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1Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy—In Honour of J. C. NyíriStudies in East European Thought 60 (1-2): 159-163. 2008.
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109Supervenient causation and programme explanationGrazer Philosophische Studien 64 (1): 83-93. 2002.Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Jaegwon Kim put forward two models of higher-level causal explanation. Advocates of both versions are inclined to draw the conclusion that the models don't differ substantially. I argue, on the contrary, that there are relevant metaphysical differences between Jackson and Pettit's notion of programme explanation on the one hand, and Kim's idea of supervenient causation on the other. These can be traced back to underlying differences between the contents of their…Read more
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101Hume's Experimental MethodBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (3): 577-599. 2012.In this article I attempt to reconstruct David Hume's use of the label ?experimental? to characterise his method in the Treatise. Although its meaning may strike the present-day reader as unusual, such a reconstruction is possible from the background of eighteenth-century practices and concepts of natural inquiry. As I argue, Hume's inquiries into human nature are experimental not primarily because of the way the empirical data he uses are produced, but because of the way those data are theoreti…Read more
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David Bloor: Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 52 (3). 1999.
Tamas Demeter
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Hungarian Academy of SciencesResearch Group Leader, Senior Fellow
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Corvinus University of BudapestProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |