Evan K Jobe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1176844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan K Jobe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Jobe |
| SIGNATURE | JOBE E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sturgeon's Defence of Moral Realism
Can a moral principle be tested and confirmed empirically? Can the fact that an event exhibits a moral quality play a role in explaining why a person observes the event as having that quality? Gilbert Harman, in attempting to point to a radical difference between scientific and moral facts, has endorsed a negative answer to these questions. With Harman's discussion in mind, Nicholas Sturgeon takes the affirmative side in his "Moral Explanations,"…
Explanation, Causality, and Counterfactuals
The aim of this paper is to develop an adequate version of the D-N theory of explanation for particular events and to show how the resulting D-N model can be used as a tool in articulating a regularity theory of causation and an analysis of the truth conditions for counterfactual conditionals. Starting with a basic model that is largely the product of other workers in this field, two new restrictions are formulated in order to construct a version…
Reichenbach's Theory of Reasonable Assertion
Reichenbach's theory of nomological statements
A Puzzle Concerning D-N Explanation
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Some Recent Work on the Problem of Law
It is widely agreed that ‘scientific law’ (or ‘law of nature’) is one of the key scientific terms which any adequate philosophy of science must attempt to clarify or define. The importance of the concept ‘law’ is made evident by the fact that the distinctive functions of science—explanation and prediction—are usually analyzed with reference to laws. Thus events are explained by showing that descriptions of them are deducible from laws (conjoined …
A Puzzle Concerning D-N Explanation
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Some Recent Work on the Problem of Law
It is widely agreed that ‘scientific law’ (or ‘law of nature’) is one of the key scientific terms which any adequate philosophy of science must attempt to clarify or define. The importance of the concept ‘law’ is made evident by the fact that the distinctive functions of science—explanation and prediction—are usually analyzed with reference to laws. Thus events are explained by showing that descriptions of them are deducible from laws (conjoined …
Explanation, Causality, and Counterfactuals
The aim of this paper is to develop an adequate version of the D-N theory of explanation for particular events and to show how the resulting D-N model can be used as a tool in articulating a regularity theory of causation and an analysis of the truth conditions for counterfactual conditionals. Starting with a basic model that is largely the product of other workers in this field, two new restrictions are formulated in order to construct a version…
Sturgeon's Defence of Moral Realism
Can a moral principle be tested and confirmed empirically? Can the fact that an event exhibits a moral quality play a role in explaining why a person observes the event as having that quality? Gilbert Harman, in attempting to point to a radical difference between scientific and moral facts, has endorsed a negative answer to these questions. With Harman's discussion in mind, Nicholas Sturgeon takes the affirmative side in his "Moral Explanations,"…
Some Recent Work on the Problem of Law
It is widely agreed that ‘scientific law’ (or ‘law of nature’) is one of the key scientific terms which any adequate philosophy of science must attempt to clarify or define. The importance of the concept ‘law’ is made evident by the fact that the distinctive functions of science—explanation and prediction—are usually analyzed with reference to laws. Thus events are explained by showing that descriptions of them are deducible from laws (conjoined …
A Puzzle Concerning D-N Explanation
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
Reichenbach's theory of nomological statements
Reichenbach's Theory of Reasonable Assertion
Explanation, Causality, and Counterfactuals
The aim of this paper is to develop an adequate version of the D-N theory of explanation for particular events and to show how the resulting D-N model can be used as a tool in articulating a regularity theory of causation and an analysis of the truth conditions for counterfactual conditionals. Starting with a basic model that is largely the product of other workers in this field, two new restrictions are formulated in order to construct a version…
Sturgeon's Defence of Moral Realism
Can a moral principle be tested and confirmed empirically? Can the fact that an event exhibits a moral quality play a role in explaining why a person observes the event as having that quality? Gilbert Harman, in attempting to point to a radical difference between scientific and moral facts, has endorsed a negative answer to these questions. With Harman's discussion in mind, Nicholas Sturgeon takes the affirmative side in his "Moral Explanations,"…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Counterfactual thinking (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Counterfactual conditional (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works)