U.C. IRVINE
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
ERNEST ADAMS
UC BERKELEY
TOPIC: "PRACTICAL REASON AND CAUSAL GENERALIZATIONS"
PLACE: DEAN'S CONFERENCE ROOM
342 HUMANITIES HALL
TIME: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1989
3:OO P.M.

ERNEST W. ADAMS

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

• (with Roger D. Rosenkrantz). "Applying the Jeffrey Decision Model to Rational Betting and Information Acquisition." Theory & Decision (March 1980), 12(1):1-20.

• "Approximate Generalizations and their Idealization. In Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, eds., PSA 1982: Proceedings of the 1982 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1, pp. 199-207. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1982.

• (with Samuel Messick). "An Axiomatic Formulation and Generalization of Successive Intervals." Psychometrika (December 1958), 23(4):355-368.

• (with Samuel Messick)."An Axiomatization of Thurstone's Successive Intervals and Paired Comparisons Scaling Models." Technical Report No. 12. Office of Naval Research, under Contract NR 171-034. Stanford, CA: Applied Mathematics and Statistics Laboratory, 1957.

• Axiomatic Foundations of Rigid Body Mechanics. Ph. D. Dissertation, Stanford University, 1956.

  Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts (1956), 16(4):766-767.

  "Continuity and Idealizability of Approximate Generalizations." Synthese (June 1986), 67(3):439-476.

  "Contributions to a Theory ot Laws Admitting Exceptions: The Monadic Case" Project Report. Berkeley: University of California, 1981.

  "Elements of a Theory of Inexact Measurement." Philosophy of Science (July 1965), 32(3):205-228.

  "The Foundations of Rigid Body Mechanics and the Derivation of its Laws from those of Particle Mechanics." In Leon Henkin, Patrick Suppes, and Alfred Tarski, eds., The Axiomatic Method with Special Reference to Geometry and Physics, pp. 250-265. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1959.

  Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the University of California, Berkeley, December 26, 1957-January 4, 1958.

  (with Robert F. Fagot and Richard E. Robinson). "Invariance, Meaningfulness, and Appropriate Statistics." Measurement Theory Reports. Technical Report, 1. University of Oregon, 1964.

  "The Logic of Conditionals." Inquiry (Summer 1965), 8(2):166-197.

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  "The Logic of 'Almost All'." Journal of Philosophical Logic (January-April 1974), 3(1-2):3-17.

  "Measurement Theory." In Peter D. Asquith and Henry E. Hyburg, Jr., eds., Current Research in Philosophy of Science, pp. 207-227. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1979.

  Proceedings of the P. S. A. Critical Research Problems Conference.

  (with Robert F. Fagot). "A Model of Riskless Choice." Technical Report No. 4. Office of Naval Research, under Contract NR 171-034. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, August 7, 1956.

  (with Robert F. Fagot). "A Model of Riskless Choice." Behavioral Choice (1959), 4:1-10.

  "Model-Theoretic Aspects of Fundamental Measurement Theory." In Leon Henkin, John Addison, C. A. Chang, William Craig, Dana Scott and Robert Vaught, eds., Proceedings of the Tarski Symposium: An International Symposium held to honor Alfred Tarski on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, pp. 373- 384. Tarski Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 25. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1974.

  "Modus Tollens Revisited." Analysis (June 1988), 48(3):123-128.

  (with Robert F. Fagot). "Monotonicity, Convexity, and Other Qualitative Psychophysical Laws." Journal of Mathematical Psychology (June 1987), 31(2):113-134.

  "The Naive Conception of the Topology of the Surface of a Body." In Patrick Suppes, ed., Space, Time and Geometry, pp. 402- 424. Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, MA: Reidel, 1973.

  "A Note Comparing Probabilistic and Modal Logics of Conditionals." Theoria (1977), 43(3):186-194.

  "On Karl Menger's 'Variables, Constants, Fluents'." In Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell, eds., Current Issues in the Philosophy of Science: Symposia of Scientists and Philosophers, pp. 313-316. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

  "On Rational Betting Systems." Archiv für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung (l961), 6:7-29.

