Dr Neil Thomason
Dr Neil Thomason completed a docotrate in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley.
"I seem to be interested in almost everything, except for professional sports. However, I am interested in that great mystery of why so many intelligent people are so interested in professional sports. Right now, I am working on philosophical theories about how people should make decisions and psychological theories about how they [actually] do."
Contact details:
Rm 208 Old Quad
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010 Australia
T: (03) 8344 5877
E: neilt@unimelb.edu.au
Publications (excluding book reviews):
"No-First-Use Unknowables," (with Peter Liberman, senior author) Foreign Policy. 64 (Fall 1986) 17-36. Reprinted in Bruno Leone et al. (eds.) Nuclear Arms: Sources, vol. 2 (St. Paul, Minn.: Greenhaven Press 1987).
"Small is Beautiful: Socrates Philosophized One-on-One," Thinking, 9 (1990) pp. 38-41.
"Making Student Groups Work: 'To Teach is to Learn Twice'," Teaching Philosophy, 13 (1990) pp. 111-126.
"How Strong is the Evidence That There is Not 'one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all' Games?" Metaphilosophy, 22 (1991) pp. 320-323.
"Some Problems with Chisholm and Potter's Solution to the Paradox of Analysis," Metaphilosophy, 23 (1992) pp. 132-138.
"Could Lakatos, Even with Zahar's Criterion for Novel Fact, Evaluate the Copernican Research Programme?", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 41 (1992) pp. 161-200.
"The Logico-Psychological Foundations of Rationality" (joint and equal authorship with Ross Phillips) in Paul J. Casey (ed.) On Different Premises, (1994) Open Learning Institute pp. 107-120.
"Sherlock Holmes, Galileo, and The Missing History of Science" in David Hull, Mickey Forbes, and Richard M. Burian (eds.) PSA 1994, Volume 1 (1994) pp. 323-333.
"The Power of ARCHED Hypotheses: Feyerabend's Galileo as a Closet Rationalist" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45, (1994) pp. 255-264.
"Philosophy Discussions With Less B.S." Teaching Philosophy, 18: 1 (1995) pp. 15-30.
"Learning Environments for Conceptual Change: The case of statistics" Cumming, G. and Thomason, N in Greer, J. (1995) Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1995. Proceedings of AI-ED 95, World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1995. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. pp. 389-395.
"Designing Software for Cognitive Change: StatPlay and Understanding Statistics" with Geoff Cumming and Mark Zangari in Tinsley, JD and TJ van Weert (eds.) Proceedings of the 1995 World Conference on Computers in Education. WCCE 95, Liberating the Learner. Chapman and Hall. pp. 755-765.
"Understanding Central Concepts of Statistics and Experimental Design in the Social Sciences" Geoff Cumming and Mark Zangari) in K. Beattie, C. McNaught and S. Wills (eds.) Interactive Multimedia in University Education: Designing for Teaching and Learning, North Holland, (1995) pp. 59-83.
Cumming, G., Thomason, N., Howard, A., Les, J., & Zangari, M. (1995). The StatPlay software for statistical understanding: Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. In J. M. Pearce & A. Ellis (eds.), Learning with technology (pp. 104-112). Parkville, Vic: The Science Multimedia Unit, The University of Melbourne.
"Educational Strategy and cognitive change: From Prolog to StatPlay" (joint and equal authorship with Geoff Cumming) Australian Educational Computing (1996) 11:1 pp. 22-25.
"Elk Theories - A Galilean Strategy for Validating a New Scientific Discovery" in Peter Riggs (ed.), Natural Kinds, Induction, and Laws of Nature in the series Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1996) pp. 123-144.
"StatPlay and the Challenges of Statistics Education across Many Disciplines" (co-authored) in Jon Mason et al., Doing IT at Melbourne: Papers, Case-Studies and Resources (1997) pp. 186-191.
"Explanation and Guidance in a Learning Environment: Recording and Using Sam Multimedia Demos." Les, J., Cumming, G., Thomason, N., & Finch, S. in Kevill, R., Oliver, R., and Phillips, R. (1997) What works and why: Proceedings of ASCLITE 1997: 14th annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Perth, WA: Academic Computing Services, Curtain University. pp. 359-365.
"Multimedia for Understanding: StatPlay and Statistical Idea" Geoff Cumming and Neil Thomason in Halim, Z., Ottmann, T. & Razak, Z. (eds.) (1997) International Conference in Compters in Education 1997. Proceedings. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE). pp. 98-105.
"Play it again SAM: StatPlay and a recording and playback facility to support learning" J. Les, N. Thomason and G. Cumming. In B. Du Boulay and R. Mizoguchi (eds.) (1997) Artificial Intelligence in Education: Knowledge and media in learning systems. Amsterdam: North-Holland. pp. 466-473.
"Explanation and guidance in a learning environment: Recording and using Sam multimedia demos". Les, J., Cumming, G., Thomason, N., & Finch, S. (1997). In R. Kevill, R. Oliver & R. Phillips (Eds.), What works and why Proceedings of ASCILITE97: 14th annual conference of The Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Perth, WA: Academic Computing Services, Curtin University of Technology.
