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Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science (2022)
Book Chapter
Rossetter, T. (in press). Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science. In A. Tucker, & D. Cernín (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History (253-273). Bloomsbury

Attention among philosophers to the historical sciences has increased dramatically in recent years. A major concern in this growing body of research is whether the historical sciences are methodologically fundamentally different from the experimental... Read More about Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science.

From crisis to normal science, and back again: Coming full “Kuhn cycle” in the career of Warren B. Hamilton (2022)
Book Chapter
Rossetter, T. (2022). From crisis to normal science, and back again: Coming full “Kuhn cycle” in the career of Warren B. Hamilton. In Special Paper of the Geological Society of America (7-19). https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553%2802%29

In this paper, I use Thomas S. Kuhn's model of scientific change to frame a brief, broad-brushed biographical sketch of the career of Warren B. Hamilton. I argue that Hamilton's career can usefully be interpreted as encompassing a full “Kuhn cycle,”... Read More about From crisis to normal science, and back again: Coming full “Kuhn cycle” in the career of Warren B. Hamilton.