John N. Wright

John N. Wright
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	LaTrobe University
Main interests	philosophy of science

John N. Wright is a philosopher and Adjunct Research Fellow in Philosophy at LaTrobe University. Previously he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He is known for his works on philosophy of science.

Books

• An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism: Defending Realism Without Inference to the Best Explanation. Springer. 2018 ^[1]
• Where Did Fair Go?: On the Social and Moral Cost of Growing Inequality, Australian Scholarly Publishing 2014
• Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works, Acumen, 2013 ^{[2] [3] [4]}
• Ethics of Economic Rationalism, University of New South Wales Press 2002
• Realism and Explanatory Priority. Springer. 1997
• Science and the Theory of Rationality. Aldershot, Hants, England: Avebury. 1991

References

1. Shech, Elay (3 June 2019). "John Wright, An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism". BSPS.
2. Leplin, J. (16 December 2013). "Rev. of Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works By John Wright". Analysis. 74 (1): 184–185. doi:10.1093/analys/ant112. ISSN   0003-2638.
3. Ivanova, Milena (2 January 2014). "Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works". International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 28 (1): 105–108. doi:10.1080/02698595.2014.915655. ISSN   0269-8595.
4. Brown, Matthew J. (14 August 2013). "Review of Explaining Science's Success: Understanding How Scientific Knowledge Works". NDPR. ISSN   1538-1617.

External links

• "John Wright". LaTrobe University.