http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/463 D. H. Mellor Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:45:54 GMT 2013-06-19T16:45:54Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/195773 Title: Words Authors: Mellor, David Hugh Abstract: This is a series of six five-minute radio talks on the use of words in philosophy broadcast on BBC Radio 3 between 5 February and 16 March 1978. Description: Titles: '"It all depends what you mean"' 5/2/1978; '"Define your terms"' 12/2/1978; 'Fictional documentaries' 19/2/1978; 'What's wrong with jargon' 26/2/1978 (re-recorded 4/12/2007); 'On being illogical' 5/3/1978; 'The Liar paradox' 16/3/1978. These broadcasts may be downloaded from here or streamed from http://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/20162. Copyright in them is retained by the BBC, by whose permission they are made available here. Sun, 01 Jan 1978 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/195773 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194180 Title: Matters of Metaphysics Authors: Mellor, David Hugh; Crane, Tim Abstract: This volume contains sixteen papers published between 1974 and 1991. The first five are on aspects of the mind: on our 'selves', their supposed subjectivity and how we refer to them, on the nature of conscious belief and on computational and physical theories of the mind. The next five deal with dispositions, natural kinds, laws of nature and how they involve natural necessity, universals and objective chances, and the relation between properties and predicates. Then follow three papers about the relations between time, change and causation, the nature of individual causes and effects and of the causal relations between them, and how causation depends on chance. The last three papers discuss the relation between chance and degrees of belief, give a solution to the problem of induction and argue for an objective interpretation of normative decision theory. Description: This PDF file is made available by permission of Cambridge University Press. To order a hard copy, go to http://www.cambridge.org/9780521411172 (hardback) or www.cambridge.org/9780521044479 (paperback) Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/194180 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/183661 Title: The Matter of Chance Authors: Mellor, David Hugh Abstract: The book develops an account of objective chances as properties of events (e.g. of coin tosses) defined by the degrees of belief (e.g. that the coin will land heads) which embody knowledge of those chances. The chances manifest propensities: dispositional properties of objects (e.g. a coin's bias). The account is applied to theories of radioactive decay and of how human death risk increases with age, and is used to show how knowledge of propensities underlies apparently a priori derivations of classical chance distributions. Finally it shows how propensities entail indeterminism and are consistent with a Humean view of laws of nature. Description: This PDF file is made available by permission of Cambridge University Press. To order a hard copy, go to http://www.cambridge.org/0521615984 Thu, 31 Dec 1970 23:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/183661 1970-12-31T23:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/183628 Title: Wholes and Parts: The Limits of Composition Authors: Mellor, David Hugh Abstract: The paper argues that very different part-whole relations hold between different kinds of entities. While these relations share most of their formal properties, they need not share all of them. Nor need other mereological principles be true of all kinds of part–whole pairs. In particular, it is argued that the principle of unrestricted composition, that any two or more entities have a mereological sum, while true of sets and propositions, is false of things and events. Wed, 31 May 2006 23:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/183628 2006-05-31T23:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/3483 Title: Interview with D. H. Mellor (1993) Authors: Mellor, David Hugh Abstract: This article is the text of an interview with D. H. Mellor conducted by Andrew Pyle and first published in the Spring 1993 issue of the philosophical journal Cogito. Description: The interview is reproduced here by permission of the Editor of Cogito. It is reprinted in Key Philosophers in Conversation: The Cogito Interviews, edited by Andrew Pyle, London: Routledge (1999). Fri, 01 Jan 1993 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/3483 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/3482 Title: Interview with D. H. Mellor (2001) Authors: Mellor, David Hugh; Maurin, Anna-Sofia; Persson, Johannes Abstract: This article is the text of an interview with D. H. Mellor conducted in Cambridge on 30 May 2001 by Anna-Sofia Maurin and Johannes Persson for the philosophical journal Theoria. Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/3482 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/3475 Title: Inaugural Lecture: The Warrant of Induction Authors: Mellor, David Hugh Abstract: This lecture develops and defends an inductive solution to Hume's problem of induction Description: This is D. H. Mellor's Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. It may be downloaded from here or streamed from http://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/19261. The lecture was delivered on 21 January 1988 and published as a booklet by Cambridge University Press later that year. It is reprinted as chapter 15 of Matters of Metaphysics, a collection of D. H. Mellor's papers, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991. A PDF file of Matters of Metaphysics exists in this DSpace collection at http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/194180, whence it may be downloaded free of charge. Thu, 21 Jan 1988 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/3475 1988-01-21T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/753 Title: The Time of Our Lives Authors: Mellor, David Hugh Abstract: The article shows how McTaggart’s distinction between A- and B-series ways of locating events in time prompted and enabled the twentieth century’s most important advances in the philosophy of time. It argues that, even if the B-series represents time as it really is, because having A-series beliefs when they are true is indispensable to the causation of timely action, the A-series represents ‘the time of our lives’. Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/753 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z