Franz Huber
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 461942 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Franz Huber |
| NOMBRES | Franz |
| APELLIDO | Huber |
| FIRMA | HUBER F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4298-4282 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Belief and Counterfactuals
This book is the first of two volumes on belief and counterfactuals. It consists of six of a total of eleven chapters. The first volume is concerned primarily with questions in epistemology and is expository in parts. Among other theories, it provides an accessible introduction to belief revision and ranking theory. Ranking theory specifies how conditional beliefs should behave. It does not tell us why they should do so nor what they are. This bo…
Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy
The green potential of the sharing economy to exploit underutilised or redundant resources has generated a considerable interest and expectations on the part of government institutions, investors and consumers. Alongside the emerging green logic, more established economic and social logics appear to be critical for growth of sharing platforms. Applying an institutional logics approach, this paper investigates how entrepreneurial teams in the shar…
Why follow the royal rule
Bayesian Confirmation
Any theory of confirmation must answer the following question: what is the purpose of its conception of confirmation for scientific inquiry? In this article, we argue that no Bayesian conception of confirmation can be used for its primary intended purpose, which we take to be making a claim about how worthy of belief various hypotheses are. Then we consider a different use to which Bayesian confirmation might be put, namely, determining the epist…
Global pipelines for innovation
Using data on 418 Norwegian firms, the results confirm the hypotheses that innovative/radically innovative firms tend to be more involved in international personal and formal networks than non-innovative/incrementally innovative ones. While regional and national networks are much more widespread than international ones, they are not significantly positively associated with innovation. International personal networks and international links with s…
New foundations for counterfactuals
Elektrische Organe und Elektrorezeption Bei Fischen. Nervöse Grundlagen der Akustischen Kommunikation Bei Insekten
Creating a Sustainable Economy
Belief Revision I
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I I will first present the AGM theory of belief revision (Alchourrón & Gärdenfors & Makinson 1985). Then I will focus on the problem ofiteratedbelief revisions
Belief Revision II
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I, I have first presented the AGM theory of belief revision. Then I have focused on the problem of iterated belief revisions. In part II, I will first present ranking theory (Spohn 1988). Then I will show how it solves the problem of iterated belief revisions. I will conclude by sketching two areas of future research
Essay Review
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The economics of clusters. Lessons from the French experience
Evidential Support and Instrumental Rationality
On the Sociospatial Dynamics of Personal Knowledge Networks
Whilst personal knowledge networks between organisations have been argued to be important for regional economic development, their functioning and, within this context, the exact role of spatial proximity has been empirically underexplored. This paper addresses these issues by, first, examining the dynamic mechanisms of the formation, maintenance, and knowledge interaction of important knowledge relationships of R&D workers in the Cambridge infor…
Do clusters really matter for innovation practices in Information Technology? Questioning the significance of technological knowledge spillovers
A widespread assumption in economic geography and the economics of innovation is that firms located in clusters benefit from territorial learning and knowledge spillovers. However, it remains unclear to what extent these benefits actually occur. This article aims to address this issue and examines to what extent research and development workers in the Cambridge Information Technology Cluster benefit from being located in the Cluster. The study sh…
On the Role and Interrelationship of Spatial, Social and Cognitive Proximity
Huber F. On the role and interrelationship of spatial, social and cognitive proximity: personal knowledge relationships of R&D workers in the Cambridge information technology cluster, Regional Studies. Although the importance of proximity has been highlighted, it remains an open question which types and levels of proximity are critical for knowledge networks. This paper addresses this issue by examining the role of spatial, social and cognitive p…
