Results for 'Contingency'

967 found
Order:
  1.  13
    Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.James T. Cushing - 1994 - University of Chicago Press.
    Why does one theory "succeed" while another, possibly clearer interpretation, fails? By exploring two observationally equivalent yet conceptually incompatible views of quantum mechanics, James T. Cushing shows how historical contingency can be crucial to determining a theory's construction and its position among competing views. Since the late 1920s, the theory formulated by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at Copenhagen has been the dominant interpretation of quantum mechanics. Yet an alternative interpretation, rooted in the work of Louis de Broglie in (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   130 citations  
  2.  56
    Primary Goods, Contingency, and the Moral Challenge of Genetic Enhancement.Somogy Varga - 2011 - Journal of Value Inquiry 45 (3):279-291.
  3.  48
    Propositional quantification in logics of contingency.Hans van Ditmarsch & Jie Fan - 2016 - Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 26 (1):81-102.
    In this work we define contingency logic with arbitrary announcement. In contingency logic, the primitive modality contingency formalises that a proposition may be true but also may be false, so that if it is non-contingent then it is necessarily true or necessarily false. To this logic one can add dynamic operators to describe change of contingency. Our logic has operators for public announcement and operators for arbitrary public announcement, as in the dynamic epistemic logic called arbitrary (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  4. Possible Worlds in the Tahafut al-Falasifa: Al-Ghazali on Creation and Contingency.Taneli Kukkonen - 2000 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (4):479-502.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 38.4 (2000) 479-502 [Access article in PDF] Possible Worlds in the Tahâfut al-Falâsifa Al-Ghazâlî on Creation and Contingency Taneli Kukkonen University of Helsinki 1. This article is the second half in an inquiry into the debate between al-Ghazâlî (1058-1111) and Averroes (1126-1198) on the metaphysical basis of modalities. The first article focused on Averroes' exposition of the Arabic Aristotelian position on the (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  5.  56
    Nagel’s Explanation of the Illusion of Contingency.Vitor Manuel Dinis Pereira - 2024 - Roczniki Filozoficzne 72 (4):315-336.
    Kripke argues that theoretical identities are necessary but seem contingent, and that alleged psychophysical identities of types are not in fact identities. In line with Kripke’s strategy for explaining the contingency illusion of theoretical identities (and for the alleged failure of the type-type identitative materialist strategy), while an explanation is available for the illusion of contingency in the case of theoretical identities, in the case of alleged psychophysical identities of types, an analogous explanation is not available. Nagel argues (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  6. Leibniz's Optics and Contingency in Nature.Jeffrey K. McDonough - 2010 - Perspectives on Science 18 (4):432-455.
    Leibniz’s mature philosophical understanding of the laws of nature emerges rather suddenly in the late 1670’s to early 1680’s and is signaled by his embrace of three central theses.1 The first, what I’ll call the thesis of Contingency, suggests that the laws of nature are not only contingent, but, in some sense, paradigmatically contingent; they are supposed to provide insight into the very nature of contingency as Leibniz comes to understand it. The second, what I’ll call the thesis (...)
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  7.  54
    William of Ockham on Future Contingency. Øhrstrøm & David Jakobsen - 2018 - KronoScope 18 (2):138-153.
    In his philosophy, William of Ockham (1285-1347) offered an important and detailed response to the classical argument from the truth of a statement regarding the future to the necessity (unpreventability) of the statement. In this paper, Ockham’s solution and the possible formalisation of it are discussed in terms of modern tense and modal logic. In particular, the famous branching time formalisation suggested by A.N. Prior (1914-19) is discussed. Weaknesses and problems with this suggestion are pointed out, and an alternative formalisation (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  8. Spontaneity and Contingency: Kant’s Two Models of Rational Self-Determination.Markus Kohl - 2020 - In Manja Kisner & Jörg Noller (eds.), The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy: Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 29-48.
