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  1. Enhancing Research Ethics Decision-Making: An REB Decision Bank.Sally Bean, Blair Henry Jr, J. Kinsey, Keitha McMurray & Catherine Parry - 2010 - IRB: Ethics & Human Research 32 (6):9-12.
    In both law and ethics, precedent shapes the deliberation of novel issues. Despite the interconnection between new and old decisions, few research ethics boards have an explicit mechanism for archiving issue-based research ethics decisions to inform future decisions. With the intent of promoting expediency, consistency, and accountability in REB decision-making, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre implemented a “decision bank”: a formal mechanism for systematically capturing institutional REB decisions. We describe the development of the decision bank, its implementation, and the lessons we (...)
     
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  2. Kyburg.'The rule of Adjunction and reasonable inference,'.E. Henry Jr - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophy.
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    Causality.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    The distinction between cause and effect has been viewed as crucial to scientific thinking. David Hume dedicates many pages of his “Enquiry” to the argument of causality, and it appears to be of central vitality to our understanding of the world, despite the fact that he can find nothing to the notion. In Hume's prose, one senses both disappointment and heroic resignation. Some philosophers view causality—sometimes even universal causality—as a needed assumption or basic “presupposition” of science. It is sometimes argued (...)
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    Dispositions and Modalities.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Probabilistic connections are simple to reproduce counterfactually or hypothetically, since this involves simply adding the required statements to our evidential corpus without worrying about erasing some statements. In the serious uniform causal connections' case, the problem is complicated by the fact that some erasures will almost always have to be made, and that leads to the problems of intention and vagueness. On the other hand, uniform causal connections, considered both counterfactually and hypothetically, are exactly the connections needed to be taken (...)
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    Logical Self-Defense.Ralph Henry Johnson & J. Anthony Blair - 1977 - Toronto, Canada: Mcgraw-Hill.
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  6. Convention, confirmation, and credibility.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1989 - In Marjorie Clay & Keith Lehrer, Knowledge and skepticism. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
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    Controversy and the Self.Henry W. Johnstone Jr - 1967 - Kant Studien 58 (1-4):22-32.
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  8. A definition of conjunction in the pure 1mplicational calculus with one variable.Henry W. Johnstone Jr - 1966 - Logique Et Analyse 33:310.
     
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    Attitudes Toward Market and Political Self-Interest.Henry M. Oliver Jr - 1954 - Ethics 65 (3):171-180.
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    Probability and rationality.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1961 - Philosophical Quarterly 11 (44):193-200.
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    The Limits of Science.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    It has been manifested over the past few centuries that science provides superbly powerful tools and methods for modifying the natural world. Many people would agree that it has also offered explanation and understanding. But it is still unclear that these tools and methodology can propel us to solve all of the cognitive dilemmas that exist. It has been assumed, for example, that scientific knowledge and religious knowledge are so different that they cannot even clash with one another. But the (...)
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    Getting Fancy with Probability.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1992 - Synthese 90 (2):189 - 203.
    There are a number of reasons for being interested in uncertainty, and there are also a number of uncertainty formalisms. These formalisms are not unrelated. It is argued that they can all be reflected as special cases of the approach of taking probabilities to be determined by sets of probability functions defined on an algebra of statements. Thus, interval probabilities should be construed as maximum and minimum probabilities within a set of distributions, Glenn Shafer's belief functions should be construed as (...)
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  13. Philosophy and Argumentum ad Hominem'Revisited.".Henry W. Johnstone Jr - 1970 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 24 (1=91):107-116.
     
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  14. Materialism, the Scientific Bias.Henry FelixMins Jr - 1935 - Philosophical Review 44:505.
  15. Probabilistic Inference and Probabilistic Reasoning.Jr: Henry E. Kyburg - 1990 - Philosophical Topics 18 (2):107-116.
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    Reply to Professor Freudenthal.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1977 - Synthese 36 (4):493 - 498.
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  17. ``Conjunctivitis".Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1970 - In Marshall Swain, Induction, acceptance, and rational belief. Dordrecht,: Reidel. pp. 55-82.
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    To "Sleep Until Death"Jeffrey T. Berger replies:Rights vs. LibertyDavid Orentlicher replies.Blair Henry, Mervyn Dean, Victor Cellarius & Larry Librach - 2011 - Hastings Center Report 41 (1):4-6.
