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R. N. Boyd

19 works· latest 2023· 1 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-3650-5743

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Realism, anti-foundationalism and the enthusiasm for natural kinds1991 · 1,105 citations
Homeostasis, Species, and Higher Taxa1999 · 753 citations
How to be a Moral Realist2002 · 368 citations
Realism, Underdetermination, and a Causal Theory of Evidence1973 · 336 citations
3. The Current Status of Scientific Realism1984 · 298 citations

Works

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The Current Status of Scientific Realism

University of California Press eBooks·2023·1 author·chapter

57citations

Rethinking natural kinds, reference and truth: towards more correspondence with reality, not less

Synthese·2019·1 author

25citations

Materialism without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail

Harvard University Press eBooks·2014·1 author·chapter

208citations

Homeostasis, Higher Taxa, and Monophyly

Philosophy of Science·2010·1 author

39citations

Finite Beings, Finite Goods: The Semantics, Metaphysics and Ethics of Naturalist Consequentialism, Part II

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research·2003·1 author

61citations

The Illogical Basis of Phylogenetic Nomenclature

The Botanical Review·2003·3 authors

108citations

How to be a Moral Realist

·2002·1 author

Homeostasis, Species, and Higher Taxa

The MIT Press eBooks·1999·1 author·chapter

753citations

SEVEN. Constructivism, Realism, and Philosophical Method

University of California Press eBooks·1992·1 author·chapter

118citations

Realism, anti-foundationalism and the enthusiasm for natural kinds

Philosophical Studies·1991·1 author

1,105citations

Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method

University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota)·1990·1 author

138citations

What Realism Implies and What it Does Not

dialectica·1989·1 author

292citations

3. The Current Status of Scientific Realism

University of California Press eBooks·1984·1 author·chapter

298citations

On the current status of the issue of scientific realism

Erkenntnis·1983·1 author

252citations

On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism

Springer eBooks·1983·1 author·chapter

293citations

Scientific Realism and Naturalistic Epistemology

PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association·1980·1 author

227citations

Determinism, Laws, and Predictability in Principle

Philosophy of Science·1972·1 author

30citations