William L. Harper (harper-w)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Gibbard, Allan F. and Harper, William L. 1978. “Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility.” in Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. Volume 1: Theoretical Foundations, edited by Clifford A. Hooker, James Leach, and Edward F. McClennen, pp. 125–162. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 13a. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Republished in Harper, Stalnaker and Pearce (1981, 153–190) and in Campbell and Sowden (1985, 133–158).
Hájek, Alan and Harper, William L. 1996. “Full Belief and Probability: Comments on Van Fraassen.” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 35.
Harper, William L. 1974a. “Counterfactuals and Representations of Rational Belief.” PhD dissertation, Rochester, New York: University of Rochester.
Harper, William L. 1974b. “A Note on Universal Instantiation in the Stalnaker Thomason Conditional Logics and the M Type Modal Systems.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 3(4): 373–379.
Harper, William L. 1975a. “Rational Belief Change, Popper Functions and the Counterfactuals.” Synthese 30: 221–262. Reprinted in Harper and Hooker (1976a, 73–115).
Harper, William L. 1975b. “Revision of Def of IP-Model and Relativized Conditional.” Unpublished manuscript.
Harper, William L. 1976. “Ramsey Test Conditionals and Iterated Belief Change (A Response to Stalnaker (1976)).” 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. 117–136. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6a. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harper, William L. 1977. “Rational Conceptual Change.” in PSA 1976: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia, edited by Frederick Suppe and Peter D. Asquith, pp. 462–494. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Harper, William L. 1978. “Bayesian Learning Models with Revision of Evidence.” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 8(2): 357–367.
Harper, William L. 1981a. “Subjunctive Conditionals.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Western Ontario.
Harper, William L. 1981b. “A Sketch of Some Recent Developments in the Theory of Conditionals.” in Ifs: Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance, and Time, edited by William L. Harper, Robert C. Stalnaker, and Glenn Pearce, pp. 3–38. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-009-9117-0.
Harper, William L. 1982. “Kyburg on Direct Inference.” in Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. & Isaac Levi, edited by Radu J. Bogdan, pp. 97–128. Profiles n. 3. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harper, William L. 1984. “Kant on Space, Empirical Realism and the Foundations of Geometry.” Topoi 3. Reprinted in Posy (1992, 257–292).
Harper, William L. 1985. “Ratifiability and Causal Decision Theory: Comments on Eells (1985) and Seidenfeld (1985).” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 213–228. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Harper, William L. 1986. “Kant on the A Priori and Material Necessity.” in Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaften 1786–1986, edited by Robert E. Butts, pp. 239–272. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 33. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harper, William L. 1988a. “Introduction.” 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. ix–xix. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 42. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7.
Harper, William L. 1988b. “Causal Decision Theory and Game Theory: A Classic Argument for Equilibrium Solutions, A Defense of Weak Equilibria, and a New Problem for the Normal Form Representation.” 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. 25–48. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 42. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7.
Harper, William L. 1989. “Decisions, Games and Equilibrium Solutions.” in PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Jarrett Leplin, pp. 344–362. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Harper, William L. 1991a. “Kant on Incongruous Counterparts.” in The Philosophy of Right and Left. Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space, edited by James Van Cleve and Robert E. Frederick, pp. 263–313. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 46. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Harper, William L. 1991b. “Newton’s Classic Deductions from Phenomena.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 183–196. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Harper, William L. 1993a. “Causal and Evidential Expectations in Strategic Settings.” Philosophical Topics 21(1): 79–98.
Harper, William L. 1993b. “Dynamic Deliberation.” in PSA 1992: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Kathleen Okruhlik, pp. 353–364. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Harper, William L. 1995. “Kant, Riemann, and Reichenbach on Space and Geometry.” in Proceedings of the 8th International Kant-Congress Memphis 1995, volume I.2, edited by Hoke Robinson, pp. 423–454. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press.
Harper, William L. 1997. “Isaac Newton on Empirical Success and Scientific Method.” in The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration, edited by John S. Earman and John D. Norton, pp. 55–86. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Harper, William L. 1999. “Solutions Based on Ratifiability and Sure Thing Reasoning.” in The Logic of Strategy, edited by Cristina Bicchieri, Richard C. Jeffrey, and Brian Skyrms, pp. 67–81. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harper, William L. 2000. “Review of Woods (1997).” The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 6(3): 358–360.
