Stanford School

Short description: Group of philosophers of science

Not to be confused with Stanford–Edmonton School.

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The Stanford School (humorously also called the Stanford Disunity Mafia)[1] is a group of philosophers of science, the members of which taught at various times at Stanford University, who share an intellectual tradition of arguing against the unity of science.[2][3]

These criticisms draw heavily from research on science as a social and cultural process as well as arguments regarding ontological and methodological plurality found in different scientific fields. This group includes Nancy Cartwright, John Dupré, Peter Galison, Ian Hacking and Patrick Suppes.[1][2] A notable position put forward by members of the Stanford School is entity realism.

A major conference with all the original members (except Hacking) plus original scientific collaborators, parallel philosophers, and the next generation of philosophers in this vein took place on Stanford's Campus on October 25–26, 2013.[4] An anthology of this conference is being prepared, and will also include contributors not present at the conference.

## See also

* Contextualism
* Ontological pluralism
* Methodological pluralism
* Pittsburgh School

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scerri, Eric (2000). "The Failure of Reduction and How to Resist the Disunity of Science in Chemical Education". Science and Education 9 (5): 405–425. doi:10.1023/A:1008719726538.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cat, Jordi. "The Unity of Science". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-unity/. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
3. ↑ Newall, Paul. "John Dupré: The Disunity of Science". The Galilean. http://www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43815. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
4. ↑ The "Stanford School" of Philosophy of Science conference, "The "Stanford School" of Philosophy of Science, Day 1 October 25, 2013". https://philevents.org/event/show/11520. Retrieved 11 September 2022.

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* Epistemology
* Language
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* Science

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Turns|

* Aretaic
* Linguistic

Logic|

* Classical
* Mathematical
* Non-classical
* Philosophical

Theories|

* Anti-realism
* Australian realism
* Descriptivist theory of names
* Emotivism
* Functionalism
* Analytical feminism
* Logical atomism
* Logical positivism
* Analytical Marxism
* Neopragmatism
* Neurophilosophy
* Ordinary language
* Quietism
* Scientific structualism
* Sense data

Concepts|

* Analysis (Paradox)
* Analytic–synthetic distinction
* Counterfactual
* Natural kind
* Reflective equilibrium
* Supervenience

| Modality|

* Actualism
* Necessity
* Possibility
* Possible world
* Realism
* Rigid designator

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Philosophers|

* Nick Bostrom
* Noam Chomsky
* Patricia Churchland
* David Chalmers
* James F. Conant
* Alice Crary
* Daniel Dennett
* Cora Diamond
* Keith Donnellan
* Paul Feyerabend
* Bas van Fraassen
* Gottlob Frege
* Jerry Fodor
* Ian Hacking
* Jaegwon Kim
* Alasdair MacIntyre
* J. L. Mackie
* Ruth Millikan
* Ernest Nagel
* Thomas Nagel
* Derek Parfit
* Karl Popper
* Graham Priest
* John Searle
* Peter Singer
* J. J. C. Smart
* Ernest Sosa
* Barry Stroud
* Charles Taylor
* Michael Walzer

| Cambridge|

* Charlie Broad
* Norman Malcolm
* G. E. Moore
* Bertrand Russell
* Frank P. Ramsey
* Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Oxford|

* G. E. M. Anscombe
* J. L. Austin
* A. J. Ayer
* Michael Dummett
* Antony Flew
* Philippa Foot
* Peter Geach
* Paul Grice
* R. M. Hare
* Gilbert Ryle
* P. F. Strawson
* Richard Swinburne
* Bernard Williams
* Timothy Williamson

Berlin Circle|

* Carl Gustav Hempel
* Hans Reichenbach

Vienna Circle|

* Rudolf Carnap
* Kurt Gödel
* Otto Neurath
* Moritz Schlick

Harvard|

* Roderick Chisholm
* Donald Davidson
* Nelson Goodman
* Christine Korsgaard
* Thomas Kuhn
* Robert Nozick
* Hilary Putnam
* W. V. O. Quine
* John Rawls

Pittsburgh School|

* Robert Brandom
* John McDowell
* Nicholas Rescher
* Wilfrid Sellars

Princeton|

* David Lewis
* Saul Kripke
* Richard Rorty

Notre Dame|

* Robert Audi
* Peter van Inwagen
* Alvin Plantinga

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