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Recent Select Publications

Books and Edited Collections

The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker and Xiang Chen (co-authors). Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Astronomy and Astrology from the Babylonians to Kepler: Essays presented to Bernard R. Goldstein on the occasion of his 65th Birthday. P. Barker et al. (eds.). Part I. Centaurus, 45.1-4 (2003). Part II. Centaurus, 46.1 (2004).

New Foundations in the History of Astronomy: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Bernard R. Goldstein, P. Barker (ed.) Perspectives on Science, 10 (2003).

Pierre Duhem: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science. Roger Ariew and Peter Barker (trs.). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1996.

Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science, Peter Barker and Roger Ariew (eds.). Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1991.

Pierre Duhem: Historian and Philosopher of Science, Roger Ariew and Peter Barker (eds.), Synthese, 83.2-3 (1990).

After Einstein: Proceedings of the Memphis State Einstein Centenary Conference, March 14-16, 1979. Peter Barker and Cecil G. Shugart (eds.). Memphis: Memphis State Press, 1981.

Selected articles
History of Science

Barker, P. "Astronomy, Providence and the Lutheran Contribution to Science" in A. J. L. Menuge (ed.) Reading God’s World: The Scienctific Vocation, St. Louis: Concordia Press, 2004. pp. 157-87.

Barker, P. "How Rothmann Changed His Mind" in A. Bowen et al. (eds.) Astronomy and Astrology from the Babylonians to Kepler. Centaurus 46(2004) 41-57.

Barker, P. and Goldstein, B. R. "Patronage and the production of De revolutionibus", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34(2003), in press.

Barker, P. "Constructing Copernicus" in New Foundations in the History of Astronomy, P. Barker (ed.) Perspectives on Science 10(2002) 208-27 (published 2003).

Barker, P. and Goldstein, B. R. "Theological foundations of Kepler's astronomy," in John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, and Jitse van der Meer.(eds.), Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions. Osiris 16(2001) 88-113.

Barker, P. "The role of religion in the Lutheran response to Copernicus" in M. J. Osler (ed.) Rethinking the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp. 59-88.

Barker, P. "Copernicus and the critics of Ptolemy." Journal for the History of Astronomy 30(1999) 343-358.

Barker, P and Goldstein, B. R. "Realism and Instrumentalism in Sixteenth Century Astronomy: A Reappraisal" Perspectives on Science 6(1998) 232-258.

Goldstein, B. R. and Barker, P. "The role of Rothmann in the dissolution of the celestial spheres," British Journal for the History of Science 28(1995) 385-403.

Barker, P. and Goldstein, B. R. "Distance and velocity in Kepler's astronomy," Annals of Science 51(1994) 59-73.

Barker, P. "The Optical Theory of Comets from Apian to Kepler," Physis 30(1993) 1-25.

Barker, P. "Stoic contributions to early modern science," in M. J. Osler (ed.), Atoms, pneuma and tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. pp. 135-154.

Cognitive Studies of Science

Barker, P. "The Copernican Revolution: A Cognitive Historical Approach" in Li Ping (et al.) (eds.) Science, Cognition and Consciousness. Nanchung (China): JiangXi People’s Press, 2004. pp. 75-95.

Barker, P., Chen, X, and Andersen, H. "Kuhn on concepts and categorization" in T. Nickles (ed.) Thomas Kuhn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. pp. 212-45 (published 2002).

Barker, P. "Kuhn, Incommensurability and Cognitive Science" Perspectives on Science 9(2001) 433-62 (published 2002).

Barker, P. "Incommensurability and conceptual change during the Copernican Revolution," in P. Hoyningen-Huene & H. Sankey (Eds.) Incommensurability and Related Matters. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Boston: Kluwer, 2001. pp. 241-273.

Chen, X., and Barker, P. "Continuity through revolutions: a frame-based account of conceptual change." Philosophy of Science (Proceedings) 67 (2000) 208-223.

Chen, X., Andersen, H., and Barker, P. "Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and cognitive psychology," Philosophical Psychology 11(1998) 5-28.

Andersen, H., Barker, P., and Chen, X. "Kuhn's mature philosophy of science and cognitive science," Philosophical Psychology 9(1996) 347-363.

Link to Course page: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/B/Peter.Barker-1/