Alan Mcmichael
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Mcmichael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmichael |
| SIGNATURE | MCMICHAEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophical Essays
Van Fraassen's Instrumentalism
A Pragmatic Modification of Explicativity for the Acceptance of Hypotheses
The use of a concept called “explicativity”, for (provisionally) accepting a theory or Hypothesis H , has previously been discussed. That previous discussion took into account the prior probability of H , and hence implicitly its theoretical simplicity. We here suggest that a modification of explicativity is required to allow for what may be called the pragmatic simplicity of H , that is, the simplicity of using H in applications as distinct from…
A Problem for Actualism About Possible Worlds
T he notion of a possible has many uses in the formal philosophy of language. Its primary use, of course, is in the interpretation of sentences about necessity and possibility. A proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds; possible if and only if true in some possible world. One advantage of the possible worlds interpretation is its extensionality. The intensional notions of necessity and possibility are replaced by…
A Problem for Actualism About Possible Worlds
T he notion of a possible has many uses in the formal philosophy of language. Its primary use, of course, is in the interpretation of sentences about necessity and possibility. A proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds; possible if and only if true in some possible world. One advantage of the possible worlds interpretation is its extensionality. The intensional notions of necessity and possibility are replaced by…
Van Fraassen's Instrumentalism
A Problem for Actualism About Possible Worlds
T he notion of a possible has many uses in the formal philosophy of language. Its primary use, of course, is in the interpretation of sentences about necessity and possibility. A proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds; possible if and only if true in some possible world. One advantage of the possible worlds interpretation is its extensionality. The intensional notions of necessity and possibility are replaced by…
A Pragmatic Modification of Explicativity for the Acceptance of Hypotheses
The use of a concept called “explicativity”, for (provisionally) accepting a theory or Hypothesis H , has previously been discussed. That previous discussion took into account the prior probability of H , and hence implicitly its theoretical simplicity. We here suggest that a modification of explicativity is required to allow for what may be called the pragmatic simplicity of H , that is, the simplicity of using H in applications as distinct from…
Van Fraassen's Instrumentalism
Philosophical Essays
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · General interest (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (1 works)