    I argue that Kant acknowledges two models of spontaneous self-determination that rational beings are capable of. The first model involves absolute unconditional necessity and excludes any form of contingency. The second model involves (albeit not as a matter of definition) a form of contingency which entails alternative possibilities for determining oneself. The first model would be exhibited by a divine being; the second model is exhibited by human beings. Human beings do, however, partake in the divine model up (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  9.  36
    The domain relativity of evolutionary contingency.Cory Travers Lewis - 2018 - Biology and Philosophy 33 (3-4):25.
    A key issue in the philosophy of biology is evolutionary contingency, the degree to which evolutionary outcomes could have been different. Contingency is typically contrasted with evolutionary convergence, where different evolutionary pathways result in the same or similar outcomes. Convergences are given as evidence against the hypothesis that evolutionary outcomes are highly contingent. But the best available treatments of contingency do not, when read closely, produce the desired contrast with convergence. Rather, they produce a picture in which (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  10.  36
    Is there evidence for unaware evaluative conditioning in a valence contingency learning task?Anne Gast, Jasmin Richter & Borys Ruszpel - 2020 - Cognition and Emotion 34 (1):57-73.
    ABSTRACTIn three experiments we investigated whether memory-independent evaluative conditioning and other memory-independent contingency learning effects occur in the valence contingency...
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  11. Nominalism and the contingency of abstract objects.Crispin Wright & Bob Hale - 1992 - Journal of Philosophy 89 (3):111-135.
  12.  22
    A World in the Making: Contingency and Time in James Benning's BNSF.Samuel Adelaar - 2017 - Film-Philosophy 21 (1):60-77.
    This article presents an analysis of James Benning's film, BNSF (2013). It argues that the film comprises a landscape rendered in such a way that the temporal aspects of the processes, both cultural and natural, of which it is composed are brought forth. The article also asserts that, by relating a world that unfolds with a measure of contingency, the film not only manifests the inherent inadequacy of representation, but also it draws attention to the efficacy of the world (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  13.  35
    Counterfactuals and history: Contingency and convergence in histories of science and life.Ian Hesketh - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 58:41-48.
  14.  33
    Bimodal Logic with Contingency and Accident: Bisimulation and Axiomatizations.Jie Fan - 2021 - Logica Universalis 15 (2):123-147.
    In this paper, a suitable notion of bisimulation is proposed for the bimodal logic with contingency and accident. We obtain several van Benthem Characterization Theorems, and axiomatize the bimodal logic over the class of Eulidean frames and over some more restricted classes, showing their strong completeness via a novel strategy, thereby answering two open questions raised in the literature. With the new bisimulation notion, we also correct an error in the expressivity results in the literature.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  15.  14
    Time, memory, and the politics of contingency.Smita A. Rahman - 2014 - New York: Routledge.
    In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a particular experience of time as linear and sequential. This book aims to unsettle the dominant framework by putting time itself, and the experience of time in everyday life, at the center of its critical analysis. Smita Rahman focuses on the experience of time as (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16.  69
    Foucault across the disciplines: introductory notes on contingency in critical inquiry.Colin Koopman - 2011 - History of the Human Sciences 24 (4):1-12.
    Foucault is one of the most widely cited thinkers across social sciences and humanities disciplines today. Foucault’s appeal, and ongoing value, across the disciplines has much to do with the power of his thought and his method to help us see the contingency of practices we take to be inevitable. It is argued in this introductory article that Foucault’s emphasis on contingency is as misunderstood as it is influential. I distinguish two senses of contingency in Foucault. A (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  17.  3
    A Kantian World Where Necessity and Contingency Intersect - Focusing on Kant’s Philosophy of Consciousness -. 최소인 - 2024 - Journal of the New Korean Philosophical Association 117:243-260.
