Robert Nola

Robert Nola (born 1940) is a New Zealand philosophy academic, and as of 2021 is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland.[1] His work has focussed on the philosophy and history of science, on epistemology and on metaphysics.

Robert Nola
Born1940 (age 81–82)
Alma materAustralian National University
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy of science
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Thesis

Early life

Nola's mother was New Zealand-born and his father was an immigrant from Dalmatia in Croatia. His family were nominally Catholic, his mother becoming a Catholic to marry his father. Nola attended a state school, rather than a Catholic school. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Auckland.[2]

Academic career

After a 1968 PhD titled Theoretical change in the physical sciences: a study of theory reduction and theory replacement in science at the Australian National University, Nola moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.[1]

Nola was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009 and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities.[3]

In July 2021, in the context of a review of the NCEA (New Zealand's National Curriculum), Nola, along with six other University of Auckland Professors and Emeritus Professors published a controversial letter "In Defence of Science" in the New Zealand Listener.[4]

Selected works
  • Nola, Robert (1988). Relativism and Realism in Science. Springer.
  • Nola, Robert (1998). Foucault. F. Cass.
  • Nola, Robert, and Howard Sankey (2000). After Popper, Kuhn, and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method. Springer.
  • Nola, Robert (2003). Rescuing Reason: A Critique of Anti-rationalist Views of Science and Knowledge. Kluwer.
  • Nola, Robert, and Gürol Irzik (2006). Philosophy, Science, Education and Culture. Vol. 28. Springer Science & Business Media.
  • David Braddon-Mitchell, Robert Nola (2008). "Introducing the Canberra Plan". In Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press.
  • Irzik, Gürol, and Robert Nola (2011). "A family resemblance approach to the nature of science for science education". Science & Education 20, no. 7: 591-607.
  • Nola, Robert, and Howard Sankey (2014). Theories of Scientific Method: An Introduction. Routledge.
  • Irzik, Gürol, and Robert Nola (2014). "New directions for nature of science research". In International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching, pp. 999–1021. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Nola, R. (2018). Demystifying Religious Belief. In H. van Eyghen, R. Peels, G. van den Brink (Eds.) New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion: The Rationality of Religious Belief (pp. 71-92). Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Nola, R. (2019). Definition: Atheism. In J. Koterski, G. Oppy (Eds.) Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy (pp. 19-34). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.

References
  1. "Emeritus Professor Robert Nola". University of Auckland. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  2. Jacobsen, Scott Douglas (31 March 2019). "Interview with Robert Nola – Member and Honorary Associate of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists (Inc.) (NZARH)". Canadian Atheist. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  3. "Fellows: M–O". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 26 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Kendall Clements, Garth Cooper, Michael Corballis, Douglas Elliffe, Robert Nola, Elizabeth Rata, and John Werry. “In Defence of Science.” New Zealand Listener, 31 July 2021. p.4
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