    To the Editor: It was with great interest that our Canadian Palliative Sedation Therapy Guideline working group read Jeffrey Berger's recent article ("Rethinking Guidelines for the Use of Palliative Sedation," May-June 2010). Given our own group's efforts to develop national guidelines, we have rethought the issue of palliative sedation therapy several times over the past year.The use of clear and concise definitions is fundamental to the development of any consensus guidelines on this topic. In the article, the term "palliative sedation (...)
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    Relativity and Revolution.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    In the previous chapter, it was considered in very broad terms what can happen when the ties are cut between observability and certainty. More needs to be proved, however, before the framework developed can be applied to the types of real theories of interest: quantum mechanics, relativity, and other such highbrow creations. Particularly, close observation at the nature of those statements is needed in the corpus of practical certainties that comprise the analytical observational content of the corpus that we get (...)
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  20. The ways of our errors.Henry Kyburg Jr - 2007 - In Cornelis De Waal, Susan Haack: a lady of distinctions: the philosopher responds to critics. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
     
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    Decisions, Conclusions, and Utilities.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1977 - Synthese 36 (1):87 - 96.
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    Dennett's beer.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1994 - In Kenneth M. Ford & Zenon W. Pylyshyn, The Robot's Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence. Ablex.
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    Decision Theory.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Efforts to get scientific knowledge reap valuable knowledge about the world. It is often rewarding simply to know more, but a greater benefit of knowing more is that, knowing the future, one can make sound decisions. There is an easy and unified decision theory that, if only it applied to everything, would solve all the decision problems humans face. It is known as “Bayesian” decision theory because it requires a set of probabilities determined over the world states.
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    Probability.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    There are two main classes of interpretations of probability. The first are those that rely on a measure of frequency. The other is those that take a logical or subjective view of a unique event, independent of past or future events. The interpretation of probability which is used in the book is then defined as evidential probability, a function based on a set of known statements based on frequency or measure. The properties of probability are then enumerated and explained. Probabilities (...)
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    News and notes.Henry Rosemont Jr - 2002 - Philosophy East and West 52 (3):611-611.
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    Philosophy and Science.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter chronicles the complex relationship between philosophy and science throughout history. It illustrates how they have mutually influenced each other in modern times. Philosophy and science are thought to be polar opposites, but they are not as different as they seem to be. Philosophy is considered part of the humanities and not the sciences. However, it can be argued that schools of science branched off from the domain of philosophy. Scientific studies start as or are inspired by philosophical ideas. (...)
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    Salmon's paper.E. KyburgHenry - 1965 - Philosophy of Science 32 (2):147-151.
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    Theories as mere conventions.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1956 - In C. Wade Savage, Scientific Theories. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 158-174.
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    The meaning is the use: Kōan and mondō as linguistic tools of the zen Masters.Henry Rosemont Jr - 1970 - Philosophy East and West 20 (2):109-119.
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    Probability is the Very Guide of Life: The Philosophical Uses of Chance. Kyburg Jr, E. Henry & Mariam Thalos (eds.) - 2003 - Open Court.
    This collection represents the best recent work on the subject and includes essays by Clark Glymour, James H. Fetzer, and Wesley C. Salmon.
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    Book Review:Essays in Positive Economics. Milton Friedman. [REVIEW]Henry M. Oliver Jr - 1954 - Ethics 65 (1):71-.
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    Whose democracy? Which rights? A Confucian critique of modern Western liberalism.Henry Rosemont Jr - 2004 - In Kwong-loi Shun & David B. Wong, Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  33. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation.Roger T. Ames & Henry Rosemont, Jr - 1999 - Ballantine.
    The earliest Analects yet discovered, this work provides us with a new perspective on the central canonical text that has defined Chinese culture--and clearly illuminates the spirit and values of Confucius.
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    Recent Work in Inductive Logic.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1964 - American Philosophical Quarterly 1 (4):249 - 287.
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    Introduction to ‘Philosophy and Argumentum ad Hominem’.Henry W. Johnstone Jr - 1993 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 12 (3-4):24-24.
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    Role Ethics.Henry Rosemont Jr - 2018 - In James Behuniak, Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles. Albany: SUNY Press. pp. 229-246.
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    Putting logic in its place. [REVIEW]Henry Kyburg Jr - 2005 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 11 (3):534-534.
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    New Outlooks on ControversyMethods and Criteria of Reasoning: An Inquiry into the Structure of ControversyLa nouvelle rhétorique: Traité de l'argumentation.Henry W. Johnstone Jr - 1958 - Review of Metaphysics 12 (1):57-67.
