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    Ethnic semiosis in American popular culture, 1880-1910.James H. Dormon - 1991 - Semiotica 83 (3-4):197-210.
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    Philosophy of science.James H. Fetzer - 1993 - New York: Paragon House Publishers.
    The development of science has been a distinctive feature of human history in recent times, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In light of the problems that define the philosophy of science today, James Fetzer provides a foundation for inquiry into the nature of science, the history of science, and the relationship between the two. In Philosophy of Science, Fetzer investigates the aim and methods of empirical science and examines the importance of methodological commitments to the study of (...)
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    Bad Blood Thirty Years Later: A Q&A with James H. Jones.James H. Jones & Nancy M. P. King - 2012 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 40 (4):867-872.
    Historian James H. Jones published the first edition of Bad Blood, the definitive history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in 1981. Its clear-eyed examination of that research and its implications remains a bioethics classic, and the 30-year anniversary of its publication served as the impetus for the reexamination of research ethics that this symposium presents. Recent revelations about the United States Public Health Service study that infected mental patients and prisoners in Guatemala with syphilis in the late 1940s in (...)
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    (1 other version)Philosophy and Cognitive Science.James H. Fetzer - 1991 - New York: Paragon House.
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    Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World. Wesley Salmon.James H. Fetzer - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (4):597-610.
    If the decades of the forties through the sixties were dominated by discussion of Hempel's “covering law“ explication of explanation, that of the seventies was preoccupied with Salmon's “statistical relevance” conception, which emerged as the principal alternative to Hempel's enormously influential account. Readers of Wesley C. Salmon's Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, therefore, ought to find it refreshing to discover that its author has not remained content with a facile defense of his previous investigations; on the (...)
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    James H. Nehring 57.James H. Nehring - forthcoming - Journal of Thought.
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  7. Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits.James H. Fetzer - 1990 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    1. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? One of the fascinating aspects of the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is that the precise nature of its subject ..
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  8. (1 other version)Language and mentality: Computational, representational, and dispositional conceptions.James H. Fetzer - 1989 - Behaviorism 17 (1):21-39.
    The purpose of this paper is to explore three alternative frameworks for understanding the nature of language and mentality, which accent syntactical, semantical, and pragmatical aspects of the phenomena with which they are concerned, respectively. Although the computational conception currently exerts considerable appeal, its defensibility appears to hinge upon an extremely implausible theory of the relation of form to content. Similarly, while the representational approach has much to recommend it, its range is essentially restricted to those units of language that (...)
     
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    Plato's Cretan City: A Historical Interpretation of the Laws.James H. Oliver & Glenn R. Morrow - 1962 - American Journal of Philology 83 (4):447.
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    Moral Dilemmas.James H. McGrath - 1990 - Noûs 24 (2):360-363.
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  11. Philosophical aspects of program verification.James H. Fetzer - 1991 - Minds and Machines 1 (2):197-216.
    A debate over the theoretical capabilities of formal methods in computer science has raged for more than two years now. The function of this paper is to summarize the key elements of this debate and to respond to important criticisms others have advanced by placing these issues within a broader context of philosophical considerations about the nature of hardware and of software and about the kinds of knowledge that we have the capacity to acquire concerning their performance.
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    Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.James H. Austin - 2003 - MIT Press.
    A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research. This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field. Austin shows how, in his own investigations, unpredictable events shaped the outcome (...)
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  13. Philosophical reasoning.James H. Fetzer - 1984 - In Principles of philosophical reasoning. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld. pp. 3--21.
     
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    Mental algorithms: Are minds computational systems?James H. Fetzer - 1994 - Pragmatics and Cognition 21 (1):1-29.
    The idea that human thought requires the execution of mental algorithms provides a foundation for research programs in cognitive science, which are largely based upon the computational conception of language and mentality. Consideration is given to recent work by Penrose, Searle, and Cleland, who supply various grounds for disputing computationalism. These grounds in turn qualify as reasons for preferring a non-computational, semiotic approach, which can account for them as predictable manifestations of a more adquate conception. Thinking does not ordinarily require (...)
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    William James and immortality.James H. Leuba - 1915 - Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 12 (15):409-416.
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    Connectionism and cognition: Why Fodor and Pylyshyn are wrong.James H. Fetzer - 1992 - In A. Clark & Ronald Lutz (eds.), Connectionism in Context. Springer Verlag. pp. 305-319.
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    "Group decision and social interaction: A theory of social decision schemes": Errata.James H. Davis - 1973 - Psychological Review 80 (4):302-302.
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    Implausible dream: the world-class university and repurposing higher education.James H. Mittelman - 2017 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher education Universities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be "world-class," institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions of cultivating democratic citizenship, fostering critical thinking, and safeguarding academic freedom. In the contest to raise their national and global profiles, universities are embracing a new form of utilitarianism, one that favors market power over academic values. (...)
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  19. Three myths of computer science.James H. Moor - 1978 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (3):213-222.
