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Books by Wolfgang Spohn






The Laws of Belief(Reprint)
Ranking Theory and Its Philosophical Applications
by Wolfgang Spohn
Paperback, 616 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870585-7, ISBN: 0-19-870585-9

"Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentation of ranking theory and its ramifications. He motivates and introduces the basic notion of a ranking function, which recognises degrees of belief and at the same time accounts for belief simpliciter. He provides a measurement theory for ranking functions, accounts for auto-epistemology in ra ..."






The Laws of Belief(1st Edition)
Ranking Theory and Its Philosophical Applications
by Wolfgang Spohn
Hardcover, 625 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969750-2, ISBN: 0-19-969750-7

"Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentation of ranking theory and its ramifications. He motivates and introduces the basic notion of a ranking function, which recognises degrees of belief and at the same time accounts for belief simpliciter. He provides a measurement theory for ranking functions, accounts for auto-epistemology in ra ..."






Existence and Explanation
Essays presented in Honor of Karel Lambert (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)
by Wolfgang Spohn, B. Skyrms, And Brian Skyrms, Karel Lambert, Bas C. Fraassen
Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 1991 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-1252-9, ISBN: 0-7923-1252-X

"This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses there are - there are some -, the editors apologize to whomever they have neglected. But even so the collection displays how influential Karel Lambert has been, personally and through his teaching and his writings. ..."






Causation, Coherence and Concepts
A Collection of Essays (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
by Wolfgang Spohn
Hardcover, 386 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5473-0, ISBN: 1-4020-5473-4

"In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a translation of a German paper (Chapter 12), and one newly written for this volume (Chapter 16), which, however, is only my recent attempt to prope ..."






Rationality, Rules, and Structure
(Theory and Decision Library A:)
by Julian Nida-Rümelin, W. Spohn, Wolfgang Spohn
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2000 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-6326-2, ISBN: 0-7923-6326-4

"It is an obvious fact that human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. So the question is: what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making? What bearing does this have on the theory of practical rationality? These issues ca ..."






The Handbook of Rationality
by Markus Knauff, Wolfgang Spohn
880 Pages, Published 2021 by Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-36185-9, ISBN: 0-262-36185-X

"... 354 , 454 , 490 , 520 , 572,665 , 779 Fiedler , Susann , 491 Field , Hartry , 207-208 Fillenbaum , Samuel , 653 cm Fincher , Katrina , 805 Fine , Cordelia , 705 Fine , Kit , 323 Fink , Andreas , 35 Fink , Gereon R. , 123 Finocchiaro ..."






The Laws of Belief
Ranking Theory and Its Philosophical Applications
by Wolfgang Spohn
Published 2012 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-162927-3, ISBN: 0-19-162927-8

"... Martin Anduschus (eds.) (1997), Direct Reference, Indexicality and Propositional Attitudes, Stanford: CSLI Publications. Kuokkanen, Martti (ed.) (1994), Idealization VII: Structuralism, Idealization and Approximation. Poznan Studies in ..."






Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Ser.
Causation, Coherence, and Concepts : A Collection of Essays 256
by Wolfgang Spohn
386 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5474-7, ISBN: 1-4020-5474-2

"I am very much indebted: first to Godehard Link for spending a Christmas vacation making various helpful remarks and suggestions; to Wolfgang Stegmüller and Max Drömmer for fruitful discussion; to Kurt Weichselberger for decisive help in Section 1.7; to Brian Skyrms and Bill Harper for giving me the opportunity to present this paper at their conference; to Peter Gärdenfors for further fruitful discussion; to Isaac Levi for some enl ..."






Physical Causation
(Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)
by Phil Dowe, Richard C. Jeffrey, Patrick Suppes, Wolfgang Spohn, B. Doran, P. Flajolet, M. Ismail, T. Y. Lam, E. Lutwak, G. C. Rota, E. Wutwak, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Rita Copeland, Alan Deyermond, Peter Dronke, Alastair Minnis, Nigel Palmer, Winthrop Wetherbee, Jonathan Bate, Ernest Adams, Lena Cowen Orlin, Margreta De Grazia, Michael Dobson, Inga-Stina Ewbank, R. A. Foakes, Andrew Gurr, Terence Hawkes, John Jowett, A. D. Nuttall, M. J. Ablowitz, Persi Diaconis, Ernest W. Adams, John Harsanyi, Brian Skyrms, Ken Binmore
Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-78049-0, ISBN: 0-521-78049-7

"Physical Causation discusses in a systematic way an original, positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes that Phil Dowe has been developing over the past ten years. Dowe offers a clear and original account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. This is an important, original book that will be widely discussed among philosophers and students working in contemporary metaphysics and phi ..."