Lewis Causation is a Special Case of Spohn Causation
Lewis ([1973a]) famously defined event c to be causally relevant to event e in world w just in case Oc ðÞand Oe ðÞas well as:OðÞ c!:OðÞare e true in w, where Oc ðÞand Oe ðÞsay that c occurs and that e occurs, respectively. For him, this implied that Oc ðÞ! Oe ðÞis true, because he was assuming the underlying logic to be VC, which validates ð ^ Þ ð! Þ. If one works with the weaker system V, the causal relevance of event c to event e has to be defi…
Degrees of Belief
Degrees of belief
Social Capital of Economic Clusters
To grasp the critical role of socio‐cultural factors for regional economic development, several concepts have been developed, including that of ‘social capital’. This notion usually refers to norms, values, networks, reciprocity or trust which are held in a community and can lead to positive social and economic outcomes. Despite its popularity as a fashionable concept in the literature, the exact meaning of social capital is far from clear. This …
Reply to Crupi et al.'s ‘Bayesian Confirmation by Uncertain Evidence’ ([2008])
Crupi et al. ([2008]) propose a generalization of Bayesian confirmation theory that they claim to adequately deal with confirmation by uncertain evidence. Consider a series of points of time t0,..., ti,..., tn such that the agent’s subjective probability for an atomic proposition E changes from Pr0(E) att0 to... to Pri(E) atti to... to Prn(E) attn. It is understood that the agent’s subjective probabilities change for E and no logically stronger p…
Assessing theories, Bayes style
Milne's Argument for the Log-Ratio Measure
This article shows that a slight variation of the argument in Milne 1996 yields the log-likelihood ratio l rather than the log-ratio measure r as “the one true measure of confirmation.”
What Is the Point of Confirmation
Philosophically, one of the most important questions in the enterprise termed confirmation theory is this: Why should one stick to well confirmed theories rather than to any other theories? This paper discusses the answers to this question one gets from absolute and incremental Bayesian confirmation theory. According to absolute confirmation, one should accept “absolutely well confirmed” theories, because absolute confirmation takes one to true t…
Subjective Probabilities as Basis for Scientific Reasoning
Bayesianism is the position that scientific reasoning is probabilistic and that probabilities are adequately interpreted as an agent's actual subjective degrees of belief, measured by her betting behaviour. Confirmation is one important aspect of scientific reasoning. The thesis of this paper is the following: if scientific reasoning is at all probabilistic, the subjective interpretation has to be given up in order to get right confirmation—and t…
On the Role and Interrelationship of Spatial, Social and Cognitive Proximity
Huber F. On the role and interrelationship of spatial, social and cognitive proximity: personal knowledge relationships of R&D workers in the Cambridge information technology cluster, Regional Studies. Although the importance of proximity has been highlighted, it remains an open question which types and levels of proximity are critical for knowledge networks. This paper addresses this issue by examining the role of spatial, social and cognitive p…
Do clusters really matter for innovation practices in Information Technology? Questioning the significance of technological knowledge spillovers
A widespread assumption in economic geography and the economics of innovation is that firms located in clusters benefit from territorial learning and knowledge spillovers. However, it remains unclear to what extent these benefits actually occur. This article aims to address this issue and examines to what extent research and development workers in the Cambridge Information Technology Cluster benefit from being located in the Cluster. The study sh…
Social Capital of Economic Clusters
To grasp the critical role of socio‐cultural factors for regional economic development, several concepts have been developed, including that of ‘social capital’. This notion usually refers to norms, values, networks, reciprocity or trust which are held in a community and can lead to positive social and economic outcomes. Despite its popularity as a fashionable concept in the literature, the exact meaning of social capital is far from clear. This …
Assessing theories, Bayes style
Milne's Argument for the Log-Ratio Measure
This article shows that a slight variation of the argument in Milne 1996 yields the log-likelihood ratio l rather than the log-ratio measure r as “the one true measure of confirmation.”