  "On Rational Betting Systems (Continuation)." Archiv für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung (1964), 6:112- 128.

  "On the Dimensionality of Surfaces, Solids, and Spaces." Erkenntnis (March 1986), 24(2):137-201.

  (with Robert F. Fagot and Richard E. Robinson). "On the Empirical Status of Axioms in Theories of Fundamental Measurement." Journal of Mathematical Psychology (October 1970), 7(3):379- 409.

  "On the Logic of High Probability." Journal of Philosophical Logic (August 1986), 15(3):255-279.

  "On the Meaning of the Conditional." Philosophical Topics (Spring 1987), 15(1):5-22.

  "On the Nature and Purpose of Measurement." Synthese (November 1966), 16(2):125-l69.

  "On the Reasonableness of Inferences Involving Conditionals." In Memorias den XIII Congreso International de Filosofia. Vol. V: Communicaciones libres. Rapports libres. Submitted Papers. Seccion I: Logic and Philosophy of Language. Seccion II: Knowledge and General Science Theory, pp. 1-9. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, l964.

  "On the Superficial." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (October 1984), 65(4):386-407.

  (with Robert F. Fagot). "On the Theory of Biased Bisection Operations and their Inverses." Journal of Mathematical Psychology (February 1975), 12(1):35-52.

  (with Howard P. Levine). "On the Uncertainties Transmitted from Premises to Conclusions in Deductive Inferences." Synthese (April-May 1975), 30(3-4):429-460.

  "Prior Probabilities and Counterfactual Conditionals." In W. L. Harper and C. A. Hooker, eds., Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, Vol 1: Foundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability Theory, pp. 1-21. Proceedings of an International Research-Colloquium held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, May 10-13, 1973. University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 1. Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, MA: Reidel, 1976.

  "Probabilistic Enthymemes." Journal of Pragmatics (June l983), 7(3):283-295.

  "Probability and the Logic of Conditionals." In Jaako Hintikka and Patrick Suppes, eds., Aspects of Inductive Logic, pp. 265-316. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1966.

  (with William Y. Adams). "Purpose and Scientific Concept Formation." British Journal for Philosophy of Science (December 1987), 38:419-440.

  "Remarks on Convention T's Pragmatic and Semantic Associations, and its Limitations." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (April 1984), 65(2):124-139.

  (with Ian F. Carlstrom). "Representing Approximate Ordering and Equivalence Relations." Journal of Mathematical Psychology (April 1979), 19(2):182-207.

  Review of Adolf Grunbaum's Geometry and Chronometry in Philosophical Perspective. Philosophy of Science (December l972), 39(4):553-555.

  Review of Carolyn Eisele, ed., Historical Perspectives on Peirce's Logic of Science: A History of Science. Methodology and Science (1986), 19:295-297.

  Review of Jaako Hintikka and Patrick Suppes, eds., Information and Inference. Synthese (November- December 1972), 25(1-2):234-240.

  Review of Sections VII-XI of Ernest Nagel, Patrick 5uppes and Alfred Tarski, eds., Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings. Journal of Philosophy (January 16, 1964), 61(2):89-94.

  "Subjunctive and Indicative Conditionals." Foundations of Language (February 1970), 6(1):89-94.

  Survey of Bernoullian Utility and Applications. Technical Report, 9. New York: Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, 1954.

  "A Survey of Bernoullian Utility Theory." In Herbert Solomon, ed., Mathematical Thinking in the Measurement of Behavior: Small Groups, Utility, Factor Analysis. A Study of the Behavior Models Project, Bureau of Applied Research, Columbia University, pp. 151-268. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960.

  (with Robert F. Fagot and Richard E. Robinson). "A Theory of Appropriate Statistics." Psychometrika (June 1965), 30(2): 99-127.

  "Transmissible Improbalities and Marginal Essentialness of Premises in Inferences Involving Indicative Conditionals." Journal of Philosophical Logic (May 1981), 10(2):149-177.

  "Truth, Proof and Conditionals." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (October 1981), 62(4):323-339.

  "Two Aspects of Physical Identity." Philosophical Studies (August 1978), 34(2):111-134.