Prospects for pragmatism : essays in memory of F. P. Ramsey

Author(s)

• Ramsey, Frank Plumpton
• Mellor, D. H. (David Hugh)

Bibliographic Information

Prospects for pragmatism : essays in memory of F. P. Ramsey

edited by D. H. Mellor

Cambridge University Press, 1980

Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Contents of Works

• Is truth flat or bumpy? / Susan Haack
• Ramsey's theory of types / Charles S. Chihara
• Ramsey's theory of belief and truth / Brian Loar
• Ramsey on belief / John Skorupski
• Inference, partial belief, and psychological laws / Christopher Hookway
• Higher order degrees of belief / Brian Skyrms
• Consciousness and degrees of belief / D.H. Mellor
• Opinions and chances / Simon Blackburn
• Ramsey, reliability, and knowledge / Richard E. Grandy
• The problem of natural laws / L. Jonathan Cohen
• Hamilton's method in geometrical optics and Ramsey's view of theories / Jerzy Giedymin

Details

• NCID: BA0707835X
• ISBN:
  • 0521225485
• LCCN: 80049881
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 261 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B1649.R254
  • DC19 : 144/.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903-1930 -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Pragmatism -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Belief and doubt -- Addresses, essays, lectures