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PUBLISHED PAPERS |
How to Learn Concepts, Consequences, and Conditionals
Franz Huber
ABSTRACT In this brief note I show how to model conceptual change, logical learning, and revision
of one’s beliefs in response to conditional information such as indicative conditionals that do
not express propositions.
KEYWORDS Ranking Functions; Probability; Conceptual Change; Logical Learning; Learning Conditionals .
of one’s beliefs in response to conditional information such as indicative conditionals that do
not express propositions.
KEYWORDS Ranking Functions; Probability; Conceptual Change; Logical Learning; Learning Conditionals .
| αnalytica |2015 2. huber conceptsandconditionals.pdf |
Maxwell's Paradox: the Metaphysics of Classical
Electrodynamics and its Time-Reversal Invariance
Valia Allori
ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the recent discussion on the time-reversal invariance of classical electrodynamics (see (Albert 2000: ch.1), (Arntzenius 2004), (Earman 2002), (Malament 2004), (Horwich 1987: ch.3)) can be best understood assuming that the disagreement among the various authors is actually a disagreement about the metaphysics of classical electrodynamics. If so, the controversy will not be resolved until we have established which alternative is the most natural. It turns out that we have a paradox, namely that the following three claims are incompatible: the electromagnetic fields are real, classical electrodynamics is time-reversal invariant, and the content of the state of affairs of the world does not depend on whether it belongs to a forward or a backward sequence of states of the world.
KEYWORDS Classical Electrodynamics; Time-reversal Invariance; Field Ontology; Symmetries.
KEYWORDS Classical Electrodynamics; Time-reversal Invariance; Field Ontology; Symmetries.
| αnalytica |2015 1. allori maxwellsparadox.pdf |