Brian David Ellis

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Brian David Ellis

Philosophy

#578

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#1152

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Logic

#3242

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#4369

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Brian David Ellis's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Brian Ellis is an Australian philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor in the philosophy department at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, and Professional Fellow in philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He was the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy for twelve years. He is one of the major proponents of the New Essentialist school of philosophy of science. In later years he has brought his understanding of scientific realism to the Social Sciences, developing the philosophy of Social Humanism.

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Brian David Ellis's Published Works

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Basic Concepts of Measurement. (1966) (212)
The World as One of a Kind: Natural Necessity and Laws of Nature (1992) (103)
Rational Belief Systems. (1980) (101)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism (2009) (100)
Dispositional essentialism (2014) (70)
Conventionality in Distant Simulataneity (1967) (62)
Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks the Truth (2004) (51)
Causal Powers and Laws of Nature (1999) (46)
An objection to possible-world semantics for counterfactual logics (1977) (43)
Truth and Objectivity (1991) (35)
Retrospective and Prospective Utilitarianism (1981) (29)
A unified theory of conditionals (1978) (26)
Causal Laws and Singular Causation (2000) (22)
Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism (2011) (19)
THE EXISTENCE OF FORCES (1976) (19)
An essentialist perspective on the problem of induction (1998) (19)
CAUSAL POWERS AND CATEGORICAL PROPERTIES (2009) (18)
Universals, the Essential Problem and Categorical Properties (2005) (18)
Physical Realism (2005) (17)
UNIVERSAL AND DIFFERENTIAL FORCES* (1963) (15)
The Logic of Subjective Probability (1973) (15)
Two theories of indicative conditionals (1984) (15)
Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Reasoning (1996) (14)
Response to David Armstrong (1999) (13)
Newton's Concept of Motive Force (1962) (13)
Some fundamental problems of direct measurement (1960) (13)
THE CATEGORICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CAUSAL POWERS (2013) (13)
Katzav on the limitations of dispositionalism (2005) (12)
Essentialism and Natural Kinds (2008) (10)
On conventionality and simultaneity—A reply (1971) (9)
CAN A MACHINE COUNSEL (1968) (9)
On the Nature of Dimensions (1964) (9)
Social Humanism: A New Metaphysics (2012) (8)
Solving the Problem of Induction Using a Values-Based Epistemology (1988) (8)
A COMPARISON OF PROCESS AND NON-PROCESS THEORIES IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES* (1957) (6)
Humanism and Morality (2011) (6)
Avowals are more corrigible than you think (1976) (6)
The Power of Agency (2013) (6)
Epistemic foundations of logic (1976) (6)
Forces (1988) (6)
Internal realism (2004) (5)
Comments on Forge and Swoyer (1987) (5)
Marc lange on essentialism (2005) (5)
The New Essentialism and The Scientific Image of Mankind (2000) (4)
Philosophy of Nature: Laws of Nature (2002) (4)
Our Fundamental Problem: A Revolutionary Approach to Philosophy (2020) (4)
Some fundamental problems of indirect measurement (1961) (4)
TRUTH AS A MODE OF EVALUATION (1980) (4)
Has the universe a beginning in time (1955) (3)
Bigelow’s Worries About Scientific Essentialism (1999) (3)
A review essay on God, chance & necessity (1999) (3)
Philosophy of Nature: Powers and Dispositions (2002) (3)
The executive power of the Commonwealth of Australia (2016) (3)
Apq library of philosophy (1977) (3)
William L. Harper, Robert C. Stalnaker and Glenn Pearce, eds. , Ifs: Conditionals, Belief, Decision, Chance, and Time . Reviewed by (1982) (3)
To know or not to know (2013) (1)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Causal powers and categorical dimensions (2009) (1)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: The ontology of scientific realism (2009) (1)
Is Signal Synchrony Independent of Transport Synchrony? (1978) (1)
KARL MANNHEIM AND THE POLITICAL INTELLIGENTSIA : AN ALTERNATIVE READING (2007) (1)
Report on Analysis "Problem" No. 1 (1952) (1)
Reply to Sorensen (1982) (1)
Explanation and the logic of support (1970) (1)
Essay reviewScientific platonism (1992) (1)
Truth and Objectivity.Truth (1992) (1)
Human agency, realism and the new essentialism (2002) (1)
Replies to Sussman and Dunlop (1978) (0)
Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, even from the Gates of heaven [1] (2001) (0)
The Western Australian constitution (2016) (0)
Physical monism (2004) (0)
History and Philosophy of Science (2014) (0)
Armstrong, D. M.: "Universals: An Opinionated Introduction" (1990) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Bibliography (2002) (0)
The Revolution in Military Affairs and Its Implication For Force Structure (1998) (0)
Crying out for Integrity. "The Ethics of Economic Rationalism" by John Wright [review] (2003) (0)
The ideals of social humanism (2012) (0)
Fairest and best (2018) (0)
Enlightenment and Realism (2019) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Bibliography (2009) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Preface (2009) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Philosophical Implications (2002) (0)
Meta-Economic Principles (2008) (0)
Causal Powers and Structures (2021) (0)
And, in the last analysis, he is on the side of those with plenty of money (2006) (0)
He trudg'd along, unknowing what he sought (John Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia) (1999) (0)
Relates to an Application for Relief in Aid of Arbitration in A City Court (S 4594) (2015) (0)
Hypothetical Reasoning and Conditionals (1979) (0)
Readings On Laws Of Nature (2004) (0)
Laws and acts past in the third session of the second Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraign Charles the Second (2016) (0)
The effect of power and publicity on all men[1] (2001) (0)
From Conventionalism to Scientific Metaphysics (2014) (0)
King's Bench and Common Bench in the reign of Henry III (2016) (0)
THE METAPHYSICS OF PANDISPOSITIONALISM (2017) (0)
Our Fundamental Problem by Nicholas Maxwell McGill-Queen's Uni Press 2020 (2020) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Introduction (2002) (0)
The really big questions (1999) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Essentialist Philosophies of Nature (2002) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Wider Implications (2002) (0)
Critical Notice (1992) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Empiricist and Realist Perspectives on the World (2002) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Realism in ethics (2009) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Properties and Relations (2002) (0)
Humanism and society (2013) (0)
Style is the dress of thought (2000) (0)
Philosophy of Nature: Natural Necessity (2002) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Introduction (2009) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Essentialist realism (2009) (0)
Eudemonism and the welfare state [Society.] (2004) (0)
The Explanatory Power of Dispositional Essentialism (2014) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Quantum mechanical realism (2009) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Realism as first philosophy (2009) (0)
by Diane Larsen-Freeman and Lynne Cameron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 287 pp. (2008) (0)
The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters, to which are added [...] (2016) (0)
The philosophy of uncertainty (1970) (0)
The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism: Science and metaphysics (2009) (0)
New Left directions (2000) (0)
Lessons learnt from the Montreal Protocol (1999) (0)
1992 INDEX Articles by Author (1992) (0)
I Can, If I Choose (1952) (0)
Can I Decide To Do Something Immediately Without Trying To Do It Immediately (1955) (0)

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