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Reference and Analysis in the Study of Time
time analysis reference Newton Leibniz Rovelli Barbour
2016/6/13
Our best hope of understanding time may lie in looking at what happens when referential and analytical discourses fail to be wholly reconciled: to what extent are they unified (and how is that unifica...
Expertise and Intuitions about Reference
intuitions reference descriptivism causal-historical theories Kripke expertise bias experimental philosophy
2016/5/30
Many philosophers hold that experts’ semantic intuitions are more reliable and provide better evidence than lay people’s intuitions – a thesis commonly called “the Expertise Defense.” Focusing on the ...
Biological Kinds and the Causal Theory of Reference
reference causal theory of reference natural kinds concepts homology
2015/7/30
This paper uses an example from biology, the homology concept, to argue that current versions of the causal theory of reference give an incomplete account of reference determination. It is suggested t...
Saving the Intuitions: Polylithic Reference
intuitions reference referential continuity theoretical terms meta-philosophy
2009/6/18
My main aim in this paper is to clarify the concepts of referential success and of referential continuity that are so crucial to the scientific realism debate. I start by considering the three dominan...
Structural Correspondence, Indirect Reference, and Partial Truth: Phlogiston Theory and Newtonian Mechanics
correspondence principle reference theoretical terms scientific realism
2009/6/18
This paper elaborates on the following correspondence theorem (which has been defended and formally proved elsewhere): if theory T has been empirically successful in a domain of applications A, but wa...
THEORIES OF REFERENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
theories of reference incommensurability causal descriptivism
2008/4/21
It has sometimes been suggested that the so-called new theory of reference (NTR) would provide an alternative picture of meaning and reference which avoids the unwelcome consequences of the meaning-va...
On the Ontology of Spacetime in a Frame of Reference
spacetime ontology frame of reference reference frame
2008/4/15
The spacetime ontology is considered in General Relativity (GR) in view of the choice of a frame of reference (FR). Various approaches to a description of the FR, such as coordinate systems, monads an...
Another look at general covariance and the equivalence of reference frames
General covariance equivalence relativity
2008/4/10
In his general theory of relativity (GR) Einstein sought togeneralize the special-relativistic equivalence of inertial frames to a principle according to which all frames of reference are equivalent. ...