Speaker: D.H. Mellor
Cambridge University
Topic: "Why be a Physicalist?"
March 18, 1988
Compiled by
Eddie Yeghiayan
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"Experimental Error and Deducibility." Philosophy of Science (April 1965), 32(2):105-122.
"Inexactness and Explanation." Philosophy of Science (December 1966), 3394):345=359.
"Connectivity, Chance and Ignorance." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (November 1967), 18(3):235-238.
"Imprecision and Explanation." Philosophy of Science (March 1967), 34(1):1-9.
"Review of Brian Ellis' Basic Concepts of Measurement. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (February 1967), 17(4):323-326.
"Models and Analogies in Science: Duhem Versus Campbell." Isis (1968), 59(168):282-290.
"On Literary Truth." Ratio (December 1968), 10(2):150-168.
"Two Fallacies in Charles Taylor's Explanation of Behaviour. Mind (January 1968), 77(305):124-126.
"Chance." Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1969),
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The first paper of a Symposium with John
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Review of Richard Swinburne's Space and Time. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (December 1969), 20(4):366-371.
Review of Imre Lakatos, ed., The Problem of Inductive Logic. Philosophical Quarterly (October 1970), 20(81):405-406.
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Review of Wilfrid Sellars' Science and Mrtaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes. Ratio (June 1971), 13(1):93-95.
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"Materialism and Phenomenal Qualities."
Aristotelian Supplementary Volume (1973), 47:107-119.
The second paper of a Symposium with Les
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"Reply to Mr. Holborow." Mind (January 1973),
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Reply to L.C. Holborow's "Mellor's
Mistakes about Taylor's Explanation of Behaviour. Mind
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Review of A.J. Ayer's Probability and Evidence. Philosophical Quarterly (July 1973), 23(92):271-274.
"In Defense of Dispositions." Philosophical Review (April 1974), 83(2):157-181.
"Religious and Secular Statements." Philosophy (January 1974), 49(187):35-46.
Review of Peter Achinstein's Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science. Mind (January 1974), 83(329):146-149.
"Special Relativity and Present Truth." Analysis (January 1974), 34(3):74-77.
"Arguing from the Evidence." Review of George N. Schlesinger's Confirmation and Confirmability. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (February 14, 1975), 3806:176.
"Comment." In Stephan Korner, ed.,Explanation: papers and
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Comments on Wesley Salmon's "Theoretical
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"In Two Dimensions." Review of Ian Hinckfuss' The Existence of Space and Time. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (September 7, 1975), 3834:993.
"Mind over Materialism." Listener (January 9, 1975), 93(2388):46-47.
Review of J.L. Mackie's The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation. Ratio (December 1975), 17(2):251-254.
Review of Patrick Suppes' Probabilistic Metaphysics. Philosophical Books (May 1975), 16(2):30-32.
"Probable Explanation." Australasian Journal of Philosophy (December 1976), 54(3):231-241.
"Conscious Belief." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society <1977-78), 78:87-101.
"Natural Kinds." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (December 1977), 28(4):299-312.
"The Popper Phenomenon." Review of Paul Arthur Schlipp, ed., The Philosophy of Karl Popper. Philosophy (April 1977), 52(200):195-202.
"Arguing from the Evidence." Review of L. Jonathan Cohen's The Probabale and the Provable. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (June 23, 1978), 3977:708-709.
Edited and Introduction. F.P. Ramsey's Foundations: Essays
in Philosophy, Logic, mathematics and Economics.
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1978.
Revision with new material of Frank
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"Reply to Professor Fetzer." Philosophia (July 1978),
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Reply to james H. Fetzer's "On Mellor on
Dispositions," in the same issue, pp. 651-660.
Review of Stephen P. Schwartz' ed., Naming, Necessity and Natural Kinds. Philosophy (January 1978), 53(203):126-127.
"On Nationalism." Listener (July 5, 1979), 102(2618):13.
"The Possibility of Prediction." Proceedings of the British
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"Consciousness and Degrees of Belief." In D.H. Mellor, ed., Prospects for Pragmatism: Essays in Memory of F.P. Ramsey, pp. 139-173. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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"Necessities and Universals in Natural Laws. In D.H. Mellor, ed., Science, Belief, and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R.B. Braithwaite, pp. 105-123. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Edited. Science, Belief, and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R.B. Braithwaite. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
"Of Things and Causes in Spacetime." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (September 1980), 31(3):282-288.
"The Self from Time to Time." Analysis (January 1980), 40(1):59-62.
"McTaggart, Fixity and Coming True." In Richard Healey, ed., Reduction, Time and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, pp. 79-97. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
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"Some Problems about Solving Problems." In Peter D. Asquith and Ian Hacking, eds., PSA 1978, Vol. 2, Symposium, pp. 522-529. Proceedings of the 1978 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of the Philosophy of Science Association. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association, 1981.
"Thank Goodness That's Over." Ratio (June 1981), 23(1):20-30.
"Chance and Degrees of Belief." In Robert McLaughlin, ed., What, Where, When, Why: Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation, pp. 49-68. Inspired by the Work of Wesley C. Salmon and Celebrating His First Visit to Australia in September-December 1978. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1. Dordrecht, Holland & Boston: Reidel, 1982.
"Counting Corners Correctly." Analysis (March 1982),
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Reply to Elizabeth W. Prior's "The
Dispositional/Categorial Distinction" in the same issue, pp. 93-96.
"The Reduction of Society." Philosophy (January 1982), 57(219):51-75.
"Theoretically Structured Time." Review of W.H. Newton-Smith's The Structure of Time. Philosophical Books (April 1982), 23(2):65-69.
"Vat Registration." Review of Hilary Putnam's Reason, Truth and History. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (July 16, 1982), 4137:774.
"Macbeath's Soluble Aspirin."
Ratio (June 1983), 25(1):89-92.
Reply to Murray MacBeath's "Mellor's
Emeritus Headache" in the same issue, pp. 81-88.
"Objective Decision Making." Social Theory and Practice (Summer-Fall 1983), 9(2-3):289-309.
Review of Brian Skyrms' Causal Necessity: A Pragmatic Investigation of the Necessity of Laws. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (March 1983), 34(1):97-104.
"Consequential Coincidences." Review of D.M. Armstrong's What is a Law of Nature? TLS. Times Literary Supplement (July 16. 1982), 4137:774.
Review of Henry E. Kyburg's Epistemology and Inference. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (June 1984), 35(2):175-179.
"What is Computational Psychology?" Aristotelian Society
Supplementary Volume (1984), 58:37-53.
The second paper of a Symposium with
Margaret A. Boden, pp. 17-35.
Review of R.G. Swinburne, ed., Space, Time and Causality. Rotal Instititute of Philosophy Lectures, Volume 1981. Philosophical Books (October 1985), 26(4):243-245.
"History Without the Flow of Time." Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionphilosophie (1986), 28(1):68-76.
"Tense's Tenseless Truth Conditions."
Analysis (October 1986), 46(4):167-172.
Reply to Graham Priest's "Tense and
Truth Conditions" in the same issue, pp. 162-166,
"Fixed Past, Unfixed Future." In Barry Taylor, ed., Michael Dummett: Contributions to Philosophy, pp. 166-186. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Dordrecht, Holland: Nijhoff, 1987.
"Statistical Causality." [In Russian] Voprosy Filosofii
(1987), 4:80-90.