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Research Areas : Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind/Psychology


Department of Philosophy

 

Faculty

 

Michael Bishop

Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies (University of California-San Diego)

151 Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1500


Office: 156 C/D Dodd Hall
Phone:
(850) 644-4127
Fax: (850) 644-3832
Email: mbishop@fsu.edu
Office Hours: W 9:00-12:00 (Spring 2008)

Curriculum Vitae

Book:

Bishop, Michael and J.D. Trout. Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment. 2005. New York: Oxford University Press.

Papers available online [pdf]:

Bishop, Michael. “Reflections on Cognitive and Epistemic Diversity: Does a Stich in Time Save Quine?” to appear in Stephen Stich and His Critics, Murphy, D. and M. Bishop (eds.). Blackwell Press. (manuscript)

Bishop, Michael. "The Autonomy of Social Epistemology" in Episteme, 2005 2, 1: 65-78.

Bishop, Michael and J.D. Trout. "The Pathologies of Standard Analytic Epistemology" in Nous, 2005 39, 4: 696-714.

Bishop, Michael. “The Pessimistic Induction, the Flight to Reference and the Metaphysical Zoo” in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2003 17, 2: 161-178.

Bishop, Michael and J.D. Trout. “50 Years of Successful Predictive Modeling Should be Enough: Lessons for Philosophy of Science” in Philosophy of Science: PSA 2000 Symposium Papers, 2002 69 (supplement): S197-S208.

Bishop, Michael and Stephen M. Downes. “The Theory Theory Thrice Over: The Child as Scientist, Superscientist or Social Institution” in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 2002, 33: 121-136.

Bishop, Michael. “In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be?” in Synthese, 2000, 122: 179-208.

Bishop, Michael. “Why Thought Experiments are Not Arguments” in Philosophy of Science, 1999, 66: 534-541.

Bishop, Michael and Stephen P. Stich. “The Flight to Reference, or How Not to Make Progress in the Philosophy of Science” in Philosophy of Science, 1998, 65: 33-49.

Bishop, Michael. “Theory-ladenness of Perception Arguments” in PSA 1992, 1: 287-299.