81. Huoambrus and the Art of Judgement (Cambridge UP, 1992), 77106 van fraassen, bas, “Beliefand the Will”, Journal of Philosophy (1984) 81.5235-256 Christensen, David http://www.ceu.hu/polsci/Syllabi00-01/PhDwinter/huoambrus.htm

CEU, Political Science Department PhD Program Winter 2001, Budapest DECISION THEORY AND EXPLANATION: Groundings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Lecturer: Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos Ferenc Huoranszki Time: Tuesday, 14.30-16.10 Friday, 9.00-10.40 This class provides an introduction to decision theory and the philosophy of explanation as these may provide a grounding for the social sciences. The first two parts take these subjects in turn, then in the third part we will employ them in the study of explanation and justification of rational human behavior. Grades in this class are based on seminar activity and final essay. [Below, required readings are marked by “*”.] I. DECISION THEORY In the first part of this course we will both examine models of central interest in formal decision theory, and consider them from the point of view of the philosophy of the social sciences. 1. DECISION THEORY: THE BASIC MODEL *Sen, Amartya, “Is the Idea of Purely Internal Consistency of Choice Bizarre?”, in: Altham-Harrison (eds.) World, Mind, and Ethics (Oxford Up, 1995), 19-31 Nozick, Robert, The Nature of Rationality (Princeton UP, 1993), 3-40

82. LAWS AND SYMMETRY From Pickabook Books Buy this and other books by fraassen, bas C.van online from the UK sbest online bookshop Pickabook. Pickabook - Discount books http://www.pickabook.co.uk/cgi/bkdetail.php?isbn=0198248601

83. Wissenschaftliche Schwerpunktgebiete Translate this page From Philosophy to Practice http//www.stemnet.nf.ca/~elmurphy/emurphy/cle.html.van fraassen, bas C. (1980) The Scientific Image, New York. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~hagen66/01/schwerpunkte.htm

Wissenschaftliche Schwerpunktgebiete theory of mind , wie sie unter anderem in der Zeitschrift Bas VAN FRAASSEN VAN FRAASSEN Derzeit bin ich als als Bildungsforscher im Rahmen des Projekts Elizabeth MURPHY Neben dieser Arbeit bleibt mir noch Zeit, um meinen wissenschaftlichen Interessen nachzugehen. Im Wintersemester 2001/02 besuchte ich ein Hauptseminar von Dieter FLADER Douglas WALTON WALTON ABC-Projekts Forschungsvorhaben Kommunikationsforschung, die Rolle von Emotionen in der Kommunikation (im Anschluss an WALTON WALTON und vorliegender Forschungsergebnisse des ABC-Projekts Dieter FLADER Robert Hagen Literatur Understanding Other Minds, Perspectives from Autism , Oxford. BARON-COHEN, Simon (1995): Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind , Cambridge. BOURDIEU, Pierre (1997): , Paris. DENNETT, Daniel C. (1987): The Intentional Stance , Cambridge, Ma. FLADER, Dieter Psychoanalyse im Fokus von Handeln und Sprache , Frankfurt a. M. Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung , Frankfurt a. M. Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns , Opladen.

84. 31-TAFRA THE SHAM VICTORY OF ABSTRACTION (Review of Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance*) bybas C. van fraassen 23 June 2000*, posted 24 October 2000. bas C. van fraassen. http://www.douglashospital.qc.ca/fdg/kjf/31-TAFRA.htm

KARL JASPERS FORUM TARGET ARTICLE 31 THE SHAM VICTORY OF ABSTRACTION (Review of Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance*) by Bas C. van Fraassen 23 June 2000*, posted 24 October 2000 *Conquest of Abundance*, as the late Paul Feyerabend tells us in his Preface, was the book he promised his wife, Grazia. He did not live to complete it. But Bert Terpstra has ably edited the manuscript and supplemented it with a selection of Feyerabend's last publications, and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend has added a touching, insightful preface. The book itself is a work of such abundance that a review is likely to remain idiosyncratically selective, pathetically illustrating Feyerabend's theme - the impoverishing consequences of academic attention. Feyerabend is generally credited (if that is the word) with introducing the notion of *incommensurability* - the idea that the theories held before and after a conceptual revolution, the very language in which they are stated, and the values they uphold, are so different that they are literally incommensurable, ie incomparable. How can scientists immersed in distinct "paradigms" (in Thomas Kuhn's terms) even communicate, let alone pass from one paradigm to another? In Feyerabend's considered view, already expressed in *Against Method* and made trenchantly clear in *Conquest of Abundance*, that puzzle is itself a central example of how academics, caught up in their own abstractions, become enmeshed in self generated problems. The culprit in this case is their woefully inadequate, oversimplified, 'idealized', distorting model of language. Here is the verdict in his own words:

85. Graduate Seminar – Spring 2001 (Prof Other references bas van fraassen, Quantum Mechanics an empiricist view(Oxford Clarendon Press, 1991). on van fraassen’s own approach. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~bacciaga/courses/modal/modalseminar.htm

