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30Escape from Boredom: Edification According to RortyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (4). 1981.Richard Rorty sings in the antifoundationalist chorus. His song equates the rise of foundationalist epistemology with the professionalization of philosophy. The discordant notes he finds in the foundationalist score become, as a consequence, subversive of philosophy as an autonomous discipline.Nonetheless, the most salient feature of Rorty's recent book, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, is that it is by a professional philosopher, for professional philosophers and about the future of philoso…Read more
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30Decisions and Revisions: Philosophical Essays on Knowledge and ValueCambridge University Press. 1984.This is a collection of Isaac Levi's philosophical papers. Over the period represented by the work here, Professor Levi has developed an interrelated set of views, in the tradition of Peirce and Dewey, on epistemology and the philosophy of science and social science. This focus has been on the problem of induction and the growth of knowledge, the foundations of probability and the theory of rational decision-making. His most important essays in these areas are assembled here, with an introductio…Read more
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29Fallacy and controversy about base ratesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (1): 31-32. 1996.Koehler's target article attempts a balanced view of the relevance of knowledge of base rates to judgments of subjective or credal probability, but he is not sensitive enough to the difference between requiring and permitting the equation of probability judgments with base rates, the interaction between precision of base rate and reference class information, and the possibility of indeterminate probability judgment.
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29Newcomb's many problemsIn A. Hooker, J. J. Leach & E. F. McClennen (eds.), Theory and Decision, D. Reidel. pp. 369--383. 1978.
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28Support and surprise: L. J. Cohen's view of inductive probability (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (3): 279-292. 1979.
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28Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Episternic States by Peter Gärdenfors (review)Journal of Philosophy 88 (8): 437-444. 1991.
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28Obligation and permission when there is a second best and when there is a second worstAnálisis Filosófico 26 (2): 356-372. 2006.A comparison is made between the criterion of choice of E-admissibility I proposed in Levi, 1974 and elaborated in Levi, 1980 and 1986, and the ideas about norms elaborated by Alchourrón and Bulygin with an emphasis on the fact that choice cannot always be evaluated in terms of binary comparisons as the distinction between second worst and not second worst illustrates. Se establece una comparación entre el criterio de E-admisibilidad propuesto en Levi,1974 y elaborado en Levi,1980 y 1986 y las i…Read more
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24Identity and conflictSocial Research: An International Quarterly 74 (1): 25-50. 2007.A sketch of a way of characterizing multidimensional value commitments and the way they can come into conflict derived from my book Hard Choices is presented and applied to the question of how to characterize the relevance of identity to value commitments and conflict. The views of A.K. Sen and A. Bilgrami are examined in the light of these ideas
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24Direct Inference and RandomizationPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.There are two uses of randomization in efforts to control systematic bias in experimental design: (a) Alchemical uses seek to convert unavoidable systematic errors into random errors. (b) Hygienic uses seek to reduce the prospect of the experimenter's involvement with the implementation of the experiment contributing to bias. A few remarks are made at the end of the paper about the hygienic use of randomization as a preventative against sticky fingers. The bulk of the discussion addresses the al…Read more
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18Perception as Input and as Reason for ActionCanadian Journal of Philosophy 25 (sup1): 135-154. 1995.
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Isaac Levi
(1930 - 2018)
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Probability |
General Philosophy of Science |