Robert C Bishop
Biographic Data
| ID | 461098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C Bishop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bishop |
| SIGNATURE | BISHOP R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4637-138X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emergence in Context
This is a book about the multidisciplinary topic of emergence. Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? We provide a new account of emergence, contextual emergence, that attempts to answer these questions. Contextual emergence is grounded primarily in the sciences, as opposed to logic or meta…
Hermeneutic Dialogue and Shaping the Landscape of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Hermeneutic Dialogue and Shaping the Landscape of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
On the adequacy of scope test results
Paradigms, Processes, and Values in Family Research
In research on the family, considerable amounts of scholarship have occurred with respect to central domains of theory, methodology, and substantive content. In contrast, attention to philosophy, another domain whose influence is arguably just as central, appears noticeably scant. Considering philosophical issues reveals important yet frequently unrecognized values, beliefs, and modes of inquiry that underlie and inform research endeavors. The pr…
Chaos, Indeterminism, and Free Will
This article begins with a discussion of modern efforts to clarify and define the meaning of physical determinism. It distinguishes four features of the Laplacean vision of physical determinism—differential dynamics, unique evolution, value determinateness, and absolute prediction—and the relevance of each to free-will debates. It then turns to the role of indeterminism in quantum mechanics and discusses current philosophical debates about the na…
The Causal Closure of Physics and Free Will
This article focuses on the thesis known as the causal closure (or causal completeness) of physics (CoP)—that all physical events can be fully explained by physical causes governed by the fundamental laws of physics. This thesis raises well-known questions central to free-will debates about the nature and possibility of the “mental causation” of physical events (e.g., beliefs, desires, intentions). If all causes are physical causes, as CoP implie…
Whence chemistry
Downward causation in fluid convection
Patching Physics and Chemistry Together
The “usual story” regarding molecular chemistry is that it is roughly an application of quantum mechanics. That is to say, quantum mechanics supplies everything necessary and sufficient, both ontologically and epistemologically, to reduce molecular chemistry to quantum mechanics. This is a reductive story, to be sure, but a key explanatory element of molecular chemistry, namely molecular structure, is absent from the quantum realm. On the other h…
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics Brussels–Austin style
The Economic Impacts of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin
The major economic impacts of CWD have been on hunters rather than other sectors of the Wisconsin economy. This article shows that by using available data and plausible assumptions, hunter losses likely amounted to between $53 million and $79 million in 2002 and $45 million to $72 million in 2003. CWD has also likely caused deer hunters to spend less on their sport than they have in the past, but the net impact of reduced hunter spending on the W…
The evolution of preferences
Using Donation Mechanisms to Value Nonuse Benefits from Public Goods
Efficiency, sustainability and global warming
Issues in ecosystem valuation
In Spring 1991, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency convened an expert group of ecologists, economists and other social scientists for the purpose of advancing the state of the art of ecosystem valuation methods. This Ecosystem Valuation Forum was organized as a dialogue because it has been clear from the outset that agreement even on the meaning of the term "ecosystem valuation" could not be taken for granted. Individuals from diverse disci…
Assessing natural resource damages using environmental annuities
Measuring Values of Extramarket Goods
Endangered Species and Uncertainty
Species extinction irreversibly narrows the reservoir of potential resources. The future repercussions of this narrowing are uncertain. This paper develops the safe minimum standard (SMS) approach to public decisions involving endangered species. The SMS approach is based on game theory and calls for avoidance of extinction unless the social costs are unacceptably large. The level at which costs become excessive is a matter of intergenerational d…
The evolution of preferences
Issues in ecosystem valuation
In Spring 1991, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency convened an expert group of ecologists, economists and other social scientists for the purpose of advancing the state of the art of ecosystem valuation methods. This Ecosystem Valuation Forum was organized as a dialogue because it has been clear from the outset that agreement even on the meaning of the term "ecosystem valuation" could not be taken for granted. Individuals from diverse disci…
Paradigms, Processes, and Values in Family Research
In research on the family, considerable amounts of scholarship have occurred with respect to central domains of theory, methodology, and substantive content. In contrast, attention to philosophy, another domain whose influence is arguably just as central, appears noticeably scant. Considering philosophical issues reveals important yet frequently unrecognized values, beliefs, and modes of inquiry that underlie and inform research endeavors. The pr…