    칸트의 선험철학은 의식의 원리를 통해 의식 밖의 세계를 설명하려는 전략에 의해 수행되는 의식철학이다. 이러한 칸트의 의식철학은 사고의 주관적 조건에 불과한 의식의 활동원리가 바로 실재하는 대상 세계의 객관적 질서임을 증명함으로써 완수된다. 따라서 유한한 의식을 통해 세계를 해명하려는 의식철학의 전 증명력을 담지하고 있는 것은 대상 세계의 근본 원리인 의식의 종합적 활동 방식 혹은 활동 원리들이다. 이 의식의 종합적 활동 원리들이 바로 대상 세계의 존립근거이자 대상 세계의 인식근거이다. 그러나 칸트에 따르면 의식의 이러한 활동 원리는 대상 세계의 현실성의 조건이 아니라 가능성의 조건에 불과하다. 칸트는 (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  23
    Between Usual and Crisis Phases of a Public Health Emergency: The Mediating Role of Contingency Measures.David Alfandre, Virginia Ashby Sharpe, Cynthia Geppert, Mary Beth Foglia, Kenneth Berkowitz, Barbara Chanko & Toby Schonfeld - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics 21 (8):4-16.
    Much of the sustained attention on pandemic preparedness has focused on the ethical justification for plans for the “crisis” phase of a surge when, despite augmentation efforts, the demand for life...
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  19. Coming to terms with contingency : Humean constructivism about practical reason.Sharon Street - 2012 - In James Lenman & Yonatan Shemmer (eds.), Constructivism in Practical Philosophy. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   61 citations  
  20.  33
    Purposiveness, Necessity, and Contingency.Philippe Huneman - 2013 - In Ina Goy & Eric Watkins (eds.). De Gruyter. pp. 185-202.
  21. Crisis and contingency.Michael Makropoulos - 2012 - Thesis Eleven 111 (1):9-18.
    The text reconstructs central theoretical positions in the discourse of modernity in the Weimar Republic in the double semantic context of crisis and contingency. On the one hand, these categories ground the dialectic of destruction and construction, which provides hegemonial evidence for the political and aesthetic concepts of totality in classical modernity. On the other hand, these categories also ground the openness of a thinking in possibilities, which remained marginal in the Weimar Republic but has become dominant in the (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  22. Leibniz and Contingency.Patrick Maher - 1980 - Studia Leibnitiana 12:236.
    Dieser Aufsatz bringt eine Darstellung des Problems der Kontingenz, die mit Leibniz's Philosophie übereinstimmt und -vor allem -die den folgenden Bedingungen genügt: 1) einige Eigenschaften von Substanzen sind kontingent; 2) einige Eigenschaften von Substanzen sind notwendig; 3) das Gegenteil einer kontingenten Wahrheit impliziert keinen Widerspruch ; 4) es ist ein kontingentes Faktum, daß Gott immer das Beste wählt. -Eine Darstellung der Leibnizschen Theorie der Kontingenz muß diese Bedingungen erfüllen, denn bei ihnen handelt es sich um Prinzipien, an denen Leibniz -zumindest (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  23.  57
    Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World.Margaret J. Osler - 1994 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book is about the influence of varying theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. Pierre Gassendi and René Descartes both believed that all natural phenomena could be explained in terms of matter and motion alone. They disagreed about the details of their mechanical accounts of the world, in particular about their theories of matter and their approaches to scientific method. This book traces their differences back to theological presuppositions (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   16 citations  
  24. (2 other versions)Quantum Mechanics. Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony.James T. Cushing - 1996 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27 (2):353-358.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   92 citations  
  25.  16
    In critique of moral resilience: UK healthcare professionals’ experiences working with asylum applicants housed in contingency accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic.Louise Tomkow, Gabrielle Prager, Kitty Worthing & Rebecca Farrington - 2024 - Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (1):33-38.
    This research explores the experiences of UK NHS healthcare professionals working with asylum applicants housed in contingency accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a critical understanding of the concept of moral resilience as a theoretical framework, we explore how the difficult circumstances in which they worked were navigated, and the extent to which moral suffering led to moral transformation. Ten staff from a general practice participated in semistructured interviews. Encountering the harms endured by people seeking asylum prior to arrival (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  26. Ian Hacking's Styles of Reasoning, Contingency and the Evolution of Science.Luca Sciortino - 2023 - In History of Rationalities: Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 350.