86. Critique 661-662, Les éditions De Minuit Latour et de ceux d Henri Atlan, Nancy Cartwright ou bas van fraassen http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/titres/2002/critique-661.htm

Accueil Nouveautés Catalogue Historique ... Contacts Critique, n° 661-662 « Sciences dures ? » 160 p., 13 € ISBN : 2.7073.1784.5 Bulletin d'abonnement Présentation Comment parler des sciences “dures” ? C'est un paradoxe : la vulgarisation scientifique renforce chez le profane le sentiment d'une science savante et difficile, excessivement technique, que le spécialiste ne pourrait justement que lui présenter sous une forme vulgaire. Quant aux réflexions consacrées aux enjeux politiques, éthiques et sociaux de la recherche et de ses applications, elles alimentent souvent le lieu commun d'une science aride et froide, inhospitalière et dangereuse. L'opposition des sciences " dures " aux sciences " humaines " hérite de ces préjugés, comme si les sciences de la nature ne pouvaient être qu' " inhumaines ", et les sciences de l'homme étrangères à la vraie rigueur. Pourtant, dans les quartiers des philosophes, des historiens, des anthropologues ou des sociologues, se dessine depuis quelque temps un tout autre rapport du discours des sciences humaines à la réalité des sciences dures. Les philosophes prêtent une attention plus soutenue aux opérations concrètes de la pensée scientifique, tandis que les sciences sociales s'efforcent, sous la bannière des science studies , de présenter les sciences comme le résultat d'un processus de fabrication inséré dans le fonctionnement de la société.

87. Phil - Books and Paradox An Introduction to Modal and ManyValued Logic Manufacturer OxfordUniversity Press by Authors JC Beall,bas C. van fraassen,bas C. fraassen List http://www.phil-books.com/l-11053-10.html

Phil - Books Browse... General Aesthetics Criticism Eastern ... Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) Manufacturer: Clarendon Pr by Authors: Eva Feder Kittay List price: Our price: Released: April, 1990 Sales Rank: - Avg. Rating: (out of 5) Must We Mean What We Say? : A Book of Essays Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press by Authors: Stanley Cavell List price: Our price: You save: Released: 04 November, 2002

88. Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind Of Science -- Relevant Books ISBN 0915760029 . van fraassen, bas C. Quantum Mechanics An EmpiricistView Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0198239807 . http://www.wolframscience.com/reference/books/v.html

WOLFRAM'S LIBRARY A B C D ... U V W X Y Z V van der Poorten, Alf Notes on Fermat's Last Theorem van der Waerden, B.L. Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations Springer-Verlag, 1983. [ISBN 3540121595 Van Dyke, Milton An Album of Fluid Motion Parabolic Press, 1998. [ISBN 0915760029 Van Fraassen, Bas C. Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View Oxford University Press, 1991. [ISBN 0198239807 Van Heijenoort, Jean, Editor From Frege to Gödel. A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 Harvard University Press, 1967. [ISBN 0674324498 van Leeuwen, Jan, Editor Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. Volume A: Algorithms and Complexity MIT Press, 1990. [ISBN 0262220407 van Leeuwen, Jan, Editor Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. Volume B: Formal Models and Semantics MIT Press, 1990. [ISBN 0262220407 A Course in Combinatorics Cambridge University Press, 1992. [ISBN 0521422604 Van Tilborg, Henk C.A Fundamentals of Cryptology Kluwer, 2000. [ISBN 0792386752 VanDiver, Bradford B. Imprints of Time: The Art of Geology Mountain Press, 1988. [ISBN 0878422153

89. Science, Culture And Communicatiion Seminars Summary The dialectic between scientific realists and their most sophisticated opponent,bas van fraassen, cannot be resolved without considering the status of http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hssdcg/Sems1_2002.html

Science, Culture and Communication Seminar Series Autumn 2002 This year the seminar series will run concurrently with the film series on Fridays at 11.15. Note that certain seminars take place on Thursdays or in the Departmental Series on Tuesdays. Friday 1 November, 11.15, 3E 4.17 David Peat Pari Centre for New Learning, Pari, Italy "From Certainty to Uncertainty: the story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century" David Peat is theoretical physicist and author of some twenty books dealing with science and ideas. He has also scripted and presented scientific topics on radio and television in Canada. In this talk he will discuss the revolutions in scientific thinking that took place during the twentieth century and ways of presenting those ideas to a general public. Friday 22 November 11.15, 3E 4.17 James Ladyman Department of Philosophy of Science, Bristol University Scientific Realism, Commonsense, and Skepticism Summary The dialectic between scientific realists and their most sophisticated opponent, Bas van Fraassen, cannot be resolved without considering the status of common sense realism and inductive knowledge. His rejection of inference to the best explanation leads his realist critics to argue that his position is no more defensible than scepticism about the external world and induction. If common sense implicates us not only in realism about everyday objects but also in a commitment to the rationality of inductive reasoning, then it is argued, it similarly commits us to realism about science.

