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    Happiness.Robert W. Simpson - 1975 - American Philosophical Quarterly 12 (2):169 - 176.
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    Good and Bad.Robert W. Simpson - 1982 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (1):101 - 117.
    What are the philosophically significant grammatical constructions in which the term ‘good’ is used? It is not possible, I think, to base the philosophical analysis of a concept such as goodness on linguistic considerations alone; but an adequate analysis must be able to give an account of the principal uses of the term, and noting usage can be very helpful in providing a starting-point for philosophy. There are three constructions in which ‘good’ is typically used: ‘Good for X,’ ‘A good (...)
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    Book Review Section 2. [REVIEW]Harvey Kantor, Robert Lowe, Lynda Stone, Douglas J. Simpson, Samuel Totten, Michael W. Apple, Richard D. Hansgen, Jean Schmittau & Aghajan Mohammadi - 1992 - Educational Studies 23 (4):482-538.
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    Book Review Section 2. [REVIEW]Ronald E. Benson, Herold S. Stern, Richard T. Ryan, Cheryl G. Kasson, Douglas J. Simpson, David Slive, Joe L. Green, Todd Holder, Deno G. Thevaos, Karilee Watson, Cynthia Porter Gehrie, W. Ross Palmer, C. H. Edson, Linda Fystrom & Robert S. Griffin - 1980 - Educational Studies 11 (1):91-115.
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    Mindreading Animals: The Debate Over What Animals Know About Other Minds.Robert W. Lurz - 2011 - Bradford.
    But do animals know that other creatures have minds? And how would we know if they do? In "Mindreading Animals," Robert Lurz offers a fresh approach to the hotly debated question of mental-state attribution in nonhuman animals.
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    A Peircean Reduction Thesis: The Foundations of Topological Logic.Robert W. Burch - 1991 - Texas Tech University Press.
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    Hermeneutical Paths to the Sacred Worlds of India: Essays in Honour of Robert W. Stevenson.Robert W. Stevenson & Katherine K. Young - 1994 - Atlanta : Scholars Press.
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  8. A Peircean Reduction Thesis.Robert W. Burch - 1993 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 29 (1):101-107.
     
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    Spatial attention speeds discrimination without awareness in blindsight.Robert W. Kentridge, Charles A. Heywood & Lawrence Weiskrantz - 2004 - Neuropsychologia 42 (6):831-835.
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  10. (1 other version)The devil in the details: asymptotic reasoning in explanation, reduction, and emergence.Robert W. Batterman - 2002 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Robert Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, arguing that it has important consequences for our understanding of the scientific process as a whole. He maintains that asymptotic reasoning is essential for explaining what physicists call universal behavior. With clarity and rigor, he simplifies complex questions about universal behavior, demonstrating a profound understanding of the underlying structures that ground them. This book introduces a valuable new method that is certain to fill explanatory gaps across disciplines.
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    Probability and theistic explanation.Robert W. Prevost - 1990 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In the past twenty years, interest in the epistemic status of religious belief has greatly increased. Leading this revival are the philosophers Basil Mitchell and Richard Swinburne, who believe that {eligious belief can be justified using inductive "best explanation" arguments. However, while Swinburne's approach is formal, using the calculus of Bayes Theorem, Mitchell's is informal, based on his recognition of judgment as central to such an assessment. This book is the first full length comparison of these two men and their (...)
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  12. Minimal Model Explanations.Robert W. Batterman & Collin C. Rice - 2014 - Philosophy of Science 81 (3):349-376.
    This article discusses minimal model explanations, which we argue are distinct from various causal, mechanical, difference-making, and so on, strategies prominent in the philosophical literature. We contend that what accounts for the explanatory power of these models is not that they have certain features in common with real systems. Rather, the models are explanatory because of a story about why a class of systems will all display the same large-scale behavior because the details that distinguish them are irrelevant. This story (...)
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    A comparison of the self-awareness and kinesthetic-visual matching theories of self-recognition: Autistic children and others.Robert W. Mitchell - 1997 - In James G. Snodgrass & R. L. Thompson (eds.), The Self Across Psychology: Self-Recognition, Self-Awareness, and the Self Concept. New York Academy of Sciences.
  14. Three theses about dispositions.Elizabeth W. Prior, Robert Pargetter & Frank Jackson - 1982 - American Philosophical Quarterly 19 (3):251-257.
    I. Causal Thesis: Dispositions have a causal basis. II. Distinctness Thesis: Dispositions are distinct from their causal basis. III. Impotence Thesis: Dispositions are not causally active.
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    The status of blindsight: Near-threshold vision, islands of cortex and the riddoch phenomenon.Robert W. Kentridge & Charles A. Heywood - 1999 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (5):3-11.