    In this chapter, I shall consider a number of connections between various ideas of the theory of styles of reasoning and the issue of the contingency and inevitability of science. By ‘contingency issue’ it is meant the question as to whether the history of a particular branch of our science could have taken a different route and provided results incompatible with those of our actual science. Apart from Hacking’s recent comments, the discussions on the contingency issue have (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  27.  50
    Mapping the Relationship Among Political Ideology, CSR Mindset, and CSR Strategy: A Contingency Perspective Applied to Chinese Managers.Fuming Jiang, Tatiana Zalan, Herman H. M. Tse & Jie Shen - 2018 - Journal of Business Ethics 147 (2):419-444.
    The literature on antecedents of corporate social responsibility strategies of firms has been predominately content driven. Informed by the managerial sense-making process perspective, we develop a contingency theoretical framework explaining how political ideology of managers affects the choice of CSR strategy for their firms through their CSR mindset. We also explain to what extent the outcome of this process is shaped by the firm’s internal institutional arrangements and external factors impacting on the firm. We develop and test several hypotheses (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  28.  18
    Reducing the contingency of the world: magic, oracles, and machine-learning technology.Simon Larsson & Martin Viktorelius - forthcoming - AI and Society.
    The concept of magic is frequently used to discuss technology, a practice considered useful by some with others arguing that viewing technology as magic precludes a proper understanding of technology. The concept of magic is especially prominent in discussions of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Based on an anthropological perspective, this paper juxtaposes ML technology with magic, using descriptions drawn from a project on an ML-powered system for propulsion control of cargo ships. The paper concludes that prior scholarly work on (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  29. Existence and contingency: A note.David Wiggins - 2003 - Philosophy 78 (4):483-494.
    Timothy Williamson offers a proof of the counterintuitive claim that, if an object exists, then it exists necessarily. David Wiggins argues that this result reveals the philosophical disadvantage of a first level (or ‘ticking over’) view of the very ‘exists’ and the advantage of the second level account offered by Frege and Russell. The author seeks to show how, using an idea of G. Evans but without the use of the resources of ‘free logic’, all occurrences of ‘exist’, including its (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  30. Spontaneity and Contingency: Kant’s Two Models of Rational Self-Determination.Markus Kohl - 2020 - In Manja Kisner & Jörg Noller (eds.), The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy: Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 29-48.
    I argue that Kant acknowledges two models of spontaneous self-determination that rational beings are capable of. The first model involves absolute unconditional necessity and excludes any form of contingency. The second model involves (albeit not as a matter of definition) a form of contingency which entails alternative possibilities for determining oneself. The first model would be exhibited by a divine being; the second model is exhibited by human beings. Human beings do, however, partake in the divine model up (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  31.  73
    Familiarity inferences, subjective attitudes and counterstance contingency: towards a pragmatic theory of subjective meaning.Christopher Kennedy & Malte Willer - 2022 - Linguistics and Philosophy 45 (6):1395-1445.
    Subjective predicates have two interpretive and distributional characteristics that have resisted a comprehensive analysis. First, the use of a subjective predicate to describe an object is in general felicitous only when the speaker has a particular kind of familiarity with relevant features of the object; characterizing an object as _tasty,_ for example, implies that the speaker has experience of its taste. Second, subjective predicates differ from objective predicates in their distribution under certain types of propositional attitude verbs. The goal of (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  32. Using phenomenal concepts to explain away the intuition of contingency.Nicholas Shea - 2014 - Philosophical Psychology 27 (4):553-570.
    Humans can think about their conscious experiences using a special class of ?phenomenal? concepts. Psychophysical identity statements formulated using phenomenal concepts appear to be contingent. Kripke argued that this intuited contingency could not be explained away, in contrast to ordinary theoretical identities where it can. If the contingency is real, property dualism follows. Physicalists have attempted to answer this challenge by pointing to special features of phenomenal concepts that explain the intuition of contingency. However no physicalist account (...)
