Richard Reiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Reiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Reiner |
| SIGNATURE | REINER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explanatory warrant for scientific realism
Hacking's Experimental Realism
As Laudan and Fine show, and Boyd concedes, the attempt to infer the truth of scientific realism from the fact that it putatively provides the best explanation of the instrumental success of science is circular, since what is to be shown is precisely the legitimacy of such abductive inferences. Hacking's “experimental argument for scientific realism about entities” is one of the few arguments for scientific realism that purports to avoid this cir…
Common Knowledge and Davis's Argument from Symmetry in the Prisoner's Dilemma
Lawrence H. Davis (1977, 1985) has formulated and defended a version of the argument from symmetry for the non-iterated Prisoner's Dilemma that attempts to show that under certain conditions the rationally prescribed course of action in this game is co-operation. The argument runs as follows below. (I have prefixed a ‘D’ to each of Davis's numbers here, and in subsequent references, in order to avoid confusion as I refer to his points.)
Necessary Conditions and Explaining How-Possibly
Journal Article Necessary Conditions and Explaining How-Possibly Get access Richard Reiner Richard Reiner York University, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 58–69, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219941 Published: 01 January 1993
Necessary Conditions and Explaining How-Possibly
Journal Article Necessary Conditions and Explaining How-Possibly Get access Richard Reiner Richard Reiner York University, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 58–69, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219941 Published: 01 January 1993
Hacking's Experimental Realism
As Laudan and Fine show, and Boyd concedes, the attempt to infer the truth of scientific realism from the fact that it putatively provides the best explanation of the instrumental success of science is circular, since what is to be shown is precisely the legitimacy of such abductive inferences. Hacking's “experimental argument for scientific realism about entities” is one of the few arguments for scientific realism that purports to avoid this cir…
Necessary Conditions and Explaining How-Possibly
Journal Article Necessary Conditions and Explaining How-Possibly Get access Richard Reiner Richard Reiner York University, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 58–69, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219941 Published: 01 January 1993
Hacking's Experimental Realism
As Laudan and Fine show, and Boyd concedes, the attempt to infer the truth of scientific realism from the fact that it putatively provides the best explanation of the instrumental success of science is circular, since what is to be shown is precisely the legitimacy of such abductive inferences. Hacking's “experimental argument for scientific realism about entities” is one of the few arguments for scientific realism that purports to avoid this cir…
Common Knowledge and Davis's Argument from Symmetry in the Prisoner's Dilemma
Lawrence H. Davis (1977, 1985) has formulated and defended a version of the argument from symmetry for the non-iterated Prisoner's Dilemma that attempts to show that under certain conditions the rationally prescribed course of action in this game is co-operation. The argument runs as follows below. (I have prefixed a ‘D’ to each of Davis's numbers here, and in subsequent references, in order to avoid confusion as I refer to his points.)
Explanatory warrant for scientific realism
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Inference (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works)