Theodore Friend
Biographic Data
| ID | 731515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore Friend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore |
| FAMILY NAME | Friend |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9210-5808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Structural Equations and Analysis of Dispositions
I develop a new schema for analysis of dispositions in terms of structural equations. This schema provides the means to respond to a host of problems that have been posed for other proposals, including the problem of masks, alters, mimickers, tricks, conjunctive multi-track dispositions and dispositional degrees. In the development of this new schema, I will employ structural modelling techniques to highlight features of the problem cases, thereb…
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory
Not all testing interventions that we might want to perform, or need to be performable in principle, fail to cause off-path variables. This is a problem for Woodward's Orthodox Interventionist Theory of causation, but not the 'Modified Interventionist Theory', which I proposed in a previous issue of this journal (Friend, 2021). As I explain here, this is because only the modified theory permits 'soft control'. I will survey three different kinds …
How to Be Humean about Symmetries
I describe three extant attempts to identify global external symmetries within a Humean framework with theorems of some or other deductive systematization of the world: the best system, a best meta-system, and a maximally simple system. Each has merits, but also serious flaws. Instead, I propose a view of global external symmetries as consequences of the structure of Humean-consistent world-making relations
Why I'm not a Humean
There is an inconsistency between the access we have to our conscious lives and the Humean thesis of causal generalism. This was first drawn attention to by John Hawthorne, whose argument withstands a number of objections. Nevertheless, it has weaknessess. The first premise must be weakened if Humeans are to be compelled to accept it, and consequently, the second premise will have to be stronger to retain validity. I shore up the case against Hum…
How to Be Humean about Idealization Laws
If one has Humean inclinations, what account should one provide for idealization laws? I introduce the currently most popular Humean approach to laws of nature, the best systems account, along with some basic requirements for how to be Humean. I then show why idealization laws are unlikely to be accommodated within this account of laws. Finally, I offer an alternative approach that takes idealization laws to be meta-laws, placing requirements on …
On Powers BSAs
Can the desire for efficiently systematised theories in science be explained from within a powers metaphysics? It is plausible that the traditional 'Powers Theory of Laws', endorsed by many friends of powers, does not alone provide such an explanation. This has led a number of recent authors to argue that a 'Powers Best System Account' of laws would be a preferable alternative. This account borrows a method for determining laws from the Humean an…
Second-order relations and nomic regularities
Bird’s Ultimate Argument sought to show that Armstrong’s N relationships involving categorical universals can’t entail nomic regularities. In N’s place Bird offered the non-categorical SR relation. Two kinds of objection have been raised: either Bird’s own alternative metaphysics fails in just the same way as Armstrong’s or the target of Bird’s argument may anyway have a way out of the problem. My aim is to reclaim the victory for Bird. I argue t…
Megarian Variable Actualism
Megarian Actualism is the denial of unmanifesting powers. Aristotle called such a view ‘buffoonery’ and dispositionalists have provided compelling reasons for the contrary platitude that powers need not manifest. Even so, drawing on extant treatments of quantitative powers I’ll suggest that many of the powers which feature in quantitative lawlike equations are plausibly interpreted as Megarian. This is because the powers described by such equatio…
Intervening on time derivatives
Interventionism analyses causal influence in terms of correlations of changes under a distribution of interventions. But the correspondence between correlated changes and causal influence is not obvious. I probe its plausibility with a problem-case involving variables related as time derivative (velocity) to integral (position), such that the latter variable must change given an intervention on the former unless dependencies are introduced among …
The Metaphysics of Quantities
Can parts cause their wholes
Part–whole causation (PWC) is the thesis that some causes are part of their effects. PWC has been objected to because of its incompatibility with the criterion that causes not be spatially included within their effects and the criterion that causes and effects are ontologically distinct in some sense. This paper serves to undermine the sufficiency of these ways of objecting to PWC by showing that for each criterion either cause-effect relationshi…
The Blue-Eyed Enemy Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
Rumsfeld and American Firepower
Faith, Dread, and Dialogue
Indonesian Destinies
"How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?" a prominent Indonesian asks. That question--and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions--haunt Theodore Friend's remarkable work, a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the postwar revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events tha…
Indonesian Destinies
Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines
Review Article| November 01 2003 Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines THEODORE FRIEND THEODORE FRIEND Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2003) 72 (4): 655–657. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2003.72.4.655 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Su…
Indonesia in flames
Timely Daring: The United States and Ferdinand Marcos
What lessons can be drawn from American policy toward the Philippines in the crisis of 1983–1986? Maybe none, and that is unfortunate because at the climax of the crisis the United States government acted with timely daring to strengthen democratic forces in the Philippines, extract the autocratic Marcos from the situation, and minimize bloodshed. But such a success can not readily be repeated elsewhere. For policy daring to be both timely and ef…
The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
Chapter I. Philippine-American Tensions in History
Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations
The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines
Chapter 1 Origins of Rebellion Chapter 2 Unrest Chapter 3 The Hukbalahap: Resistance to the Japanese Occupation in Central Luzon Chapter 4 Prelude to Rebellion Chapter 5 Rebellion: 1946-1948 Chapter 6 The Rise and Fall Chapter 7 Conclusion
