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These essays, deceptively simple in phrasing, address current and historic issues.
Author : John William Miller
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393307313
These essays, deceptively simple in phrasing, address current and historic issues.
Author : John W. Miller
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
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ISBN : 9780393000320
Author : Willard van Orman Quine
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Logic
ISBN : 9780394304496
Author : Willard van Orman Quine
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Terry Horgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 019985842X
This volume brings together many of Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes: Newcomb's problem, the Monty Hall problem, the two-envelope paradox, the sorites paradox, and the Sleeping Beauty problem. Newcomb's problem arises because the ordinary concept of practical rationality constitutively includes normative standards that can sometimes come into direct conflict with one another. The Monty Hall problem reveals that sometimes the higher-order fact of one's having reliably received pertinent new first-order information constitutes stronger pertinent new information than does the new first-order information itself. The two-envelope paradox reveals that epistemic-probability contexts are weakly hyper-intensional; that therefore, non-zero epistemic probabilities sometimes accrue to epistemic possibilities that are not metaphysical possibilities; that therefore, the available acts in a given decision problem sometimes can simultaneously possess several different kinds of non-standard expected utility that rank the acts incompatibly. The sorites paradox reveals that a certain kind of logical incoherence is inherent to vagueness, and that therefore, ontological vagueness is impossible. The Sleeping Beauty problem reveals that some questions of probability are properly answered using a generalized variant of standard conditionalization that is applicable to essentially indexical self-locational possibilities, and deploys "preliminary" probabilities of such possibilities that are not prior probabilities. The volume also includes three new essays: one on Newcomb's problem, one on the Sleeping Beauty problem, and an essay on epistemic probability that articulates and motivates a number of novel claims about epistemic probability that Horgan has come to espouse in the course of his writings on paradoxes. A common theme unifying these essays is that philosophically interesting paradoxes typically resist either easy solutions or solutions that are formally/mathematically highly technical. Another unifying theme is that such paradoxes often have deep-sometimes disturbing-philosophical morals.
Author : Williard Van Orman Quine
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Lady Mary Shepherd
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Causation
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Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1966
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
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ISBN : 0198810334
Author : Helen Beebee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2017-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191063916
Making a Difference presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the state of the art on these topics. The essays in this volume are inspired by the life and work of Peter Menzies, who made a difference in the lives of students, colleagues, and friends. Topics covered include: the semantics of counterfactuals, agency theories of causation, the context-sensitivity of causal claims, structural equation models, mechanisms, mental causation, causal exclusion argument, free will, and the consequence argument.