In defense of really statistical explanationsSynthese - Tập 200 - Trang 1-15 - 2022
Marc Lange
According to Lange (2013, 2017), ?Really Statistical (RS) explanations? constitute an important kind of non-causalscientific explanation. However, Roski (2021) has argued that all alleged RS explanations are either causalexplanations or not explanations at all. In so arguing, Roski has invoked Kahneman?s (2011) interpretation of onealleged RS explanation. I employ Roski?s arguments as an opportuni...... hiện toàn bộ
Smelling objectsSynthese - Tập 196 - Trang 4279-4303 - 2017
Becky Millar
Objects are central to perception and our interactions with the world. We perceive the world as parsed into discrete entities that instantiate particular properties, and these items capture our attention and shape how we interact with the environment. Recently there has been some debate about whether the sense of smell allows us to perceive odours as discrete objects, with some suggesting that olf...... hiện toàn bộ
Is the HYPE about strength warranted?Synthese - Tập 200 - Trang 1-25 - 2022
Martin Fischer
In comparing classical and non-classical solutions to the semantic paradoxes arguments relying on strength have been influential. In this paper I argue that non-classical solutions should preserve the proof-theoretic strength of classical solutions. Leitgeb’s logic of HYPE is then presented as an interesting possibility to strengthen FDE with a suitable conditional. It is shown that HYPE allows fo...... hiện toàn bộ
Simplified Models Establishing some of Né:zondet's Results on Erdös–Woods ConjectureSynthese - Tập 125 - Trang 133-146 - 2000
Marcel Guillaume
The first step of the construction of Nézondet's models of finite arithmetics which are counter-models to Erdös–Woods conjecture is to add to the natural numbers the non-standard numbers generated by one of them, using addition, multiplication and divisions by a natural factor allowed in an ultrapower construction. After a review of some properties of such a structure, we show that the choice of t...... hiện toàn bộ