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42On Free Description TheoryZeitschrift fur mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 13 (15): 225-240. 1967.
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42Conventionality in the axiomatic foundations of the special theory of relativityPhilosophy of Science 36 (1): 64-73. 1969.In this paper we examine Ellis and Bowman's argument, that simultaneity in inertial frames of reference is not conventional, from the axiomatic point of view. In Part I we examine the role of conventions in an axiomatic physical theory, and in Part II the relation of simultaneity in Reichenbach's axiomatization of the space-time theory of special relativity
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40Philosophical perspectives on infinity—graham OppyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 48 (2): 257-258. 2008.
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38Transcendence of the Ego (The Non-Existent Knight)Ratio 17 (4): 453-477. 2004.I exist, but I am not a thing among things; X exists if and only if there is something such that it=X. This is consistent, and it is a view that can be supported. Calvino’s novel The Non‐Existent Knight can be read so as to illustrate this view. But what is my relation to the things there are if I am not identical with any of them – things such as my arms, my garden, the city I live in? I name this the Gurduloo problem, after the Knight’s page. This relation must be one that admits of degrees; I…Read more
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38Probabilité conditionnelle et certitudeDialogue 36 (1): 69-. 1997.Personal probability is now a familiar subject in epistemology, together with such more venerable notions as knowledge and belief. But there are severe strains between probability and belief; if either is taken as the more basic, the other may suffer. After explaining the difficulties of attempts to accommodate both, I shall propose a unified account which takes conditional personal probability as basic. Full belief is therefore a defined, derivative notion. Yet we will still be able to picture …Read more
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38Representational of conditional probabilitiesJournal of Philosophical Logic 5 (3): 417-430. 1976.
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36The Empirical StanceYale University Press. 2004.What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas . van Fraassen, one of the world’s foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the empiricist tradition. The empiricist tradition is not and could not be defined by common doctrines, but embodies a certain stance in philosophy, van Fraassen says. This stance is displayed first of all in a searing, recurrent critique of metaphysi…Read more
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36A Topological Proof of the Löwenheim‐Skolem, Compactness, and Strong Completeness Theorems for Free LogicMathematical Logic Quarterly 14 (13-17): 245-254. 1968.
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34Book review: Interpreting the quantum world by Jeffrey Bub (review)Foundations of Physics 28 (4): 683-689. 1998.
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33The Charybdis of Realism: Epistemological Implications of Bell’s InequalitySynthese 52 (1): 25-38. 1982.
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31A philosophical approach to foundations of scienceFoundations of Science 1 (1). 1995.Foundational research focuses on the theory, but theories are to be related also to other theories, experiments, facts in their domains, data, and to their uses in applications, whether of prediction, control, or explanation. A theory is to be identified through its class of models, but not so narrowly as to disallow these roles. The language of science is to be studied separately, with special reference to the relations listed above, and to the consequent need for resources other than for theor…Read more
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29A Topological Proof of the Löwenheim‐Skolem, Compactness, and Strong Completeness Theorems for Free LogicMathematical Logic Quarterly 14 (13‐17): 245-254. 1968.
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27A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven ShapinCommon Knowledge 25 (1-3): 401-402. 2019.
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27A philosophical approach to foundations of scienceFoundations of Science 1 (1): 5-18. 1995.Foundational research focuses on the theory, but theories are to be related also to other theories, experiments, facts in their domains, data, and to their uses in applications, whether of prediction, control, or explanation. A theory is to be identified through its class of models, but not so narrowly as to disallow these roles. The language of science is to be studied separately, with special reference to the relations listed above, and to the consequent need for resources other than for theor…Read more
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27A Landscape of Logics beyond the Deduction TheoremPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 26 (1): 25-38. 2022.Philosophical issues often turn into logic. That is certainly true of Moore’s Paradox, which tends to appear and reappear in many philosophical contexts. There is no doubt that its study belongs to pragmatics rather than semantics or syntax. But it is also true that issues in pragmatics can often be studied fruitfully by attending to their projection, so to speak, onto the levels of semantics or syntax — just in the way that problems in spherical geometry are often illuminated by the study of pr…Read more
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26Probabilistic semantics objectified: II. Implication in probabilistic model sets (review)Journal of Philosophical Logic 10 (4). 1981.
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