From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Feb 1 10:10:46 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l11FAjT9003979 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:10:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l11FAZol058305 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:10:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 10872 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 15:10:35 -0000 Received: from mailscan7.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.158) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 15:10:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 10864 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 15:10:35 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 15:10:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 1905 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 15:10:20 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 15:10:20 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3054184 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:10:20 -0500 Delivered-To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Received: (qmail 13100 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 15:10:18 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 15:10:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 17475 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 15:10:16 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 15:10:16 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l11FAGdm003959 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:10:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l11FAGCw003958 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:10:16 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702011510.l11FAGCw003958@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:10:16 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Re: NATURALIZED EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2510/Thu Feb 1 04:12:06 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1040 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Re: NATURALIZED EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I wrote: | Third, there's a possible example of the kind of naturalized epistemology | that Papineau is talking about here in a recent article in the Journal | of Philosophy that discusses how empirical, psychological theories of how | humans understand causation might help us develop a good philosophical | theory of causation. (The article is also useful for a section that | nicely summarizes philosophical theories of causation.) | | But I'm writing from home, and my copy of that issue is at work, so | you'll have to wait for the full citation :-) Here's the full citation: Hitchcock, Christopher (2006), "Conceptual Analysis Naturalized: A Metaphilosophical Case Study", Journal of Philosophy 103(9) (September): 427-451. The section that summarizes various theories of causation is Sect. 1, "Theories of Causation", pp. 429-433.