Jonathan E Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan E Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Calcined Bone as a Reliable Medium for Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating using charcoal and bone collagen, two standards of archaeological chronology, can be difficult to impossible in environments where natural burning is common and bone does not preserve well. In such settings, charcoal ages cannot always be trusted and collagen is unavailable. Calcined bone can be a viable alternative medium in these situations but it has rarely been exploited in the Americas. One area that could benefit from its…
Contextualism and fallibility
Reasoning
This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative. They are each oriented toward contemporary empirical studies. The book focuses on foundational issues, including paradoxes, fallacies, and debates about the nature of rationality, the traditional modes of reasoning, as well as counterfactual and c…
Diversity, Social Inquiries, and Epistemic Virtues
A teoria das virtudes epistêmicas (VE) sustenta que as virtudes dos agentes, tais como a imparcialidade ou a permeabilidade intelectual, ao invés de crenças específicas, devem estar no centro da avaliação epistêmica, e que os indivíduos que possuem essas virtudes estão mais bem-posicionados epistemicamente do que se não as tivessem, ou, pior ainda, do que se tivessem os vícios correspondentes: o preconceito, o dogmatismo, ou a impermeabilidade in…
Belief's Own Ethics
The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it is rational, prudent, ethical, or personally fulfilling to believe. Common to all these approaches is that they lo…
Is the Generality Problem too General
Reliabilism holds that knowledge is true belief reliably caused. Reliabilists should say something about individuating processes; critics deny that the right degree of generality can be specified without arbitrariness. It is argued that this criticism applies as well to processes mentioned in scientific explanations. The gratuitous puzzles created thereby show that the “generality problem” is illusory
In Defense of Radical Empiricism
In Defense of Radical Empiricism
Book Review| July 01 2000 In Defense of Radical Empiricism: Essays and Lectures IN DEFENSE OF RADICAL EMPIRICISM: ESSAYS AND LECTURES. By Roderick Firth. Edited by John Troyer. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. vii, 439. Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 453–456. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-3-453 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Constrained Belief and the Reactive Attitudes
Evidentialism implies that, for epistemic purposes, belief should be responsive only to evidence. Focusing on our reactive attitude such as resentment or indignation, I construct an argument that the beliefs or judgments accompanying those attitudes are constrained in advance by circumstances to be full, rather than being open to the whole range of partial beliefs. These judgments or beliefs imply strong claims to justification. But the circumsta…
Indirect Learning and the Aims-Curricula Fallacy
I have two main theses. The first is that the inference from accepting an educational aim, especially an ideal aim such as self-realization or critical thinking, to a conclusion as to the content or structure of a curriculum is fallacious. The first thesis should not be controversial. But even if so, the aims-curricula fallacy is readily committed, and that calls for explanation. My second thesis is that the aims–curricula fallacy is often commit…
Reasonableness, bias, and the untapped power of procedure
Conservatism and Tacit Confirmation
Conservatism and Tacit Confirmation* JONATHAN E. ADLER JONATHAN E. ADLER Department of Philosophy Brooklyn CollegeCUNY Brooklyn, NY 11210 USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *Thanks to L. Jonathan Cohen, Catherine Elgin, Roy Sorensen, and especially Georges Rey for helpful comments. Author Notes Mind, Volume XCIX, Issue 396, October 1990, Pages 559–570, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIX.396.559 Published: …
Abstraction is Uncooperative
The Rationality of Science
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Rationality of Science. By W. H. Newton-Smith. ( Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 294. £9.95) Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler Brooklyn College, C.U.N Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 130, January 1983, Pages 90–92, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219209 Published: 01 January 1983
The Logic of Scientific Inference
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Logic of Scientific Inference; An Introduction. By Jennifer Trusted. ( Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 144. Price £10.00) Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 128, July 1982, Page 291, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219335 Published: 01 July 1982
Critical notice
Abstraction is Uncooperative
Calcined Bone as a Reliable Medium for Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating using charcoal and bone collagen, two standards of archaeological chronology, can be difficult to impossible in environments where natural burning is common and bone does not preserve well. In such settings, charcoal ages cannot always be trusted and collagen is unavailable. Calcined bone can be a viable alternative medium in these situations but it has rarely been exploited in the Americas. One area that could benefit from its…
