Philosophy

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Nick Tosh, M.Sci., Ph.D. (Cantab)

Contact Details

E-Mail: nick.toshnuigalway.ie

Office: Room 111, Block T

Phone: 353 (0)91 495929

Teaching

PI316/PI381 Philosophy of science
PI249 Philosophy of language and logic
PI245 War, law and the state

Research Interests

Philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of history

Selected Publications

Relativism about reasons, Philosophia 36, pp. 465-482, 2008

Science, truth and history, Part II: Metaphysical bolt-holes for the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge?, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38A, pp. 185-209, 2007

Science, truth and history, Part I: Historiography, relativism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37A, pp. 675-701, 2006

Anachronism and retrospective explanation: In defence of a present-centred history of science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34A, pp. 647-659, 2003

Possession, exorcism and psychoanalysis, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33C, pp. 583-596, 2002

Department of Philosophy, 19 Distillery Road
National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)91 492382, Fax: +353 (0)91-494554,
Email: Philosophy Department
This page was last updated Friday, January 29, 2010