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39Probable explanationAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 54 (3). 1976.This Article does not have an abstract
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38A Companion to Philosophy in Australia andNew ZealandAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (4). 2011.Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 747-749, December 2011
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37God and Probability1: D. H. MELLORReligious Studies 5 (2): 223-234. 1969.My object in this paper is to consider what relevance, if any, current analyses of probability have to problems of religious belief. There is no doubt that words such as ‘probable’ are used in this context; what is doubtful is that this use can be analysed as other major uses of such words can. I shall conclude that this use cannot be so analysed and hence, given the preponderance of the other uses that can, that it is misleading
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36Propensities and PossibilitiesMetaphysica 20 (1): 1-3. 2019.This paper is a reply to a recent Metaphysica paper advocating an ‘unrestricted actualism’ which lets the actual world include unrealised possible outcomes of propensities. I argue that the actual world can accommodate propensity theories of chance without including unrealised possibilities.
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35God and ProbabilityReligious Studies 5 (2). 1969.My object in this paper is to consider what relevance, if any, current analyses of probability have to problems of religious belief. There is no doubt that words such as ‘probable’ are used in this context; what is doubtful is that this use can be analysed as other major uses of such words can. I shall conclude that this use cannot be so analysed and hence, given the preponderance of the other uses that can, that it is misleading.
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34Connectivity, chance, and ignoranceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 16 (63): 209-225. 1965.
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33The article is derived from the accompanying radio portrait. It was published in 1995 in Philosophy 70, 243-262, and is reproduced here by permission of the Editor. Page numbers after quotations from Ramsey refer to F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers, edited by D. H. Mellor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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33R. B. Braithwaite (1900–1990)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41 (4): 579-580. 1990.
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31Cambridge Philosophers I: F. P. RamseyPhilosophy 70 (272): 243-262. 1995.Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born in February 1903, and he died in January 1930—just before his 27th birthday. In his short life he produced an extraordinary amount of profound and original work in economics, mathematics and logic as well as in philosophy: work which in all these fields is still, over sixty years on, extremely influential.
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29Cambridge Philosophers I: F. P. RamseyPhilosophy 70 (272). 1995.Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born in February 1903, and he died in January 1930—just before his 27th birthday. In his short life he produced an extraordinary amount of profound and original work in economics, mathematics and logic as well as in philosophy: work which in all these fields is still, over sixty years on, extremely influential.
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29Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds Edited by Stephen P. Schwartz Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977, 277 pp., £11.25, £3.95 Paper (review)Philosophy 53 (203): 126-. 1978.
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28The Philosophy of A.J. Ayer Edited By Lewis Edwin Hahn La Salle,Illinois Open Court. 1992 xix+696 pp., US$54.95, $26.95 paper (review)Philosophy 69 (267): 107-. 1994.
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26History without the Flow of TimeNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 28 (1): 68-76. 1986.
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25Real 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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24The unreality of tenseIn Robin Le Poidevin & Murray MacBeath (eds.), The Philosophy of time, Oxford University Press. pp. 47--59. 1993.
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24Probability: 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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24McTaggart, fixity and coming trueIn Michael Tooley (ed.), Time and Causation, Garland. pp. 325-343. 1999.
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24Other Times: Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and Future (review)Philosophical Review 108 (3): 428-430. 1999.The content and style of this book differ from those of most recent works on the topics listed in its title. In its first part, Cockburn does indeed address the current debate between advocates of tensed and tenseless views of time. Not however to try and settle it—God and Wittgenstein forbid!—but to argue that we who do try mistake for a metaphysical issue what is really an ethical one, namely the “place which tense should occupy in our justifications of action and feeling”. In part 2 he provid…Read more
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22VI*—Conscious BeliefProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 78 (1): 87-102. 1978.D. H. Mellor; VI*—Conscious Belief, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 78, Issue 1, 1 June 1978, Pages 87–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian.
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21Obituary: R. B. Braithwaite (1900-1990)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41 (4): 579-580. 1990.
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20Inexactness and explanationPhilosophy of Science 33 (4): 345-359. 1966.The paper discusses the problems raised by the inexactness of experiential concepts for a deductivist account of theoretical explanation. The process of theoretical explanation is explicated in terms of the devising of exact forms of inexact concepts. Analysis of the adjustments of concepts and their exact forms to each other reveals an implicit criterion of adequacy for theories which is related to the principle of connectivity
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20Foundations: Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics, and Economics (edited book)Humanties Press; Routledge. 1978.
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20From Translations to TruthmakersIn Francesco Federico Calemi (ed.), Metaphysics and Scientific Realism: Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong, De Gruyter. pp. 219-232. 2016.
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19Religious and Secular StatementsPhilosophy 49 (187). 1974.The relation between religious and scientific explanations of events and states of affairs has been the subject of much debate. For example, are the statements ‘John's life was saved by surgery’ ‘John's life was saved in answer to prayer’ in competition with each other and, if so, in what way? They do not seem to be rival causal explanations, nor are they straightforwardly contradictory. Yet each seems to cast doubt on the other, or at least to make it to some extent redundant
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 |