    In this introductory paper, we assess the current status of blindsight -- the phenomenon in which patients with damage to their primary visual cortex retain the ability to detect, discriminate and localize visual stimuli presented in areas of their visual field in which they report that they are subjectively blind. Blindsight has garnered a great deal of interest and critical research, in part because of its important implications for the philosophy of mind. We briefly consider why this is so, and (...)
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    Happiness and freedom: Recent work on John Stuart mill.Robert W. Hoag - 1986 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 15 (2):188-199.
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    Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction.Robert W. Greene - 1993 - Penn State Press.
    Are the words that a novelist uses adequate to his or her elusive subject&—the human condition? Are they pertinent, accurate, invariably fair, unflinchingly honest? Or do the novelist's words execute essentially formal maneuvers, engaging our interest through their patterns rather than their reach? And what about a possible third, synthesizing option? Robert W. Greene discovers that the two apparently divergent intentions in question (metalinguistic vs. moralistic) often paradoxically coexist in French fiction. Also, no doubt because it is more consistently (...)
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    Time and memory.Robert W. Doty - 1990 - In J. McGaugh, Jerry Weinberger & G. Lynch (eds.), Brain Organization and Memory: Cells, Systems, and Circuits. Guilford Press. pp. 145--158.
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  19. Anthropomorphism and anecdotes: a guide for the perplexed.Robert W. Mitchell - 1997 - In Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson & H. Lyn Miles (eds.), Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals. SUNY Press. pp. 407--427.
  20. Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers.Robert W. McGee - forthcoming - Business Ethics and Common Sense.
     
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    Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Analysis of Beauty.Robert W. Jones - 1998 - Cambridge University Press.
    The concept of beauty in the eighteenth century, explored through philosophical texts, novels and art.
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    Frontiers in American Philosophy Volume Ii.Robert W. Burch & Herman J. Saatkamp (eds.) - 1996 - Texas A & M University Press.
    This second volume arising from the Frontiers in American Philosophy Conference held at Texas A&M University is "festive, celebrating the diversity of thought and influences in American philosophy," say its editors. In these thirty-six essays, there is no attempt to define an American ethos; in fact, the editors conclude that, even pragmatism, identified by Tocqueville as America's defining attribute, should not be described as a national philosophy. It is, as Gerard Deledalle notes in his essay, "the new universal philosophy, because (...)
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  23. On the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science.Robert W. Batterman - 2010 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (1):1-25.
    This paper examines contemporary attempts to explicate the explanatory role of mathematics in the physical sciences. Most such approaches involve developing so-called mapping accounts of the relationships between the physical world and mathematical structures. The paper argues that the use of idealizations in physical theorizing poses serious difficulties for such mapping accounts. A new approach to the applicability of mathematics is proposed.
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    Art in Education: An International Perspective.Robert W. Ott & Al Hurwitz - 1984 - Pennsylvania State University Press.
    Profiles of art education in nineteen countries around the world by citizens or longtime residents of those countries comprise the core of this book. Guidelines for the cross-cultural study of art education are presented by the editors in a general introduction and three part introductions, and also by contributing specialists. The nineteen national profiles, with accompanying examples of children's artwork, make up the largest section of the book, Part II. The three chapters in Part I review research that has identified, (...)
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    A Philosophy of Sacred Nature: Prospects for Ecstatic Naturalism ed. by Leon Niemoczynski and Nam T. Nguyen.Robert W. King - 2016 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 52 (1):114-118.
    What are the possibilities for religious experience in the twenty-first century? While aggressive atheists might respond “None,” in thunder, any good Peircean knows we should not foreclose inquiry. For those who retain a post-orthodox religious temperament in post-modernity, Robert S. Corrington’s evolving account of Ecstatic Naturalism might prove a challenging, engaging framework for a transcendental naturalism. If one can read Emerson and Thoreau and ignore their religious dimension, so be it—attunement is crucial for Corrington, cultivating the habits of thought, (...)
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  26. Psychology: Experimental Methods.Robert W. Proctor, E. J. Capaldi & Kim‐Phuong L. Vu - 2003 - In L. Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group.
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    American Philosophy From Edwards to Quine.Robert W. Shahan (ed.) - 1977 - University of Oklahoma Press.
    What have Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sanders Pierce, William James, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, George Santayana and Willard Van Orman Quine contributed to American philosophy? Edwards is without rival as the greatest philosopher/theologian of colonial America. Before Emerson, no other thinker remotely approaches Edwards in intellectual endowment, range of interests, or depth and subtlety of treatment of a variety of philosophical topics. Emerson and Thoreau together represent the high point of American transcendentalism. Charles Sanders Peirce, (...)
