first edition) in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2 nd edition. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA , 2006, pp. 83-87.
• “Norms of Epistemic Diversity,” Episteme 3:1 (2006), pp. 23-36. Special issue edited by Alison Wylie on “Epistemic Diversity and Dissent” and based on the Episteme conference, June 2006.
• “Situated Cognition,” invited paper for the Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science: A Volume of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series , eds. Paul Thagard, Dov Gabbay and John Woods. Elsevier, 2006. pp. 413-428.
• “The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences,” invited paper for Establishing Medical Reality: Methodological and Metaphysical Issues in Philosophy of Medicine eds. Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick. Springer, 2007. pp. 167-177.
• “Social Epistemology of Science,” forthcoming in Establishing a Consensus Agenda for K-12 Science Inquiry, edited by Richard A. Duschl and Richard E. Grandy, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, NL, 2007 .
• “STS and Social Epistemology of Science,” submitted paper for the new Handbook of Science and Technology Studies . Forthcoming 2007.
• “Responses to Critics,” submitted paper in response to four papers on my book, Social Empiricism , published together as a symposium in Perspectives on Science , forthcoming Spring 2008.
Book Reviews and Invited Discussions
• Review of Roger Gibson, Enlightened Empiricism (University of Florida Press, 1987), Philosophical Review , Vol. C, No. 3, July 1991, pp. 484-487.
• Review of W.V. Quine, Pursuit of Truth (Harvard University Press, 1990), Canadian Philosophical Reviews , Vol XI, No. 4, August 1991, pp. 284-6.
• Review of John R. Anderson, The Adaptive Character of Thought (Erlbaum, 1990), Philosophical Psychology , Vol. 6, No. 1 pp. 97-99.
• "Making Meaning: A Response to Chokr," Social Epistemology Vol. 7, No. 4 (1993).
• "Sizing up Science: A Response to Fuller," Informal Logic , Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1994) pp. 55-58.
• Review of Stephen Stich, The Fragmentation of Reason (MIT, 1990), Informal Logic , Vol. 16, No. 2 (Spring 1994) pp. 137-140.
• Discussion of Alison Gopnik, "The Scientist as Child," Philosophy of Science 63:4 (1996) pp. 547-551.
• Review of Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild (MIT 1995), Philosophy of Science 64:1 (1997) pp. 181-2.
• Review of Susan Sherwin (ed.) The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy (Temple University Press, 1998) Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25:3 (2000), pp. 604-606.
• Review of James Robert Brown, Who Rules in Science: An Opinionated Guide to the Science Wars (Harvard University Press, 2001) ISIS 93:3 (2002), pp.542-543 .
• Review of Alvin I. Goldman, Pathways to Knowledge: Public and Private ( Oxford University Press, 2002), Philosophy of Science 70:2 (2003), pp. 452-454.
• “Messing With Common Sense.” Review of Susan Haack, Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (Prometheus Books, 2003) Science 305:5680 (2004) , pp. 44-45 .
• “On Smell and Scientific Practice.” Review of Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Farber and Farber, 2006). Science 313:5788 (2006), pp. 763-4.
• “Standpoint Theory and Creativity”
• “System Error and Responsibility in Health Care”
• “The Importance of Community: A Journey Through Orthodox Judaism,” autobiographical essay accepted for The Costs of Autonomy: Personal Essays on the Morality of Religious Indoctrination eds. Peter Caws and Stefani Jones