M Kelley
Biographic Data
| ID | 263114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kelley |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelley |
| SIGNATURE | KELLEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5131-0525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intention as practical memory and the tasks of action theory
In this paper, I raise two challenges to Wayne Wu's proposal that intentions are practical memories. The first questions whether practical memories possess the functional roles that Michael Bratman's influential planning theory identifies for intention. The second suggests that a conception of intention as practical memory obscures the logic of intention in our ordinary ethical thought and talk. Both challenges are grounded in methodological refl…
A Contextual Accuracy Dominance Argument for Probabilism
A central motivation for Probabilism—the principle of rationality that requires one to have credences that satisfy the axioms of probability—is the accuracy dominance argument: one should not have accuracy dominated credences, and one avoids accuracy dominance just in case one satisfies Probabilism. Until recently, the accuracy dominance argument for Probabilism has been restricted to finite credal states. One reason for this is that there are se…
Action, self, and virtual reality
Escaping Arrow’s theorem
There is an extensive literature in social choice theory studying the consequences of weakening the assumptions of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. Much of this literature suggests that there is no escape from Arrow-style impossibility theorems, while remaining in an ordinal preference setting, unless one drastically violates the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA). In this paper, we present a more positive outlook. We propose a model of …
A Control Theory of Action
One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what merely happens, for example, a wink versus an eye twitch. This essay proposes a theory of action offering an account of this distinction. The central claim of the theory is that action is movement that is controlled by the mover, where movement is understood capaciously and control is characterized by a trio of conditions consisting of …
Separating action and knowledge
Intentional action is often accompanied by knowledge of what one is doing-knowledge that appears non-observational and non-inferential. G.E.M. Anscombe defends the stronger claim that intentional action always comes with such knowledge. Among those who follow Anscombe, some have altered the features, content, or species of the knowledge claimed to necessarily accompany intentional action. In this paper, I argue that there is no knowledge conditio…
Zetetic indispensability and epistemic justification
How to perform a nonbasic action
Some actions we perform “just like that” without taking a means, e.g., raising your arm or wiggling your finger. Other actions—the nonbasic actions—we perform by taking a means, e.g., voting by raising your arm or illuminating a room by flipping a switch. A nearly ubiquitous view about nonbasic action is that one's means to a nonbasic action constitutes the nonbasic action, as raising your arm constitutes voting or flipping a switch constitutes i…
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets
There is a well-known equivalence between avoiding accuracy dominance and having probabilistically coherent credences (see, e.g., de Finetti 1974; Joyce 2009; Predd et al. 2009; Pettigrew 2016). However, this equivalence has been established only when the set of propositions on which credence functions are defined is finite. In this article, I establish connections between accuracy dominance and coherence when credence functions are defined on an…
Full Issue
This special issue of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations visits one of the most polarizing policy debates in the US. In 2012, voters in Washington and Colorado passed initiatives that legalized the recreational use of marijuana. In fact, there were about 75,000 more votes cast in support of marijuana legalization in Colorado than were given to reelect President Obama. Yet according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, Demo…
Accuracy and infinity
We argue that subjective Bayesians face a dilemma: they must offend against the spirit of their permissivism about rational credence or reject the principle that one should avoid accuracy dominance
A note on Murakami’s theorems and incomplete social choice without the Pareto principle
Collaborative Digital Techniques and Urban Neighborhood Revitalization
Journal Article Collaborative Digital Techniques and Urban Neighborhood Revitalization Get access Matthew Kelley, PhD Matthew Kelley, PhD assistant professor Urban Studies Program, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Campus Box 358437, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 185–188…
Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic
Schooling, as Nancy Beadie shows, was decisive in the formation of economic, social, and cultural capital in the early republic. Education was equally important for individuals who achieved and made use of all three forms of capital. Consider Harriet Beecher Stowe and her siblings: Stowe’s parents, Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, had relatively little economic capital. The minister of the Congregational church in Litchfield, Connecticut, Lyman re…
Woman Thinking
Journal Article Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne Tiffany K.. (Lanham: Lexington, 2005. xiv, 156 pp. $70.00, isbn0-7391-0759-3.) Mary Kelley Mary Kelley University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, I…
Religion and Justice
Land Tenure and Forfeiture a Sixteenth Century Scottish Example
Why Churches Should Not Pay Taxes
Why Conservative Churches Are Still Growing
F or at least a century the dominant national religious bodies in the United States have been increasing in membership with the nation's increase in population, coasting the population escalator with the momentum of procreation. Then, in the mid-1960's, they reversed the trend, turned around, and descended the up escalator, which was still ascending at a rate of 1.4% per year-not an easy thing to do
Why Conservative Churches Are Growing
Religion and the Public Order, 1963
Why Conservative Churches Are Still Growing
F or at least a century the dominant national religious bodies in the United States have been increasing in membership with the nation's increase in population, coasting the population escalator with the momentum of procreation. Then, in the mid-1960's, they reversed the trend, turned around, and descended the up escalator, which was still ascending at a rate of 1.4% per year-not an easy thing to do
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets
There is a well-known equivalence between avoiding accuracy dominance and having probabilistically coherent credences (see, e.g., de Finetti 1974; Joyce 2009; Predd et al. 2009; Pettigrew 2016). However, this equivalence has been established only when the set of propositions on which credence functions are defined is finite. In this article, I establish connections between accuracy dominance and coherence when credence functions are defined on an…
Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic
