Jonathan Livengood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1058158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Livengood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Livengood |
| SIGNATURE | LIVENGOOD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1561-9784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Calibrating Chromatography
We propose a new account of calibration according to which calibrating a technique shows that the technique does what it is supposed to do. To motivate our account, we examine an early twentieth-century debate about chlorophyll chemistry and Mikhail Tswett’s use of chromatographic adsorption analysis to study it. We argue that Tswett’s experiments established that his technique was reliable in the special case of chlorophyll without relying on ei…
Causal attributions and the trolley problem
In this paper, we consider two competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causal attributions are responsive to normative details, such as whether an agent’s action violated an injunctive norm – the counterfactual view and the responsibility view. We then present experimental evidence that uses the trolley dilemma in a new way to investigate causal attribution. In the switch version of the trolley problem, people judge that the…
Debunking material induction
Actual Causation and Compositionality
Many theories of actual causation implicitly endorse the claim that if c is an actual cause of e , then either c causes e directly or every intermediary by which c indirectly causes e is itself both an actual cause of e and also an actual effect of c . We think this compositionality constraint is plausible. However, as we show, it is not always satisfied by the causal attributions ordinary people make. We conclude by considering what philosophers…
Ordering effects, updating effects, and the specter of global skepticism
Two types of typicality
Why was M. S. Tswett’s chromatographic adsorption analysis rejected
Two types of typicality
Actual Causation and Compositionality
Many theories of actual causation implicitly endorse the claim that if c is an actual cause of e , then either c causes e directly or every intermediary by which c indirectly causes e is itself both an actual cause of e and also an actual effect of c . We think this compositionality constraint is plausible. However, as we show, it is not always satisfied by the causal attributions ordinary people make. We conclude by considering what philosophers…
Debunking material induction
Ordering effects, updating effects, and the specter of global skepticism
Why was M. S. Tswett’s chromatographic adsorption analysis rejected
Why was M. S. Tswett’s chromatographic adsorption analysis rejected
Two types of typicality
Ordering effects, updating effects, and the specter of global skepticism
Debunking material induction
Actual Causation and Compositionality
Many theories of actual causation implicitly endorse the claim that if c is an actual cause of e , then either c causes e directly or every intermediary by which c indirectly causes e is itself both an actual cause of e and also an actual effect of c . We think this compositionality constraint is plausible. However, as we show, it is not always satisfied by the causal attributions ordinary people make. We conclude by considering what philosophers…
Causal attributions and the trolley problem
In this paper, we consider two competing explanations of the empirical finding that people’s causal attributions are responsive to normative details, such as whether an agent’s action violated an injunctive norm – the counterfactual view and the responsibility view. We then present experimental evidence that uses the trolley dilemma in a new way to investigate causal attribution. In the switch version of the trolley problem, people judge that the…
Calibrating Chromatography
We propose a new account of calibration according to which calibrating a technique shows that the technique does what it is supposed to do. To motivate our account, we examine an early twentieth-century debate about chlorophyll chemistry and Mikhail Tswett’s use of chromatographic adsorption analysis to study it. We argue that Tswett’s experiments established that his technique was reliable in the special case of chlorophyll without relying on ei…
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Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Attribution (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Economics (2 works)