Howard Sankey

Scientific Realism and the Conflict with Common Sense

Book Chapter  |  2020

The aim of this paper is to identify and resolve a tension between scientific realism and commonsense realism that arises due to a..

The Relativistic Legacy of Kuhn and Feyerabend

Charles Sankey

Book Chapter  |  2020

RELATIVISTIC. LEGACY. OF. KUHN. AND. FEYERABEND. Howard. Sankey. 1. Introduction Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996) and Paul K. Feyeraben..

Laudan, Intuition and Normative Naturalism

Charles Sankey

Journal article  |  2020  |  Organon F

The aim of this paper is to document Laudan’s rejection of the appeal to intuition in the context of his development of normative ..

Epistemic Objectivity and the Virtues

Charles Sankey

Journal article  |  2020  |  Filozofia Nauki

The aim of this paper is to bring the resources of virtue epistemology to bear on the issue of the epistemic objectivity of scienc..

Realism and the Epistemic Objectivity of Science

Charles Sankey

Journal article  |  2020  |  Kriterion Journal of Philosophy

The paper presents a realist account of the epistemic objectivity of science. Epistemic objectivity is distinguished from ontologi..

Factivity or Grounds? Comment on Mizrahi

Howard Sankey

Journal article  |  2019  |  Logos & Episteme

This note is a comment on a recent paper in this journal by Moti Mizrahi. Mizrahi claims that the factivity of knowledge entails t..

The incommensurability thesis

H Sankey

Book  |  2019

This is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, that different scientific theories m..

Rescuing Renouvier

Howard Sankey

Journal article  |  2019  |  Metascience

Charles Renouvier (1815–1903) was a French philosopher active throughout much of the nineteenth century. Not formally trained as a..

Reality and the ashtray

Howard Sankey

Journal article  |  2019  |  Metascience

Neither a Truism nor a Triviality: Reply to Grzankowski

Charles Sankey

Journal article  |  2019  |  Principia: an international journal of epistemology

This is a reply to Alex Grzankowski’s comment on my paper, ‘To Believe is to Believe True’. I argue that one may believe a proposi..