Schooling, as Nancy Beadie shows, was decisive in the formation of economic, social, and cultural capital in the early republic. Education was equally important for individuals who achieved and made use of all three forms of capital. Consider Harriet Beecher Stowe and her siblings: Stowe’s parents, Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, had relatively little economic capital. The minister of the Congregational church in Litchfield, Connecticut, Lyman re…
Separating action and knowledge
Intentional action is often accompanied by knowledge of what one is doing-knowledge that appears non-observational and non-inferential. G.E.M. Anscombe defends the stronger claim that intentional action always comes with such knowledge. Among those who follow Anscombe, some have altered the features, content, or species of the knowledge claimed to necessarily accompany intentional action. In this paper, I argue that there is no knowledge conditio…
Accuracy and infinity
We argue that subjective Bayesians face a dilemma: they must offend against the spirit of their permissivism about rational credence or reject the principle that one should avoid accuracy dominance
Woman Thinking
Journal Article Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne Tiffany K.. (Lanham: Lexington, 2005. xiv, 156 pp. $70.00, isbn0-7391-0759-3.) Mary Kelley Mary Kelley University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, I…
Religion and the Public Order, 1963
Why Conservative Churches Are Growing
Land Tenure and Forfeiture a Sixteenth Century Scottish Example
Why Churches Should Not Pay Taxes
Why Conservative Churches Are Still Growing
F or at least a century the dominant national religious bodies in the United States have been increasing in membership with the nation's increase in population, coasting the population escalator with the momentum of procreation. Then, in the mid-1960's, they reversed the trend, turned around, and descended the up escalator, which was still ascending at a rate of 1.4% per year-not an easy thing to do
Religion and Justice
Woman Thinking
Journal Article Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Wayne Tiffany K.. (Lanham: Lexington, 2005. xiv, 156 pp. $70.00, isbn0-7391-0759-3.) Mary Kelley Mary Kelley University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, I…
Collaborative Digital Techniques and Urban Neighborhood Revitalization
Journal Article Collaborative Digital Techniques and Urban Neighborhood Revitalization Get access Matthew Kelley, PhD Matthew Kelley, PhD assistant professor Urban Studies Program, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Campus Box 358437, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 185–188…
Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic
Schooling, as Nancy Beadie shows, was decisive in the formation of economic, social, and cultural capital in the early republic. Education was equally important for individuals who achieved and made use of all three forms of capital. Consider Harriet Beecher Stowe and her siblings: Stowe’s parents, Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, had relatively little economic capital. The minister of the Congregational church in Litchfield, Connecticut, Lyman re…
A note on Murakami’s theorems and incomplete social choice without the Pareto principle
Full Issue
This special issue of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations visits one of the most polarizing policy debates in the US. In 2012, voters in Washington and Colorado passed initiatives that legalized the recreational use of marijuana. In fact, there were about 75,000 more votes cast in support of marijuana legalization in Colorado than were given to reelect President Obama. Yet according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, Demo…
Accuracy and infinity
We argue that subjective Bayesians face a dilemma: they must offend against the spirit of their permissivism about rational credence or reject the principle that one should avoid accuracy dominance
On Accuracy and Coherence with Infinite Opinion Sets
There is a well-known equivalence between avoiding accuracy dominance and having probabilistically coherent credences (see, e.g., de Finetti 1974; Joyce 2009; Predd et al. 2009; Pettigrew 2016). However, this equivalence has been established only when the set of propositions on which credence functions are defined is finite. In this article, I establish connections between accuracy dominance and coherence when credence functions are defined on an…
Zetetic indispensability and epistemic justification
How to perform a nonbasic action
Some actions we perform “just like that” without taking a means, e.g., raising your arm or wiggling your finger. Other actions—the nonbasic actions—we perform by taking a means, e.g., voting by raising your arm or illuminating a room by flipping a switch. A nearly ubiquitous view about nonbasic action is that one's means to a nonbasic action constitutes the nonbasic action, as raising your arm constitutes voting or flipping a switch constitutes i…
Escaping Arrow’s theorem
There is an extensive literature in social choice theory studying the consequences of weakening the assumptions of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. Much of this literature suggests that there is no escape from Arrow-style impossibility theorems, while remaining in an ordinal preference setting, unless one drastically violates the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA). In this paper, we present a more positive outlook. We propose a model of …
A Control Theory of Action
One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what merely happens, for example, a wink versus an eye twitch. This essay proposes a theory of action offering an account of this distinction. The central claim of the theory is that action is movement that is controlled by the mover, where movement is understood capaciously and control is characterized by a trio of conditions consisting of …
Separating action and knowledge
Intentional action is often accompanied by knowledge of what one is doing-knowledge that appears non-observational and non-inferential. G.E.M. Anscombe defends the stronger claim that intentional action always comes with such knowledge. Among those who follow Anscombe, some have altered the features, content, or species of the knowledge claimed to necessarily accompany intentional action. In this paper, I argue that there is no knowledge conditio…
Intention as practical memory and the tasks of action theory
In this paper, I raise two challenges to Wayne Wu's proposal that intentions are practical memories. The first questions whether practical memories possess the functional roles that Michael Bratman's influential planning theory identifies for intention. The second suggests that a conception of intention as practical memory obscures the logic of intention in our ordinary ethical thought and talk. Both challenges are grounded in methodological refl…
A Contextual Accuracy Dominance Argument for Probabilism
A central motivation for Probabilism—the principle of rationality that requires one to have credences that satisfy the axioms of probability—is the accuracy dominance argument: one should not have accuracy dominated credences, and one avoids accuracy dominance just in case one satisfies Probabilism. Until recently, the accuracy dominance argument for Probabilism has been restricted to finite credal states. One reason for this is that there are se…
Action, self, and virtual reality
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