Today most philosophers of science believe that no important insights can be had by looking for such a "common structure to inquiry" (RBCT, as I called it). The collapse of the positivist-empiricist project, rise of the "weak program" and "strong program", and numerous other issues all seem to point in that direction.

I claim RBCT does play an important role, and inquirers (from physicists to economists and psychiatrists) take its epistemic desiderata -- to seek information and avoid error -- seriously. E.g., when some error is discovered in a previous experiment forces to give up some previously-held views, or when a shocking discovery makes it unclear what experiments must be performed next, researchers often obey RBCT's recommendations in preference to their "normal" way of research. 

To say researchers are often implicitly committed to taking RBCT seriously is not to say RBCT is the (nonexistent) "real" scientific method, or that it obeying it demarcates "real" science from pseudoscience. But if we take epistemology and scientific inquiry seriously, in all its complexity, we must consider all the epistemic concerns real-life scientists do (or should) take seriously in their work, including RBCT. 


CV

My full CV is available in Hebrew (English CV should be uploaded soon). Last update: January 2012. Below are some selections from it. (Note: for ease of viewing, references are not in "standard" MLA or APA form, but shortened). Since teaching is a major part of my career, I have available a small sample of teacher evaluations (in both Hebrew and English). Last update: February 2012.


Education 

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005, Philosophy

B.Sc., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995, Mathematics / "Amirim" Program in the Humanities


Employment History

Lecturer, Beit Berl Academic College, Kfar Saba, Israel

Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel

Lecturer, University of Haifa, Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Lecturer, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA

Instructor, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA


Selected Fellowships & Scholarships

"Vatat" post-doctorate fellowship, University of Haifa

Full scholarship, Columbia University


Selected Publications

My Ph.D. thesis is now available in book form from amazon. 

Book review: Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy (Franklin et al.), Isis, Vol. 100, No. 1 (March 2009)

What is Wrong with Rational Suicide, Philosophia 2010 (with L. Amsel)

Epistemology and Risk Management, Risk & Regulation Magazine, No. 13 (summer 2007) (with N. Taleb)

Statistics is not Enough: Revisiting Ronald A. Fisher’s Critique (1936) of Mendel’s Experimental Results (1866),Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 3 (September 2007)

Cosmos and Coincidence: Why Anthropic Cosmological Coincidences are not Evidence of Supernatural Design—A New Criticism of the Fine-Tuning Argument, Skeptic, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2007)


Selected Teaching

Graduate Level

Philosophy of Biology for Ph.D. students in Biology, University of Haifa; fall 2008, 2009, 2010

Philosophy of Medicine, seminar in M.A. program in philosophy of science, University of Haifa; summer 2010 


Senior Level

History of Propaganda, senior seminar, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; yearly 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012


Undergraduate Level 

History of Communications, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; fall 2008, spring 2010, spring 2011

Game Theory, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; summer 2007, summer 2008, fall 2008, summer 2010, summer 2011 

Philosophy of Military Intelligence, University of Haifa; fall 2007, fall 2008, spring 2010, spring 2011 

Civilizations I, New Jersey City University; fall 2004, fall 2005, spring 2005

Theory and Practice of Science, Columbia University, spring 2001, fall 2002

Formal Logic, Columbia University, Spring 1999


Professional Associations

Canadian Philosophical Association

American Philosophical Association

Israeli Philosophical Association

Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science