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May 5, 2009
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PHIL 179 / PSYC 279
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Papers
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- Seduction Without Cause: Uncovering Explanatory Neurophilia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 281-282. (2008)
- The Psychology of Scientific Explanation. Philosophy Compass, 2/3, 564-591. (2007)
- Paternalism and Cognitive Bias. Law and Philosophy 24(4, July), 393-434. (2005)
- Biological Specializations for Speech: What Can the Animals Tell Us? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12(5, October), 155-159. (2003)
- Scientific Explanation and the Sense of Understanding. Philosophy of Science 69(2), 212-233. (2002)
- Theory-Conjunction and Mercenary Reliance. Philosophy of Science, 59, 231-245. (1992)
- The Biological Basis of Speech: What to Infer from Talking to the Animals. Psychological Review, 108, (3), 523-549. (2001)
- Metaphysics, Method, and the Mouth: Philosophical Lessons of Speech Perception. Philosophical Psychology, 14, (3), 261-291. (2001)
- Resurrecting “Death Taxes”: Inheritance, Redistribution, and the Science of Happiness (with Shahid Buttar as second author). Journal of Law and Politics, 16(4), 765-847. (2000)
- Austere Realism and the Worldly Assumptions of Inferential Statistics. In M. Forbes, D. Hull, and R. Burian, eds., Philosophy of Science 1994, Volume 1, Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association; pp. 190-199. (1994)
- A Restriction Maybe, but is it Paternalism? Cognitive Bias and Choosing Governmental Decision Aids. NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 2(3), 455-469. (2007)
- Diverse Tests on an Independent World. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 26 (3), 407-429. (1995)
- Epistemology's Search for Significance (with Michael Bishop). Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 15(2), 203-216. (2003)
- Lexical Boosting of Noise-band Speech in Open- and Closed-set Formats. Speech Communication 47(4), 424-435. (2005)
- Paying the Price for a Theory of Explanation: de Regt's Discussion of Trout (2002). Philosophy of Science 72 (January), 198-208. (2005)
- Philosophical Messages in the Medium of Spoken Language. In Matthew Nudds and Casey O’Callaghan (Eds.), Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.234-263 (with Robert Remez).
- The Language of Consent in Police Encounters. In Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Language and Law. New York: Oxford University Press (with Janice Nadler as first author), in press.
- The Pathologies of Standard Analytic Epistemology (with Michael A Bishop). Noûs 39 (4), 696-714. (2005)
- The Psychology of Discounting: A Policy of Balancing Biases. Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 21(2), 201-220. (2007)
- A Realistic Look Backward. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25 (1), 37-64. (1994)
- Belief Attribution in Science: Folk Psychology Under Theoretical Stress. Synthese, 87, 379-400. (1991)
- Auditory and Visual Influences on Phonemic Restoration (with William Poser). Language and Speech, 33, 121-135. (1990)
- Robustness and Integrative Survival in Significance Testing: The World's Contribution to Rationality. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 44, 1-15. (1993)
About J.D.
J.D. Trout is a Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and Adjunct Professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He received his PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University in 1988, and has also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Virginia Tech. His chief interests include the nature of scientific explanation, the psychology of human judgment, scientific realism and intellectual progress, and social/political issues bearing on well-being. He has also published work in epistemology and experimental and theoretical work in spoken language processing.