Harper, William L. 2002. “Newton’s Argument for Universal Gravitation.” in The Cambridge Companion to Newton, edited by I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith, pp. 174–201. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harper, William L. 2007. “Comments on Westphal (2004).” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 46(4): 729–736.
Harper, William L. 2009. “Newton’s Methodology.” in Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle. Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony, edited by Wayne C. Myrvold and Joy Christian, pp. 43–62. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 72. Dordrecht: Springer.
Harper, William L. 2012a. Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data Into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570409.001.0001.
Harper, William L. 2012b. “Newton, Huygens, and Euler: Empirical Support for Laws of Motion.” in Interpreting Newton. Critical Essays, edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, pp. 169–195. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harper, William L. 2013. “Reply to Huggett (2013), Smith (2013) and Miller (2013).” Metascience 22(2).
Harper, William L. 2017. “Newton’s Argument for Universal Gravitation.” in The Cambridge Companion to Newton, edited by Rob Iliffe and George E. Smith, 2nd ed., pp. 229–260. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. First edition: Cohen and Smith (2002), doi:10.1017/cco9781139058568.
Harper, William L., Bennett, Bryce Hemsley and Valluri, Sreeram. 1994. “Unification and Support: Harmonic Law Rations Measure the Mass of the Sun.” in Logic, and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala, edited by Dag Prawitz and Dag Westerståhl, pp. 131–146. Synthese Library n. 236. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Harper, William L., Chow, Sheldon J. and Murray, Gemma. 2012. “Bayesian Chance.” Synthese 186(2): 447–474.
Harper, William L. and Hooker, Clifford A., eds. 1976a. Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, Volume 1. Foundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability Theory. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6a. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harper, William L. and Hooker, Clifford A., eds. 1976b. Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, Volume 2. Foundations and Philosophy of Statistical Inference. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6b. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harper, William L. and Hooker, Clifford A., eds. 1976c. Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, Volume3. Foundations and Philosophy of Statistical Theories in the Physical Sciences. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6c. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Harper, William L., Leblanc, Hugues and van Fraassen, Bas C. 1983. “On Characterizing Popper and Carnap Probability Functions.” in Essays in Epistemology and Semantics, edited by Hugues Leblanc, Raphael Stern, and Raymond D. Gumb, pp. 140–152. New York: Haven Publications.
Harper, William L. and Skyrms, Brian, eds. 1988. Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics. Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, vol. 2. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 42. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7.
Harper, William L., Stalnaker, Robert C. and Pearce, Glenn, eds. 1981. Ifs: Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance, and Time. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-009-9117-0.
Hockney, Donald J., Harper, William L. and Freed, B., eds. 1975. Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 4. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
May, Sherry and Harper, William L. 1976. “Toward an Optimization Procedure for Applying Minimum Change Principles in Probability Kinematics.” 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. 137–166. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6a. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Murray, Gemma, Harper, William L. and Wilson, Curtis. 2011. “Huygens, Wren, Wallis, and Newton on Rules of Impact and Reflection.” in Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion. Descartes and Beyond, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Peter R. Anstey, pp. 153–194. Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy n. 13. London: Routledge.
Skyrms, Brian and Harper, William L., eds. 1988. Causation, Chance, and Credence. Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, vol. 1. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 41. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2863-3.

Further References

Campbell, Richmond and Sowden, Lanning, eds. 1985. Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation: Prisoner’s Dilemma and Newcomb’s Problem. Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press.
Eells, Ellery. 1985. “Causal Decision Theory.” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 177–200. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Huggett, Nick. 2013. “Review of Harper (2012a).” Metascience 22(2).
Miller, David Marshall. 2013. “Review of Harper (2012a).” Metascience 22(2).
Posy, Carl J., ed. 1992. Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics. Modern Essays. Synthese Library n. 219. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Seidenfeld, Teddy. 1985. “Comments on Causal Decision Theory [on Eells (1985)].” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 201–212. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Smith, George E. 2013. “Review of Harper (2012a).” Metascience 22(2).
Stalnaker, Robert C. 1976. “Letter to W.L. Harper.” 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. 113–116. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 6a. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Westphal, Kenneth R. 2004. Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Woods, Michael J. 1997. Conditionals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published posthumously; edited by David Wiggins, with a commentary by Dorothy Edgington.