Unpublished paper by R. Sh. Ganelin

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-241
Author(s):  
Vladimir Nikolaevich Ginev ◽  
Marina Nikolaevna Rumynskaya
Keyword(s):  
Unpublished Paper

Philosophical Papers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Unpublished Paper ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Original Presentation

Paul Humphreys pioneered philosophical investigations into the methodological revolution begun by computer simulations. He has also made important contributions to the contemporary literature on emergence by developing the fusion account of diachronic emergence and its generalization, transformational emergence. He is the discoverer of what has come to be called “Humphreys” Paradox in probability theory and has also made influential contributions to the literature on probabilistic causality and scientific explanation. This collection contains fourteen of his previously published papers on topics ranging from numerical experiments to the status of scientific metaphysics. There is also and a previously unpublished paper on social dynamics. The volume is divided into four parts on, respectively, computational science, emergence, probability, and general philosophy of science. The first part contains the seminal 1990 paper on computer simulations, with three other papers arguing that these new methods cannot be accounted for by traditional methodological approaches. The second part contains the original presentation of fusion emergence and three companion papers arguing for diachronic approaches to the topic, rather than the then dominant synchronic accounts. The third part starts with the paper that introduced the probabilistic paradox followed by a later evaluation of attempts to solve it. A third paper argues, contra Quine, that probability theory is a purely mathematical theory. The final part includes papers on causation, explanation, metaphysics, and an agent-based model that shows how endogenous uncertainty undermines utility maximization. Each of the four parts is followed by a comprehensive postscript with retrospective assessments.

scholarly journals A Class of Solvable Groups

1959 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 311-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gorenstein ◽  
I. N. Herstein
Keyword(s):  
Finite Groups ◽  
Prime Order ◽  
Solvable Groups ◽  
Unpublished Paper

Numerous studies have been made of groups, especially of finite groups, G which have a representation in the form AB, where A and B are subgroups of G. The form of these results is to determine various grouptheoretic properties of G, for example, solvability, from other group-theoretic properties of the subgroups A and B.More recently the structure of finite groups G which have a representation in the form ABA, where A and B are subgroups of G, has been investigated. In an unpublished paper, Herstein and Kaplansky (2) have shown that if A and B are both cyclic, and at least one of them is of prime order, then G is solvable. Also Gorenstein (1) has completely characterized ABA groups in which every element is either in A or has a unique representation in the form aba', where a, a’ are in A, and b ≠ 1 is in B.

An Unpublished Paper of the Young Faraday

Isis ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Agassi ◽  
Young Faraday
Keyword(s):  
Unpublished Paper

scholarly journals The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science

Hypatia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
Anita L. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Genome Project ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Unpublished Paper ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Battle Of The Sexes ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Good Word ◽  
The Human Genome Project ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The role genetic inheritance plays in the way human beings look and behave is a question about the biology of human sexual reproduction, one that scientists connected with the Human Genome Project dashed to answer before the close of the twentieth century. This is also a question about politics, and, it turns out, poetry, because, as the example of Lucretius shows, poetry is an ancient tool for the popularization of science. “Popularization” is a good word for successful efforts to communicate elite science to non-scientists in non-technical languages and media. According to prominent sociobiologist E. O. Wilson, “sexual dominance is a human universal.” He meant, of course, that men dominate women. Like sociobiology, genetic science is freighted with politics, including gender politics. Scientists have gender perspectives that may color what they “see” in nature. As the late Susan Okin Miller suggested in an unpublished paper tracing the detrimental impact of Aristotle's teleology on Western thought, scientists accustomed to thinking that men naturally dominate women might interpret genetic discoveries accordingly. Biologists have good, scientific reasons to fight the effects of bias. One must be critical of how scientists and popularizers of science, like Genome author Matt Ridley, frame truth and theory. Ridley's “battle of the sexes” metaphor and others have a doubtful place in serious explanations of science.

Reply to Louise Antony

Hypatia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-153
Author(s):  
Naomi Scheman
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Unpublished Paper

In her discussion of Naomi Scheman's “Individualism and the Objects of Psychology” Louise Antony misses the import of an unpublished paper of Scheman's that she cites. That paper argues against token identity theories on the grounds that only the sort of psycho-physical parallelisms that token identity theorists, such as Davidson and Fodor, reject could license the claim that each mental state or event is some particular physical state or event.

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