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University at Albany, State University of New York: Albany, NY, US

Professor (Philosophy)
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Bowdoin College: Brunswick, Maine, US

2003 to 2004 | Visiting Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
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P.D. Magnus

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University of California, San Diego: San Diego, US

1996 to 2003 | PhD (Philosophy)
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Works (40)

Does Art Pluralism Lead to Eliminativism?

Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics
2024-03-14 | Journal article
Contributors: P. D. Magnus; Christy Mag Uidhir
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Scurvy and the Ontology of Natural Kinds

Philosophy of Science
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: P.D. Magnus
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Generative AI and photographic transparency

AI & SOCIETY
2023-12-27 | Journal article
Contributors: P. D. Magnus
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A Philosophy of Cover Songs

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William James on Risk, Efficacy, and Evidentialism

Episteme
2022-03 | Journal article
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Art Concept Pluralism Undermines the Definitional Project

The British Journal of Aesthetics
2022-01-22 | Journal article
Contributors: P D Magnus; Christy Mag Uidhir
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Evidential nihilism

Analysis
2021-01-27 | Journal article
Contributors: P D Magnus
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Inductive Risk, Science, and Values: A Reply to MacGillivray

Risk Analysis
2020-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel J. Hicks; P. D. Magnus; Jessey Wright
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Science, Values, and the Priority of Evidence

Logs&Episteme
2018-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2069-0533
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Cautious realism and middle range ontology

Metascience
2018-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0815-0796
Part of ISSN: 1467-9981
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Taxonomy, ontology, and natural kinds

Synthese
2018-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0039-7857
Part of ISSN: 1573-0964
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Kind of borrowed, kind of blue

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84964412241

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Friends with benefits! Distributed cognition hooks up cognitive and social conceptions of science

Philosophical Psychology
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84938419229

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.; McClamrock, R.
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Preserving the autographic/allographic distinction

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84946728659

Contributors: D'Cruz, J.; Magnus, P.D.
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Are digital images allographic?

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84927137127

Contributors: D'Cruz, J.; Magnus, P.D.
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NK≠HPC

Philosophical Quarterly
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84904184735

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Historical Individuals Like Anas platyrhynchos and 'Classical Gas'

Art and Abstract Objects
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84887564050

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Judging covers

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84887553745

Contributors: Magnus, C.; Magnus, P.D.; Mag Uidhir, C.
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Philosophy of science in the twenty-first century

Metaphilosophy
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84875630002

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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State of the Field: Why novel prediction matters

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84888637611

Contributors: Douglas, H.; Magnus, P.D.
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What scientists know is not a function of what scientists know

Philosophy of Science
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84891935867

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

Palgrave Macmillan
2012 | Book
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Art concept pluralism

Metaphilosophy
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78651405345

Contributors: Mag Uidhir, C.; Magnus, P.D.
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Drakes, seadevils, and similarity fetishism

Biology and Philosophy
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-81255137020

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Inductions, red herrings, and the best explanation for the mixed record of science

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78649587465

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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On Trusting Wikipedia

Episteme
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85010705023

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Demonstrative induction and the skeleton of inference

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-61149335753

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Early response to false claims in Wikipedia

First Monday
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-51849105618

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Mag Uidhir on performance

British Journal of Aesthetics
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-57749133283

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Distributed cognition and the task of science

Social Studies of Science
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33947267495

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Is there an elephant in the room? Addressing rival approaches to the interpretation of growth perturbations and small size

American Journal of Human Biology
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-34648836597

Contributors: Schell, L.M.; Magnus, P.D.
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What's new about the New Induction?

Synthese
2006 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33644926420

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Background theories and total science

Philosophy of Science
2005 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-33947417021

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Hormone research as an exemplar of underdetermination

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2005 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-24144494249

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Peirce: Underdetermination, agnosticism, and related mistakes

Inquiry
2005 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-24644445452

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Reckoning the shape of everything: Underdetermination and cosmotopology

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2005 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-24644469938

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy

Philosophy of Science
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-4043163429

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.; Callender, C.
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The price of insisting that quantum mechanics is complete

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-24944490102

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Success, truth and the Galilean Strategy

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2003 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-3843100191

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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Underdetermination and the Problem of Identical Rivals

Philosophy of Science
2003 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-1842853851

Contributors: Magnus, P.D.
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