Cumming, G., Thomason, N., & Les, J. (1997). Concepts and images: StatPlay and learning statistics. In C.McNaught (Ed.), Teaching with technology at La Trobe (pp. 59-70). Melbourne: Academic Development Unit, La Trobe University. (ISBN 1 86446 406 2)
23. Cumming, G., & Thomason, N. (1998). StatPlay: Multimedia for statistical understanding. In L. Pereira-Mendoza, L. Kea, T. Kee, & W-K. Wong (Eds.) Statistical education: Expanding the network. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Teaching of Statistics (pp. 947-952). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. (ISBN 9073592-14-3)
Thomason, N. & Les, J. (1998) TOWARDS 2000: Reform in research practice and statistical education. StatPlay: Multimedia for statistical understanding. In L. Pereira-Mendoza, L. Kea, T. Kee, & W-K. Wong (Eds.) Statistical education: Expanding the network. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Teaching of Statistics (pp. 695-700). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. (ISBN 9073592-14-3)
Jackson, A.C., Thomas, S.A., Thomason, N., Smith, S., Crisp, B, Borrell, J. Ho, W., Holt, T., Wright, J. (1998) "A Role for Social Work in Problem Gambling" Consumer Rights Journal, 2:6 pp 2-4.
Cumming, G., Finch, S., & Thomason, N. (1999). Educational design for effective learning: Building and using a computer-based learning environment for statistical concepts. In G. Cumming, T. Okamoto, & L. Gomez (Eds.) Advanced research in computers and communications in education (pp. 558-565). Amsterdam, IOS Press. (Proceedings, ICCE99: 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, Chiba, Japan, November.)
Crisp, B., Thomas, S., Jackson, A, Thomason, N., Smith, S., Borrell, J., Ho, W., & Holt, T. (2000) "Sex Differences in the Treatment Needs and Outcomes of Problem Gamblers" in Research on Social Work Practice 10:2 pp. 229-242.
"1543 -- The Year Copernicus Didn't Predict the Phases of Venus" in Corones, A. & Freeland, G. (eds.) 1543 and All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution, in the series Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2000) pp. 291-331. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Korb, K. & Thomason, N. (2000) "The Declining Significance of Significance" Technical Report No. 2000/62 School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University.
Finch, S., Cumming, G. & Thomason, N. "Reporting of Statistical Evidence in the Journal of Applied Psychology: Little Evidence of Reform" (2001) Educational and Psychological Measurement, 61, 2 pp. 281-210.
B. Crisp, A. Jackson, S. Thomas, N. Thomason, S. Smith, J. Borrell, Ho and T. Holt (2001) "Is more better? The relationship between outcomes achieved by problem gamblers and the number of counselling sessions attended" Australian Social Work, 54, 3 pp. 83-92.
B. Crisp, S. Thomas, A. Jackson and N. Thomason (2001) "Partners of Problem Gamblers Who Present for Counselling: Demographic Profile and Presenting Problems" Journal of Family Studies, 7, 2 pp. 208-216.
S. Finch, N. Thomason and G. Cumming (2001) "Past and future APA guidelines for statistical practice" Theory & Psychology.
N. Thomason (2004) "Letter regarding proposed American Psychological Society Guide to Scientific Publication" American Psychological Society Observer Forum, 17, 7, p. 6 .
Crisp, B.R., Thomas, S.A., Jackson, A.C., & Thomason, N. (2004) "Not the Same: a Comparison of Female and Male Clients Seeking Treatment From Problem Gambling Counseling Services" Journal of Gambling Studies, 20, 3, pp. 283-299.
F Fidler, N Thomason, G Cumming, S Finch & J Leeman (2004) "Editors can lead researchers to statistics, but they can't make them think: Statistical Reform lessons from Medicine" Psychological Science, 15, pp. 575-604.
Fidler, F., Cumming, G., Burgman, M. & Thomason, N. (2004). "Statistical reform in medicine, psychology and ecology Journal of Socio-economics, 33, 5, pp. 615-630.
F Fidler, G Cumming, N Thomason, D Pannuzzo, J Smith, P Fyffe, H Edmonds, C Harrington and R Schmitt (2005) "Evaluating the effectiveness of editorial policy to improve statistical practice: The case of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology" Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, pp. 136-143.
F Fidler, N Thomason, G Cumming, S Finch and J Leeman (2005) "Confidence intervals, still much to learn: Reply to Rouder and Morey" Psychological Science, 16, 6 ,pp. 494-495.
AC Jackson, SA Thomas, N Thomason, & TA Holt (2005) "Change and Continuity in a Help-Seeking Problem Gambling Population: A Five Year Record" The Journal of Gambling Issues, 13, 2, pp. 1 - 31 .
Steven D Rieber & Thomason, N (2005) "Better Intelligence Analysis Requires a National Institute for Analytic Methods" Studies in Intelligence, 49, 4, pp. 71-78 .
Fidler, F., Burgman, M., Cumming, G., & Thomason, N. (accepted, 2006, Conservation Biology ). "Have criticisms of null hypothesis significance testing had an impact on statistical reporting practices in conservation biology?"
