Robert Ackermann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 440109 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Ackermann |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Ackermann |
| FIRMA | ACKERMANN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Nondeductive Inference
Originally published in 1966. An introduction to current studies of kinds of inference in which validity cannot be determined by ordinary deductive models. In particular, inductive inference, predictive inference, statistical inference, and decision making are examined in some detail. The last chapter discusses the relationship of these forms of inference to philosophical notions of rationality. Special features of the monograph include a discuss…
Data, Instruments, and Theory
Warum die NPD keinen Erfolg haben kann
Reporting experiments
Wittgenstein's City
Knowledge and Power
This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice
The New Experimentalism
Science, Action and Reality
1: Philosophy and Transcendental Thinking.- 2: The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image.- I Conceptualizing the World.- II The Stereoscopic View of the World.- 3: The Myth of the Given World, Knowledge, and Language.- I The Myth and its Constituents.- II What is Wrong with the Myth?.- 4: Scientific Realism - Science's Own Philosophy.- I Kant and Scientific Realism.- II General Arguments for Scientific Realism.- Appendix on Quantum Mechanics, B…
Data, Instruments and Theory
Religion as Critique
Journal Article Religion as Critique by Robert John Ackermann, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985, 171 pp. $20; $8.95 (paper) Get access Richard Quinney Richard Quinney Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 48, Issue 2, Summer 1987, Pages 180–181, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711204 Published: 01 January 1987
Religion as Critique
Religion as Critique
Religion as Critique
An alterantive Free Will Defence
Many philosophers have written in the past as though it were nearly obvious to rational reflection that the existence of evil in this world is incompatible with the presumed properties of the Christian God, and they have assumed a proof of incompatibility to be easy to construct. An informal underpinning for this line of thought is easy to develop. Surely God in his benevolence finds evil to be evil, and hence has both the desire and the means, p…
Context Dependent Knowledge
The Scientific World-Perspective and Other Essays, 1931-1963
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
Belief and Knowledge
Book Reviews Get access Belief and Knowledge. BY Robert J. Ackermann. (New York : Doubleday & Co. 1972. Pp. 149. Price §1.45) David Annis David Annis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 94, January 1974, Pages 81–82, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218293 Published: 01 January 1974
Mechanism, methodology, and biological theory
An Introduction to Many-Valued Logics
Explanations of Human Action
In order to explain the behavior of a human organism, it is necessary to take its environment into consideration. Except for very severe psychotic withdrawal, this has been recognized as a near triviality since Aristotle. But although consideration of the environment may be necessary, it is not sufficient, and it is now generally conceded that a man's behavior cannot be explained solely from a consideration of his present environment and a histor…
Confirmatory Models of Theories
Deductive Scientific Explanation
In this paper, I shall examine attempts to furnish formal models for deductive scientific explanation. All such attempts have had certain defects. The most serious of these defects is to be found in the fact that the extant models seem to be formally restrictive in ways that do not allow any obvious generalization of their conditions which will encompass the full range of all those scientific explanations which must be considered plausible candid…
Normative Explanation
The Myth of Simplicity
Deductive Scientific Explanation
In this paper, I shall examine attempts to furnish formal models for deductive scientific explanation. All such attempts have had certain defects. The most serious of these defects is to be found in the fact that the extant models seem to be formally restrictive in ways that do not allow any obvious generalization of their conditions which will encompass the full range of all those scientific explanations which must be considered plausible candid…
The New Experimentalism
Inductive Simplicity
The fact that simplicity has been linked with induction by many philosophers of science, some of whom have proposed or supported criteria of “inductive simplicity,” means that the problem must be given some serious attention. I take “inductive simplicity” as a title, however, only by way of concession to these historical treatments, since it is precisely the burden of my paper to show that there is no such thing. So much for the conclusion. I sha…
The Myth of Simplicity
Conditions for Description
Inductive Simplicity
The fact that simplicity has been linked with induction by many philosophers of science, some of whom have proposed or supported criteria of “inductive simplicity,” means that the problem must be given some serious attention. I take “inductive simplicity” as a title, however, only by way of concession to these historical treatments, since it is precisely the burden of my paper to show that there is no such thing. So much for the conclusion. I sha…
Some Remarks on Kyburg's Modest Proposal
Inductive simplicity in special cases
A Neglected Proposal Concerning Simplicity
This paper is intended to explore Jeffrey's proposal for the measurement of the simplicity of scientific laws. The first part is a sketch of Jeffreys’ development of a view on simplicity, which will be followed by a discussion of what seem to be some rather crucial defects in the proposal as it stands. It will be suggested here that no plausible way of countering these defects seems available
Conditions for Description
Normative Explanation
The Myth of Simplicity
Deductive Scientific Explanation
In this paper, I shall examine attempts to furnish formal models for deductive scientific explanation. All such attempts have had certain defects. The most serious of these defects is to be found in the fact that the extant models seem to be formally restrictive in ways that do not allow any obvious generalization of their conditions which will encompass the full range of all those scientific explanations which must be considered plausible candid…
Confirmatory Models of Theories
Explanations of Human Action
In order to explain the behavior of a human organism, it is necessary to take its environment into consideration. Except for very severe psychotic withdrawal, this has been recognized as a near triviality since Aristotle. But although consideration of the environment may be necessary, it is not sufficient, and it is now generally conceded that a man's behavior cannot be explained solely from a consideration of his present environment and a histor…
An Introduction to Many-Valued Logics
Mechanism, methodology, and biological theory
Belief and Knowledge
Book Reviews Get access Belief and Knowledge. BY Robert J. Ackermann. (New York : Doubleday & Co. 1972. Pp. 149. Price §1.45) David Annis David Annis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 94, January 1974, Pages 81–82, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218293 Published: 01 January 1974
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
The Scientific World-Perspective and Other Essays, 1931-1963
An alterantive Free Will Defence
Many philosophers have written in the past as though it were nearly obvious to rational reflection that the existence of evil in this world is incompatible with the presumed properties of the Christian God, and they have assumed a proof of incompatibility to be easy to construct. An informal underpinning for this line of thought is easy to develop. Surely God in his benevolence finds evil to be evil, and hence has both the desire and the means, p…
Context Dependent Knowledge
Religion as Critique
Religion as Critique
Religion as Critique
Science, Action and Reality
1: Philosophy and Transcendental Thinking.- 2: The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image.- I Conceptualizing the World.- II The Stereoscopic View of the World.- 3: The Myth of the Given World, Knowledge, and Language.- I The Myth and its Constituents.- II What is Wrong with the Myth?.- 4: Scientific Realism - Science's Own Philosophy.- I Kant and Scientific Realism.- II General Arguments for Scientific Realism.- Appendix on Quantum Mechanics, B…
Data, Instruments and Theory
Religion as Critique
Journal Article Religion as Critique by Robert John Ackermann, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985, 171 pp. $20; $8.95 (paper) Get access Richard Quinney Richard Quinney Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 48, Issue 2, Summer 1987, Pages 180–181, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711204 Published: 01 January 1987
The New Experimentalism
Knowledge and Power
This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice
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