PPT-The Causal-Historical Theory

PHIL 2610 Philosophy of Language 1 st Term 2016 Classical Descriptivism Representation Words thoughts have meanings They are about things Why do words for example represent the things that they do instead of other things or nothing at all. Created by: Lindsey Koch, Carrie Smith,. Jennifer Ames, Elizabeth . Berkemeier. , Catherine . Buckel. Total Population: 43,318. Race and Ethnicity: 93.5% white. High School Graduates: 89.4%. Jobless Rate: 9.3%. A. Concept . Formation (September . 14, 16). 1. Frankfort-. Nachmias. . & . Nachmias. (Chapter 2 – Conceptual Foundations of Research). 2. . Gerring. . (Chapters 3-4. ). Application. recap. Kripke’s Picture. “Someone. , let’s say, a baby, is born; his parents call him by a certain . name. They . talk about him to their friends, . other . people meet him. . Through various sorts . Does Bell’s theorem prevent the use of causal explanations in quantum mechanics?. Part I:. Locality, Bell’s version of locality, and its discontents. The greatest mystery in science?. Locality. = “things do not go faster than . Use theory: history & motivation. The Causal-Historical Theory. Last time we learned about the causal-historical theory of reference. . The Causal-Historical Theory. Let’s call that baby ‘Feynman’. Small. . by the. Big. Phyllis McKay . Illari. University of Kent. 1 The usual problem. Explanatory Regress. Gap-o-phobia. Gap-o-phobia. Gap-o-phobia. Gap-o-phobia. ?. Gap-o-phobia. ?. HELP! . I fell out of the bottom of the world!. Cause, Causatives, and Theories of Causation. Julian Reiss, Durham. Background. Main concern: Provide a satisfactory account of causation in the sciences. My own work focuses on the biomedical and social sciences. Classical Descriptivism. Representation. Words/ thoughts have meanings. . They are . about. things. Why do words, for example, represent the things that they do, instead of other things or nothing at all?. . Immunity . - state of protection from an infectious disease.. . 430 BC – Greek historian Thucydides - Athenian plague. . 15. th. century – Chinese attempts to induce immunity. . 1718 – Mary Wortley Montagu – innoculated her children. theory . Sri Hermawati. The focus of this chapter is on the role of causal processes in decision making.. Newcombs . problem/. the predictors paradox. You are offered a choice between two boxes, B1 and B2. Box . Manolis Dafermos . University of Crete . The disappearance of dialectics . Dialectics has disappeared from sight in North Atlantic Academy. . Increasing . individualisation. and . fragmentation. of social life. Interdisciplinary collaborations with a variety of fields, including the social sciences, literary and cultural studies, and political theory, toward the goal of radical social change.. First Generation / Frankfurt School (Institute for Social Research, founded: 1923). Causal arguments are inductive arguments in which the conclusion is a claim that one thing causes another.. For example:. Clogged arteries cause heart attacks. A rough surface produces friction. Exercise during heat causes sweating. Neil Bramley. Intro. 1. Limitations of Causal . Bayes. Nets as psychological models.. 2. Extension of the approach using the hierarchical Bayesian framework.. 3. Philosophical implications of this framework.