Emergence in Context
This is a book about the multidisciplinary topic of emergence. Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? We provide a new account of emergence, contextual emergence, that attempts to answer these questions. Contextual emergence is grounded primarily in the sciences, as opposed to logic or meta…
Downward causation in fluid convection
Patching Physics and Chemistry Together
The “usual story” regarding molecular chemistry is that it is roughly an application of quantum mechanics. That is to say, quantum mechanics supplies everything necessary and sufficient, both ontologically and epistemologically, to reduce molecular chemistry to quantum mechanics. This is a reductive story, to be sure, but a key explanatory element of molecular chemistry, namely molecular structure, is absent from the quantum realm. On the other h…
Endangered Species and Uncertainty
Species extinction irreversibly narrows the reservoir of potential resources. The future repercussions of this narrowing are uncertain. This paper develops the safe minimum standard (SMS) approach to public decisions involving endangered species. The SMS approach is based on game theory and calls for avoidance of extinction unless the social costs are unacceptably large. The level at which costs become excessive is a matter of intergenerational d…
Measuring Values of Extramarket Goods
Assessing natural resource damages using environmental annuities
Efficiency, sustainability and global warming
Issues in ecosystem valuation
In Spring 1991, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency convened an expert group of ecologists, economists and other social scientists for the purpose of advancing the state of the art of ecosystem valuation methods. This Ecosystem Valuation Forum was organized as a dialogue because it has been clear from the outset that agreement even on the meaning of the term "ecosystem valuation" could not be taken for granted. Individuals from diverse disci…
Using Donation Mechanisms to Value Nonuse Benefits from Public Goods
The evolution of preferences
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics Brussels–Austin style
The Economic Impacts of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin
The major economic impacts of CWD have been on hunters rather than other sectors of the Wisconsin economy. This article shows that by using available data and plausible assumptions, hunter losses likely amounted to between $53 million and $79 million in 2002 and $45 million to $72 million in 2003. CWD has also likely caused deer hunters to spend less on their sport than they have in the past, but the net impact of reduced hunter spending on the W…
Patching Physics and Chemistry Together
The “usual story” regarding molecular chemistry is that it is roughly an application of quantum mechanics. That is to say, quantum mechanics supplies everything necessary and sufficient, both ontologically and epistemologically, to reduce molecular chemistry to quantum mechanics. This is a reductive story, to be sure, but a key explanatory element of molecular chemistry, namely molecular structure, is absent from the quantum realm. On the other h…
Downward causation in fluid convection
Whence chemistry
Chaos, Indeterminism, and Free Will
This article begins with a discussion of modern efforts to clarify and define the meaning of physical determinism. It distinguishes four features of the Laplacean vision of physical determinism—differential dynamics, unique evolution, value determinateness, and absolute prediction—and the relevance of each to free-will debates. It then turns to the role of indeterminism in quantum mechanics and discusses current philosophical debates about the na…
The Causal Closure of Physics and Free Will
This article focuses on the thesis known as the causal closure (or causal completeness) of physics (CoP)—that all physical events can be fully explained by physical causes governed by the fundamental laws of physics. This thesis raises well-known questions central to free-will debates about the nature and possibility of the “mental causation” of physical events (e.g., beliefs, desires, intentions). If all causes are physical causes, as CoP implie…
Paradigms, Processes, and Values in Family Research
In research on the family, considerable amounts of scholarship have occurred with respect to central domains of theory, methodology, and substantive content. In contrast, attention to philosophy, another domain whose influence is arguably just as central, appears noticeably scant. Considering philosophical issues reveals important yet frequently unrecognized values, beliefs, and modes of inquiry that underlie and inform research endeavors. The pr…
On the adequacy of scope test results
Hermeneutic Dialogue and Shaping the Landscape of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Hermeneutic Dialogue and Shaping the Landscape of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Emergence in Context
This is a book about the multidisciplinary topic of emergence. Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? We provide a new account of emergence, contextual emergence, that attempts to answer these questions. Contextual emergence is grounded primarily in the sciences, as opposed to logic or meta…
Philosophy (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Physics (5 works) · Quantum mechanics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)