Rate My Professor Howard Sankey

Sankey's academic interests focus on the overlap between epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science. His research encompasses scientific realism, incommensurability of scientific theories, epistemic relativism, rationality in science, theory comparison, scientific change, and epistemic objectivity. He has authored and co-authored numerous influential works, including 'Theories of Scientific Method: An Introduction' with Robert Nola (Routledge, 2014), 'The Incommensurability Thesis' (Routledge, 2019), 'Kuhn's Changing Concept of Incommensurability' (British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1993), 'Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science' (Routledge, 2016), 'Rationality, Relativism and Incommensurability' (Routledge, 2018), 'Taxonomic Incommensurability' (International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1998), 'Incommensurability: The Current State of Play' (Theoria, 1997), 'Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence' (2004), 'After Popper, Kuhn, and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method' with Robert Nola (2000), and 'Witchcraft, Relativism and the Problem of the Criterion' (Erkenntnis, 2010). These publications have shaped debates in philosophy of science. Sankey was elected to the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences in 2019 in recognition of his contributions. He teaches courses such as Knowledge and Reality (PHIL20047), and Topics in Contemporary Epistemology (PHIL40018). Additional research includes topics in animal minds, natural kinds, and induction.