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    Computer Reliability and Public Policy: Limits of Knowledge of Computer-Based Systems*: JAMES H. FETZER.James H. Fetzer - 1996 - Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (2):229-266.
    Perhaps no technological innovation has so dominated the second half of the twentieth century as has the introduction of the programmable computer. It is quite difficult if not impossible to imagine how contemporary affairs—in business and science, communications and transportation, governmental and military activities, for example—could be conducted without the use of computing machines, whose principal contribution has been to relieve us of the necessity for certain kinds of mental exertion. The computer revolution has reduced our mental labors by means (...)
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    The Role Of Models In Computer Science.James H. Fetzer - 1999 - The Monist 82 (1):20-36.
    Taking Brian Cantwell Smith’s study, “Limits of Correctness in Computers,” as its point of departure, this article explores the role of models in computer science. Smith identifies two kinds of models that play an important role, where specifications are models of problems and programs are models of possible solutions. Both presuppose the existence of conceptualizations as ways of conceiving the world “in certain delimited ways.” But high-level programming languages also function as models of virtual (or abstract) machines, while low-level programming (...)
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    Collective Remembering and the Making of Political Culture.James H. Liu - 2022 - Cambridge University Press.
    Collective memory can make and break political culture around the world. Representations and reinterpretations of the past intersect with actions that shape the future. A nation's political culture emerges from complex layers of institutional and individual responses to historical events. Society changes and is changed by these layers of memory over time. Understanding them gives us insight into where we are today. Encompassing examples from colonization and decolonization, revolving around the critical junctures of the world wars, this book illustrates how (...)
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  23. Why we need better ethics for emerging technologies.James H. Moor - 2005 - Ethics and Information Technology 7 (3):111-119.
    Technological revolutions are dissected into three stages: the introduction stage, the permeation stage, and the power stage. The information revolution is a primary example of this tripartite model. A hypothesis about ethics is proposed, namely, ethical problems increase as technological revolutions progress toward and into the power stage. Genetic technology, nanotechnology, and neurotechnology are good candidates for impending technological revolutions. Two reasons favoring their candidacy as revolutionary are their high degree of malleability and their convergence. Assuming the emerging technologies develop (...)
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    Science, explanation, and rationality: aspects of the philosophy of Carl G. Hempel.James H. Fetzer (ed.) - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, distinguished philosophers contribute valuable studies that illuminate and clarify the central problems to which Hempel was devoted. The essays enhance our understanding of the development of logical empiricism as the major intellectual influence for scientifically-oriented philosophers and philosophically-minded scientists of the 20th century.
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    On the role of Ramsey quantifiers in first order arithmetic.James H. Schmerl & Stephen G. Simpson - 1982 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 47 (2):423-435.
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    A world of dispositions.James H. Fetzer - 1977 - Synthese 34 (4):397 - 421.
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  27. The frame problem: Artificial intelligence meets David Hume.James H. Fetzer - 1990 - International Journal of Expert Systems 3:219-232.
  28. Propensities and frequencies: Inference to the best explanation.James H. Fetzer - 2002 - Synthese 132 (1-2):27 - 61.
    An approach to inference to the best explanation integrating a Popperianconception of natural laws together with a modified Hempelian account of explanation, one the one hand, and Hacking's law of likelihood (in its nomicguise), on the other, which provides a robust abductivist model of sciencethat appears to overcome the obstacles that confront its inductivist,deductivist, and hypothetico-deductivist alternatives.This philosophy of scienceclarifies and illuminates some fundamental aspects of ontology and epistemology, especially concerning the relations between frequencies and propensities. Among the most important (...)
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    Genealogies of Music and Memory: Gluck in the Nineteenth-Century Parisian Imagination.James H. Johnson - 2023 - Common Knowledge 29 (2):239-241.
    The music of Christoph Willibald von Gluck was a revolution for Paris operagoers when his work premiered there in 1774. In a setting known for its restive and often rowdy spectators, Alceste, Iphigénie en Aulide, and Orpheé et Eurydice seized audiences with unprecedented force. They shed silent tears or sobbed openly, and some cried out in sympathy with the sufferers onstage. “Oh Mama! This is too painful!” three girls called out as Charon led Alcestis to the underworld, and a boy (...)
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    The Diversity of Minimal Cofinal Extensions.James H. Schmerl - 2022 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 63 (4):493-514.
    Fix a countable nonstandard model M of Peano arithmetic. Even with some rather severe restrictions placed on the types of minimal cofinal extensions N≻M that are allowed, we still find that there are 2ℵ0 possible theories of (N,M) for such N’s.
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  31. Relationality without obligation.James H. P. Lewis - 2022 - Analysis 82 (2):238-246.
    Some reasons are thought to depend on relations between people, such as that of a promiser to a promisee. It has sometimes been assumed that all reasons that are relational in this way are moral obligations. I argue, via a counter example, that there are non-obligatory relational reasons. If true, this has ramifications for relational theories of morality.
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  32. The pseudorealization fallacy and the chinese room argument.James H. Moor - 1988 - In James H. Fetzer (ed.), Aspects of AI. D.