    Direct download (8 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  33. Existence and contingency.Timothy Williamson - 2000 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (1):117–139.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   63 citations  
  34.  53
    Incomputable Aesthetics: Open Axioms of Contingency.M. Beatrice Fazi - 2016 - Computational Culture 2016 (5).
    In 1931, Kurt Gödel determined the incompleteness of formal axiomatic systems by demonstrating that there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved within the system in question. In 1936, Alan Turing showed that some functions cannot be computed, and thereby described the limits of computing machines before any such machine was built. In this essay I will turn to these logical discoveries in order to argue that incompleteness and incomputability can be employed as conceptual tools to re-engage with the (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  35.  55
    Dissociating the effects of attention and contingency awareness on evaluative conditioning effects in the visual paradigm.Andy P. Field & Annette C. Moore - 2005 - Cognition and Emotion 19 (2):217-243.
    Two experiments are described that investigate the effects of attention in moderating evaluative conditioning (EC) effects in a picture‐picture paradigm in which previously discovered experimental artifacts (e.g., Field & Davey, 1999 Field, AP, and Davey, GCL, (1999). Reevaluating evaluative conditioning: A nonassociative explanation of conditioning effects in the visual evaluative conditioning paradigm, Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes 25 ((1999)), pp. 211–224.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]) were overcome by counterbalancing conditioned stimuli (CSs) and unconditioned stimuli (USs) (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   15 citations  
  36. The limits of contingency.Gideon Rosen - 2006 - In Fraser MacBride (ed.), Identity and modality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 13--39.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   98 citations  
  37.  60
    Coming to Terms with Contingency: Humean Constructivism about.Practical Reason - 2012 - In James Lenman & Yonatan Shemmer (eds.), Constructivism in Practical Philosophy. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 40.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38. So what?" : historical contingency, activism, and reflections on the studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala.Susan M. Reverby - 2018 - In Françoise Baylis & Alice Domurat Dreger (eds.), Bioethics in action. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  39.  7
    Being and Contingency: Decrypting Heidegger's Terminology.Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo - 2020 - Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Using a hypothetical language game as a premise and working through the theory of decryption of power, the book decrypts the pillars of the philosophy of being, mainly Heidegger´s construction of the “ready to hand,” proposing a novel theory of being as difference that is impregnated in politics.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40.  55
    Timing is Everything: Historical Contingency as a Factor in the Impact of Catholic Social Teaching Upon Managerial Practices.Richard Marens - 2005 - Journal of Business Ethics 57 (3):285-301.
    John Paul IIs prescriptions for humanizing the world economy are not likely to have the impact of Leo XIIIs Rerum Novarum because the reception accorded reform proposals depends on opportunity and circumstances as well as the ethical soundness and the logic of the principles advanced. Because of historical circumstances, Thomas Mores critique of the emerging agricultural capitalism of his time was ignored while Catholic Social Teaching inspired by Kettelers work, endorsed and publicized by Leo, strongly impacted the industrializing world of (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  41. Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?Nancy Cartwright & Pedro Merlussi - 2018 - In Walter R. Ott & Lydia Patton (eds.), Laws of Nature. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
    Are the laws of nature consistent with contingency about what happens in the world? That depends on what the laws of nature actually are, but it also depends on what they are like. The latter is the concern of this chapter, which looks at three views that are widely endorsed: ‘Humean’ regularity accounts, laws as relations among universals, and disposition/powers accounts. Given an account of what laws are, what follows about how much contingency, and of what kinds, laws (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  42.  30
    Addressing a Missing Link in Emergency Preparedness: New Insights on the Ethics of Care in Contingency Conditions from the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative.Erin S. DeMartino, Thomas Klemond, Susan M. Wolf, Debra A. DeBruin & Joel T. Wu - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics 21 (8):17-19.
