William Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0486-2180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Howard Stein on sophisticated practice of philosophers/scientists
Do the EPR correlations pose a problem for causal decision theory
Bayesian chance
Burnout and Serious Thoughts of Dropping Out of Medical School
PURPOSE: Little is known about students who seriously consider dropping out of medical school. The authors assessed the severity of thoughts of dropping out and explored the relationship of such thoughts with burnout and other indicators of distress. METHOD: The authors surveyed medical students attending five medical schools in 2006 and 2007 (prospective cohort) and included two additional medical schools in 2007 (cross-sectional cohort). The su…
Relationship Between Burnout and Professional Conduct and Attitudes Among US Medical Students
CONTEXT: The relationship between professionalism and distress among medical students is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between measures of professionalism and burnout among US medical students. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional survey of all medical students attending 7 US medical schools (overall response rate, 2682/4400 [61%]) in the spring of 2009. The survey included the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), th…
Burnout and Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Medical Students
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of suicidal ideation among U.S. medical students or how it relates to burnout. OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of suicidal ideation among medical students and explore its relationship with burnout. DESIGN: Cross-sectional 2007 and longitudinal 2006 to 2007 cohort study. SETTING: 7 medical schools in the United States. PARTICIPANTS: 4287 medical students at 7 medical schools, with students at 5 i…
Teaching Medical Students About Health Literacy
Newton's Methodology and Mercury's Perihelion Before and After Einstein
Newton's methodology is significantly richer than the hypothetico-deductive model. It is informed by a richer ideal of empirical success that requires not just accurate prediction but also accurate measurement of parameters by the predicted phenomena. It accepts theory-mediated measurements and theoretical propositions as guides to research. All of these enrichments are exemplified in the classical response to Mercury's perihelion problem. Contra…
Model Selection, Simplicity, and Scientific Inference
The Akaike Information Criterion can be a valuable tool of scientific inference. This statistic, or any other statistical method for that matter, cannot, however, be the whole of scientific methodology. In this paper some of the limitations of Akaikean statistical methods are discussed. It is argued that the full import of empirical evidence is realized only by adopting a richer ideal of empirical success than predictive accuracy, and that the ab…
Michael Friedman on Kant and Newton
La section 1 introduit l'idée de Kant selon laquelle des principes purement empiriques ne seraient pas appropriés pour la certitude apodictique que les physicians mathématiciens, comme Newton, souhaitaient atteindre avec leurs lois de la nature. Elle introduit aussi un corollaire aux lois du mouvement de Newton qui est central à la discussion par Michael Friedman de l'entreprise kantienne d'examiner les principes postulés par Newton du point de v…
The future of leisure
Papier Mâché Problems in Epistemology
Full Belief and Probability
As van Fraassen pointed out in his opening remarks, Henry Kyburg's lottery paradox has long been known to raise difficulties in attempts to represent full belief as a probability greater than or equal to p, where p is some number less than 1. Recently, Patrick Maher has pointed out that to identify full belief with probability equal to 1 presents similar difficulties. In his paper, van Fraassen investigates ways of representing full belief by per…
The future of leisure
The general subject of this paper is the future of leisure. It is suggested that the existing forecasts over the last forty years regarding the future of leisure - either leisure's abundance or its scarcity - depend upon taking leisure and work either segmentally or even as polar opposites. It is argued that recovering a basic idea found in Samuel Smiles' book Self-Help (1859) could go a long way toward establishing an identity between real work …
Inferences from Phenomena in Gravitational Physics
Newton's methodology emphasized propositions “inferred from phenomena.” These rest on systematic dependencies that make phenomena measure theoretical parameters. We consider the inferences supporting Newton's inductive argument that gravitation is proportional to inertial mass. We argue that the support provided by these systematic dependencies is much stronger than that provided by bootstrap confirmation; this kind of support thus avoids some of…
Kant and the Exact Sciences
Introduction: metaphysics and exact science in the evolution of Kant's thought. Part 1 The critical period: geometry concepts and intuitions in the mathematical sciences metaphysical foundations of Newtonian science space, the understanding, and the law of gravitation - Prolegomena 38. Part 2 The opus postumum: transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics - the transition project and the metaphysical foundations, the…
The Problem of Leisure Reconsidered
Leisure, Culture, and Progress
Interpreting leisure as text
In a companion paper, we explored the possibilities of using hermeneutics as a leisure science research method. Our illustrative example was the extent to which leisure in the (US) Old South could be reinterpreted on the basis of a reading of I'll take my stand. In this paper we continue our exploration, but this time instead of interpreting the text of leisure in part, we examine the experience of leisure in the Old South in whole. Since, accord…
Interpreting leisure as text
A recent trend among leisure scholars has been to multiply qualitative research approaches with regard to the study of the experience of leisure. One such method, sometimes called textual interpretation, is hermeneutics. We apply this method to a collection of essays written in 1930 about the (US) Old South under the title I'll Take My Stand. Our purpose, by way of studying these important essays, is to reinterpret the nature and significance of …
Freedom in the experience of leisure