     
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    What’s Wrong with Salmon’s History: The Third Decade.James H. Fetzer - 1992 - Philosophy of Science 59 (2):246-262.
    My purpose here is to elaborate the reasons I maintain that Salmon has not been completely successful in reporting the history of work on explanation. The most important limitation of his account is that it does not emphasize the critical necessity to embrace a suitable conception of probability in the development of the theory of probabilistic explanation.
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    On the historical explanation of unique events.James H. Fetzer - 1975 - Theory and Decision 6 (1):87-97.
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    Zen-Brain Reflections.James H. Austin - 2010 - MIT Press.
    This sequel to the widely read Zen and the Brain continues James Austin's explorations into the key interrelationships between Zen Buddhism and brain research. In Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner, examines the evolving psychological processes and brain changes associated with the path of long-range meditative training. Austin draws not only on the latest neuroscience research and new neuroimaging studies but also on Zen literature and his personal experience with alternate states of consciousness.Zen-Brain Reflections takes (...)
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  36. A student's library of neo-scholastic philosophy.James H. Ryan - 1928 - Philadelphia, Pa.: [American ecclesiastical review].
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  37. Consciousness evolves when the self dissolves.James H. Austin - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (11-12):209-230.
    We need to clarify at least four aspects of selfhood if we are to reach a better understanding of consciousness in general, and of its alternate states. First, how did we develop our self-centred psychophysiology? Second, can the four familiar lobes of the brain alone serve, if only as preliminary landmarks of convenience, to help understand the functions of our many self-referent networks? Third, what could cause one's former sense of self to vanish from the mental field during an extraordinary (...)
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    Ideology and the Image.James H. Kavanagh & Bill Nichols - 1983 - Substance 12 (3):112.
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    Relative reinforcement effects: S1/S2 and S1/S1 paradigms in instrumental conditioning.James H. McHose - 1970 - Psychological Review 77 (2):135-146.
  40. A Black Theology of Liberation, Fortieth Anniversary Edition.James H. Cone - 2010
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    Deep Ecology and Deep Ecumenism: Religion and the New Paradigm. Reflections on the Theological Sources of our World-View.James H. Stewart - 1994 - Feminist Theology 2 (6):103-117.
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    On κ-like structures which embed stationary and closed unbounded subsets.James H. Schmerl - 1976 - Annals of Mathematical Logic 10 (3):289-314.
  43. Varieties of Second-Personal Reason.James H. P. Lewis - forthcoming - Erkenntnis:1-21.
    A lineage of prominent philosophers who have discussed the second-person relation can be regarded as advancing structural accounts. They posit that the second-person relation effects one transformative change to the structure of practical reasoning. In this paper, I criticise this orthodoxy and offer an alternative, substantive account. That is, I argue that entering into second-personal relations with others does indeed affect one's practical reasoning, but it does this not by altering the structure of one's agential thought, but by changing what (...)
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    (1 other version)A probabilistic causal calculus: Conflicting conceptions.James H. Fetzer & Donald E. Nute - 1980 - Synthese 44 (2):241 - 246.
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    Reichenbach, reference classes, and single case 'probabilities'.James H. Fetzer - 1977 - Synthese 34 (2):185 - 217.
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    (1 other version)Introduction to cyberphilosophy.James H. Moor & Terrell Ward Bynum - 2002 - In James Moor & Terrell Ward Bynum (eds.), Cyberphilosophy: the intersection of philosophy and computing. Malden, MA: Blackwell. pp. 4-10.
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    Social epistemologists at the crossroads: Authorizing agents of change.James H. Collier - 2005 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 38 (3):269-274.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Social Epistemologists at the Crossroads:Authorizing Agents of ChangeJames H. CollierIn this issue of Philosophy and Rhetoric, Thomas Basbøll and Christine Isager and Sine Just provide a vital, constructive forum for discussing the first and second editions of Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge (PREK) and Steve Fuller's broader project of social epistemology. More specifically, both Basbøll's review and Isager and Just's suggest innovative proposals for applying and assessing (...)
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    Assessing artificial intelligence and its critics.James H. Moor - 1998 - In Terrell Ward Bynum & James Moor (eds.), The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy. Cambridge: Blackwell. pp. 213--230.
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    The cancellation of symmetrical contraries and the principle of significant contradictories.James H. Moor - 1976 - Philosophy of Science 43 (4):550-559.
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    Methodological individualism: Singular causal systems and their population manifestations.James H. Fetzer - 1986 - Synthese 68 (1):99 - 128.
    The purpose of this essay is to investigate the properties of singular causal systems and their population manifestations, with special concern for the thesis of methodological individualism, which claims that there are no properties of social groups that cannot be adequately explained exclusively by reference to properties of individual members of those groups, i.e., at the level of individuals. Individuals, however, may be viewed as singular causal systems, i.e., as instantiations of (arrangements of) dispositional properties. From this perspective, methodological individualism (...)
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