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Books
, 2023, Arthur Calwell, Connor Court, Redland Bay, Qld, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Arthur-Calwell-Australian-Biographical-Monographs-20--James-Franklin-Gerry-O-Nolan_p_568.html
, 2022, The Worth of Persons: The Foundations of Ethics, Encounter Books, New York, https://www.amazon.com.au/Worth-Persons-Foundation-Ethics-ebook/dp/B09NSZ9M2X
, 2015, The Real Archbishop Mannix: From the Sources, Connor Court Publishing, Ballarat, http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=315
, 2014, An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave MacMillan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734
, 2011, Proof in Mathematics, http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim
, 2009, What Science Knows And How It Knows It, Encounter Books, New York, USA
, 2007, Life to the Full Rights and Social Justice in Australia, Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
, 2006, Catholic Values and Australian Realities, Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, Ballan, Vic, http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim
, 2003, Corrupting the Youth, Macleay Press, Sydney
, 2001, The science of conjecture: evidence and probability before Pascal, Johns Hopkins University Press, USA
, 1988, Introduction to Proofs in Mathematics
Book Chapters
, 2025, 'Definition and Demonstration in the Category of Quantity and the Ancient Search for the Definition of Ratio', in Anstey PR; Bronstein D (ed.), Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant, Routledge, New York, pp. 47 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003489252-3
, 2024, 'Bayesian Perspectives on Mathematical Practice', in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice Volume 1 4, pp. 2711 - 2726, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_84
, 2022, 'Demonstration, Method of', in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer International Publishing, pp. 426 - 430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31069-5_55
, 2021, 'Bayesian Perspectives on Mathematical Practice', in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19071-2_84-2
, 2021, 'Quantifying Risks: Traditions and practices in medieval Western Christian world', in Heiduk M (ed.), Prognostication in the Medieval World A Handbook, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Berlin, pp. 697 - 710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110499773-041
, 2020, 'Incomprehension of religion in Australian society', in Turner B; Freeman D (ed.), FAITH'S PLACE Democracy in a Religious World, Kapunda Press, pp. 177 - 185
, 2020, 'Bayesian perspectives on mathematical practice', in Sriraman B (ed.), Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer, Cham, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19071-2_84-1
, 2020, 'Demonstration, method of', in Jalobeanu D; Wolfe C (ed.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer, Cham, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9
, 2020, 'Demonstration, Method of', in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_55-1
, 2018, 'Pascal’s Wager and the Origins of Decision Theory: Decision-Making by Real Decision-Makers', in Bartha P; Pasternack L (ed.), Pascal's Wager, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 27 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316850398
, 2018, 'Mathematics, core of the past and hope of the future', in Runcie CA; Brooks D (ed.), Reclaiming Education Renewing Schools and Universities in Contemporary Western Culture, Edwin H. Lowe Publishing, Sydney, pp. 149 - 162
, 2018, 'Pascal’s Wager and the Origins of Decision Theory: Decision-Making by Real Decision-Makers', in Pascals Wager, pp. 27 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316850398.002
, 2017, 'Early Modern Mathematical Principles and Symmetry Arguments', in The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, New York, pp. 16 - 44, https://www.routledge.com/The-Idea-of-Principles-in-Early-Modern-Thought-Interdisciplinary-Perspectives/Anstey/p/book/9781138211582
, 2016, 'Global and local', in Best Writing on Mathematics 2015, pp. 228 - 240
, 2016, 'Pre-history of probability', in Hayek A; Hitchcock C (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 33 - 49, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-probability-and-philosophy-9780199607617?cc=au&lang=en&#
, 2014, 'Quantity and number', in Novotný DD; Novák L (ed.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, Routledge, New York and London, pp. 221 - 244, https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2QBgAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA221
, 2014, 'Uninstantiated Universals and ‘Semi-Platonist’ Aristotelianism', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734.0007
, 2014, 'Comparisons and Objections', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 101 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_8
, 2014, 'Elementary Mathematics: The Science of Quantity', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 31 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_4
, 2014, 'Epilogue: Mathematics, Last Bastion of Reason', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 260 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_17
, 2014, 'Explanation in Mathematics', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 207 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_14
, 2014, 'Geometry: Mathematics or Empirical Science?', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 141 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_10
, 2014, 'Higher Mathematics: Science of the Purely Structural', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 48 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_5
, 2014, 'Idealization: An Aristotelian View', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 222 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_15
, 2014, 'Infinity', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 129 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_9
, 2014, 'Introduction', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_1
, 2014, 'Knowing Mathematics: Pattern Recognition and Perception of Quantity and Structure', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 165 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_11
, 2014, 'Knowing Mathematics: Proof and Certainty', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 192 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_13
, 2014, 'Knowing Mathematics: Visualization and Understanding', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 180 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_12
, 2014, 'Necessary Truths about Reality', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 67 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_6
, 2014, 'Non-Deductive Logic in Mathematics', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 241 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_16
, 2014, 'The Aristotelian Realist Point of View', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 11 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_2
, 2014, 'The Formal Sciences Discover the Philosophers’ Stone', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 82 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_7
, 2014, 'Uninstantiated Universals and ‘Semi-Platonist’ Aristotelianism', in An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Springer Nature, pp. 21 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_3
, 2013, 'Indispensability Without Platonism', in Properties Powers and Structures Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, pp. 81 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203124482-13
, 2013, 'Non-deductive logic in Mathematics: The probability of conjectures', in Aberdein A; Dove IJ (ed.), The Argument of Mathematics, Springer Science & Business, pp. 11 - 29
, 2013, 'Probable opinion', in Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 349 - 372, http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim
, 2013, 'Science matters in a post-modern world', in Johns G (ed.), Really Dangerous Ideas, Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 29 - 34
, 2012, 'Indispensability without platonism', in Bird A; Ellis B; Sankey H (ed.), Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, Routledge, pp. 81 - 97