Global pipelines for innovation
Using data on 418 Norwegian firms, the results confirm the hypotheses that innovative/radically innovative firms tend to be more involved in international personal and formal networks than non-innovative/incrementally innovative ones. While regional and national networks are much more widespread than international ones, they are not significantly positively associated with innovation. International personal networks and international links with s…
Evidential Support and Instrumental Rationality
What Is the Point of Confirmation
Philosophically, one of the most important questions in the enterprise termed confirmation theory is this: Why should one stick to well confirmed theories rather than to any other theories? This paper discusses the answers to this question one gets from absolute and incremental Bayesian confirmation theory. According to absolute confirmation, one should accept “absolutely well confirmed” theories, because absolute confirmation takes one to true t…
Bayesian Confirmation
Any theory of confirmation must answer the following question: what is the purpose of its conception of confirmation for scientific inquiry? In this article, we argue that no Bayesian conception of confirmation can be used for its primary intended purpose, which we take to be making a claim about how worthy of belief various hypotheses are. Then we consider a different use to which Bayesian confirmation might be put, namely, determining the epist…
New foundations for counterfactuals
On the Sociospatial Dynamics of Personal Knowledge Networks
Whilst personal knowledge networks between organisations have been argued to be important for regional economic development, their functioning and, within this context, the exact role of spatial proximity has been empirically underexplored. This paper addresses these issues by, first, examining the dynamic mechanisms of the formation, maintenance, and knowledge interaction of important knowledge relationships of R&D workers in the Cambridge infor…
Subjective Probabilities as Basis for Scientific Reasoning
Bayesianism is the position that scientific reasoning is probabilistic and that probabilities are adequately interpreted as an agent's actual subjective degrees of belief, measured by her betting behaviour. Confirmation is one important aspect of scientific reasoning. The thesis of this paper is the following: if scientific reasoning is at all probabilistic, the subjective interpretation has to be given up in order to get right confirmation—and t…
Belief Revision II
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I, I have first presented the AGM theory of belief revision. Then I have focused on the problem of iterated belief revisions. In part II, I will first present ranking theory (Spohn 1988). Then I will show how it solves the problem of iterated belief revisions. I will conclude by sketching two areas of future research
Lewis Causation is a Special Case of Spohn Causation
Lewis ([1973a]) famously defined event c to be causally relevant to event e in world w just in case Oc ðÞand Oe ðÞas well as:OðÞ c!:OðÞare e true in w, where Oc ðÞand Oe ðÞsay that c occurs and that e occurs, respectively. For him, this implied that Oc ðÞ! Oe ðÞis true, because he was assuming the underlying logic to be VC, which validates ð ^ Þ ð! Þ. If one works with the weaker system V, the causal relevance of event c to event e has to be defi…
Elektrische Organe und Elektrorezeption bei Fischen. Nervöse Grundlagen der akustischen Kommunikation bei Insekten
Lautäußerungen und Lauterkennen bei Insekten (Grillen)
What Is the Point of Confirmation
Philosophically, one of the most important questions in the enterprise termed confirmation theory is this: Why should one stick to well confirmed theories rather than to any other theories? This paper discusses the answers to this question one gets from absolute and incremental Bayesian confirmation theory. According to absolute confirmation, one should accept “absolutely well confirmed” theories, because absolute confirmation takes one to true t…
Subjective Probabilities as Basis for Scientific Reasoning
Bayesianism is the position that scientific reasoning is probabilistic and that probabilities are adequately interpreted as an agent's actual subjective degrees of belief, measured by her betting behaviour. Confirmation is one important aspect of scientific reasoning. The thesis of this paper is the following: if scientific reasoning is at all probabilistic, the subjective interpretation has to be given up in order to get right confirmation—and t…
Reply to Crupi et al.'s ‘Bayesian Confirmation by Uncertain Evidence’ ([2008])
Crupi et al. ([2008]) propose a generalization of Bayesian confirmation theory that they claim to adequately deal with confirmation by uncertain evidence. Consider a series of points of time t0,..., ti,..., tn such that the agent’s subjective probability for an atomic proposition E changes from Pr0(E) att0 to... to Pri(E) atti to... to Prn(E) attn. It is understood that the agent’s subjective probabilities change for E and no logically stronger p…
Assessing theories, Bayes style
Milne's Argument for the Log-Ratio Measure
This article shows that a slight variation of the argument in Milne 1996 yields the log-likelihood ratio l rather than the log-ratio measure r as “the one true measure of confirmation.”
