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36Discussion: Malament on Time ReversalPhilosophy of Science 73 (4): 448-458. 2006.David Malament has recently responded to David Albert's argument that classical electrodynamics is not time-reversal invariant by introducing a novel conception of time reversal, which supports the conventional view that under time reversal the magnetic field changes sign but the electric field remains unchanged. I will argue here that Malament's transformation has both passive and active versions. I will claim that the passive version is not relevant to Albert's argument, and the active version…Read more
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30Levi's decision theoryPhilosophy of Science 57 (1): 158-168. 1990.Suppose my utilities are representable by a set of utility assignments, each defined for atomic sentences; suppose my beliefs are representable by a set of probability assignments. Then each of my utility assignments together with each of my probability assignments will determine a utility assignment to non-atomic sentences, in a familiar way. This paper is concerned with the question, whether I am committed to all the utility assignments so constructible. Richard Jeffrey (1984) says (in effect)…Read more
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29Understanding Understanding (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 13 (4): 586-588. 1973.
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28Yoemon Sampei. On the principle of effective choice and its applications. Commentarii mathematici Universitatis Sancti Pauli, vol. 15 , pp. 29–42 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243-244. 1975.
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24Review: Kevin T. Kelly, Oliver Schulte, The Computable Testability of Theories Making Uncomputable Predictions (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 (3): 1049-1049. 1996.
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24Interventionism in Statistical MechanicsEntropy 14 (2): 344-369. 2012.I defend the idea that the fact that no system is entirely isolated can be used to explain the successful use of the microcanonical distribution in statistical mechanics. The argument turns on claims about what is needed for an adequate explanation of this fact: I argue in particular that various competing explanations do not meet reasonable conditions of adequacy, and that the most striking lacuna in Interventionism – its failure to explain the ‘arrow of time’ – is no real defect.
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20Wilfrid Hodges. Logic. Pelican books. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1977, 331 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 45 (2): 382-383. 1980.
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19Kelly Kevin T. and Oliver Schulte. The computable testability of theories making uncomputable predictions. Erkenntnis, vol. 43 , pp. 29–66 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 (3): 1049. 1996.
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17Perception and Cognition: Issues in the Foundations of PsychologyPhilosophical Review 89 (3): 482. 1980.
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16George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey. Computability and logic. Cambridge University Press, New York and London1974, x + 262 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 42 (4): 585-586. 1977.
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16Review: George Boolos, Richard Jeffrey, Computability and Logic (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 42 (4): 585-586. 1977.
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15This paper investigates the possibility of extending the likelihood treatment of support to situations in which the evidence and the hypotheses supported by the evidence are all outcomes of a chance process. An example is when we ask how much support the observed sequence of heads and tails gives to the hypothesis that the next toss will be a head. I begin by discussing Sober’s approach to a problem of this type: that of estimating how much support the observation that I have a mind gives to the…Read more
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14Yoemon Sampei. On the complete basis for the sets. Commentarii mathematici Universitatis Sancti Pauli, vol. 13 , pp. 81–88 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243. 1975.
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13Review: Yoemon Sampei, On the Principle of Effective Choice and its Applications (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243-244. 1975.
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5Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in PolandPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 (3): 447-449. 1980.
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4Review: Yoemon Sampei, On the Complete Basis for the $Delta^1_2$ Sets (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243-243. 1975.
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4Przelecki and Wojcicki "Twenty Five Years of Logical Methodology in Poland" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 (3): 447. 1980.
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2Possibility: Physical and metaphysicalIn Carl Gillett & Barry M. Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and Its Discontents, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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Possibility, physical and metaphysicalIn Carl Gillett & Barry Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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