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M.A. Philosophy, Indiana University, 1990
PhD HPS, Indiana University, 1990
AOS: Philosophy of
Science, Freedom of the Will
Philosophy Department
Hyer Hall 210B
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750142
Dallas TX 75275-0142
214-768-2128
ebarnes@smu.edu
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Current Research
I have worked primarily in the
philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific progress, scientific
explanation, confirmation theory, and the realist-anti realist debate. My
primary focus over the last several years has been on predictivism, the claim
that evidence confirms theory more strongly when it is predicted than when
theories are built to fit such evidence. My current research interests are in the
freedom of the will and social and political autonomy.
Representative Publications
· 2008 The
Paradox of Predictivism, Cambridge University Press.
· 2008
“Evidence and Leverage: Comment on Roush”, British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, 59 (3): 549-557.
· 2005 "Predictivism for Pluralists", British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, 56, 421-450.
· 2002 "The Miraculous Choice Argument for
Realism", Philosophical Studies 111, No. 2, 97-120.
· 2002 "Neither Truth nor Empirical Adequacy
Explain Novel Success", Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 80, No. 4, 418-431.
· 2000 "Ockham's Razor and the
Anti-Superfluity Principle", Erkenntnis 53, No. 3, 353-374.
· 1999 "The Quantitative Problem of Old
Evidence", British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 50, 249-264.
· 1998 "Probabilities and Epistemic
Pluralism", British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 49, 31-37.
· 1996, "Why P Rather than Q? The Curiosities
of Fact and Foil", Philosophical
Studies, 73: 35-53.
· 1995 "Inference to the Loveliest
Explanation", Synthese 103,
251-277.
· 1992 "Explanatory Unification and the
Problem of Asymmetry", Philosophy of
Science 59, 558-571.
· 1991 "The Causal History of Computational
Activity: Maudlin and Olympia", Journal
of Philosophy 88, 304-316.
Work in Progress
- Autonomy and Creative Responsibility
- The Zygote Argument for
Incompatibilism
- Creativity and Manipulation
Teaching
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Plato's Ethical Thought
- Creativity, Discovery and Science
- Philosophy of Human Emotion
Other than that
I am a fan of bluegrass music and Asian
cuisine. My wife and two daughters rule my world.