    Crawshay-Williams defines the scope of his book as the study of statements "put forward with a sort of claim to general acceptance by the company [to which they are addressed]". Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca would certainly agree that only such statements are capable of giving rise to controversy. But this point, and one other that I shall mention shortly, are nearly the only ones on which the two books agree. And there is profound disagreement about how even this point is to (...)
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    Idealization.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    In order for an “ideal” to make relevance, it is not mandatory, certainly, to be able to reach it. It is enough that it is possible to approach it, and even only to a certain extent. To be able to approach the ideal arbitrarily closely is not needed, even “theoretically.” To make sense of the “improvement” we can get in approaching an ideal, the measure of how close the ideal needs to be must be determined. In the thermometer's case, the (...)
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    Logic and Mathematics.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter discusses the philosophy and logic behind the mathematical ideas of first-order logic, metalanguages, arithmetic, and geometry. It familiarizes the reader to these mathematical ideas, which will be used in succeeding chapters. The chapter also contrasts that mathematical or logical theories can utilize these mathematical ideas, while scientific theories will find them inapplicable. First-order logic involves conclusions based on premises which are given to be true with no room for imprecision or vagueness, both of which are crucial to the (...)
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    Laws and Theories.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    In general, quantities should be interpreted in the same way as random quantities or random variables are interpreted in statistics: namely, as functions from a domain to a special set of objects. The fact that they reflect to some level the structure of a set of mathematical objects makes the range of these functions extraordinary. Measurement, meanwhile, is not a process of “assigning numbers to objects,” but rather of formulating the values of quantity functions given to objects. More briefly, it (...)
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    Levels of Corpora.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    One problem that has been plaguing for the long term is the problem of choosing the levels of rational corpora. Since what goes into a corpus is what has a probability higher than the index of that corpus, that index has a bearing on what is in a corpus. We have two levels to deal with, since the focus is both with the evidential corpus and with the practical corpus. What principles can be used to select these levels? A practical (...)
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    Observation and Error.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Knowledge is distinguished between knowledge about the relations of ideas, like mathematical truths and logic, and knowledge of matters of fact or empirical knowledge of the world, which is derived from “sense experience.” Observational sentences are based on sense experience and can sometimes be judged to be true or false. Thus, the possibility of errors in observational judgment must be allowed. We can acknowledge the existence of observational error in general, and even be unable to specify any particular observation statement (...)
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    Statistical Causality.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - In Henry Ely Kyburg, Science & reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
    An answer to the fact that it is very complex to find convincing grounds for considering in universal deterministic uniformity has been to suggest that causality is indeed universal: all events are caused—but many, if not all, causal laws are statistical or probabilistic in character. Thus, a law of causality does not spell out what will be the effect of a given cause in a particular case; it just provides a probability of a given effect when the cause is determined. (...)
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    Behavior Analysis and the Good Life.Henry D. Schlinger Jr - 2015 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (4):267-270.
    For this reason also the question is asked, whether happiness is to be acquired by learning or by habituation or some other sort of training, or comes in virtue of some divine providence or again by chance. Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; (...)
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    How the Laws of Physics Lie.Henry E. Kyburg Jr - 1990 - Noûs 24 (1):174.
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    A Reader's Companion to the Confucian Analects.Henry Rosemont Jr - 2012 - Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Readers of the Analects of Confucius tend to approach the text asking what Confucius believed; what were the views that comprise the 'ism' appended to his name in English? A Reader's Companion to the Confucian Analects suggests a different approach: he basically taught his students not doctrines, but ways for each of them to find meaning and purpose in their lives, and how best to serve their society. Because his students were not alike, his instruction could not be uniform; hence (...)
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    Von Mises on the Harmony of Interests.Henry M. Oliver Jr - 1959 - Ethics 70 (4):282-290.
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    Uncertain Inference.Henry E. Kyburg Jr & Choh Man Teng - 2001 - Cambridge University Press.
    Coping with uncertainty is a necessary part of ordinary life and is crucial to an understanding of how the mind works. For example, it is a vital element in developing artificial intelligence that will not be undermined by its own rigidities. There have been many approaches to the problem of uncertain inference, ranging from probability to inductive logic to nonmonotonic logic. Thisbook seeks to provide a clear exposition of these approaches within a unified framework. The principal market for the book (...)
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  50. Leeds' infernal machine.E. KyburgHenry - 1981 - Philosophy of Science 48 (1):92-94.
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