Wolfgang Spohn (spohn)
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Bibliography
Haas-Spohn, Ulrike and Spohn, Wolfgang. 2001. “Concepts are Beliefs about Essences.” in
Building on Frege: New Essays on Sense,
Content, and Concept, edited by Albert Newen, Ulrich Nortmann, and Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz, pp. 287–317. Stanford,
California: CSLI Publications. Papers presented at a
meeting from the 7th to the 10th of October, 1998, in the
Gustav-Streseman-Institute in Bonn.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1975. “An Analysis of Hansson’s Dyadic Deontic
Logic.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 4(2):
237–252.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1977. “Where Luce and Krantz Really Do Generalize Savage’s
Decision Model.” Erkenntnis 11: 113–134.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1978.
Grundlagen der Entscheidungstheorie. Kronberg/Ts.:
Scriptor Verlag.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1980. “Stochastic Independence, Causal Independence, and
Shieldability.” The Journal of Philosophical
Logic 9(1): 73–99.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1983. “Deterministic and Probabilistic Reasons and
Causes.” Erkenntnis 19(1–3): 371–396.
Reprinted in Hempel, Putnam and Essler (1983,
371–396).
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1986. “The Representation of Popper Measures.”
Topoi 5: 69–74.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1988. “Ordinal Conditional Functions: A Dynamic Theory of
Epistemic States.” 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. 105–134. The
University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
n. 42. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7_6.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1990. “A General Non-Probabilistic Theory of Inductive
Reasoning.” in UAI-89. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, volume 5, edited by
Max Henrion, Ross D. Shachter, Laveen N. Kanal, and J. F. Lemmer. vol. 5. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science
Publishers B.V.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1991. “A Reason for Explanation: Explanations Provide Stable
Reasons.” in Existence and
Explanation. Essays presented in Honor of Karel Lambert,
edited by Wolfgang Spohn, Bas C. van
Fraassen, and Brian Skyrms, pp. 165–196. The
University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
n. 49. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1993. “Causal Laws are Objectifications of Inductive
Schemes.” in Philosophy of
Probability, edited by Jacques-Paul Dubucs, pp. 223–256. Philosophical
Studies Series n. 56. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1994. “On the Properties of Conditional
Independence.” in Patrick Suppes:
Scientific Philosopher. Vol. 1: Probability and Probabilistic
Causality, edited by Paul Humphreys, pp. 173–196. Synthese
Library n. 233. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1997a. “The Character of Color Predicates: A Materialist
View.” in Direct Reference,
Indexicality, and Proposition Attitudes, edited by Wolfgang
Künne, Albert Newman, and Martin Anduschus, pp. 351–379. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1997b.
“Über die Gegenstände des
Glaubens.” in Analyomen 2. Volume I: Logic,
Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, edited by Georg Meggle, pp. 291–321. Perspektiven der
analytischen Philosophie / Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy
n. 16. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1997c.
“Begründung a priori – oder: ein frischer Blick
auf Dispositionsprädikate.” in Das
weite Spektrum der analytischen Philosophie – Festschrift
für Franz von Kutschera, edited by Wolfgang
Lenzen, pp. 323–345. Perspektiven
der analytischen Philosophie / Perspectives in Analytic
Philosophy n. 14. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1998a. “Concepts as Beliefs about Essences.”
Unpublished manuscript.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 1998b. “How to Understand the Foundations of Empirical Belief in
a Coherentist Way.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society 98: 23–40.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2001.
“Deterministic Causation.” in Current Issues in Causation, edited by
Wolfgang Spohn, Marion Ledwig, and Michael Esfeld, pp. 21–46. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2002. “The Many Facets of the Theory of
Rationality.” Croatian Journal of Philosophy
2(3): 249–264.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2003a.
“Lehrer Meets Ranking Theory.” in The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, edited by
Erik J. Olsson, pp. 129–142.
