The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science articles from March 1995

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science archives from March 1995

Theories of probability.
March 1, 1995... Bayes, T. [1763]: 'An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 53, pp. 370-418. Billingsley, P. [1965]: Ergodic Theory and Information, New York, John Wiley. Carnap, R....

Independently motivating the Kochen-Dieks modal interpretation of quantum mechanics.
March 1, 1995... then establishes the conclusion of the present stage, completing the whole proof. If there is a P [element of] Def(W) such that P [not element of] [Def.sub.KD](W), there must exist a [P.sub.i] such that P[P.sub.i] [not equal to] [P.sub.i]...

Pruning the tree of life.
March 1, 1995... 1 Introduction Darwin showed that natural selection can explain how all those 'exquisite adaptations' of plants and animals came about, or so you might have thought. But this is a misunderstanding of contemporary neo-Darwinian evolutionary...

When other things aren't equal: saving 'ceteris paribus' laws from vacuity.
March 1, 1995... Questions'. We also favor Laymon's [1985, 1989] proposal that an idealized generalization is confirmed if, as increasingly more possible sources of interference are accounted for, the resulting predictions are (other things being equal)...

Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology.
March 1, 1995... 1 Introduction From its origins in the mid-1970s till some time during the 1980s, discussions of economic methodology were dominated by falsificationism, the most frequently discussed philosophers being Popper and Lakatos, with Kuhn close...

The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today.
March 1, 1995... 1 Introduction An extraordinary range of opinions have been expressed about this book. Chosen by the New York Review of Books as one of the nine best books of 1992, it was positively reviewed by David Hull in Nature [1992]. But it received a...

The Incommensurability Thesis.
March 1, 1995... The problem of incommensurability was introduced in the early 1960s through the writings of Kuhn and Feyerabend. Those authors maintained that, far from it being the case that an earlier such theory is encompassed in and derivable from a later...

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England.
March 1, 1995... Appropriate trust in the word of others is a necessary condition for the social practice of science or any other knowledge system to be possible. It is not feasible for a scientist to check every observation, experimental result, and...

Philosophy of Physics.
March 1, 1995... Physics and Chance and Philosophy of Physics are each, albeit differently, introductory texts. Philosophy of Physics is an overview intended for newcomers, the bulk of which consists in chapters devoted to three main divisions of theoretical...