90. Untitled Document (with Ermanno Bencivenga and bas van fraassen) Logic, Bivalence andDenotation. Ridgeview, Atascadero, CA, 1986. 2nd edition (1991). http://www.flogik.com/publications.htm

Essays in Psychology (with David Gorfein.) "An Experimental Study of What is Learned in a Shuttlebox Situation." Canadian Journal of Psychology (1958), 12, pp. 222-228. "A Study of Latent Inference Learning." Canadian Journal of Psychology (1960), 14, pp. 45-50. Essays in Philosophical Logic "Existential Import Revisited", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (1963), 4, pp. 288-292. (with Thomas Scharle.) "A Translation Theorem for Two Systems of Free Logic”, Logique et Analyse (1967), 10, pp. 328-341. (with Bas C. Van Fraassen.) "On Free Description Theory", Zeitschrift f. Mathematische Logic und Grundlagen der Mathematik (1967), 13, pp. 225-240. (with Robert K. Meyer.) "Universally Free Logic and Standard Quantification Theory", Journal of Symbolic Logic (March 1968), 33, pp. 8-26. (with Hugues Leblanc and Robert K. Meyer.) "A Liberated Version of S5"

91. A CRITIQUE OF VAN FRAASSEN'S VOLUNTARISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY A CRITIQUE OF van fraassen'S VOLUNTARISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY. Jonathan L. Kvanvig. Abstract van fraassen's epistemology is forged from two commitments, one to a type of Bayesianism and the other http://www.missouri.edu/~kvanvigj/papers/critiquevanfraassen.htm

A CRITIQUE OF VAN FRAASSEN'S VOLUNTARISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY Jonathan L. Kvanvig Abstract: Van Fraassen's epistemology is forged from two commitments, one to a type of Bayesianism and the other to what he terms voluntarism. Van Fraassen holds that if one is going to follow a rule in belief revision, it must be a Bayesian rule, but that one does not need to follow a rule in order to be rational. It is argued that van Fraassen's arguments for rejecting non-Bayesian rules is unsound, and that his voluntarism is subject to a fatal dilemma arising from the non-monotonic character of reasoning. Text: Van Fraassen outlines his epistemology [i] in response to the question whether there can be rational ampliative belief, rational belief the holding of which is not entailed by one's evidence. His positive answer to this question results from embracing two theses, a Bayesian one and a "voluntarist" one. They are: Bayesianism: If one follows an epistemic rule of obligation in changing one's degrees of belief, that rule must be a Bayesian rule, such as conditionalization. Voluntarism: Changes in one's degrees of belief can be rational even if one is following no epistemic rule of obligation in making those changes.

92. Philosophy Of Science Reading List - Department Of Philosophy - University Of Ca bas van Frasssen (1980) “The Pragmatics of Explanation” from bas vanFraassen’s The Scientific Image, Chapter 5. Scientific Realism. http://www.phil.ucalgary.ca/grad/science.html

Department of Philosophy Home Undergraduate Graduate People ... Site Search PRELIM EXAM READING LIST: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Most of the following essays and chapters are reprinted in Philosophy of Science anthologies. Explanation, Laws and Causality Philosophy of Science , Volume 15, pp. 135-175. Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science . New York: Free Press, pp. 376-386. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 51, no. 6, pp. 683-705. American Philosophical Quarterly , Volume 17, no. 2. PSA 1980, volume 2, P. Asquiuth and R. Giere (eds.). The Scientific Image , Chapter 5. Scientific Realism Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science , Volume III, Minnesota Press. The Scientific Image , Chapter 2. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly , Volume 63. Philosophical Topics , Volume 13. Nous , Volume 18. Progress, Values, and Objectivity Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge , pp. 33-58. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge , Cambridge University Press. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , Chapter 9, University of Chicago Press.

93. HIW-Staf - Persoonlijke Pagina's positie in confirmatietheorie; Het cobstructief empirisme van bas vanFraassen; Is tweedeorde logica wel echt logica? Over het combineren http://www.hiw.kuleuven.ac.be/hiw/ned/profhiw.php3?ID=16

94. Remarks On Van Fraassen REMARKS ON van fraassen. My main purpose is to situate VF s chapter on causalityand explanation within the wider framework of the work we have been examining. http://www.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/655/vanfraas.htm

REMARKS ON VAN FRAASSEN My main purpose is to situate VF's chapter on causality and explanation within the wider framework of the work we have been examining. After that, I will note certain relations between causality and probability relations which VF discusses in passing, since they are of interest for later parts of the course. For starters, it's good to have VF's general viewpoint on the table: "To be an empiricist is to withhold belief in anything that goes beyond the actual, observable phenomena, and to recognize no objective modality in nature. To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, about what is actual and observable. Since scientific activity is an enormously rich and complex cultural phenomenon, this account of science must be accompanied by auxiliary theories about scientific explanation, conceptual commitment, modal language, and much else. But it must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise" ( The Scientific Image , pp. 202-203).

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