John Bigelow
Biographic Data
| ID | 499034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Bigelow |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Bigelow |
| SIGNATURE | BIGELOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3087-2809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1851 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Three Links in a Golden Chain
One of Plato’s dialogues, the Timaeus (ca 370 BCE), describes an abstract numerical pattern that is said to have guided the creative work of an artisan, the Demiurge, who designed both the soul that animates the material world as a whole and the souls of each of the sentient beings that live within this world. Any artist or artisan who took this creation story seriously might reasonably be motivated to take guidance from this same numerical desig…
Raphael's Platonic Vision
The four frescoes by Raphael in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Museum visually embody close approximations of several numerical ratios that are of deep significance in the material grounding of musical harmonies in the physics of natural harmonics. Of special significance is the Pythagorean musical frequency ratio of 9:8, the (discordant) whole tone interval, which in Plato's Timaeus is called the epogdoôn (‘and an eighth’)
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural philosopher despite having little formal education. As a statesman, he was the only person to sign all three major documents of American statehood: the Declaration of Independence, the peace treaty with Britain, and the United States constitution. This three-volume set, first published in 1874, was compiled …
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural philosopher despite having little formal education. As a statesman, he was the only person to sign all three major documents of American statehood: the Declaration of Independence, the peace treaty with Britain, and the United States constitution. This three-volume set, first published in 1874, was compiled …
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural philosopher despite having little formal education. As a statesman, he was the only person to sign all three major documents of American statehood: the Declaration of Independence, the peace treaty with Britain, and the United States constitution. This three-volume set, first published in 1874, was compiled …
Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Volume 2
Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Volume 1
Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Volume 3
Presentism, and speaking of the dead
Omnificence
Journal Article Omnificence Get access John Bigelow John Bigelow Monash University ClaytonVictoria 3800, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 187–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/65.3.187 Published: 01 July 2005
Science and Necessity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science and Necessity. By John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter. (Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. x + 410. Price £35.00.) Penelope Mackie Penelope Mackie University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 384–387, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219661 Published: 01 July 1995
Van Inwagen's New Clothes
No idea sounds so silly that no ancient Greek fervently defended it. I hope we do not lose sight of the value there is in studying the Greeks. Yet it is even better to do as they did and not just to study what they said
Science and Necessity
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.
The World as One of a Kind: Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature
Acquaintance with qualia
The Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist's Philosophy of Mathematics
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist’s Philosophy of Mathematics. By John Bigelow (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. 193. Price £25.00.) E. P. James E. P. James St Hilda’s College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 161, October 1990, Pages 531–533, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220120 Published: 01 October 1990
From Extroverted Realism to Correspondence: A Modest Proposal
Once upon a time realists seemed to exhibit an understandable complacency. They had a metaphysics that seemed simple, highly explanatory, and obviously true. And they had a semantics that was formally appealing, was again explanatory, and was harmonious with the metaphysics. They believed that the things they encountered in their lives, including the things they encountered in the pursuit of such intellectual activities as science, existed. And t…
The World Essence
Recently, Brian Ellis came up with a neat and novel idea about laws of nature, which at first I misunderstood. Then I participated, with Brian Ellis and Caroline Lierse, in writing a joint paper, "The World as One of a Kind: Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature" (Ellis, Bigelow and Lierse, forthcoming). In this paper, the Ellis idea was formulated in a different way from that in which I had originally interpreted it. Little weight was placed on p…
Vectors and Change
Vectors, we will argue, are not just mathematical abstractions. They are also physical properties—universals. What make them distinctive are the rich and varied essences of these universals, and the complex pattern of internal relations which hold amongst them.
Parental Autonomy
We argue that in societies like our own the prevailing view that parents have both special responsibilities for and special rights over their children fails to give a proper understanding of the autonomy both of parents and of children. It is our claim that there is a logical priority of the separable interests of a child over the autonomy of its parents in the fulfilment of their special responsibilities for and the exercise of their special rig…
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
Functions
Beyond the blank stare
An analysis of indefinite probability statements
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
The World as One of a Kind: Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.
Presentism, and speaking of the dead
Vectors and Change
Vectors, we will argue, are not just mathematical abstractions. They are also physical properties—universals. What make them distinctive are the rich and varied essences of these universals, and the complex pattern of internal relations which hold amongst them.
