Northern Illinois University

Department of Philosophy

Harold Brown’s Representative Publications

Books

Conceptual Systems, London: Routledge, 2007

Rationality, New York: Routledge, 1988

Observation and Objectivity, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

Perception, Theory and Commitment, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979

Articles and Book Chapters

“Psychology, Naturalized Epistemology and Rationality,” in Philosophy and Psychology, ed. Richard Kitchener and William O'Donohue (London: Sage Publications, 1996), pp. 19-32

“Empirical Testing,” Inquiry 38, 1995, pp. 353-399

“Judgment and Reason,” Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy (1994)

“Direct Realism, Indirect Realism and Epistemology” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1992)

“Epistemic Concepts,” Inquiry (1991)

“Prospective Realism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1990)

“Naturalizing Observation,” in N. Nersessian (ed.), The Process of Science (1987)

“Sellars, Concepts and Conceptual Change,” Synthese (1986)

“Galileo on the Telescope and the Eye,” Journal of the History of Ideas (1985)

“Incommensurability,” Inquiry (1983)

“On Being Rational,” American Philosophical Quarterly (1978)