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The agential fork : the hidden consequences of agency for plenitude in David Lewis' thesis of genuine modal realism
No full textIn this dissertation, I argue that David Lewis' abductive argument for Genuine Modal Realism (GMR) has the unwelcome, and hidden, implication of being unable to
accommodate agent causation theories of free will. This is because of his formulation of plenitude, which basically says that every way that a world or a part of a world could be is the way that some world, or part of some world is. This formulation tacitly assumes
that chance and nomological principles are sufficient to account for everything that happens at worlds. However, agent causation theories argue that free will is neither reducible to chance nor determined by physics. My argument recasts a fork argument made by Andrew Beedle. I proceed by arguing that chance-based principles evince an ontologically distinct kind of modality than agent causation principles. However,
plenitude only accounts for the physics/chance-based kind of modality. There is no similar principle of plenitude that can be given for agential modality that does not
collapse into the chance-based principle. But even if such a principle could be found, it would violate the doctrine in GMR that claims worlds are causally isolated. If no agential plenitude principle can be found and there is agential modality, then plenitude fails. If there is no agency at our world, and Lewis’ original formulation of plenitude is correct, then GMR implies no agency at any
world. This is the fork: If there is agency and GMR holds, then either plenitude fails, or isolation fails. But if there is no agency, and GMR holds, then there is no agency at any possible world. The latter prong is too strong a claim for an abductive argument like GMR. The
former proves that GMR cannot accommodate agent-causation theories. GMR loses its neutrality either way, to its detriment
David M. Lewis, Sparta and Persia
No full textRoobaert Arlette. David M. Lewis, Sparta and Persia. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 52, 1983. pp. 476-477
[David Lewis at Texas A&M University]
No full textPhotograph of David Lewis at Texas A&M University to see the university cyclotron, an atom smasher. He stands with his left hand resting against a wall. He is dressed in dark slacks with a lighter button-down collared shirt
Early child neglect: Does it predict obesity or underweight in later childhood?
No full textChild neglect has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for both obesity and underweight in early childhood, although little research has examined the relation between neglect and body mass index (BMI). The present study examined the relation between neglect and BMI among 185 children (91 with a Child Protective Services history of neglect) who were initially seen at ages 4 to 6 years and who were followed through ages 7 to 9 years. Neglected and comparison children were found to have similar BMIs, although both groups had BMIs that were significantly greater than CDC norms for age, gender, and ethnicity. Neglect chronicity did predict lower BMIs but only at age 8 and 9 years. The present findings suggest that greater examination of moderators is needed to identify the specific contexts in which neglect is related to children’s weight.This is the authors' accepted manuscript for an article that was published in Child Maltreatment (2010), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 250-254. doi: 10.1177/1077559510363730Peer reviewe
Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
No full textThe relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.This is the accepted version of the following article: Carmody, D. P., Bendersky, M., Dunn, S. M., DeMarco, J. K., Hegyi, T., Hiatt, M. and Lewis, M. (2006), Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm. Child Development, 77: 384–394, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00877.x/abstract.Peer reviewe
Earl Lewis Papers: Correspondence, 1960-2000
No full textFolder containing correspondence received or written by Dr. Earl Lewis. Includes letters from Wilhelmina Sampson (pages 1-2); Crawford C. Martin (page 3); David Easton (page 4); Milton Leech (page 6); Shirley E. Jackson (page 7); Maud W. Keeling (page 8); Lyman E. Gregory (page 9); Bernice Milburn Moore (page 10); Duncan Wimpress (pages 11-13); Joan C. Gould (page 14); Craig A. Washington (page 15); Rowland J. Martin (page 16); Robert W. Calvert (pages 17-18, 25); Mavis Bryant (page 19); Dolph Briscoe (page 20); Kathryn Brantley (page 21); Clark C. Munroe (page 22); Sister Elizabeth Anne Sueltenfuss, CDP (page 23); Norman J. Johnson (page 24); C.J. Collins (page 26); Thomas P. Sellers (page 28); Rochell Brown, Jr. (pages 29-31); J. Rolando Bono (pages 32-33); Mark S. Phillips (page 35); Ronald Calgaard (pages 36, 45); Charles C. Butt (page 37); James S. Vinson and Michele T. Myers (page 38); Brian A. Joseph (page 39); William H. Hansell, Jr. (pages 40-41, 46); Gloria "Jo" Floyd (page 42); Donald J. Borut (page 43); John E. Kerrigan (page 44); B. Bernadette Bettard (page 48); Louise J. Agnese (page 50); Sharon Lynn Kagan (page 51); Joe Krier (pages 52-53, 55); Debra A. Lauer (page 54); Margaret Amini (page 56); Enrique G. Hernandez (page 57); Ron Kirk (page 58-59); Mrs. Paul Cendric Wenger, Jr. (pages 66-67); Maurice Woodard (page 68); Willa B. Player (page 69). The folder also contains correspondence by Earl Lewis written to Eugene Rodriguez, Jr. (page 27); William H. Burman (page 34); William H. Hansell, Jr. (page 47); and Paula Balik (page 49). The folder also contains a transcription of a speech given by Earl Lewis to the Texas Constitutional Revision Commission on the selection of appellate judges (pages 60-65)
Model selection via Bayesian information capacity designs for generalised linear models
No full textAbstractThe first investigation is made of designs for screening experiments where the response variable is approximated by a generalised linear model. A Bayesian information capacity criterion is defined for the selection of designs that are robust to the form of the linear predictor. For binomial data and logistic regression, the effectiveness of these designs for screening is assessed through simulation studies using all-subsets regression and model selection via maximum penalised likelihood and a generalised information criterion. For Poisson data and log-linear regression, similar assessments are made using maximum likelihood and the Akaike information criterion for minimally-supported designs that are constructed analytically. The results show that effective screening, that is, high power with moderate type I error rate and false discovery rate, can be achieved through suitable choices for the number of design support points and experiment size. Logistic regression is shown to present a more challenging problem than log-linear regression. Some areas for future work are also indicated
A companion to David Lewis /
No full text"Brings together outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal and wide-ranging work in original ways"--Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors ix Part I Biography and New Work 1 1 Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941-2001): Early Influences 3 Stephanie R. Lewis 2 Counterparts of States of Affairs 15 David Lewis 3 Reply to Dana Scott, "Is There Life on Possible Worlds?" 18 David Lewis Part II Methodology and Context 23 4 Lewis's Philosophical Method 25 Daniel Nolan 5 On Metaphysical Analysis 40 David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller 6 A Lewisian History of Philosophy 60 Robert Pasnau 7 David Lewis's Place in Analytic Philosophy 80 Scott Soames Part III Metaphysics and Science 99 8 Humean Supervenience 101 Brian Weatherson 9 No Work for a Theory of Universals 116 M. Eddon and C.J.G. Meacham 10 Hume's Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis's Combinatorialism 138 Jessica Wilson 11 Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory 159 Phillip Bricker 12 How to Be Humean 188 Jenann Ismael 13 Where (in Logical Space) Is God? 206 Stephanie R.^Includes bibliographical references and index."Brings together outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal and wide-ranging work in original ways"-
Anne M. Lewis
No full textAnne M. Lewis, 10 years of service, with President David Glassman and Lynette Drake, Interim Vice President for Student Affairshttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/years_of_service_2018/1042/thumbnail.jp
Peter John Rhodes (Ed.), David M. Lewis, Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History
No full textDuplouy Alain. Peter John Rhodes (Ed.), David M. Lewis, Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 68, 1999. p. 533
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