Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Operationalism" by Hasok Chang

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Allen, Harold J., 1980. “P. W. Bridgman and B. F. Skinner on Private Experience”, Behaviorism, 8: 15–29. (Scholar)
Boring, Edwin G., et al., 1945. “Symposium on Operationism”, The Psychological Review, 52: 241–294. [Authors in this symposium include Edwin G. Boring, P. W. Bridgman, Herbert Feigl, Harold E. Israel, and B. F. Skinner. For simplicity I have given “Boring 1945” as the citation in referring to the papers in this symposium, with the author of the individual article clearly indicated in the text in each case.] (Scholar)
Bridgman, Percy Williams, 1927. The Logic of Modern Physics, New York: Macmillan. (Scholar)
–––, 1929. “The New Vision of Science”, Harper’s, 158: 443–454; reprinted in Bridgman 1955, pp. 81–103. (Scholar)
–––, 1936. The Nature of Physical Theory, New York: Dover. (Scholar)
–––, 1938. “Operational Analysis”, Philosophy of Science, 5: 114–131; reprinted in Bridgman 1955, pp. 1–26. (Scholar)
–––, 1941. The Nature of Thermodynamics, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1949a. “Einstein’s Theories and the Operational Point of View”, in P. A. Schilpp (ed.), Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 333–354; reprinted in Bridgman 1955, pp. 309–337. (Scholar)
–––, 1949b. “The Operational Aspect of Meaning”, Synthese, 8: 251–259. (Scholar)
–––, 1952. The Nature of Some of Our Physical Concepts, New York: Philosophical Library. Reprinted from the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1 (1950): 257–272; 2 (1951): 25–44, 142–160. (Scholar)
–––, 1955. Reflections of a Physicist, New York: Philosophical Library. [This collection of essays was originally published in 1950; the 1955 edition includes some additional papers.] (Scholar)
–––, 1958. “Quo Vadis”, in Gerald Holton (ed.), Science and the Modern Mind, Boston: Beacon Press, 83–91. (Scholar)
–––, 1959a. The Way Things Are, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1959b. “P. W. Bridgman’s ‘The Logic of Modern Physics’ after Thirty Years”, Daedalus, 88: 518–526. (Scholar)
–––, 1962. A Sophisticate’s Primer on Relativity, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. (Scholar)
Brun, Georg, 2016. “Explication as a Method of Conceptual Re-engineering”, Erkenntnis, 81: 1211–1241. (Scholar)
Bunge, Mario, 1988. “The Ambivalent Legacy of Operationism”, Philosophia Naturalis, 25: 337–345. (Scholar)
Cappelen, Herman, 2018. Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Chang, Hasok, 2004. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Cronbach, Lee J. and Meehl, Paul E., 1955. “Construct Validity in Psychological Tests”, Psychological Bulletin, 52: 282–302. (Scholar)
Dingle, Herbert, 1950. “A Theory of Measurement”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1: 5–26. (Scholar)
Feest, Uljana, 2005. “Operationism in Psychology: What the Debate Is About, What the Debate Should Be About”, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 41(2): 131–149. (Scholar)
–––, 2010. “Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology”, Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 4(1): 173–190. (Scholar)
–––, 2011. “Remembering (Short-Term) Memory. Oscillations of an Epistemic Thing”, Erkenntnis, 75: 391–411. (Scholar)
–––, 2012. “Exploratory Experiments, Concept Formation and Theory Construction in Psychology”, in U. Feest and F. Steinle (eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice, Berlin: de Gruyter, 167–189. (Scholar)
Frank, Philipp G. (ed.), 1956. The Validation of Scientific Theories, Boston: Beacon Press; reprinted in 1961 by Collier Books, New York. [Chapter 2 of this volume contains papers arising from the symposium on “The Present State of Operationalism” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston in December 1953, co-sponsored by the Institute for the Unity of Science and the Philosophy of Science Association. Authors in this symposium include Henry Margenau, Gustav Bergmann, Carl G. Hempel, R. B. Lindsay, P. W. Bridgman, Raymond J. Seeger, and Adolf Grünbaum.] (Scholar)
Gillies, Donald A., 1972. “Operationalism”, Synthese, 25: 1–24. (Scholar)
Grace, Randolph C., 2001. “The Pragmatics of Operationism: A Reply”, Theory and Psychology, 11(1): 67–74. (Scholar)
Grene, Marjorie, 1974. The Knower and the Known, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Scholar)
Hacking, Ian, 1983. Representing and Intervening, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hardcastle, Gary L., 1995. “S. S. Stevens and the Origins of Operationism”, Philosophy of Science, 62: 404–424. (Scholar)
Hearnshaw, L. S., 1941. “Psychology and Operationism”, Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 19: 44–57. (Scholar)
Heisenberg, Werner, 1971. Physics and Beyond, A. J. Pomerans (trans.), London: George Allen & Unwin. (Scholar)
Hempel, Carl G., 1966. Philosophy of Natural Science, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. (Scholar)
Hesse, Mary, 1952. “Operational Definition and Analogy in Physical Theories”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2: 281–294. (Scholar)
Holton, Gerald, 1995a. “Percy W. Bridgman, Physicist and Philosopher”, in Einstein, History, and Other Passions (Woodbury, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics Press), pp. 221–227. (Scholar)
–––, 1995b. “On the Vienna Circle in Exile: An Eyewitness Report”, in W. DePauli-Schimanovich, et al. (eds.), The Foundational Debate, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 269–292. (Scholar)
–––, 2005. “B. F. Skinner, P. W. Bridgman, and the ‘Lost Years’,” in Victory and Vexation in Science, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 65–80. (Scholar)
Horwich, Paul, 1998. Meaning, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Hull, David L., 1968. “The Operational Imperative: Sense and Nonsense in Operationalism”, Systematic Zoology, 17: 438–457. (Scholar)
Kemble, Edwin C., Francis Birch, and Gerald Holton, 1970. “Bridgman, Percy Williams”, The Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2: 457–461. (Scholar)
Lindsay, R. B., 1937. “A Critique of Operationalism in Physics”, Philosophy of Science, 4: 456–470. (Scholar)
Marshall, Paul, 1979. “Some Recent Conceptions of Operationalism and Operationalizing”, Philosophia Reformata, 44: 46–68. (Scholar)
Moyer, Albert E., 1991. “P. W. Bridgman’s Operational Perspective on Physics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 22: 237–258, 373–397. (Scholar)
Neurath, Otto, 1932–33 [1983]. “Protocol Statements”, in Philosophical Papers 1913–1946, Robert S. Cohen and Marie Neurath (ed. and trans.), Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 91–99.
Petrie, Hugh G., 1971. “A Dogma of Operationalism in the Social Sciences”, Philosophy of the Social Science, 1: 145–160. (Scholar)
Polanyi, Michael, 1958. Personal Knowledge, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Popper, Karl R., 1972. The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 3rd edition, London: Hutchinson. (Scholar)
Schilpp, Paul Arthur, 1949. Albert Einstein: Philosopher–Scientist (The Library of Living Philosophers: Volume 7), La Salle, Ill.: Open Court. (Scholar)
Schlick, Moritz, 1930 [1979]. “On the Foundations of Knowledge”, in Philosophical Papers, vol. 2 (1925–1936), H. L. Mulder and B. F. B. van de Velde-Schlick (eds.), Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 370–387.
Walter, Maila, 1990. Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961), Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1953. Philosophical Investigations, G. E. M. Anscombe (trans.), New York: Macmillan. (Scholar)

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