Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Louisiana State University
113 Coates Hall
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-3901
Tel: (225) 578-2277
Fax: (225) 578-4897
E-mail: husains@lsu.edu
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Husain Sarkar Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Louisiana State University 113 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-3901 Tel: (225) 578-2277 Fax: (225) 578-4897 E-mail: husains@lsu.edu |
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1976
M.A., Bombay University,
1970
My research interests include history of philosophy, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and history and philosophy of science.
Group Rationality in Scientific Research. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xv+284.
Descartes' Cogito:
Saved From the Great Shipwreck. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, xx+305.
The Toils of Understanding: An Essay on "The Present Age". Macon,
Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2000, x+187.
A Theory of Method. Berkeley, California: University of California
Press, 1983, xvii+229.
"Kant: Let Us Compare," Review of Metaphysics, Volume 58 (June 2005), 755-783.
"Empirical Equivalence
and Underdetermination," International Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, Volume 14, Number 2 (July 2000),
187-197.
"Know Thyself: A
Theory of Understanding: Part Two,"
Cogito, Volume 13, Number 2 (August
1999), 133-138.
"Kierkegaard:
Vox Populi, Vox Dei," The Southern Journal of
Philosophy, Volume XXXVII, Number 2 (Summer 1999),
253-279.
"Anti-Realism Against
Methodology," Synthese: An International Journal for
Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science,
Volume 116, Number 3 (1998), 379-402.
"Know Thyself: A Theory of
Understanding: Part One"
Cogito, Volume 12, Number
3 (November 1998), 199-204.
"Scientific Realism and the
Neutrality of Method," The Modern Schoolman: A
Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, Volume LXXV, Number 1
(November 1997), 65-78.
"The Task of Group
Rationality: The Subjectivist's View," Part II,
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume 28, Number 3 (September 1997),
497-520.
"The Task of Group
Rationality: The Subjectivist's View," Part I,
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume 28, Number 2 (June 1997),
267-288.
"Something, Nothing, and
Explanation," Southwest Philosophy
Review, Volume IX, Number 1 (January 1993),
151-161.
"In Defense of Truth,"
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume XIV, Number 1 (March 1983),
67-69.
"A Theory of Group
Rationality," Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume XIII, Number 1 (March 1982),
55-72.
"Origins and Identities,"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Volume LX, Number 2 (June 1982), 140-151.
"The Lockean Proviso,"
The Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
Volume XII (March 1982), No.1, 47-59.
"Popper's Third Requirement
for the Growth of Knowledge," The Southern Journal of
Philosophy, Volume XIX, Number 4 (December 1981),
489-497.
"Truth, Problem-solving and
Methodology," Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, Volume XII, Number 1 (March 1981),
61-73.
"Methodological Appraisals,
Advice, and Historiographical Models,"
Erkenntnis, Volume XV, Number 3
(September 1980), 371-390.
"Imre Lakatos's
Meta-Methodology: An Appraisal," Philosophy of the Social
Sciences, Volume X, Number 4 (December 1980),
397-416.
"Putnam's Schemata,"
The Southwestern Journal of
Philosophy, Volume X, Number 1 (March 1979),
125-137.
"Popper's Principle of
Transference: A Conjecture Refuted," The Southern
Journal of Philosophy, Volume XVI, Number 4 (December
1978), 363-371.
"Musgrave's 'Appraisals and
Advice,'" Philosophy of Science,
Volume XLV, Number 3 (September 1978), 478-483.
"Against
Against Method; or, Consolations for the Rationalist,"
The Southwestern Journal of
Philosophy, Volume IX, Number 1 (March 1978),
35-44.
Review of Jarrett Leplin's
A Novel Defense of Scientific
Realism. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997, The Journal of
Philosophy, Volume XCV, Number 4 (April 1998),
204-209.
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