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14Nelkin on the Lottery ParadoxPhilosophical Review 112 (3): 395-404. 2003.As part of an exceptionally lucid analysis of the Lottery Paradox, Dana Nelkin castigates the solutions to that paradox put forward by Laurence Bonjour and Sharon Ryan. According to her, these are “so finely tailored to lottery-like cases that they are limited in their ability to explain [what seem the intuitively right responses to such cases]”. She then offers a solution to the Lottery Paradox that allegedly has the virtue of being independently motivated by our intuitions regarding certain no…Read more
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14Logic and uncertainty in the human mind: a tribute to David E. Over (edited book)Routledge. 2020.David Earl Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is responsible for not only a large body of empirical work and accompanying theory, but for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the 'new paradigm' in the psychology of human reasoning. Over's signature mix of philosophical logic and experimental psychology has inspired generations of researc…Read more
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14Experimental Approaches to the Study of ConditionalsIn Justin Sytsma & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.Conditionals have been studied by philosophers for over two thousand years. This should not be surprising, given how central conditionals are to human reasoning and decision making. This chapter argues that making progress in answering the questions about conditionals which have occupied so many philosophers, past and present, may require the use of methods that go beyond those traditionally used in analytic philosophy. The reasons some might have for believing that experimental methods have no …Read more
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13A sentential operator is extensional if and only if we can replace any of its arguments by a sentence with the same truth-value, salva veritate. For instance, b.
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12The Rationality of VaguenessIn Richard Dietz (ed.), Vagueness and Rationality in Language Use and Cognition, Springer Verlag. pp. 115-134. 2019.Vagueness is often regarded as a kind of defect of our language or of our thinking. This paper portrays vagueness as the natural outcome of applying a number of rationality principles to the cognitive domain. Given our physical and cognitive makeup, and given the way the world is, applying those principles to conceptualization predicts not only the concepts that are actually in use, but also their vagueness, and how and when their vagueness manifests itself.
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11How group members contribute to group performance: Evidence from agent-based simulationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 39. 2016.
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10Truly Empiricist SemanticsDialectica 52 (2): 127-150. 1998.In van Fraassen's The Scientific Image we are told that the scientific anti‐realist need not appeal to some special semantics for scientific language. He can allegedly hold – just like his direct opponents typically do – that truth‐conditional semantics is appropriate both for claims about the observable and claims about the unobservable. However, I shall point out that this kind of semantics goes badly with the anti‐realist's epistemic attitude vis‐his the unobservable. In this paper an alterna…Read more
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7Relativism and Confirmation TheoryIn Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Introduction First Attempts The Bayesian Paradigm What Good Is There in a Subjectivist Confirmation Theory? Concluding Remarks References.
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7Realism in the Sciences: Proceedings of the Ernan McMullin Symposium, Leuven, 1995Leuven University Press. 1996.This book contains ten papers that were presented at the symposium about the realism debate, held at the Center for Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language of the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on 10 and 11 March 1995. The first group of papers are directly concerned with the realism/anti-realism debate in the general philosophy of science. This group includes the articles by Ernan McMullin, Diderik Batens/Joke Meheus, Igor Douven and Herman de Regt…Read more
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7Two Accounts of Similarity ComparedIn Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction, abstraction, analysis: proceedings of the 31th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2008, De Gruyter. pp. 389-402. 2009.
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7Style and SupervenienceThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1 35-40. 1998.Cope’s Computers and Musical Style describes a computer program that allegedly can represent and replicate musical styles solely on the basis of compositions that have been entered into it. If this claim is correct, then it must be that an oeuvre’s stylistic characteristics locally supervene on its textual features, which roughly means that its stylistic properties are entirely determined by its textual properties. In my paper I argue that stylistic properties do not locally supervene on textual…Read more
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7Basic Beliefs, Coherence, and Bootstrap ConfirmationIn René Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser & Ron Rood (eds.), Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology, De Gruyter. pp. 57-76. 2005.
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6Is the new paradigm a new paradigm? Commentary on Knauff and Gazzo Castañeda (2023)Thinking and Reasoning 29 (3): 383-388. 2023.Many cognitive psychologists have come to regard graded belief as fundamental to our understanding of how humans reason and many have also come to think of probability theory as providing at least part of the norms of correct reasoning. David Over has characterized this development as the emergence of a new paradigm in the Kuhnian sense. The target article argues that the choice of this term was unwarranted and also that it has done more harm than good. This commentary argues that there is nothi…Read more
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6Peter Achinstein: Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy of ScienceScience & Education 21 (4): 597-601. 2012.
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1Conditionals and inferential connections: A hypothetical inferential theoryCognitive Psychology 101 50-81. 2018.
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1Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind. A Tribute to David E. Over (edited book)Routledge. forthcoming.David E. Over is a leading cognitive scientist and, with his firm grounding in philosophical logic, he also exerts a powerful influence on the psychology of reasoning. He is responsible for not only a large body of empirical work and accompanying theory, but for advancing a major shift in thinking about reasoning, commonly known as the ‘new paradigm’ in the psychology of human reasoning. Over’s signature mix of philosophical logic and experimental psychology has inspired generations of researche…Read more
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Conceptual Spaces as Philosophers’ ToolsIn Peter Gärdenfors & Frank Zenker (eds.), Applications of Conceptual Spaces : the Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation, Springer Verlag. pp. 207-221. 2015.
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Intern realisme en incommensurabiliteitAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 87 (3): 142-164. 1995.
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New Foundations for Fuzzy Set TheoryIn Andrew Aberdein & Matthew Inglis (eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 173--199. 2019.
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Grondslagen en toepassingen van de formele epistemologieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 101 (4): 237-244. 2009.
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Empiricist Semantics and Indeterminism of ReferencePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 70 171-188. 2000.
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Kuipers' comparatief realisme: een vraag en een suggestieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 100 (3): 201-202. 2008.
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