IAN JAMES KIDD
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philosophy of science


​I'm mainly interested in the contingency of sciences and social and character epistemology of science. I also work on Feyerabend.

Contingency
  • ‘Feyerabend on Contingency, Pluralism, and Humility’, Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy, (Special issue on Feyerabend’s Legacy, edited by Kazimierz Jodkowski, Gonzalo Munévar, Krzysztof J. Kilian, and Grzegorz Malec).*
    • ​​I develop a contingentist argument based on Feyerabend's work.

  • 'Humility, Contingency, and Pluralism in the Sciences', Mark Alfano, Michael Lynch, and Alessandra Tanesini (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Humility (New York: Routledge, 2020), 346-358.*
 
  • ‘Other Histories, Other Sciences’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 61 (2017) 57-60.
    • Essay review of Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering (eds.), Science As It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/ Inevitability Problem (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2016).
 
  • ‪Historiography and the Philosophy of the Sciences‪, co-edited with Robin Hendry, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 55 (2016).
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  • ‘Historiography and the Philosophy of the Sciences’, co-authored with Robin Hendry, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 55 (2016): 1-2.
 
  • ‪‘Inevitability, Contingency, and Epistemic Humility’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 55 (2016): 12-19.
 
  • ‪‘Historical Contingency and the Impact of Scientific Imperialism’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27.3 (2013): 317–326.
    • Steve Clarke and Adrian Walsh, ‘Imperialism, Progress, Developmental Teleology, and Interdisciplinary Unification’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27.3 (2014): 341-351.
 
  • ‘Science and the Making of Modernity’, Annals of Science 70 (2013): 105-107.
 

Social and character epistemology of science​

  • ‘Creativity in Science and the ‘Anthropological Turn’ in Virtue Theory’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11.15 (2021): 1-16.
    • Special issue on Creativity in Art, Science & Mind, edited by Adrian Currie and Anton Killin.
 
  • 'Epistemic Vices and Feminist Philosophies of Science', Kristen Intemann and Sharon Crasnow (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Feminist Philosophy of Science (New York: Routledge, 2020), 157-169.*
 
  • ‘From the Vicious Mind to the Scientific Mind’, De Filosoof (Utrecht University philosophy magazine) 79 (2020): 28-32.*

  • 'Epistemic Corruption and Manufactured Doubt: The Case of Climate Science', co-authored with Justin Biddle and Anna Leuschner, Public Affairs Quarterly 31.3 (2017):165-187.
    • Special issue: Responsible Use of Science in Societal Decision-Making, ed. Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards.
 
  • Review of Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston (eds.), Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions At Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic (Chicago UP, 2016), Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences.*
 
  • ‪‘Was Sir William Crookes Epistemically Virtuous?’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48A (2014): 67-74. 
    • Special issue: Psychical Research in the History of Medicine and the Sciences, ed. Andreas Sommer.
 
  • ‘Pierre Duhem’s Epistemic Aims and the Intellectual Virtue of Humility’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42.1 (2011): 185-1
    • Milena Ivanova, ‘Good Sense in Context: A Reply to Kidd’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42.4 (2011): 610-612.
 
  • 'Three Cheers for Science and Philosophy! Reflections on Hawking's The Grand Design', Think: Royal Institute of Philosophy 10 (2011: 37-41.
 
Other
  • A paper on science and humanism for an edited volume.*

  • ‘Conceptions of Philosophy and the Challenges of Scientism’, Moti Mizrahi (ed.) Scientism: For and Against (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), 75-86.

  • Unconceived Alternatives and Scientific Realism, co-edited with Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam, Synthese 196(10) (2019): 3911-3993.
 
  • 'Introduction: Science, Realism, and Unconceived Alternatives', Synthese, 196(10) (2019): 3911-3913.​

  • Review of Dean Rickles, The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics , Philosophy in Review 30.3 (2010): 212-214.
 
  • Review of Harold Kincaid, John Dupré, Alison Wylie (eds.) Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions , Philosophical Writings. 
 
  • Review of James Ladyman and Don Ross. Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised, Philosophical Writings. 
 
  • Review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity, Philosophy in Review 29/ 3 (2009): 20-22. 
 
  • Review of Sandra Harding. Sciences From Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities, Metapsychology 13/31 (2009). (online)
 
  • Review of Sahotr Sarkar, Doubting Darwin, Kaleidoscope 1 (2007).
 
  • Review of Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters (eds.) Scientific Pluralism, Philosophical Writings 33 (2006):77-78.
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        • Feyerabend
        • Metaphilosophy
        • Mary Midgley
        • Philosophy of Education
        • Philosophy of Science
        • 20th Century Austro-German Philosophy
        • Scientism
        • Epistemic virtues
        • Philosophy of Religion and the Spiritual Life
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        • Chinese philosophy
        • Publications (by date)
        • Feminist Philosophy
        • Charles Fort
        • Epistemology
        • Phenomenology
        • Misanthropy
        • Epistemic injustice
        • Social and institutional epistemology
        • Buddhist philosophy
        • Terrorism
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      • Epistemic Vices: Individual and Collective
      • Civic Vices
      • Pessimism, Nihilism, and Misanthropy
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