History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept
The accepted manuscript for this conceptual etymology of “temperature,” to be published in Annals of Science, is below.
ReadThe accepted manuscript for this conceptual etymology of “temperature,” to be published in Annals of Science, is below.
ReadJohn D. Norton says philosophers have been led astray for thousands of years by their attempt to treat induction formally.
ReadSumma Logicae, part 3-3, chapters 31–36, trans. John P. McCaskey, September 18, 2017 The text here is from Opera Philosophica,
ReadDuring the Renaissance, an older understanding of induction, one prevalent in antiquity, was rediscovered and adopted.
ReadA book review in HOPOS, Spring 2015.
ReadAn article, co-authored with Steffen Ducheyne, in which I trace the sources for John Stuart Mill’s views on induction.
ReadMcCaskey here seeks to recover a lost conception of induction, one whose leading theoreticians were William Whewell, Francis Bacon, Socrates, and Aristotle.
ReadFirst ever collated Latin edition and English translation of Jacopo Zabarella on method and regressus.
ReadMy dissertation. A account of how philosophical induction was conceived in the ancient world and how that conception was later rediscovered by, especially, Francis Bacon.
ReadA book review in Technology and Culture 48, July 2007.
ReadPrior Analytics II 23 is not really about induction by complete enumeration, as all commentators have thought.
ReadA book review in Technology and Culture 50, July 2009.
ReadA book review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
ReadA book review in The Objective Standard, Summer 2008.
ReadA review on Amazon, September 2010.
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