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BMJ, 2017
After three years in the Royal Army Medical Corps—much of the time in India and Burma—Arthur Davidson (“Sam”) completed his surgical training and became a consultant ear, nose, and throat surgeon. He …
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After three years in the Royal Army Medical Corps—much of the time in India and Burma—Arthur Davidson (“Sam”) completed his surgical training and became a consultant ear, nose, and throat surgeon. He …
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Structural realism and Davidson
Synthese, 2007Structural realism is an attempt to balance the competing demands of the No Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction. In this paper I trace the development of the structuralist idea through the work of one of its leading advocates, John Worrall. I suggest that properly thought through what the structuralist is offering or should be offering
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DAVIDSON AND HARE ON EVALUATIONS
Ratio, 1990This paper has two parts. In the first 1 discuss Davidson’s view of evaluations: what is the meaning and function ofprima facie, ‘allthings- considered’ and ‘sans phrase’ judgements, and what is the role of his principle of continence? In the (shorter) second part I try to exploit Davidson’s insights to elucidate the position of Hare: what is it to ...
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Davidson's Argument for Monism
Synthese, 2003Two criticisms of Davidson's argument for monism are presented. The first is that there is no obvious way for the anomalism of the mental to do any work in his argument. Certain implicit premises, on the other hand, entail monism independently of the anomalism of the mental, but they are question-begging. The second criticism is that even if Davidson's
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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2017
The Britten-Davidson model of genetic regulation was well received by American molecular biologists and embryologists, but not by the members of the French School of molecular biology. In particular, François Jacob considered it too abstract and too removed from experiments.
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The Britten-Davidson model of genetic regulation was well received by American molecular biologists and embryologists, but not by the members of the French School of molecular biology. In particular, François Jacob considered it too abstract and too removed from experiments.
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Davidson on Rationality and Irrationality
1999According to Davidson, the aim of the theory of interpretation is to provide the information needed for understanding the sentences of a language and, at the same time, indicate which beliefs speakers must have considering the sentences they are disposed to utter.
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Davidson and Reiter on actions
Fundam. Informaticae, 2008The author develops a logic of action, and in particular of preconditions and postconditions, that develops ideas of \textit{R. Reiter} [Knowledge in action. Logical foundations for specifying and implementing dynamical systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2001; Zbl 1018.03022)] in a category-theoretic context.
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