Degrees of Belief
Degrees of belief
Social Capital of Economic Clusters
To grasp the critical role of socio‐cultural factors for regional economic development, several concepts have been developed, including that of ‘social capital’. This notion usually refers to norms, values, networks, reciprocity or trust which are held in a community and can lead to positive social and economic outcomes. Despite its popularity as a fashionable concept in the literature, the exact meaning of social capital is far from clear. This …
Do clusters really matter for innovation practices in Information Technology? Questioning the significance of technological knowledge spillovers
A widespread assumption in economic geography and the economics of innovation is that firms located in clusters benefit from territorial learning and knowledge spillovers. However, it remains unclear to what extent these benefits actually occur. This article aims to address this issue and examines to what extent research and development workers in the Cambridge Information Technology Cluster benefit from being located in the Cluster. The study sh…
On the Role and Interrelationship of Spatial, Social and Cognitive Proximity
Huber F. On the role and interrelationship of spatial, social and cognitive proximity: personal knowledge relationships of R&D workers in the Cambridge information technology cluster, Regional Studies. Although the importance of proximity has been highlighted, it remains an open question which types and levels of proximity are critical for knowledge networks. This paper addresses this issue by examining the role of spatial, social and cognitive p…
Lewis Causation is a Special Case of Spohn Causation
Lewis ([1973a]) famously defined event c to be causally relevant to event e in world w just in case Oc ðÞand Oe ðÞas well as:OðÞ c!:OðÞare e true in w, where Oc ðÞand Oe ðÞsay that c occurs and that e occurs, respectively. For him, this implied that Oc ðÞ! Oe ðÞis true, because he was assuming the underlying logic to be VC, which validates ð ^ Þ ð! Þ. If one works with the weaker system V, the causal relevance of event c to event e has to be defi…
Essay Review
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The economics of clusters. Lessons from the French experience
Evidential Support and Instrumental Rationality
On the Sociospatial Dynamics of Personal Knowledge Networks
Whilst personal knowledge networks between organisations have been argued to be important for regional economic development, their functioning and, within this context, the exact role of spatial proximity has been empirically underexplored. This paper addresses these issues by, first, examining the dynamic mechanisms of the formation, maintenance, and knowledge interaction of important knowledge relationships of R&D workers in the Cambridge infor…
Elektrische Organe und Elektrorezeption Bei Fischen. Nervöse Grundlagen der Akustischen Kommunikation Bei Insekten
Creating a Sustainable Economy
Belief Revision I
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I I will first present the AGM theory of belief revision (Alchourrón & Gärdenfors & Makinson 1985). Then I will focus on the problem ofiteratedbelief revisions
Belief Revision II
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I, I have first presented the AGM theory of belief revision. Then I have focused on the problem of iterated belief revisions. In part II, I will first present ranking theory (Spohn 1988). Then I will show how it solves the problem of iterated belief revisions. I will conclude by sketching two areas of future research
Global pipelines for innovation
Using data on 418 Norwegian firms, the results confirm the hypotheses that innovative/radically innovative firms tend to be more involved in international personal and formal networks than non-innovative/incrementally innovative ones. While regional and national networks are much more widespread than international ones, they are not significantly positively associated with innovation. International personal networks and international links with s…
New foundations for counterfactuals
Bayesian Confirmation
Any theory of confirmation must answer the following question: what is the purpose of its conception of confirmation for scientific inquiry? In this article, we argue that no Bayesian conception of confirmation can be used for its primary intended purpose, which we take to be making a claim about how worthy of belief various hypotheses are. Then we consider a different use to which Bayesian confirmation might be put, namely, determining the epist…
Why follow the royal rule
Philosophy (17 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Epistemology (14 obras) · Mathematics (11 obras) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (10 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (8 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (8 obras) · Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (7 obras) · Philosophy of science (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras)