Zanja Yudell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1152104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zanja Yudell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Yudell |
| SIGNATURE | YUDELL Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Chico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A normative account of the need for explanation
Understanding Inconsistent Science
For such an admirably clear book, the title of Peter Vickers’ Understanding Inconsistent Science is somewhat misleading. Much of the book is devoted to showing that apparent cases of inconsistency in the history of science were in fact not inconsistent, and thus it would seem that by his light there is little inconsistent science to understand. The principal subject of the book, it seems to me, is simply how to understand science. He advocates a …
Lange’s Challenge
Lange issues a novel challenge to philosophical accounts of laws of nature. He notes that the laws of nature seem to be themselves governed by laws analogous to the way that the laws govern particular facts. These higher order laws are the meta-laws of nature. He claims that if a philosophical account of laws aims to accurately characterize the laws, it should be able to account for these meta-laws. To generalize this challenge, I introduce the n…
Structuralism and the New Way of Worlds
This article presents and argues for modal structuralism, which is loosely derived from a position described by Wilfrid Sellars. Modal structuralism holds that a fundamental property is identified by the role it plays in the structure of possibilities. It implies necessitarianism about laws, which holds that at least some laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. The argument for these positions derives from the following assumptions: the prin…
Melia and Saatsi on structural realism
Lange’s Challenge
Lange issues a novel challenge to philosophical accounts of laws of nature. He notes that the laws of nature seem to be themselves governed by laws analogous to the way that the laws govern particular facts. These higher order laws are the meta-laws of nature. He claims that if a philosophical account of laws aims to accurately characterize the laws, it should be able to account for these meta-laws. To generalize this challenge, I introduce the n…
A normative account of the need for explanation
Melia and Saatsi on structural realism
Structuralism and the New Way of Worlds
This article presents and argues for modal structuralism, which is loosely derived from a position described by Wilfrid Sellars. Modal structuralism holds that a fundamental property is identified by the role it plays in the structure of possibilities. It implies necessitarianism about laws, which holds that at least some laws of nature are metaphysically necessary. The argument for these positions derives from the following assumptions: the prin…
Lange’s Challenge
Lange issues a novel challenge to philosophical accounts of laws of nature. He notes that the laws of nature seem to be themselves governed by laws analogous to the way that the laws govern particular facts. These higher order laws are the meta-laws of nature. He claims that if a philosophical account of laws aims to accurately characterize the laws, it should be able to account for these meta-laws. To generalize this challenge, I introduce the n…
A normative account of the need for explanation
Understanding Inconsistent Science
For such an admirably clear book, the title of Peter Vickers’ Understanding Inconsistent Science is somewhat misleading. Much of the book is devoted to showing that apparent cases of inconsistency in the history of science were in fact not inconsistent, and thus it would seem that by his light there is little inconsistent science to understand. The principal subject of the book, it seems to me, is simply how to understand science. He advocates a …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Order (exchange) (2 works) · Philosophy of language (2 works)