Martin Bunzl

Martin Bunzl (lahir 1948, di London, Inggris) adalah profesor emeritus filsafat di Universitas Rutgers di New Brunswick, New Jersey, tempat ia memimpin Rutgers Initiative in Climate and Social Policy dari 2007 hingga 2011.

 Biografi 
Bunzl lulus dari University of Minnesota, tempat ia memperoleh gelar BA dan Ph.D. Karya awalnya berfokus terutama pada kausalitas, di mana ia mengembangkan penjelasan deflasioner mengenai causal overdetermination; sesuatu yang oleh David Lewis disebut sebagai “peristiwa Bunzl”.

Dalam Filsafat Sejarah, fokus Bunzl adalah pada komitmen ontologis para sejarawan, termasuk penggunaan kontrafaktual. Natalie Zemon Davis, penulis The Return of Martin Guerre dan Society and Culture in Early Modern France, menulis tentang buku Bunzl berjudul Real History: “[buku ini] memberikan udara segar dalam penulisan tentang filsafat dan epistemologi sejarah. Dengan bahasa yang dapat diakses oleh sejarawan, filsuf, dan publik pembaca secara umum, ia mengeksplorasi pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang diajukan oleh berbagai ‘belokan’ dalam dekade pascaperang: dekonstruktif, linguistik, sastra, antropologis, dan kuantitatif. Ia melihat bukan hanya apa yang dikatakan para sejarawan tentang metode mereka, tetapi apa yang sebenarnya mereka lakukan.”

Dengan keahlian dalam Filsafat Sains, ia adalah penulis The Context of Explanation, Real History, dan Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change, serta menjadi editor bersama Buying Freedom dan Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping, serta berbagai artikel akademik.

Penelitian terbaru Bunzl berada dalam bidang risiko katastrofik.

 Publikasi 

 Buku 
1. Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change, London: Routledge, 2015.

2. Real History, London: Routledge, 1997.

3. The Context of Explanation, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1993.

 Buku Suntingan 
1 Foundational Issues of Neuroimaging, disunting bersama Stephen Hanson, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.

2. Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Contemporary Slave Redemption, disunting bersama Anthony Appiah, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

 Artikel Terpilih 
1. “Geoengineering Harms and Compensation”, Stanford Journal of Law, Science & Policy, Vol. 4, 2011, hlm. 70–76.

2. “A Test for Geoengineering?”, Science, Vol. 237, 2010, hlm. 530–531 (bersama Alan Robock, Ben Kravitz, dan Georgiy L. Stenchikov).

3. “Geoengineering Research: Shouldn't or Couldn't?”, Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 4, 2009, hlm. 1–3.

4. “The Tragedy of the Commons: A Reassessment”, Climatic Change, Vol. 97, 2009, hlm. 59–65.

5. “The Next Best Thing,” dalam Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Contemporary Slave Redemption, dieditori oleh Anthony Appiah dan Martin Bunzl, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, hlm. 235–248.

6. “Laws without Possibility”, Philosophia, Vol. 31, 2004, hlm. 475–485.

7. “Counterfactual History: A User’s Guide”, American Historical Review, Vol. 109, 2004, hlm. 845–858.

8. “Real World Epistemic Under-determination”, Philosophia, Vol. 31, 2004, hlm. 139–147.

9. “Conventions Made too Simple?”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 33, 2003, hlm. 417–426 (bersama Richard Kreuter).

10. “Evolutionary Games without Rationality?”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 32, 2002, hlm. 365–378.

11. “Baseball and Biology”, Philosophia, Vol. 27, 1999, hlm. 575–580.

12. “The Construction of History”, Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9, 1997, hlm. 119–131.

“13. The Logic of Thought Experiments”, Synthese, Vol. 106, 1996, hlm. 227–240.

“14. How to Change the Unchanging Past”, Clio, Vol. 25, 1996, hlm. 181–194.

15. “Non-cognitive Meaning Revisited”, Canberra Anthropology, Vol. 19, 1996, hlm. 1–14.

16. “Archaeology without Excess”, Philosophical Forum, Vol. 27, 1995, hlm. 27–36.

17. “Pragmatism to the Rescue?”, Journal for the History of Ideas, Vol. 20, 1995, hlm. 675–680.

18. “Meaning's Reach”, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 24, 1994, hlm. 267–280.

19. “Scientific Abstraction and the Realist Impulse”, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 61, 1994, hlm. 449–456; dicetak ulang dalam A. Zucker (ed.), Science and Its Philosophies (New York: Prentice Hall, 1995).

20. “Reductionism & The Mental”, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 24, 1987, hlm. 181–190.

21. “A Causal Model for Causal Priority”, Erkenntnis, Vol. 21, 1984, hlm. 31–44.

22. “Causal Factuals”, Erkenntnis, Vol. 21, 1984, hlm. 367–384.

23. “Humean Counterfactuals”, Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 20, 1982, hlm. 171–177.

24. “The Meaning of Meaningful Behavior”, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 12, 1982, hlm. 21–27.

25. “A Note on Doing”, Dialogue, Vol. 19, 1980, hlm. 629–631.

26. “Causal Preemption and Counterfactuals”, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 37, 1980, hlm. 629–631.

27. “Comment on 'Health as a Theoretical Concept'”, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 49, 1980, hlm. 116–118.

28. “Causal Overdetermination”, Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, 1979, hlm. 134–150.

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