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11IntroductionPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 83 (1): 11-20. 2005.
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11Is What 'Is Done Done? O_n Regret and Remorse'Journal of Mind and Behavior 26 (4): 219-226. 2005.Often, regret implies the wish not to have performed certain actions. In this article I claim that this wish can to some extent be fulfilled: it is possible, in a sense, to influence the character of actions that have already been performed. This possibility arises from combining a first person perspective with an outlook on actions as expressions of tendencies, where tendencies are identified on the basis of a number of actions. The idea is specified within the framework of Carnapian reduction …Read more
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10Formal Proof or Linguistic Process? Beth and Hintikka on Kant’s Use of ‘Analytic’Kant Studien 85 (2): 160-178. 1994.
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81. How to Confirm the Conjunction of Disconfirmed HypothesesPhilosophy of Science 76 (1): 1-21. 2009.Could some evidence confirm a conjunction of two hypotheses more than it confirms either of the hypotheses separately? We show that it might, moreover under conditions that are the same for ten different measures of confirmation. Further, we demonstrate that it is even possible for the conjunction of two disconfirmed hypotheses to be confirmed by the same evidence.
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8Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Ernest Nagel and the Uncertainty PrincipleIn Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer. pp. 131-148. 2021.In The Structure of Science, Ernest Nagel finds fault with Werner Heisenberg’s explication of the uncertainty principle. Nagel’s complaint is that this principle does not follow from the impossibility of measuring with precision both the position and the momentum of a particle, as Heisenberg intimates, rather it is the other way around. Recent developments in theoretical physics have shown that Nagel’s argument is more substantial than he could have envisaged. In particular it has become clear t…Read more
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7Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (edited book)Rodopi. 2005.This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers' philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The present volume focuses on Kuipers' views on confirmation, empirical progress, and truth approximation, as laid down in his From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (Kluwer, 2000). In this book, Kuipers o…Read more
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4Classical, nonclassical and neoclassical intentionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 84 (1): 217-233. 2005.Kuipers' model of action explanation is compared, first with that of Anscombe, and then with models in the post-Anscombian tradition. Whereas Kuipers and Anscombe differ on the question of the first-person view, the difference with post-Anscombian writers concerns the so-called intentional statement. Kuipers criticizes the models of both Hempel and von Wright for their lack of an intentional statement. Kuipers' own model seems immune to this criticism, since it contains no less than two intentio…Read more
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Ziekenfondsbrilletjes en de kromming in ruimte-tijd: Over wat wel en niet verbeeldbaar isAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 96 (1): 81-82. 2004.
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De Kant-Interpretatie van Evert Willem BethAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 83 114-128. 1991.
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Analytische en continentale filosofie: And never the twain shall meet?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 90 (4): 245-261. 1998.
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Nemen gedane zaken geen keer?: Opmerkingen over spijtAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 96 (2). 2004.
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Finite Minds and Open MindsIn Cherie Braden, Rodrigo Borges & Branden Fitelson (eds.), Themes From Klein, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry: Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers. Volume 2 (edited book)Rodopi. 2005.This book is the second of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers’ philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The present volume is devoted to Kuipers’ neo-classical philosophy of science, as laid down in his Structures in Science . Kuipers defends a dialectical interaction between science and philosophy in that he vie…Read more
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