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9Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal PossibilitiesSpringer Verlag. 2019.The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations. Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a contingent generalization shows that the generalization is not accidental. The second part involves physical theories, their modality, and their explanatory power. In particular, it is shown that Each theory has a…Read more
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14Philosophy, Science, and Sense Perception: Historical and Critical Studies (review)Journal of Philosophy 66 (2): 43-58. 1969.
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92The modality and non-extensionality of the quantifiersSynthese 196 (7): 2545-2554. 2019.We shall try to defend two non-standard views that run counter to two well-entrenched familiar views. The standard views are the universal and existential quantifiers of first-order logic are not modal operators, and the quantifiers are extensional. If that is correct then the counterclaims create genuine problems for some traditional philosophical doctrines.
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11Rolf Schock. A definition of event and some of its applications. Theoria , vol. 28 , pp. 250–268Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (2): 319-320. 1970.
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6Rolf Schock, On determinism, the universe, and related concepts. Synthese, vol. 14 , pp. 255–276Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (4): 577-578. 1970.
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67Laws and possibilitiesPhilosophy of Science 71 (5): 719-729. 2004.The initial part of this paper explores and rejects three standard views of how scientific laws might be systematically connected with physical necessity or possibility. The first concerns laws and their consequences, the second concerns the so‐called counterfactual connection, and the third concerns a possible worlds construction of physical necessity. The remaining part introduces a neglected notion of possibility, and, with the aid of some examples, illustrates the special way in which laws r…Read more
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Truthlike and Truthful OperatorsIn Gila Sher & Richard Tieszen (eds.), Between logic and intuition: essays in honor of Charles Parsons, Cambridge University Press. pp. 27. 2000.
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9Review: Rolf Schock, Some Definitions of Subjunctive Implication, of Counterfactual Implication, and of Related Concepts; Rolf Schock, A Note on Subjunctive and Counterfactual Implication (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (2): 319-319. 1970.
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9Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain by John W. Yolton (review)Isis 77 115-116. 1986.
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85Structuralist logic: Implications, inferences, and consequences (review)Logica Universalis 1 (1): 167-181. 2007.. On a structuralist account of logic, the logical operators, as well as modal operators are defined by the specific ways that they interact with respect to implication. As a consequence, the same logical operator (conjunction, negation etc.) can appear to be very different with a variation in the implication relation of a structure. We illustrate this idea by showing that certain operators that are usually regarded as extra-logical concepts (Tarskian algebraic operations on theories, mereologi…Read more
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10Laws, explanations and the reduction of possibilitiesIn Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra & Hallvard Lillehammer (eds.), Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D.H. Mellor, Routledge. pp. 169--183. 2002.
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56The Representational Inadequacy of Ramsey SentencesTheoria 72 (2): 100-125. 2006.We canvas a number of past uses of Ramsey sentences which have yielded disappointing results, and then consider three very interesting recent attempts to deploy them for a Ramseyan Dialetheist theory of truth, a modal account of laws and theories, and a criterion for the existence of factual properties. We think that once attention is given to the specific kinds of theories that Ramsey had in mind, it becomes evident that their Ramsey sentences are not the best ways of presenting those theories.
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The Changeless Order--The Physics of Space, Time and MotionBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20 (4): 371-372. 1969.
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5Review: Rolf Schock, A Definition of Event and Some of Its Applications (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (2): 319-320. 1970.
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10Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. John W. YoltonIsis 77 (1): 115-116. 1986.
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29Structuralist modals and the combination of logicsLogic Journal of the IGPL 19 (4): 584-597. 2011.The original motivation of D. Gabbay’s concept of Fibring concerned the combination of logics, and initially it involved the syntactic introduction of modals into formulations of intuitionistic logic in which modals are syntactically absent. We show, using the notion of structural modals that there are many modals of intuitionism, and logics for subjunctive and epistemic conditionals which are not syntactically evident in our best formulations of them. We discuss some cases when the attempt to m…Read more
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Ontological and Ideological Issues of the Classical theory of Space and TimeIn Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull (eds.), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, Ohio State University Press. pp. 224--263. 1976.
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12The Road to Universal Logic: Festschrift for 50th Birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau, Volume I (edited book)Springer. 2014.This is the first volume of a collection of papers in honor of the fiftieth birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau. These 25 papers have been written by internationally distinguished logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists and philosophers, including Arnon Avron, John Corcoran, Wilfrid Hodges, Laurence Horn, Lloyd Humbertsone, Dale Jacquette, David Makinson, Stephen Read, and Jan Woleński. It is a state-of-the-art source of cutting-edge studies in the new interdisciplinary field of unive…Read more
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22The Explanation of Laws: Some Unfinished BusinessJournal of Philosophy 109 (8-9): 479-502. 2012.
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1Review: Rolf Schock, On Determinism, the Universe, and Related Concepts (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (4): 577-578. 1970.
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26Carnap's Problem: What is it Like to be a Normal Interpretation of Classical Logic?Abstracta 6 (1): 117-135. 2010.Carnap in the 1930s discovered that there were non-normal interpretations of classical logic - ones for which negation and conjunction are not truth-functional so that a statement and its negation could have the same truth value, and a disjunction of two false sentences could be true. Church ar-gued that this did not call for a revision of classical logic. More recent writers seem to disa-gree. We provide a definition of "non-normal interpretation" and argue that Church was right, and in fact, t…Read more
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