Tyrone Lai

Philosophy Department
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C 5S7 Canada
E-Mail: tlai@mun.ca

 

Philosophical Interests:

Philosophy of Science

Epistemology

Methodology

Blogs:

Playing Sherlock Holmes

The Art of Detection aka Scientific Method

Papers (partial list):

• 'Knowledge Whatever Your Point of View.'

• 'Nicholas of Cusa and the Finite Universe.' Journal of the History of  Philosophy, 1973, pp161-167.

  'Did Newton Renounce Infinitesimals?'Historia Mathematica, 1975, pp127-136.

  'The Philosophical Relevance of "Technically Good" Experiments.'British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 35, 1984, pp156-159.

  'Empirical Tests are Only Auxiliary Devices.'British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 39, 1988, pp211-223.

  'How We Make Discoveries.'Synthese, vol. 79, 1989, pp361-392.

  'Discovery as a Problem for the Inventor.'British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 42, 1991, pp327-337.

  'We Are All Codebreakers.' September, 2016

   

   

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