Contextualism and fallibility
Is the Generality Problem too General
Reliabilism holds that knowledge is true belief reliably caused. Reliabilists should say something about individuating processes; critics deny that the right degree of generality can be specified without arbitrariness. It is argued that this criticism applies as well to processes mentioned in scientific explanations. The gratuitous puzzles created thereby show that the “generality problem” is illusory
Reasonableness, bias, and the untapped power of procedure
Critical notice
The Logic of Scientific Inference
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Logic of Scientific Inference; An Introduction. By Jennifer Trusted. ( Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 144. Price £10.00) Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 128, July 1982, Page 291, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219335 Published: 01 July 1982
The Rationality of Science
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Rationality of Science. By W. H. Newton-Smith. ( Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 294. £9.95) Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler Brooklyn College, C.U.N Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 130, January 1983, Pages 90–92, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219209 Published: 01 January 1983
Abstraction is Uncooperative
Conservatism and Tacit Confirmation
Conservatism and Tacit Confirmation* JONATHAN E. ADLER JONATHAN E. ADLER Department of Philosophy Brooklyn CollegeCUNY Brooklyn, NY 11210 USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *Thanks to L. Jonathan Cohen, Catherine Elgin, Roy Sorensen, and especially Georges Rey for helpful comments. Author Notes Mind, Volume XCIX, Issue 396, October 1990, Pages 559–570, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIX.396.559 Published: …
Indirect Learning and the Aims-Curricula Fallacy
I have two main theses. The first is that the inference from accepting an educational aim, especially an ideal aim such as self-realization or critical thinking, to a conclusion as to the content or structure of a curriculum is fallacious. The first thesis should not be controversial. But even if so, the aims-curricula fallacy is readily committed, and that calls for explanation. My second thesis is that the aims–curricula fallacy is often commit…
Reasonableness, bias, and the untapped power of procedure
Constrained Belief and the Reactive Attitudes
Evidentialism implies that, for epistemic purposes, belief should be responsive only to evidence. Focusing on our reactive attitude such as resentment or indignation, I construct an argument that the beliefs or judgments accompanying those attitudes are constrained in advance by circumstances to be full, rather than being open to the whole range of partial beliefs. These judgments or beliefs imply strong claims to justification. But the circumsta…
In Defense of Radical Empiricism
In Defense of Radical Empiricism
Book Review| July 01 2000 In Defense of Radical Empiricism: Essays and Lectures IN DEFENSE OF RADICAL EMPIRICISM: ESSAYS AND LECTURES. By Roderick Firth. Edited by John Troyer. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. vii, 439. Jonathan E. Adler Jonathan E. Adler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 453–456. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-3-453 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Belief's Own Ethics
The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it is rational, prudent, ethical, or personally fulfilling to believe. Common to all these approaches is that they lo…
Is the Generality Problem too General
Reliabilism holds that knowledge is true belief reliably caused. Reliabilists should say something about individuating processes; critics deny that the right degree of generality can be specified without arbitrariness. It is argued that this criticism applies as well to processes mentioned in scientific explanations. The gratuitous puzzles created thereby show that the “generality problem” is illusory
Diversity, Social Inquiries, and Epistemic Virtues
A teoria das virtudes epistêmicas (VE) sustenta que as virtudes dos agentes, tais como a imparcialidade ou a permeabilidade intelectual, ao invés de crenças específicas, devem estar no centro da avaliação epistêmica, e que os indivíduos que possuem essas virtudes estão mais bem-posicionados epistemicamente do que se não as tivessem, ou, pior ainda, do que se tivessem os vícios correspondentes: o preconceito, o dogmatismo, ou a impermeabilidade in…
Reasoning
This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative. They are each oriented toward contemporary empirical studies. The book focuses on foundational issues, including paradoxes, fallacies, and debates about the nature of rationality, the traditional modes of reasoning, as well as counterfactual and c…
Contextualism and fallibility
Calcined Bone as a Reliable Medium for Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating using charcoal and bone collagen, two standards of archaeological chronology, can be difficult to impossible in environments where natural burning is common and bone does not preserve well. In such settings, charcoal ages cannot always be trusted and collagen is unavailable. Calcined bone can be a viable alternative medium in these situations but it has rarely been exploited in the Americas. One area that could benefit from its…
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