Jeffrey Dunn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3943504 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey Dunn |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey |
| APELLIDO | Dunn |
| FIRMA | DUNN J |
| AFILIACIONES | DePauw University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2521-2849 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A solution, and a problem, for veritism
Group epistemic value
Sometimes we are interested in how groups are doing epistemically in aggregate. For instance, we may want to know the epistemic impact of a change in school curriculum or the epistemic impact of abolishing peer review in the sciences. Being able to say something about how groups are doing epistemically is especially important if one is interested in pursuing a consequentialist approach to social epistemology of the sort championed by Goldman (Kno…
Reliable group belief
Fried Eggs, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences
David Lewis ([1986b]) gives an attractive and familiar account of counterfactual dependence in the standard context. This account has recently been subject to a counterexample from Adam Elga ([2000]). In this article, I formulate a Lewisian response to Elga’s counterexample. The strategy is to add an extra criterion to Lewis’s similarity metric, which determines the comparative similarity of worlds. This extra criterion instructs us to take speci…
Evaluation of a peer support program for women with breast cancer—lessons for practitioners
The present study aimed to describe how a volunteer peer support service assists women with breast cancer, and provides guidelines for practitioners in the development and implementation of such programmes. A two-phase evaluation of a breast cancer peer support program was undertaken to describe important attributes of the peer support intervention, the impact of the volunteer visit on women's self-reports of anxiety, and key indicators of a succ…
Smoking and oral cancer
Smoking and oral cancer: epidemiological data, educational responses. J M Weir, J E Dunn, Jr, and P E BuellCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.59.6.959 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Reliable group belief
Fried Eggs, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences
David Lewis ([1986b]) gives an attractive and familiar account of counterfactual dependence in the standard context. This account has recently been subject to a counterexample from Adam Elga ([2000]). In this article, I formulate a Lewisian response to Elga’s counterexample. The strategy is to add an extra criterion to Lewis’s similarity metric, which determines the comparative similarity of worlds. This extra criterion instructs us to take speci…
Smoking and oral cancer
Smoking and oral cancer: epidemiological data, educational responses. J M Weir, J E Dunn, Jr, and P E BuellCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.59.6.959 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Evaluation of a peer support program for women with breast cancer—lessons for practitioners
The present study aimed to describe how a volunteer peer support service assists women with breast cancer, and provides guidelines for practitioners in the development and implementation of such programmes. A two-phase evaluation of a breast cancer peer support program was undertaken to describe important attributes of the peer support intervention, the impact of the volunteer visit on women's self-reports of anxiety, and key indicators of a succ…
Fried Eggs, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences
David Lewis ([1986b]) gives an attractive and familiar account of counterfactual dependence in the standard context. This account has recently been subject to a counterexample from Adam Elga ([2000]). In this article, I formulate a Lewisian response to Elga’s counterexample. The strategy is to add an extra criterion to Lewis’s similarity metric, which determines the comparative similarity of worlds. This extra criterion instructs us to take speci…
Reliable group belief
Group epistemic value
Sometimes we are interested in how groups are doing epistemically in aggregate. For instance, we may want to know the epistemic impact of a change in school curriculum or the epistemic impact of abolishing peer review in the sciences. Being able to say something about how groups are doing epistemically is especially important if one is interested in pursuing a consequentialist approach to social epistemology of the sort championed by Goldman (Kno…
A solution, and a problem, for veritism
Epistemology (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Philosophy of science (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 obras) · Metaphysics (3 obras) · Philosophy of language (3 obras) · Cancer (2 obras) · Family medicine (2 obras) · Group (periodic table) (2 obras)