The Handbook of Rationality
by Knauff, Markus, Spohn, Wolfgang
Hardcover, 880 Pages, Published 2021 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-04507-0, ISBN: 0-262-04507-9






Religion and National Identities in an Enlarged Europe
(Identities and Modernities in Europe)
by Willfried Spohn, Matthias Koenig, Wolfgang Knöbl
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-39076-8, ISBN: 0-230-39076-5






Grundlagen der Entscheidungstheorie
by Wolfgang Spohn
Broschiert, 216 Pages, Published 1978 by Cornelsen Vlg Scriptor
ISBN-13: 978-3-589-20609-4, ISBN: 3-589-20609-8






Einführung in die Naturphilosophie(2nd Edition)
by Michael-Andreas Esfeld, Dieter Schönecker, Niko Strobach, Roland Henke, Rainer Enskat, Wolfgang Spohn, Wolfgang Künne, Enno Rudolph, Otfried Höffe, Ursula Wolf
Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 2011 by Wbg Academic
ISBN-13: 978-3-534-23632-9, ISBN: 3-534-23632-7

"Broschiertes BuchWas ist die Natur? Seit der Antike gehört diese Frage zu den Hauptthemen der Philosophie. Eine philosophische Gesamtsicht der Natur muss zunächst von den Ergebnissen der Naturwissenschaften ausgehen. Allgemeine und spezielle Relativitätstheorie sowie Quantenphysik werfen vor allem die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Raum, Zeit und Materie auf. Die Philosophie der Physik bildet den Schwerpunkt dieser Einführung. Der Auto ..."






Existence and Explanation(Reprint)
Essays presented in Honor of Karel Lambert (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)
by Wolfgang Spohn, B. Skyrms
Paperback, 247 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-94-010-5430-0, ISBN: 94-010-5430-4

"This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses there are - there are some -, the editors apologize to whomever they have neglected. But even so the collection displays how influential Karel Lambert has been, personally and through his teaching and his writings. ..."






Ontologische Relativität und andere Schriften
by Wolfgang Spohn
Hardcover, 230 Pages, Published 1975 by Reclam Philipp Jun.
ISBN-13: 978-3-15-029804-6, ISBN: 3-15-029804-0






Current Issues in Causation.
by Marion Ledwig ., Michael Esfeld ., Wolfgang . Spohn
Paperback, 207 Pages, Published 2001 by Mentis
ISBN-13: 978-3-89785-139-9, ISBN: 3-89785-139-3






Materialismus Und Bewusstsein(1st Edition)
by David Kellogg Lewis, Wolfgang Spohn, Ulrike Haas-Spohn
Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2007 by Verlag Vittorio Klosterman
ISBN-13: 978-3-465-04031-6, ISBN: 3-465-04031-7

"Die Aufsatze von David Lewis bergen einen der grossten philosophischen Schatze des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch ihr Studium stosst man in eines der Kraftzentren der analytischen Philosophie vor, und ohne dieses Studium ist schwer zu verstehen, was die zeitgenossische akademische Philosophie bewegt. Dieser Band bringt zwei von Lewis' wichtigsten Aufsatzen zur Philosophie des Geistes. Die Reduktion des Geistes enthalt die definitive Darlegung ..."






Bauernhausforschung als Agrargeschichte
Begleitband zur Tagung des Arbeitskreises für ländliche Hausforschung in Nordwestdeutschland im Freilichtmuseum Molfsee
by Rüther, Wolfgang / Spohn, Thomas / Tewes, Babette
Published 2022 by Ludwig
ISBN-13: 978-3-86935-449-1, ISBN: 3-86935-449-6






Ontologische Relativitat Und Andere Schriften(1st Edition)
(German Edition)
by Wolfgang Englisch Spohn, Willard Van Quine
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2003 by Klostermann
ISBN-13: 978-3-465-03251-9, ISBN: 3-465-03251-9






Poetische Modelle
1960-2011
by Wolfgang Buchner, Götz Pochat, Anna Spohn, Wilhelm Hengstler
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2014 by Folio Verlagsges. Mbh
ISBN-13: 978-3-85256-635-1, ISBN: 3-85256-635-5



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