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  28. Community of the Wise: The Letter of James.Robert W. Wall - 1997
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  29. Mutual Recognition and Ethics: A Hegelian Reformulation of the Kantian Argument for the Rationality of Morality.Robert W. Wallace - 1995 - American Philosophical Quarterly 32:263.
     
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  30. A Tarski-Style Semantics for Peirce's Beta Graphs.Robert W. Burch - 1997 - In Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce. University of Toronto Press. pp. 81-95.
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  31. America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards.Robert W. Jenson - 1988
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  32. Multiplicities of self.Robert W. Mitchell - 1994 - In S. T. Parker, R. M. Mitchell & M. L. Boccia (eds.), Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
  33. Bernard Berofsky, Freedom from Necessity; The Metaphysical Basis of Responsibility Reviewed by.Robert W. Binkley - 1989 - Philosophy in Review 9 (4):129-131.
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    A Transformation in Royce's View of Kant.Robert W. Burch - 1987 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 23 (4):557 - 578.
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    Valency, Adicity, and Adity in Peirce's MS 482.Robert W. Burch - 1991 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 27 (2):237 - 244.
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  36. The preface to Juvencus' biblical epic: A structural study.Robert W. Carrubba - 1993 - American Journal of Philology 114 (2):303-312.
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    Akhenaten, the Damned One: Monotheism as the Root of all Evil.Robert W. Butler - 2010 - In Nancy Billias (ed.), Promoting and producing evil. New York: Rodopi. pp. 63--249.
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  38. The Politics of Multiculturalism. Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.Robert W. Hefner - 2013 - Philosophy East and West 63 (2).
  39. Asymptotics and the role of minimal models.Robert W. Batterman - 2002 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 (1):21-38.
    A traditional view of mathematical modeling holds, roughly, that the more details of the phenomenon being modeled that are represented in the model, the better the model is. This paper argues that often times this ‘details is better’ approach is misguided. One ought, in certain circumstances, to search for an exactly solvable minimal model—one which is, essentially, a caricature of the physics of the phenomenon in question.
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  40. Attention without awareness in blindsight.Robert W. Kentridge, Charles A. Heywood & Lawrence Weiskrantz - 1999 - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266:1805-11.
  41. Mental models of mirror self-recognition: Two theories.Robert W. Mitchell - 1993 - New Ideas in Psychology 11 (3):295-325.
  42. What is Hume's Doctrine of Negation.Robert W. Burch - 1976 - International Logic Review 7:236-242.
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    The Rhetoric of Politics in Cicero's Fourth Catilinarian.Robert W. Cape - 1995 - American Journal of Philology 116 (2).
  44. Theology in the Life of the Church.Robert W. Bertram - 1963
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  45. Empiricist Authoritarianism Versus Value.Robert W. Fox - 1959 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 40 (1):5.
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  46. The Synoptic Gospels.Robert W. Funk, Daniel J. Harrington, Gunter Wagner, Paul-Émile Langevin & Henry Wansbrough - 1985
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  47. Why is Bayesian confirmation theory rarely practiced.Robert W. P. Luk - 2019 - Science and Philosophy 7 (1):3-20.
    Bayesian confirmation theory is a leading theory to decide the confirmation/refutation of a hypothesis based on probability calculus. While it may be much discussed in philosophy of science, is it actually practiced in terms of hypothesis testing by scientists? Since the assignment of some of the probabilities in the theory is open to debate and the risk of making the wrong decision is unknown, many scientists do not use the theory in hypothesis testing. Instead, they use alternative statistical tests that (...)
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    God after God.Robert W. Jenson - 1969 - Indianapolis,: Bobbs-Merrill Co..
    Karl Barth is recognized throughout the world as the twentieth century's leading Protestant theologian. His thought has determined much of the shape of today's Christian thinking, yet it is thoroughly misunderstood. He is a systematic theologian who writes with great complexity and in a scholastic vein. This fine and lucid study isolates Barth's most specific themes and focuses on the relevance of his radically trinitarian doctrine of God to the post-religious situation. The book opens with a discussion of the death (...)
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  49. Either FOR or HOR: A false dichotomy.Robert W. Lurz - 2004 - In Rocco J. Gennaro (ed.), Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology. John Benjamins.
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    Evidence for the Epistemic View of Quantum States: A Toy Theory.Robert W. Spekkens - 2007 - Physical Review A 75:032110.
    We present a toy theory that is based on a simple principle: the number of questions about the physical state of a system that are answered must always be equal to the number that are unanswered in a state of maximal knowledge. Many quantum phenomena are found to have analogues within this toy theory. These include the noncommutativity of measurements, interference, the multiplicity of convex decompositions of a mixed state, the impossibility of discriminating nonorthogonal states, the impossibility of a universal (...)
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