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Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination:

Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination:

David N. Stamos

As Lipton puts it in his book devoted to the topic, when it comes to describing “our inductive practices,” IBE “looks to explanation ... In Newton-Smith (note 3), 184, 185. 111. Lipton (note 109), 4, 5. 112. Lipton (note 109), 184. 113. Peter Lipton ...
Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

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REFLECTIONS OF A BASHFUL BAYESIAN: A REPLY TO PETER LIPTON I am amazed by the degree to which Peter Lipton's gentle irenic approach has lessened, if not eliminated, the gap between us. Prior to this discussion, we both agreed ...
Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

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REFLECTIONS OF A BASHFUL BAYESIAN: A REPLY TO PETER LIPTON I am amazed by the degree to which Peter Lipton's gentle irenic approach has lessened, if not eliminated, the gap between us. Prior to this discussion, we both agreed ...
Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

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REFLECTIONS OF A BASHFUL BAYESIAN: A REPLY TO PETER LIPTON I am amazed by the degree to which Peter Lipton's gentle irenic approach has lessened, if not eliminated, the gap between us. Prior to this discussion, we both agreed ...
Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2009

Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2009

University of Cambridge

Peter Lipton Fund Grace 1 of 3 June 2009 1. Gifts to the University made in memory of Professor Peter Lipton, first Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Fellow of King's College, shall form a fund called the Peter ...
The Erotic Revolution: An Affirmative View of the New Morality

The Erotic Revolution: An Affirmative View of the New Morality

Lawrence Lipton

Lipton sent this copy to Harry Thornton Moore on 14 March 1965. With a three-page typed letter signed from Lipton to Moore, dated 1 April 1965, on a particulary insidious form of censorship.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
Arguing about Science

Arguing about Science

Alexander Bird

Peter Achinstein. ... 'Scientific Explanation', in Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour, James G. Lennox, Peter Machamer, J.E. McGuire, John D. Norton , Wesley C. Salmon and Kenneth F. Schaffner (eds) ... 2004, Peter Lipton.
Rethinking Cyberlaw: A New Vision for Internet Law

Rethinking Cyberlaw: A New Vision for Internet Law

Jacqueline Lipton

Jacqueline Lipton takes on the thorny question of how to define the field that has come to be known
West's federal supplement. Second series

West's federal supplement. Second series

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... Buffalo, NY, Peter C. Hein, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New- York City, Kenneth N. Bass, Kirkland & Ellis, New York City, Stephen R. Black- locks, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, Thomas John Quigley, Winston & Strawn, ...
Lennon Revealed

Lennon Revealed

Larry Kane

At one point, Lauren Lipton, one of our radio newscasters, walked up to him and said, “Hi, I'm Lauren Lipton.” John paused, glared at her curiously and said, “I like your bags.” The room went silent. Was he referring to sections of Lauren ...
It's About Your Husband

It's About Your Husband

Lauren Lipton

A funny, heart-wrenching romantic comedy about starting over and coming to terms with the gray areas of falling in love, It's About Your Husband marks the sparkling debut of novelist Lauren Lipton.
Inference to the Best Explanation

Inference to the Best Explanation

Peter Lipton

This edition of Inference to the Best Explanation has also been updated throughout and includes a new bibliography.
Inference to the Best Explanation

Inference to the Best Explanation

Peter Lipton

This edition of Inference to the Best Explanation has also been updated throughout and includes a new bibliography.
Inference to the Best Explanation

Inference to the Best Explanation

Peter Lipton

This edition of Inference to the Best Explanation has also been updated throughout and includes a new bibliography.
Cambridge Contributions

Cambridge Contributions

Sarah J. Ormrod

... here achieved prominence in more than one field, there are many instances of contributions overlapping between disciplines. There is the Cambridge tradition of history and philosophy of science, which, as Peter Lipton explains, most ...
Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

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Peter Lipton Introduction: Two Ways to Handle Contradictions Thisessay focuses on the cognitive tension between science andreligion, inparticular on the contradictions between some of theclaims ofcurrent science and some of the claimsin ...
Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy ...

Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy ...

Edward Stein

Friends and colleagues at other schools, most notably Alyssa Bernstein, Steve Greene, Peter Lipton, Paul Snow- don, and Rob Wilson, deserve mention as well. For much of this time, I received financial and in-kind support from MIT's ...
Philosophical Topics

Philosophical Topics

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597-608; and Peter Upton, Inference to the Best Explanation (London: Routledge , 1991), 38. 14. The paresis case is widely discussed; see, for example, Carroll, " The Two Dams and That Damned Paresis"; Lipton, Inference to the Best ...
Freud’s Theory of Dreams: A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective

Freud’s Theory of Dreams: A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective

Michael T. Michael

Moreover, IBE is now regarded as a significant part of scientific reasoning by a number of influential philosophers of science—Alexander Bird, Richard Boyd, Peter Lipton, Samir Okasha, Stathis Psillos, and Paul Thagard, to name a few— none ...
The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Business of Life

The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Business of Life

Nancy Keates

... Eleena de Lisser, Peter Meyers, Katy McLaughlin, Jane Spencer, Daniel Machalaba, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Miller, Michelle Higgins, Paul Glader, Melanie Trottman, Christina Binkley, Motoko Rich, Brooks Barnes, Lauren Lipton, Eric Wee, ...
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

William A. Dembski

... Progress and Its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977); Nancey Murphy, Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990); and Peter Lipton, ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Mating Rituals of the North American WASP

Mating Rituals of the North American WASP

Lauren Lipton

After arguing with her live-in boyfriend about his inability to commit, Peggy Adams flies to a friend's bachelorette party in Las Vegas, and wakes up next to a man she can't remember.

who called from an unknown number?