Robert M Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍN R M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epistemology
Introducing symbolic logic
It's Not That Easy Being Grue
Journal Article It’s not that Easy Being Grue1 Get access Robert M. Martin Robert M. Martin Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 160, July 1990, Pages 299–315, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219724 Published: 01 July 1990
Wilson's Laws and Other Worlds
I like the idea behind this book. It is an empiricist alternative to the powerful and influential contemporary rationalist position on scientific law, causality, and counterfactuals, associated with Chisholm and David Lewis, which “takes its inspiration from modal logic and set theory [and] involves ... an assumption of non-truth-functional connectives to define unanalyzable natural necessities, or defines such connectives and such necessities in…
How Scientific Laws Can Be About Individuals
The assumption is often made that there cannot be scientific laws about individuals. I shall try to provide a plausible semantics and epistemology for scientific laws about individuals. This would be interesting, however, only ifone were tempted to believe that mentioning individuals did not disqualify a sentence from scientific lawhood. To begin with, I will try to provide such a temptation
Using Nazi Scientific Data
In a series of experiments done in wartime Nazi Germany, inmates of the Dachau concentration camp were exposed to cold by being immersed in ice water, or kept outside in freezing temperatures; their responses were measured, and various techniques were used in an attempt to revive them. The immediate application of these hypothermia studies was to the war effort, to try to protect or save soldiers exposed to cold water or air. An account of the pr…
Human Understanding, Vol. I
Human Understanding, Vol. I
How Scientific Laws Can Be About Individuals
The assumption is often made that there cannot be scientific laws about individuals. I shall try to provide a plausible semantics and epistemology for scientific laws about individuals. This would be interesting, however, only ifone were tempted to believe that mentioning individuals did not disqualify a sentence from scientific lawhood. To begin with, I will try to provide such a temptation
Using Nazi Scientific Data
In a series of experiments done in wartime Nazi Germany, inmates of the Dachau concentration camp were exposed to cold by being immersed in ice water, or kept outside in freezing temperatures; their responses were measured, and various techniques were used in an attempt to revive them. The immediate application of these hypothermia studies was to the war effort, to try to protect or save soldiers exposed to cold water or air. An account of the pr…
Wilson's Laws and Other Worlds
I like the idea behind this book. It is an empiricist alternative to the powerful and influential contemporary rationalist position on scientific law, causality, and counterfactuals, associated with Chisholm and David Lewis, which “takes its inspiration from modal logic and set theory [and] involves ... an assumption of non-truth-functional connectives to define unanalyzable natural necessities, or defines such connectives and such necessities in…
It's Not That Easy Being Grue
Journal Article It’s not that Easy Being Grue1 Get access Robert M. Martin Robert M. Martin Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 160, July 1990, Pages 299–315, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219724 Published: 01 July 1990
Introducing symbolic logic
Epistemology
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Causality (physics) (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work)