Philosophical Studies Series n. 95. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2003b. “Carnap versus Quine, or Aprioristic versus Naturalized
Epistemology, or a Lesson from Dispositions.” in Language, Truth and Knowledge. Contributions to the
Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, edited by Thomas Bonk, pp. 167–178. Vienne Circle
Institute Library n. 2. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2004. “Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes.” in
Induction and Deduction in the
Sciences, edited by Friedrich Stadler, pp. 135–150. Vienna Circle
Institute Yearbook n. 11. Dordrecht: Springer.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2005. “Enumerative Induction and Lawlikeness.”
Philosophy of Science 72(1).
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2006a.
“Causation: An Alternative.” The British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57(1): 93–119.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2006b. “Isaac Levi’s Potentially Surprising Epistemological
Picture.” in Knowledge and
Inquiry. Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi, edited by
Erik J. Olsson, pp. 125–142. Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction, and Decision
Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2007. “The Core of Free Will.” in Thinking about Causes. From Greek Philosophy to Modern
Physics, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Gereon Wolters, pp. 297–310. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
University of Pittsburgh Press.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2008.
“Two-Dimensional Truth.” Studia
Philosophica Estonica 1(2): 228–248.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2009a. Causation, Coherence, and Concepts. A Collection of
Essays. Boston Studies in the
Philosophy of Science n. 256. Dordrecht: Springer.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2009b. “Why the Received Models of Considering Preference Change
Must Fail.” in Preference
Change. Approaches from Philosophy, Economics and
Psychology, edited by Till Grüne-Yanoff and Sven Ove Hansson, pp. 109–122. Dordrecht: Springer.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2009c. “A Survey of Ranking Theory.” in Degrees of Belief, edited by Franz Huber and Christoph Schmidt-Petri, pp. 185–228. Synthese
Library n. 342. Dordrecht: Springer.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2010a. “Chance and Necessity: From Humean Supervenience to Humean
Projection.” in The Place of
Probability in Science. In Honor of Ellery Eells
(1953–2006), edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 101–132. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
n. 284. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3615-5_5.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2010b. “The Structural Model and the Ranking-Theoretic Approach
to Causation: A Comparison.” in Heuristics, Probability and Causality. A Tribute to Judea
Pearl, edited by Rina Dechter, Héctor Geffner, and Joseph Y. Halpern, pp. 507–522. Tributes
n. 11. London: King’s College Publications.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2012a. The Laws of Belief. Ranking Theory and its Philosophical
Applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697502.001.0001.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2012b. “Reversing 30 Years of Discussion: Why Causal Decision
Theorists should One-Box.” Synthese 187(1):
95–122.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2014. “How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile
Realism and Social Constructivism.” in New Directions in the Philosophy of Science,
edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis
Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas E. Uebel, and Marcel Weber, pp. 255–266. The
Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 5. Cham:
Springer.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2015.
“Conditionals: A Unifying Ranking-Theoretic
Perspective.” Philosophers’ Imprint 15(1).
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2016. “Three Kinds of Worlds and Two Kinds of
Truth.” Philosophical Studies 173(5): 1335–1359.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2017. “The Epistemology and Auto-Epistemology of Temporal
Self-Location and Forgetfulness.” Ergo 4(13):
359–418, doi:10.3998/ergo.12405314.0004.013.
Spohn, Wolfgang. 2023. “A Generalization of the Reflection
Principle.” Dialectica 77(1), doi:10.48106/dial.v77.i1.04.
Spohn, Wolfgang, van Fraassen,
Bas C. and Skyrms, Brian, eds. 1991.
Existence and Explanation. Essays presented in
Honor of Karel Lambert. The University
of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 49.
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Spohn, Wolfgang, Ledwig, Marion and Esfeld, Michael, eds. 2001. Current Issues in Causation. Paderborn:
Mentis Verlag.
Spohn, Wolfgang, Schröder-Heister, Peter and Olsson, Erik J. 2005. Logik in der
Philosophie. Heidelberg: Synchron, Wissenschaftsverlag der
Autoren.
Further References
Hempel, Carl Gustav, Putnam, Hilary and Essler, Wilhelm K., eds. 1983. Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of
Science. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Stegmüller on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, June
3rd 1983. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-015-7676-5.