Semantics of probability
The World Essence
Recently, Brian Ellis came up with a neat and novel idea about laws of nature, which at first I misunderstood. Then I participated, with Brian Ellis and Caroline Lierse, in writing a joint paper, "The World as One of a Kind: Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature" (Ellis, Bigelow and Lierse, forthcoming). In this paper, the Ellis idea was formulated in a different way from that in which I had originally interpreted it. Little weight was placed on p…
If-then meets the possible worlds
On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo
The Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist's Philosophy of Mathematics
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist’s Philosophy of Mathematics. By John Bigelow (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. 193. Price £25.00.) E. P. James E. P. James St Hilda’s College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 161, October 1990, Pages 531–533, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220120 Published: 01 October 1990
From Extroverted Realism to Correspondence: A Modest Proposal
Once upon a time realists seemed to exhibit an understandable complacency. They had a metaphysics that seemed simple, highly explanatory, and obviously true. And they had a semantics that was formally appealing, was again explanatory, and was harmonious with the metaphysics. They believed that the things they encountered in their lives, including the things they encountered in the pursuit of such intellectual activities as science, existed. And t…
The So-Called Bartholomew Columbus Map of 1506
The Geographical Conceptions of Columbus: A Critical Consideration of Four Problems
Jamaica in 1850, or, The effects of sixteen years of freedom on a slave colony
Departure from New York-How to escape sea-sickness-Our passengers-Taylor, cousin of General Zachary Taylor-The Pass of Mayaguana-Arrival at Port Royal-Commodore Brooks-Kingston seen from the Bay
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden
American Policy
Journal Article American Policy. The Western Hemisphere in its Relation to the Eastern. By John Bigelow, major U. S. Army retired. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. 184 p. $1.00 net) Get access Karl F. Geiser Karl F. Geiser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 1, Issue 3, December 1914, Pages 455–457, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897617 Published: 01 December 1914
Did Grant, Sherman and Sheridan Teach Militarism to Germany
Breaches of Anglo-American Treaties
Journal Article Breaches of Anglo-American treaties. A study in history and diplomacy. By John Bigelow, major U. S. army, retired. (New York: Sturgis and Walton company, 1917. 248 p. $1.50 net) Get access Frederic A. Ogg Frederic A. Ogg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 4, Issue 2, September 1917, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/1886994 Published: 01 September 1917
Breaches of Anglo-American Treaties: A Study in History and Diplomacy
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb
Meine Kriegserinnerungen, 1914-1918
MEINE KRIEGSERINNERUNGEN\n\nMeine Kriegserinnerungen ( - )\n\n Einband ( - )\n\n Titelseite ([III])\n\n Impressum ([IV])\n\n Vorwort. ([V])\n\n Inhaltsverzeichnis. ([VI])\n\n Mein Denken und Handeln. (1)\n\n Lüttich. (9)\n\n Als Chef des Generalstabes im Osten vom 22. August 1914 bis 28. August 1916. (14)\n\n Tannenberg. (14)\n\n Der Feldzug in Polen Herbst 1914. (23)\n\n Die Winterschlacht in Masuren Februar/März 1915. (34)\n\n Der Sommerfeldzug…
Die Oberste Heeresleitung, 1914-1916, in ihren wichtigsten Entschliessungen
The Geographical Conceptions of Columbus: A Critical Consideration of Four Problems
Ymago Mundi de Pierre d’Ailly, Cardinal de Cambrai et Chancelier de l’Université de Paris, 1350-1420. Texte Latin et Traduction Française des Quatre Traités Cosmographiques de d’Ailly et des Notes Mar…
Ymago Mundi de Pierre d'Ailly, Cardinal de Cambrai et Chancelier de l' Universite de Paris, 1350-1420. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise des Quatre Traites Cosmographiques de d'Ailly et des Notes Ma…
Cristoforo Colombo. Documenti and Prove della sua Appartenenza a Genova
Cristoforo Colombo. Documenti & Prove della sua Appartenenza a Genova
The So-Called Bartholomew Columbus Map of 1506
On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo
Meaning and Evidence
What is it for a person to mean something by an utterance? Until recently, few philosophers have explicitly set themselves the task of answering this question. Of those who have, most have proposed answers which in one way or another analyze the act of meaning by appeal to the utterer's intentions
If-then meets the possible worlds
Semantics of probability
Quantum Probability in Logical Space
Probability measures can be constructed using the measure-theoretic techniques of Caratheodory and Hausdorff. Under these constructions one obtains first an outer measure over “events” or “propositions.” Then, if one restricts this outer measure to the measurable propositions, one finally obtains a classical probability theory. What I argue is that outer measures can also be used to yield the structures of probability theories in quantum mechanic…
Towards structural universals
(1986). Towards structural universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 94-96.
Functions
Beyond the blank stare
An analysis of indefinite probability statements
Parental Autonomy
We argue that in societies like our own the prevailing view that parents have both special responsibilities for and special rights over their children fails to give a proper understanding of the autonomy both of parents and of children. It is our claim that there is a logical priority of the separable interests of a child over the autonomy of its parents in the fulfilment of their special responsibilities for and the exercise of their special rig…
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
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