JOHN COLLINS’s research while affiliated with Columbia University and other places

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Publications (2)


The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances?
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September 1993

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46 Citations

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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JOHN COLLINS

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ROBERT PARGETTER

Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently non-Humean features of the world. The bug is chance. We put the bug under the microscope, and conclude that chance is no special problem for the Humean.


Citations (2)


... Of course, as soon as one utters this complaint the de Finetti issue resurfaces since interpretive principles are needed to tease a theory of chance from a textbook on a theory of physics, and de Finetti's heirs-the self-styled quantum Bayesians (QBians)-maintain that the probability statements that the quantum theory provide are to be given a personalistic interpretation. 2 And this leads to the next curious and disturbing feature of the literature. The bulk of the philosophical discussion is couched in terms of classical probability theory, without any apparent recognition of the facts that quantum probability theory is not classical probability theory and that the way in which quantum probabilities are generated o¤ers ways of linking credence and chance that have a bearing on the PP. ...

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Implementing David Lewis' Principal Principle: A Program for Investigating the Relation between Credence and Chance
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances?
  • Citing Article
  • September 1993

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

... Secondly, work by Currie and others on the philosophy and psychology of imagination made original connections across aesthetics, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind (Currie 1995, Currie and Abell 2000, Currie and Ravenscroft 2002). Thirdly, among the topics significantly advanced by Jackson's Perception: a representative theory (1977), Australasian philosophers took a particular interest in colour perception, a topic which integrated developments in metaphysics and philosophy of mind (Bigelow, Collins, and Pargetter 1990; Maund 1995 Maund , 2006 Gold 1999; Menzies 2009). Fourth, questions about the nature of perceptual content have been freshly treated in Schellenberg's account of the essential situation-dependence of perceptual experience, which on her view is both representational and relational (Schellenberg 2008Schellenberg , 2010). ...

Colouring in the World
  • Citing Article
  • April 1990

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