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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 547–551.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Jonathan Michael Kaplan Sober Elliott , Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2015 . x + 314 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 What, precisely, does Ockham's razor recommend that we believe, and (why) ought we follow it? In Ockham's...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 609–611.
Published: 01 October 2002
.... There is an extended discussion of ‘even’, which is necessary for providing a theory of ‘even if’. Lycan first suggests that Even Grannie was sober means Every- one, including Grannie, was sober. The quantifier domain includes everyone no less likely than Grannie to be sober. After discussing some counterexamples...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 422–426.
Published: 01 July 2018
... ) explanations work. Some have even asserted, perhaps in incautious moments, that all scientific explanations are causal ( Sober 1984 ; Lewis 1986 ). Lange's collection of expanded, mostly previously published essays, packed with numerous, beautiful examples of putatively noncausal explanations from biology...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 361–396.
Published: 01 July 2001
.... Eells, E. 1991 . Probabilistic Causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Eells, E., and E. Sober. 1983 . “Probabilistic Causality and the Question of Transitivity.” Philosophy of Science 50 : 35 -57. Fogel, R. 1964 . Railroads and American Economic Growth. Baltimore: Johns...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 447–452.
Published: 01 July 2011
... BOOK REVIEWS In “An Open Letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Regarding Their Book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior,” the only previously unpublished paper in the volume, Lloyd discusses the issue of pluralism (or the multilevel view of natural...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 452–455.
Published: 01 July 2011
... BOOK REVIEWS In “An Open Letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Regarding Their Book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior,” the only previously unpublished paper in the volume, Lloyd discusses the issue of pluralism (or the multilevel view of natural...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 July 2011
... BOOK REVIEWS In “An Open Letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Regarding Their Book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior,” the only previously unpublished paper in the volume, Lloyd discusses the issue of pluralism (or the multilevel view of natural...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 461–467.
Published: 01 July 2011
... BOOK REVIEWS In “An Open Letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Regarding Their Book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior,” the only previously unpublished paper in the volume, Lloyd discusses the issue of pluralism (or the multilevel view of natural...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 419–423.
Published: 01 July 2005
... was among the first philosophers to make this kind of pluralism a live option. But Kitcher’s essays do not contain a completely satisfying response to philosophers such as Elliott Sober, who argue that natural selection has a model-independent causal struc- ture that ought to be captured in models...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
.... “ Reference and Monstrosity .” Philosophical Review . Saunders S. 1998 . “ Time, Quantum Mechanics and Probability .” Synthese 114 : 373 – 404 . Schwarz W. Forthcoming. “ Changing Minds in a Changing World .” Philosophical Studies , doi:10.1007/s11098–011–9699–0 . Sober E...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 545–547.
Published: 01 October 2005
... for causation. For example, the Big Bang presumably causes quite a bit, but it is difficult to see what an intervention on it could be. Woodward considers a related objection of Elliot Sober’s (129–32): the moon causes the tides on earth, but any way of changing the moon’s orbit would be “too ham-fisted...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 January 2002
... to encourage women. A further note of pessimism carries through into Hobbs’s discussion of the Symposium, the dominance of whose final pages by the brilliant but tragic Alcibiades she reads as Plato’s sober acknowledgement of the huge task facing any prospective reformer of the untamed thumos. We are left...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 January 2002
... the authors made the bulk of their book more like Elliot Sober’s lucid appendix on genetic causation (347–70), the book’s potential audience might have been expanded. However, given the complexity of the issues and the book’s nuanced analyses and detailed arguments, which are rewarding to work through...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 626–629.
Published: 01 October 2001
... good. As rector of the university Heidegger clearly does aim to set goals for scientific teaching and research, the bizarre Wissensdienst proposed in his inaugural address. It is inter- esting to think that Heidegger conceives of this pro-active stance on the basis of his earlier, more sober...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 315–319.
Published: 01 April 2021
... philosopher. These are the rules of the game in which we find ourselves. Despite Korsgaard's rejection of this way of looking at morality and the thoroughgoing naturalism on which it is based, there is much in this book that betrays her attraction to such views, for example, in her serious and sober...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
...-philosopher academic. Had the authors made the bulk of their book more like Elliot Sober’s lucid appendix on genetic causation (347–70), the book’s potential audience might have been expanded. However, given the complexity of the issues and the book’s nuanced analyses and detailed arguments, which...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 27–56.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Lottery. Analysis 49 : 223 -24. McClennen, Edward. 1994 . Finite Decision Theory . In Jordan 1994. Mougin, Gregory, and Elliot Sober. 1994 . Betting Against Pascal's Wager. Noûs 28 : 382 -95. Nelson, Edward. 1987 . Radically Elementary Probability Theory . Annals of Mathematics...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 141–147.
Published: 01 January 2012
... nor Death. London: Semiotext(e). 367 pp. Sober, Elliott. 2010. Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Sprigge, Timothy L. S. 2011. Translated and edited by Leemon B. McHenry. The Importance of Subjectivity: Selected...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 667–673.
Published: 01 October 2007
.... 210 pp. Sober, Elliott, ed. 2006. Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. xxviii + 612 pp. Strickland, Lloyd. 2006. The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations. London: Continuum. xx + 214 pp. Sutton, Jonathan. 2007. Without Justification...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 277–283.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 267 pp. Smith, Nick. 2008. I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xi + 298 pp. Sober, Elliott. 2008. Evidence and Evolution: The Logic behind the Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...