Bryson Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryson Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryson |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethics in Darwin’s melancholy vision
Smoke and Mirrors: A Few Nice Tricks
Two aims are at work in James Brown's Smoke and Mirrors: to defend realism against some of its recent detractors, and to expound his own programmatic commitment to a Platonic form of realism. I am sympathetic to his first goal, and dubious about the second, so, as Brown himself predicts, I am enthusiastic about the critical part of the book but critical of his Platonic project. But I will begin this review with a hearty recommendation. Smoke and …
The Abolition of the British Slave Trade
Logic on the Track of Social Change
This book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The chapters illustrate applications of this new logic in extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analysing in these examples the content of particular social rules and the course of changes in them.
Struggling With Conditionals
David Sanford's If P, Then Q is an ambitious book, aimed at two difficult tasks and addressed to two audiences. It combines a survey of historical and contemporary work on-conditionals with a presentation-of, Sanford's personal views. And it is addressed to both undergraduate students, without, logical training, and professionals seriously interested in conditionals. It is marred by the impossibility of achieving both aims in a book this size, an…
How to be realistic about inconsistency in science
The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881-1895
The Tariff Reform Movement in Great Britain, 1881-1895
How to be realistic about inconsistency in science
Struggling With Conditionals
David Sanford's If P, Then Q is an ambitious book, aimed at two difficult tasks and addressed to two audiences. It combines a survey of historical and contemporary work on-conditionals with a presentation-of, Sanford's personal views. And it is addressed to both undergraduate students, without, logical training, and professionals seriously interested in conditionals. It is marred by the impossibility of achieving both aims in a book this size, an…
The Abolition of the British Slave Trade
Logic on the Track of Social Change
This book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The chapters illustrate applications of this new logic in extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analysing in these examples the content of particular social rules and the course of changes in them.
Smoke and Mirrors: A Few Nice Tricks
Two aims are at work in James Brown's Smoke and Mirrors: to defend realism against some of its recent detractors, and to expound his own programmatic commitment to a Platonic form of realism. I am sympathetic to his first goal, and dubious about the second, so, as Brown himself predicts, I am enthusiastic about the critical part of the book but critical of his Platonic project. But I will begin this review with a hearty recommendation. Smoke and …
Ethics in Darwin’s melancholy vision
Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works)