A popular claim in some leisure research is not only that perceived freedom is essential to leisure, but also that perceived freedom means free choice. This paper suggests that perceived freedom is indeed essential, but that reducing perceived freedom to whether or not a person chooses a leisure activity or pursuit unnecessarily shrinks the scope of the potential meaning of perceived freedom. Instead of settling for taking the freedom proper to l…
Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity
Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Kant's account of causation is central to his views on objective truth and freedom. The Second Analogy of Experience, in the Critique of Pure Reason,where he provides his defense of the …
The Experience of Leisure
The question of the nature of leisure is a primary, if elusive, question. Quite recently, there has been some considerable interest in approaching the question by understanding leisure as an experience, in contrast to leisure as time, activity, or simple state of mind. This study discusses the methodological difficulties created by the conceptual shift in the leisure sciences. Specifically, the method of descriptive phenomenology is introduced as…
Kant's empirical realism and the second analogy of experience
Rational belief change, popper functions and counterfactuals
The Experience of Leisure
The question of the nature of leisure is a primary, if elusive, question. Quite recently, there has been some considerable interest in approaching the question by understanding leisure as an experience, in contrast to leisure as time, activity, or simple state of mind. This study discusses the methodological difficulties created by the conceptual shift in the leisure sciences. Specifically, the method of descriptive phenomenology is introduced as…
Freedom in the experience of leisure
A popular claim in some leisure research is not only that perceived freedom is essential to leisure, but also that perceived freedom means free choice. This paper suggests that perceived freedom is indeed essential, but that reducing perceived freedom to whether or not a person chooses a leisure activity or pursuit unnecessarily shrinks the scope of the potential meaning of perceived freedom. Instead of settling for taking the freedom proper to l…
Model Selection, Simplicity, and Scientific Inference
The Akaike Information Criterion can be a valuable tool of scientific inference. This statistic, or any other statistical method for that matter, cannot, however, be the whole of scientific methodology. In this paper some of the limitations of Akaikean statistical methods are discussed. It is argued that the full import of empirical evidence is realized only by adopting a richer ideal of empirical success than predictive accuracy, and that the ab…
Interpreting leisure as text
A recent trend among leisure scholars has been to multiply qualitative research approaches with regard to the study of the experience of leisure. One such method, sometimes called textual interpretation, is hermeneutics. We apply this method to a collection of essays written in 1930 about the (US) Old South under the title I'll Take My Stand. Our purpose, by way of studying these important essays, is to reinterpret the nature and significance of …
The Jones Case
The future of leisure
The general subject of this paper is the future of leisure. It is suggested that the existing forecasts over the last forty years regarding the future of leisure - either leisure's abundance or its scarcity - depend upon taking leisure and work either segmentally or even as polar opposites. It is argued that recovering a basic idea found in Samuel Smiles' book Self-Help (1859) could go a long way toward establishing an identity between real work …
Rational belief change, popper functions and counterfactuals
Interpreting leisure as text
In a companion paper, we explored the possibilities of using hermeneutics as a leisure science research method. Our illustrative example was the extent to which leisure in the (US) Old South could be reinterpreted on the basis of a reading of I'll take my stand. In this paper we continue our exploration, but this time instead of interpreting the text of leisure in part, we examine the experience of leisure in the Old South in whole. Since, accord…
Philosophical Perspectives
Newton's Methodology and Mercury's Perihelion Before and After Einstein
Newton's methodology is significantly richer than the hypothetico-deductive model. It is informed by a richer ideal of empirical success that requires not just accurate prediction but also accurate measurement of parameters by the predicted phenomena. It accepts theory-mediated measurements and theoretical propositions as guides to research. All of these enrichments are exemplified in the classical response to Mercury's perihelion problem. Contra…
Kant and the Exact Sciences
Introduction: metaphysics and exact science in the evolution of Kant's thought. Part 1 The critical period: geometry concepts and intuitions in the mathematical sciences metaphysical foundations of Newtonian science space, the understanding, and the law of gravitation - Prolegomena 38. Part 2 The opus postumum: transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics - the transition project and the metaphysical foundations, the…
The Jones Case
Philosophical Perspectives
Rational belief change, popper functions and counterfactuals
The Experience of Leisure
The question of the nature of leisure is a primary, if elusive, question. Quite recently, there has been some considerable interest in approaching the question by understanding leisure as an experience, in contrast to leisure as time, activity, or simple state of mind. This study discusses the methodological difficulties created by the conceptual shift in the leisure sciences. Specifically, the method of descriptive phenomenology is introduced as…
Kant's empirical realism and the second analogy of experience
Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity
Kant on Causality, Freedom, and Objectivity was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Kant's account of causation is central to his views on objective truth and freedom. The Second Analogy of Experience, in the Critique of Pure Reason,where he provides his defense of the …
Freedom in the experience of leisure
A popular claim in some leisure research is not only that perceived freedom is essential to leisure, but also that perceived freedom means free choice. This paper suggests that perceived freedom is indeed essential, but that reducing perceived freedom to whether or not a person chooses a leisure activity or pursuit unnecessarily shrinks the scope of the potential meaning of perceived freedom. Instead of settling for taking the freedom proper to l…
