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78A note on Van Fraassen's modal interpretation of quantum mechanicsPhilosophy of Science 63 (1): 91-104. 1996.Although there has been some discussion in the literature of Bas van Fraassen's modal interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, it has for the most part been concentrated on difficulties that van Fraassen's viewpoint shares with those of some other authors, including Kochen, Dieks, and Healey. van Fraassen's approach has, however, some problems of its own; in this note we want to focus on what seems to us to be one of the most serious of these. The difficulty concerns immediately repeated non-disturb…Read more
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3Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in PolandPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 40 (3): 447-449. 1980.
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10Yoemon Sampei. On the complete basis for the sets. Commentarii mathematici Universitatis Sancti Pauli, vol. 13 , pp. 81–88 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243. 1975.
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25Yoemon Sampei. On the principle of effective choice and its applications. Commentarii mathematici Universitatis Sancti Pauli, vol. 15 , pp. 29–42 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243-244. 1975.
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14George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey. Computability and logic. Cambridge University Press, New York and London1974, x + 262 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 42 (4): 585-586. 1977.
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19Wilfrid Hodges. Logic. Pelican books. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1977, 331 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 45 (2): 382-383. 1980.
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19Kelly Kevin T. and Oliver Schulte. The computable testability of theories making uncomputable predictions. Erkenntnis, vol. 43 , pp. 29–66 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 (3): 1049. 1996.
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325The epistemology of social facts: the evidential value of personal experience versus testimonyIn Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research, Dr. Haensel-hohenhausen. pp. 43-51. 2002."The Personal is Political": This was an often-heard slogan of feminist groups in the late sixties and early seventies. The slogan is no doubt open to many interpretations. There is one interpretation which touches on the epistemology of social facts, viz. the slogan claims that in assessing the features of a political system, personal experiences have privileged evidentiary value. For instancte, in the face of third person reports about political corruption, I may remain unmoved in my belief th…Read more
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29Understanding Understanding (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 13 (4): 586-588. 1973.
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12Review: Yoemon Sampei, On the Principle of Effective Choice and its Applications (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (2): 243-244. 1975.
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49Postscript to 'a problem about frequencies in direct inference'Philosophical Studies 48 (1). 1985.
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13This paper investigates the possibility of extending the likelihood treatment of support to situations in which the evidence and the hypotheses supported by the evidence are all outcomes of a chance process. An example is when we ask how much support the observed sequence of heads and tails gives to the hypothesis that the next toss will be a head. I begin by discussing Sober’s approach to a problem of this type: that of estimating how much support the observation that I have a mind gives to the…Read more
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21Review: Kevin T. Kelly, Oliver Schulte, The Computable Testability of Theories Making Uncomputable Predictions (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 (3): 1049-1049. 1996.
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65Price on the Wheeler-feynman theoryBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1): 288-294. 1994.
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134Foundations of statistical mechanics—two approachesPhilosophy of Science 70 (1): 126-144. 2003.This paper is a discussion of David Albert's approach to the foundations of classical statistical menchanics. I point out a respect in which his account makes a stronger claim about the statistical mechanical probabilities than is usually made, and I suggest what might be motivation for this. I outline a less radical approach, which I attribute to Boltzmann, and I give some reasons for thinking that this approach is all we need, and also the most we are likely to get. The issue between the two a…Read more
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111Wheeler–Feynman Again: A Reply to PriceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (3): 381-383. 1995.
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144Constructive empiricismSynthese 101 (2). 1994.Constructive Empiricism, the view introduced in The Scientific Image, is a view of science, an answer to the question “what is science?” Arthur Fine’s and Paul Teller’s contributions to this symposium challenge especially two key ideas required to formu- late that view, namely the observable/unobservable and accept- ance/belief distinctions. I wish to thank them not only for their insightful critique but also for the support they include. For they illuminate and counter some misunderstandings of…Read more
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