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1Review of Brian Skyrms: Causal necessity: a pragmatic investigation of the necessity of laws (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (1): 97-104. 1983.
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19Real Time IiRoutledge. 1998._Real Time II_ extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time,_Real Time._ This new book answers such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, is time travel possible? His _Real Time_ dominated the philosophy of time for fifteen years. _Real TIme II_ will do the same for the next twenty. GET /english/edu/Studying_at_SU/History_of_Literature.html HTTP/1.0
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13Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R B Braithwaite (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1980.This volume is a collection of original essays by eminent philosophers written for R. B. Braithwaite's eightieth birthday to celebrate his work and teaching.
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427Real TimeCambridge University Press. 1981.This is a study of the nature of time. In it, redeploying an argument first presented by McTaggart, the author argues that although time itself is real, tense is not. He accounts for the appearance of the reality of tense - our sense of the passage of time, and the fact that our experience occurs in the present - by showing how time is indispensable as a condition of action. Time itself is further analysed, and Dr Mellor gives answers to most of the metaphysical questions it provokes, concerning…Read more
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72Real Metaphysics: RepliesIn Hallvard Lillehammer & Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (eds.), Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour of D. H. Mellor, Routledge. 2003.
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55Probability and the Evidence of our SensesRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 30 117-128. 1991.Our knowledge of the world comes to us, one way or another, through our senses. I know there's a table here, because I see it, and that there's traffic outside, because I hear it. And similarly for our other senses. I know when it's cold, because I feel it; when there's sugar in my tea, because I taste it; smoke in the air, because I smell it; and so on.
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31Probable explanationAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 54 (3). 1976.This Article does not have an abstract
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15Probability: A Philosophical IntroductionRoutledge. 2004._Probability: A Philosophical Introduction_ introduces and explains the principal concepts and applications of probability. It is intended for philosophers and others who want to understand probability as we all apply it in our working and everyday lives. The book is not a course in mathematical probability, of which it uses only the simplest results, and avoids all needless technicality. The role of probability in modern theories of knowledge, inference, induction, causation, laws of nature, ac…Read more
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61Probability: A Philosophical IntroductionRoutledge. 2004.This book: * assumes no mathematical background and keeps the technicalities to a minimum * explains the most important applications of probability theory to ...
Hugh Mellor
(1938 - 2020)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Philosophy of Probability |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Probability |
Philosophy of Physical Science |