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7Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality: A Postmodern Exploration (review)Religious Studies 34 (1): 103-114. 1998.
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3Causal knowledge: What can psychology teach philosophersJournal of Mind and Behavior 13 (1): 1-28. 1992.Theories of how organisms learn about cause-effect relations have a history dating back at least to the associationist/mechanistic hypothesis of David Hume. Some contemporary theories of causal learning are descendants of Hume's mechanistic models of conditioning, but others impute principled, rule-based reasoning. Since even primitive animals are conditionable, it is clear that there are built-in mechanical algorithms that respond to cause/effect relations. The evidence suggests that humans ret…Read more
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2Michael Luntley, Language, Logic, and Experience: The Case for Anti-Realism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (11): 448-451. 1989.
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1Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (4): 524-529. 1983.
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Mystical Experience of God: A Philosophical Inquiry, by Jerome Gellman (review)Ars Disputandi 2. 2002.
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Are Causal Laws Contingent?In John Bacon, Keith Campbell & Lloyd Reinhardt (eds.), Ontology, Causality and Mind: Essays in Honour of D.M. Armstrong, Cambridge University Press. 1993.It has been nearly a decade and a half since Fred Dretske, David Armstrong and Michael Tooley, having each rejected the Regularity theory, independently proposed that natural laws are grounded in a second-order relation that somehow binds together universals.' (l shall call this the ‘DTA theory’). In this way they sought to overcome the major - and notorious — shortcomings of every version of the Regularity theory: how to provide truth conditions for laws that lack instances; how to distinguish …Read more
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Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |