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2011
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Quantum logic as a dynamic logic
We address the old question whether a logical understanding of Quantum Mechanics requires abandoning some of the principles of classical logic. Against Putnam and others1 , our an...
Alexandru Baltag, Sonja Smets
SYNTHESE
2011
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E. W. Beth as a philosopher of physics
This paper examines E. W. Beth’s work in the philosophy of physics, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. Beth saw the philosophy of physics first of all as an ...
Dennis Dieks
SYNTHESE
2011
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Part-whole science
A scientific explanatory project, part-whole explanation, and a kind of science, part-whole science are premised on identifying, investigating, and using parts and wholes. In the ...
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
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2011
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Objective Bayesianism, Bayesian conditionalisation and voluntarism
Objective Bayesianism has been criticised on the grounds that objective Bayesian updating, which on a finite outcome space appeals to the maximum entropy principle, differs from...
Jon Williamson