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James W. McAllister

18 works· latest 2017· 2 institutionscluster: provisional

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Beauty and Revolution in Science1999 · 236 citations
Beauty and Revolution in Science.1998 · 181 citations
Phenomena and Patterns in Data Sets1997 · 85 citations
The evidential significance of thought experiment in science1996 · 70 citations
Scientific realism and the criteria for theory-choice1993 · 44 citations

Works

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Using History as Evidence in Philosophy of Science: A Methodological Critique

Journal of the Philosophy of History·2017·1 author·Open access

11citations

The Ontology of Patterns in Empirical Data

Philosophy of Science·2010·1 author

16citations

What do patterns in empirical data tell us about the structure of the world?

Synthese·2009·1 author·Open access

26citations

Model Selection and the Multiplicity of Patterns in Empirical Data

Philosophy of Science·2007·1 author

23citations

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Minds and Machines·2007·1 author·other

4citations

Die Rhetorik der Mühelosigkeit in der Wissenschaft und ihre barocken Ursprünge

De Gruyter eBooks·2006·1 author·chapter

The Virtual Laboratory: Thought Experiments in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics

De Gruyter eBooks·2005·1 author·chapter

14citations

"Emotion, Rationality, and Decision Making in Science"

Leiden Repository (Leiden University)·2005·2 authors·chapter

16citations

Thought Experiments and the Belief in Phenomena

Philosophy of Science·2004·1 author

20citations

Recent work on aesthetics of science

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science·2002·1 author

29citations

Beauty and Revolution in Science

Cornell University Press eBooks·1999·1 author·book·Open access

236citations

Beauty and Revolution in Science.

The Philosophical Review·1998·2 authors

181citations

Laws of nature, natural history, and the description of the world

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science·1997·1 author·Open access

10citations

Phenomena and Patterns in Data Sets

Erkenntnis·1997·1 author·Open access

85citations

The evidential significance of thought experiment in science

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·1996·1 author·Open access

70citations

Scientific realism and the criteria for theory-choice

Erkenntnis·1993·1 author·Open access

44citations

Dirac and the Aesthetic Evaluation of Theories

·1990·1 author·Open access

26citations

Truth and beauty in scientific reason

Synthese·1989·1 author·Open access

34citations