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John P. McCaskey

@JohnMcCaskey
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Joined March 2009
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David Hume had nothing skeptical or critical to say about what in his day was called induction. Its reliability was a key part of his system. “I conclude, by an induction which seems to me very evident, that . . . .” “It requires scarce any induction to conclude . . . .” amazon.com/dp/0226854132 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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On Dec. 10, I will be presenting “Regula Socratis: The Rediscovery of Socratic Induction in Early Modern Science” at a workshop on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Socratic studies, sponsored by the International Society for Socratic Studies.
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The workshop will be held at the University of Copenhagen, but I will participate virtually from New York City — where it will be 4:20am when I start speaking! socratessociety.rice.edu/202…
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The special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science dedicated to John Norton’s material theory of induction has been posted. First in the collection is one by me on the history of non-formal theories of induction. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #PhilSci
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See also the second article, by Pat Corvini. We both develop the same theme: In induction, ampliation begins at the conceptual level, not the propositional. We both reject defining induction as a kind of propositional inference. sciencedirect.com/journal/st…
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My article “History of ‘Temperature’: Maturation of a Measurement Concept,” has been published online in Annals of Science. doi.org/10.1080/00033790.202…
History of ‘temperature’: maturation of a measurement concept

History of ‘temperature’: maturation of a measurement concept

Accounts of how the concept of temperature has evolved typically cast the story as ancillary to the history of the thermometer or the history of the concept of heat. But then, because the history o...

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There are now three sometimes-competing definitions, one based on ideal gases, one on entropy, and one on kinetic motion.
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The story is an interesting case study in how a concept can mature—a lot of material here for those working on the philosophy of conceptual change.
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It’s @A_V_Leeuwenhoek’s birthday. Or is it? Read Laura’s Eye of the Beholder. bit.ly/2eK0JRD @LauraJSnyder
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This coming academic year, I’ll be the Medieval Fellow at Fordham University. I’m delighted to have been chosen. johnmccaskey.com/fordham/
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You do not have a natural, inborn, inalienable right to carry a gun. Maybe a constitutional right. That’s different. jmccaskey.com/guns
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johnmccaskey.com/piracy Columbia U has just told professors it will stop scanning copyrighted texts into e-reserves. Yay! @copyrightclear
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I have completely redesigned johnmccaskey.com. Dozens of favorite articles, old and new. Come take a look.
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