Robert Pargetter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1131144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pargetter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pargetter |
| SIGNATURE | PARGETTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Science and Necessity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science and Necessity. By John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter. (Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. x + 410. Price £35.00.) Penelope Mackie Penelope Mackie University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 384–387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219661 Published: 01 July 1995
Science and Necessity
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.
Acquaintance with qualia
From Extroverted Realism to Correspondence: A Modest Proposal
Once upon a time realists seemed to exhibit an understandable complacency. They had a metaphysics that seemed simple, highly explanatory, and obviously true. And they had a semantics that was formally appealing, was again explanatory, and was harmonious with the metaphysics. They believed that the things they encountered in their lives, including the things they encountered in the pursuit of such intellectual activities as science, existed. And t…
Vectors and Change
Vectors, we will argue, are not just mathematical abstractions. They are also physical properties—universals. What make them distinctive are the rich and varied essences of these universals, and the complex pattern of internal relations which hold amongst them.
A question about rest and motion
Parental Autonomy
We argue that in societies like our own the prevailing view that parents have both special responsibilities for and special rights over their children fails to give a proper understanding of the autonomy both of parents and of children. It is our claim that there is a logical priority of the separable interests of a child over the autonomy of its parents in the fulfilment of their special responsibilities for and the exercise of their special rig…
Sexual Harassment
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
Functions
Guilt beyond reasonable doubt
(1987). Guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 182-187.
Discrimination and Aids
Beyond the blank stare
An analysis of indefinite probability statements
Oughts, Options, and Actualism
W Am Be often approach the question of what to do by identifying a set of alternative possible actions available to us, our options, and designating the best as what we ought to do. Questions can be raised about this approach; for instance, what to say about supererogation. This paper, though, is concerned with two problems that arise within the option approach, and which remain however questions about that approach are resolved. It can hardly be…
Causal origin and evidence
Peer-reviewed
A Reply to Torretti and Giannoni
Robert Torretti's objection is verificationism writ large. We reply that verificationism is to be rejected. Carlo Giannoni's objection is that our test for tilting fails because the rod might tilt and yet no current flow through its mid-point. We reply that nevertheless we can test for tilting because there would still be differences detectable with a glavanometer
Relative Simultaneity in the Special Relativity
In this paper a method is proposed for empirically determining simultaneity at a distance within the special theory of relativity. It is argued that this method is independent of Einstein's signalling method and provides a basis for denying the conventionality of distant simultaneity
Indefinite probability statements
Oughts, Options, and Actualism
W Am Be often approach the question of what to do by identifying a set of alternative possible actions available to us, our options, and designating the best as what we ought to do. Questions can be raised about this approach; for instance, what to say about supererogation. This paper, though, is concerned with two problems that arise within the option approach, and which remain however questions about that approach are resolved. It can hardly be…
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.
Vectors and Change
Vectors, we will argue, are not just mathematical abstractions. They are also physical properties—universals. What make them distinctive are the rich and varied essences of these universals, and the complex pattern of internal relations which hold amongst them.
Relative Simultaneity in the Special Relativity
In this paper a method is proposed for empirically determining simultaneity at a distance within the special theory of relativity. It is argued that this method is independent of Einstein's signalling method and provides a basis for denying the conventionality of distant simultaneity
From Extroverted Realism to Correspondence: A Modest Proposal
Once upon a time realists seemed to exhibit an understandable complacency. They had a metaphysics that seemed simple, highly explanatory, and obviously true. And they had a semantics that was formally appealing, was again explanatory, and was harmonious with the metaphysics. They believed that the things they encountered in their lives, including the things they encountered in the pursuit of such intellectual activities as science, existed. And t…
Indefinite probability statements
Relative Simultaneity in the Special Relativity
In this paper a method is proposed for empirically determining simultaneity at a distance within the special theory of relativity. It is argued that this method is independent of Einstein's signalling method and provides a basis for denying the conventionality of distant simultaneity
A Reply to Torretti and Giannoni
Robert Torretti's objection is verificationism writ large. We reply that verificationism is to be rejected. Carlo Giannoni's objection is that our test for tilting fails because the rod might tilt and yet no current flow through its mid-point. We reply that nevertheless we can test for tilting because there would still be differences detectable with a glavanometer
Causal origin and evidence
Peer-reviewed
Oughts, Options, and Actualism
W Am Be often approach the question of what to do by identifying a set of alternative possible actions available to us, our options, and designating the best as what we ought to do. Questions can be raised about this approach; for instance, what to say about supererogation. This paper, though, is concerned with two problems that arise within the option approach, and which remain however questions about that approach are resolved. It can hardly be…
Functions
Guilt beyond reasonable doubt
(1987). Guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 182-187.
Discrimination and Aids
Beyond the blank stare
An analysis of indefinite probability statements
A question about rest and motion
Parental Autonomy
We argue that in societies like our own the prevailing view that parents have both special responsibilities for and special rights over their children fails to give a proper understanding of the autonomy both of parents and of children. It is our claim that there is a logical priority of the separable interests of a child over the autonomy of its parents in the fulfilment of their special responsibilities for and the exercise of their special rig…
Sexual Harassment
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
Vectors and Change
Vectors, we will argue, are not just mathematical abstractions. They are also physical properties—universals. What make them distinctive are the rich and varied essences of these universals, and the complex pattern of internal relations which hold amongst them.
Acquaintance with qualia
From Extroverted Realism to Correspondence: A Modest Proposal
Once upon a time realists seemed to exhibit an understandable complacency. They had a metaphysics that seemed simple, highly explanatory, and obviously true. And they had a semantics that was formally appealing, was again explanatory, and was harmonious with the metaphysics. They believed that the things they encountered in their lives, including the things they encountered in the pursuit of such intellectual activities as science, existed. And t…
Science and Necessity
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.
Science and Necessity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science and Necessity. By John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter. (Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. x + 410. Price £35.00.) Penelope Mackie Penelope Mackie University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 384–387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219661 Published: 01 July 1995
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