Tyrone Lai

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

Philosophy of Science

Epistemology

Methodology

Playing Sherlock Holmes

The Art of Detection aka Scientific Method

SCIENTIFIC METHOD explained through Questions and Answers

THE ART OF DETECTION -- the textbook Sherlock Holmes did not write

'WHAT ARE CLUES?' and other essays

'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.

'Is Sherlock Holmes a Logician or Theseologist?' December, 2003

'Four Caricatures of the Knowing Process' February, 2004

'What are Clues? And why it is important that we should know' March, 2004

'A New Look at Scientific Method' May, 2004

'Following Clues: Do's and Don'ts' June, 2004

'Following Clues: Making a difficult task a little easier' June, 2005

'A Radically New Look at Scientific Method.' August, 2005