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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: scientific realism
different means of detection—forms of detection that are distinct with respect to the apparatuses they employ and the causal mechanisms and processes they are described as exploiting in the course of detection—this may serve as the basis of a...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: precedent and analogy in
earlier case affect the decision in the later case? The study of precedent and analogy is of interest for a number of reasons: some theorists claim that precedent involves a form of reasoning different to reasoning using rules; although arguments f...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Bell's Theorem
emergence in the extraordinary ray when a is given, while t is the analogous quantum number for photon 2 when b is given; and |θs >1 |φt >2 is the ket representing the quantum state of photons 1 and 2 with the respective quantum numbers s and...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: neuroscience, philosophy of
has argued that this interpretation of network activity provides a quantitative, neurally-inspired basis for prototype theories of concepts developed recently in cognitive psychology. Using this theoretical development, Paul Churchland (1987, 1989) has offered a ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: problem of
reliable in the past—for that would beg the question by assuming just what is to be proved. A century after Hume first put the problem, and argued that it is insoluble, J. S. Mill gave a more specific formulation of an important class of inductive problems:...
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