    We agree with Alfandre and colleagues that ethics guidance for contingency conditions in public health emergencies is urgently needed. The Minnesota COVID Ethics Collabora...
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  43.  55
    As Photography: Mechanicity, Contingency, and Other-Determination in Gerhard Richter's Overpainted Snapshots.Susan Laxton - 2012 - Critical Inquiry 38 (4):776-795.
    Of the generation of post-1960s artists who looked to photography for a new set of conceptual tools, Gerhard Richter stands apart because he has uniquely professed a desire to “use painting as a means to photography,” that is, to bring painting to the structure and sensibility of the photograph.2 To ascribe sensibility or perceptive acuity to a process so mechanical as photography may strike the reader as either romantically fey or even offensively anthropomorphizing, given that the aesthetic questions at stake (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  44.  45
    Situatedness and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Spatio-Temporal Contingency of Human Life.Annika Schlitte & Thomas Hünefeldt (eds.) - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book explores the ways in which the spatio-temporal contingency of human life is being conceived in different fields of research. Specifically, it looks at the relationship between the situatedness of human life, the situation or place in which human life is supposed to be situated, and the dimensions of space and time in which both situation and place are usually themselves supposed to be situated. Over the last two or three decades, the spatio-temporal contingency of human life (...)
    No categories
  45. Object-dependent thoughts: A case of superficial necessity but deep contingency?Harold W. Noonan - 1995 - In Pascal Engel (ed.), Mental causation. Oxford University Press.
  46. So close no matter how far: counterfactuals in history of science and the inevitability/contingency controversy.Luca Tambolo - 2020 - Synthese 197 (5):2111-2141.
    This paper has a twofold purpose. First, it aims at highlighting one difference in how counterfactuals work in general history, on the one hand, and in history of the natural sciences, on the other hand. As we show, both in general history and in history of science good counterfactual narratives need to be plausible, where plausibility is construed as appropriate continuity of both the antecedent and the consequent of the counterfactual with what we know about the world. However, in general (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  47.  32
    Are Management Texts Produced by Authors or by Readers? Representations of a Contingency Theory.Miriam Green - 2005 - Philosophy of Management 5 (1):85-96.
    This paper addresses representations of Burns and Stalker’s theory that arose soon after its publication in The Management of Innovation in 1961. Different conceptions of Burns and Stalker’s contingency theory as portrayed in organisation and management texts are discussed. It will be argued that what has been represented as their theory stems in the main from ideas based on different positions within the spectrum of the positivistic, functionalist ‘paradigm’.
    No categories
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  48.  74
    Arousal, working memory, and conscious awareness in contingency learning☆.Louise D. Cosand, Thomas M. Cavanagh, Ashley A. Brown, Christopher G. Courtney, Anthony J. Rissling, Anne M. Schell & Michael E. Dawson - 2008 - Consciousness and Cognition 17 (4):1105-1113.
    There are wide individual differences in the ability to detect a stimulus contingency embedded in a complex paradigm. The present study used a cognitive masking paradigm to better understand individual differences related to contingency learning. Participants were assessed on measures of electrodermal arousal and on working memory capacity before engaging in the contingency learning task. Contingency awareness was assessed both by trial-by-trial verbal reports obtained during the task and by a short post-task recognition questionnaire. Participants who (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  49.  31
    The Irony of Contingency and Solidarity.Timothy Cleveland - 1995 - Philosophy 70 (272):217 - 241.
    Irony is nothing new to philosophy; quite the contrary, it is as familiar as the figure of Socrates. Yet when, for example, Socrates asks Euthyphro to teach him about piety because of Euthyphro's obvious knowledge of the subject, Socrates‘ irony has little philosophical significance. Socrates says something contrary to what he means, and Euthyphro in his arrogance takes the statement literally. Plato uses Socratic irony to dramatic affect by allowing the events of the drama to unfold in such a way (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  50.  43
    Open-Mindedness and.. Normative Contingency.Valerie Tiberius - 2012 - Oxford Studies in Metaethics 7:182.
1 — 50 / 967