The two dams and that damned paresis

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1):65-81 (1999)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Philosophers of science take it as a datum that Mayor John's having syphilis explains why he, rather than certain nonsyphilitics, had paresis. Using a new hypothetical example, the case of the two dams, it is argued that three independent considerations invalidate these philosophers' starting point.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1093/bjps/50.1.65

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 93,069

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Paresis and the alleged asymmetry between explanation and prediction.Paul Dietl - 1966 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 17 (4):313-318.
Contrastive explanation and the demons of determinism.Christopher Hitchcock - 1999 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (4):585-612.
Review of John W. Carroll: Laws of Nature. [REVIEW]Chris Swoyer - 1995 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (4):603-609.
Nietzsche and Music.Anthony Storr - 1994 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 37:213-.
Against the Contrastive Account of Singular Causation.Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen - 2012 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (1):115-143.
The Search for Biological Causes of Mental Illness.Milena Hruby - 1998 - Dissertation, The University of Chicago
The Role of Skill in Experimentation: Reading Ludwik Fleck’s Study of the Wasserman Reaction as an Example of Ian Hacking’s Experimental Realism.David Stump - 1988 - PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 (1):302-308.
Literalism and the applicability of arithmetic.L. Luce - 1991 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 42 (4):469-489.
Mathematical Explanation in Science.Alan Baker - 2009 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (3):611-633.
The contrast theory of why-questions.Dennis Temple - 1988 - Philosophy of Science 55 (1):141-151.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
31 (#532,887)

6 months
17 (#161,514)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

Contrastive explanation and the demons of determinism.Christopher Hitchcock - 1999 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (4):585-612.
Why Is Proof the Only Way to Acquire Mathematical Knowledge?Marc Lange - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Understanding Interests and Causal Explanation.Petri Ylikoski - 2001 - Dissertation, University of Helsinki

View all 9 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

Inference to the Best Explanation.Peter Lipton - 1991 - London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.
The Scientific Image.William Demopoulos & Bas C. van Fraassen - 1982 - Philosophical Review 91 (4):603.
Inference to the Best Explanation.Peter Lipton - 1991 - London and New York: Routledge.
Explanatory unification and the causal structure of the world.Philip Kitcher - 1989 - In Philip Kitcher & Wesley Salmon (eds.), Scientific Explanation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 410-505.

View all 20 references / Add more references