Leisure, Culture, and Progress
Interpreting leisure as text
In a companion paper, we explored the possibilities of using hermeneutics as a leisure science research method. Our illustrative example was the extent to which leisure in the (US) Old South could be reinterpreted on the basis of a reading of I'll take my stand. In this paper we continue our exploration, but this time instead of interpreting the text of leisure in part, we examine the experience of leisure in the Old South in whole. Since, accord…
Interpreting leisure as text
A recent trend among leisure scholars has been to multiply qualitative research approaches with regard to the study of the experience of leisure. One such method, sometimes called textual interpretation, is hermeneutics. We apply this method to a collection of essays written in 1930 about the (US) Old South under the title I'll Take My Stand. Our purpose, by way of studying these important essays, is to reinterpret the nature and significance of …
The Problem of Leisure Reconsidered
Kant and the Exact Sciences
Introduction: metaphysics and exact science in the evolution of Kant's thought. Part 1 The critical period: geometry concepts and intuitions in the mathematical sciences metaphysical foundations of Newtonian science space, the understanding, and the law of gravitation - Prolegomena 38. Part 2 The opus postumum: transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics - the transition project and the metaphysical foundations, the…
Inferences from Phenomena in Gravitational Physics
Newton's methodology emphasized propositions “inferred from phenomena.” These rest on systematic dependencies that make phenomena measure theoretical parameters. We consider the inferences supporting Newton's inductive argument that gravitation is proportional to inertial mass. We argue that the support provided by these systematic dependencies is much stronger than that provided by bootstrap confirmation; this kind of support thus avoids some of…
Full Belief and Probability
As van Fraassen pointed out in his opening remarks, Henry Kyburg's lottery paradox has long been known to raise difficulties in attempts to represent full belief as a probability greater than or equal to p, where p is some number less than 1. Recently, Patrick Maher has pointed out that to identify full belief with probability equal to 1 presents similar difficulties. In his paper, van Fraassen investigates ways of representing full belief by per…
The future of leisure
The general subject of this paper is the future of leisure. It is suggested that the existing forecasts over the last forty years regarding the future of leisure - either leisure's abundance or its scarcity - depend upon taking leisure and work either segmentally or even as polar opposites. It is argued that recovering a basic idea found in Samuel Smiles' book Self-Help (1859) could go a long way toward establishing an identity between real work …
The future of leisure
Papier Mâché Problems in Epistemology
Michael Friedman on Kant and Newton
La section 1 introduit l'idée de Kant selon laquelle des principes purement empiriques ne seraient pas appropriés pour la certitude apodictique que les physicians mathématiciens, comme Newton, souhaitaient atteindre avec leurs lois de la nature. Elle introduit aussi un corollaire aux lois du mouvement de Newton qui est central à la discussion par Michael Friedman de l'entreprise kantienne d'examiner les principes postulés par Newton du point de v…
Model Selection, Simplicity, and Scientific Inference
The Akaike Information Criterion can be a valuable tool of scientific inference. This statistic, or any other statistical method for that matter, cannot, however, be the whole of scientific methodology. In this paper some of the limitations of Akaikean statistical methods are discussed. It is argued that the full import of empirical evidence is realized only by adopting a richer ideal of empirical success than predictive accuracy, and that the ab…
Teaching Medical Students About Health Literacy
Newton's Methodology and Mercury's Perihelion Before and After Einstein
Newton's methodology is significantly richer than the hypothetico-deductive model. It is informed by a richer ideal of empirical success that requires not just accurate prediction but also accurate measurement of parameters by the predicted phenomena. It accepts theory-mediated measurements and theoretical propositions as guides to research. All of these enrichments are exemplified in the classical response to Mercury's perihelion problem. Contra…
Burnout and Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Medical Students
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of suicidal ideation among U.S. medical students or how it relates to burnout. OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of suicidal ideation among medical students and explore its relationship with burnout. DESIGN: Cross-sectional 2007 and longitudinal 2006 to 2007 cohort study. SETTING: 7 medical schools in the United States. PARTICIPANTS: 4287 medical students at 7 medical schools, with students at 5 i…
Burnout and Serious Thoughts of Dropping Out of Medical School
PURPOSE: Little is known about students who seriously consider dropping out of medical school. The authors assessed the severity of thoughts of dropping out and explored the relationship of such thoughts with burnout and other indicators of distress. METHOD: The authors surveyed medical students attending five medical schools in 2006 and 2007 (prospective cohort) and included two additional medical schools in 2007 (cross-sectional cohort). The su…
Relationship Between Burnout and Professional Conduct and Attitudes Among US Medical Students
CONTEXT: The relationship between professionalism and distress among medical students is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between measures of professionalism and burnout among US medical students. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional survey of all medical students attending 7 US medical schools (overall response rate, 2682/4400 [61%]) in the spring of 2009. The survey included the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), th…
Bayesian chance
Epistemology (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy of science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works)