Southeast Asia: Integration, Development, and the Terror of Time
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946
Journal Article Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946. By Theodore Friend. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. xviii + 312 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, sources, and index. $7.50.) Get access George E. Taylor George E. Taylor University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 2, September 1965, Pages 431–432, https…
Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines
Review Article| November 01 2003 Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines THEODORE FRIEND THEODORE FRIEND Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2003) 72 (4): 655–657. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2003.72.4.655 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Su…
The Philippine Sugar Industry and the Politics of Independence, 1929-1935
Independence was an old question in Philippine-American relations, free trade a middle-aged one, and sugar production a very young one when all three converged in 1929. They remained tangled until an independence bill, a redefinition of Philippine-American trade, and the combined limitation and allocation of Philippine sugar production straightened them out again by 1935. The struggles of the intervening years involved every phase of American col…
Can parts cause their wholes
Part–whole causation (PWC) is the thesis that some causes are part of their effects. PWC has been objected to because of its incompatibility with the criterion that causes not be spatially included within their effects and the criterion that causes and effects are ontologically distinct in some sense. This paper serves to undermine the sufficiency of these ways of objecting to PWC by showing that for each criterion either cause-effect relationshi…
How to Be Humean about Symmetries
I describe three extant attempts to identify global external symmetries within a Humean framework with theorems of some or other deductive systematization of the world: the best system, a best meta-system, and a maximally simple system. Each has merits, but also serious flaws. Instead, I propose a view of global external symmetries as consequences of the structure of Humean-consistent world-making relations
On Powers BSAs
Can the desire for efficiently systematised theories in science be explained from within a powers metaphysics? It is plausible that the traditional 'Powers Theory of Laws', endorsed by many friends of powers, does not alone provide such an explanation. This has led a number of recent authors to argue that a 'Powers Best System Account' of laws would be a preferable alternative. This account borrows a method for determining laws from the Humean an…
Intervening on time derivatives
Interventionism analyses causal influence in terms of correlations of changes under a distribution of interventions. But the correspondence between correlated changes and causal influence is not obvious. I probe its plausibility with a problem-case involving variables related as time derivative (velocity) to integral (position), such that the latter variable must change given an intervention on the former unless dependencies are introduced among …
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946
A Diplomatic History of the Philippine Republic
Between Two Empires. The Ordeal of the Philippines 1929-1946
The Williams Man and His Women
Decolonization of the Philippines: A Russian and a French View
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The Philippine Sugar Industry and the Politics of Independence, 1929-1935
Independence was an old question in Philippine-American relations, free trade a middle-aged one, and sugar production a very young one when all three converged in 1929. They remained tangled until an independence bill, a redefinition of Philippine-American trade, and the combined limitation and allocation of Philippine sugar production straightened them out again by 1935. The struggles of the intervening years involved every phase of American col…
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946
Journal Article Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946. By Theodore Friend. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. xviii + 312 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, sources, and index. $7.50.) Get access George E. Taylor George E. Taylor University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 2, September 1965, Pages 431–432, https…
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946
A Diplomatic History of the Philippine Republic
Thailand and the United States
Between Two Empires. The Ordeal of the Philippines 1929-1946
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946
The Philippine Polity: A Japanese View
The Peasants' Revolt of Banten in 1888, Its Conditions, Course and Sequel
Southeast Asia: Integration, Development, and the Terror of Time
The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines
Chapter 1 Origins of Rebellion Chapter 2 Unrest Chapter 3 The Hukbalahap: Resistance to the Japanese Occupation in Central Luzon Chapter 4 Prelude to Rebellion Chapter 5 Rebellion: 1946-1948 Chapter 6 The Rise and Fall Chapter 7 Conclusion
Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations
Chapter I. Philippine-American Tensions in History
The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945
Timely Daring: The United States and Ferdinand Marcos
What lessons can be drawn from American policy toward the Philippines in the crisis of 1983–1986? Maybe none, and that is unfortunate because at the climax of the crisis the United States government acted with timely daring to strengthen democratic forces in the Philippines, extract the autocratic Marcos from the situation, and minimize bloodshed. But such a success can not readily be repeated elsewhere. For policy daring to be both timely and ef…
Indonesia in flames
Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines
Review Article| November 01 2003 Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines THEODORE FRIEND THEODORE FRIEND Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2003) 72 (4): 655–657. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2003.72.4.655 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Su…
Indonesian Destinies
Indonesian Destinies
"How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?" a prominent Indonesian asks. That question--and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions--haunt Theodore Friend's remarkable work, a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the postwar revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events tha…
Faith, Dread, and Dialogue
Rumsfeld and American Firepower
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