Ernest W. Adams (adams-ew)

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Bibliography

Adams, Ernest W. 1959. “The Foundations of Rigid Body Mechanics and the Derivation of its Laws from those of Particle Mechanics.” in The Axiomatic Method with Special Reference to Geometry and Physics, edited by Leon Henkin, Patrick Suppes, and Alfred Tarski, pp. 250–265. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
Adams, Ernest W. 1965. “The Logic of Conditionals.” Inquiry 8: 166–197.
Adams, Ernest W. 1966a. “On the Nature and Purpose of Measurement.” Synthese 16(2): 125–169.
Adams, Ernest W. 1966b. “Probability and the Logic of Conditionals.” in Aspects of Inductive Logic, edited by Jaakko Hintikka and Patrick Suppes, pp. 265–316. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics n. 43. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
Adams, Ernest W. 1970. “Subjunctive and Indicative Conditionals.” Foundations of Language 6(1): 89–94.
Adams, Ernest W. 1973. “The Naive Conception of the Topology of a Surface of a Body.” in Space, Time and Geometry, edited by Patrick Suppes, pp. 402–424. Synthese Library n. 56. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2686-4.
Adams, Ernest W. 1974a. “The Logic of ‘Almost All’ .” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 3(1–2): 3–17.
Adams, Ernest W. 1974b. “Model-Theoretic Aspects of Fundamental Measurement Theory.” in Proceedings of the Tarski Symposium. An International Symposium Held to Honor Alfred Tarski on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, edited by Arend Heyting, pp. 437–446. Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics n. 25. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society. Held at the University of California, Berkeley, June 23-30, 1971.
Adams, Ernest W. 1975. The Logic of Conditionals. An Application of Probability to Deductive Logic. Synthese Library n. 86. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Adams, Ernest W. 1976. “Prior Probabilities and Counterfactual Conditionals.” in Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, Volume 1. Foundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability Theory, edited by William L. Harper and Clifford A. Hooker, pp. 1–22. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6a. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Adams, Ernest W. 1978. “A Note on Comparing Probabilistic and Modal Semantics for Conditionals.” Theoria 43: 186–194.
Adams, Ernest W. 1981a. “Transmissible Improbabilities and Marginal Essentialness of Premises in Inferences Involving Indicative Condtionals.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 10(2): 149–177.
Adams, Ernest W. 1981b. “Truth, Proof, and Conditionals.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62: 323–339.
Adams, Ernest W. 1982. “Approximate Generalizations and Their Idealization.” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 199–207. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Adams, Ernest W. 1983a. “Continuity and Idealizability.” Unpublished manuscript, Philosophy Department, University of California at Berkeley.
Adams, Ernest W. 1983b. “Probabilistic Enthymemes.” The Journal of Pragmatics 7: 283–295.
Adams, Ernest W. 1984. “On the Superficial.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65: 386–407.
Adams, Ernest W. 1986a. “On the Dimensionality of Surface, Solids, and Spaces.” Erkenntnis 24: 137–201.
Adams, Ernest W. 1986b. “Remarks on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditionals.” in On Conditionals, edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice G. B. ter Meulen, Judy Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson, pp. 169–179. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Adams, Ernest W. 1987. “On the Meaning of the Conditional.” Philosophical Topics 15(1): 5–22.
Adams, Ernest W. 1988a. “Consistency and Decision: Variations on Ramseyan Themes.” in Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics. Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, vol. 2, edited by William L. Harper and Brian Skyrms, pp. 49–69. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 42. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7.
Adams, Ernest W. 1988b. “Confirming Inexact Generalizations.” in PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Jarrett Leplin, pp. 10–16. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Adams, Ernest W. 1989. “On the Logic of High Probability.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 18(3): 255–279.
Adams, Ernest W. 1991. “On the Empirical Status of Measurement Axioms: The Case of Subjective Probability.” in Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Measurement Theory, edited by C. Wade Savage and Philip Ehrlich, pp. 53–74. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Adams, Ernest W. 1993. “On the Rightness of Certain Counterfactuals.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 74(1): 1–10.
Adams, Ernest W. 1994. “Practical Causal Generalizations.” in Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher. Vol. 1: Probability and Probabilistic Causality, edited by Paul Humphreys, pp. 317–338. Synthese Library n. 233. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Adams, Ernest W. 1995. “Remarks on a Theorem of McGee.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 24(4): 343–348.
Adams, Ernest W. 1996a. “Four Probability Preserving Properties of Inferences.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 25(1): 1–24.
Adams, Ernest W. 1996b. “Topology, Empiricism, and Operationalism.” The Monist 79(1): 1–20.
Adams, Ernest W. 1997a. A Primer of Probability Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Also published as CSLI lecture notes no. 68.
Adams, Ernest W. 1997b. “Practical Possibilities.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78: 113–127.
Adams, Ernest W. 1998a. “Remarks on Wishes and Counterfactuals.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79: 191–195.
Adams, Ernest W. 1998b. “Review of Jennings (1994).” The Philosophical Review 107(1): 87–88.
Adams, Ernest W. 1998c. “The Utility of Truth and Probability.” in Proceedings of the 20th International Wittgenstein Symposium: The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Paul Weingartner, Gerhard Schurz, and Georg J. W. Dorn, pp. 176–194. Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft n. 26. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky.
Adams, Ernest W. 2002. “Truth Values and the Value of Truth.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83(3): 207–222.
Adams, Ernest W. and Carlstrom, Ian F. 1979. “Representing Approximate Ordering and Equivalence Relations.” Journal of Mathematical Psychology 19(2): 182–207.
Adams, Ernest W. and Levine, Howard P. 1975. “On the Uncertainties Transmitted from Premisses to Conclusions in Deductive Inferences.” Synthese 30: 429–460.
Coleman, James S., Adams, Ernest W. and Solomon, Herbert. 1960. Mathematical Thinking in the Measurement of Behavior. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press.

Further References

Jennings, Raymond E. 1994. The Geneology of Disjunction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195075243.001.0001.