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411 Beware of Syllogism: Statistical Reasoning and Conjecturing According to PeirceIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press. pp. 257. 2004.
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3Inquiry, deliberation, and methodIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Deductive Rules and Fulfilling Commitments Rules as Programs for Routine Expansion Rules in Deliberate or Inferential Expansion What Recommends Scientific Method over Other Methods of Fixing Belief? Deliberation and Inconsistency.
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2Critical Notice: Patrick Suppes' Probabilistic MetaphysicsPhilosophy of Science 55 (4): 646-652. 1988.In the introduction to Probabilistic Metaphysics, Patrick Suppes declares his intention to refute each of five central tenets of “neotraditional metaphysics”. These tenets run as follows:The future is determined by the past.Every event has a sufficient determinant cause.Knowledge must be grounded in certainty.Scientific knowledge can in principle be made complete.Scientific knowledge and method can in principle be unified.
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1Consonance, dissonance, and evidentiary mechanismsIn Peter Gärdenförs, Bengt Hansson, Nils-Eric Sahlin & Sören Halldén (eds.), Evidentiary Value: Philosophical, Judicial, and Psychological Aspects of a Theory: Essays Dedicated to Sören Halldén on His Sixtieth Birthday, C.w.k. Gleerups. 1983.
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1Convexity and Separability in Representing ConsensusIn Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume Ii: Society, Institutions, and Development, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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1FeasibilityIn Cristina Bicchieri & Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (eds.), Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--20. 1992.
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1Dewey's logic of inquiryIn Molly Cochran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, Cambridge University Press. pp. 80-100. 2010.
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1Gambling with Truth: An Essay on Induction and the Aims of ScienceSynthese 17 (1): 444-448. 1967.
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Identity and ConflictSocial Research: An International Quarterly 74 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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Convexity and Separability in Representing ConsensusIn Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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RepliesIn Erik J. Olsson (ed.), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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Inference and Logic According to PeirceIn Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce, University of Toronto Press. pp. 34-56. 1997.
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Review of Sören Halldén: The strategy of ignorance: From decision logic to evolutionary epistemology (review)Theoria 54 (2): 129. 1988.
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Liberty and welfareIn Amartya Kumar Sen & Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (eds.), Utilitarianism and Beyond, Cambridge University Press. 1982.
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Induction and the Aims of InquiryIn Ernest Nagel, Sidney Morgenbesser, Patrick Suppes & Morton Gabriel White (eds.), Philosophy, Science, and Method, St. Martin's Press. pp. 99. 1969.
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Wayward naturalism : saving Dewey from himselfIn John R. Shook & Paul Kurtz (eds.), The future of naturalism, Humanity Books. 2009.
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Abduction and demands for informationIn Ilkka Niiniluoto & Raimo Tuomela (eds.), The Logic and Epistemology of Scientific Change, North-holland Pub. Co.. pp. 30--405. 1979.
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Is a miss as good as a mileIn Sami Pihlström, Panu Raatikainen & Matti Sintonen (eds.), Approaching truth: essays in honour of Ilkka Niiniluoto, College Publications. pp. 209--223. 2007.
Isaac Levi
(1930 - 2018)
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Probability |
General Philosophy of Science |