Elliott R. Sober

Affiliations: 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 
Area:
Philosophy
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Parents

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Hilary Whitehall Putnam grad student 1972 Harvard
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Children

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Andre Ariew grad student UW Madison
Paul J. Kelly grad student 2017- UW Madison
Marc Ereshefsky grad student 1988 UW Madison
Anthony Peressini grad student 1989-1994
Christopher L. Stephens grad student 2000 UW Madison
Mehmet Elgin grad student 2002 UW Madison
Kevin Brosnan grad student 2006 UW Madison
Gregory M. Novack grad student 2007 UW Madison
Angela Potochnik grad student 2007 Stanford
Terence Sullivan grad student 2007 UW Madison
Joel D. Velasco grad student 2008 UW Madison
Donald R. Moskowitz grad student 2009 UW Madison
Gregory Mougin grad student 2009 UW Madison
Matthew J. Barker grad student 2010 UW Madison
Armin W. Schulz grad student 2010 UW Madison
John Basl grad student 2011 UW Madison
Joshua Filler grad student 2011 UW Madison
Matthew C. Kopec grad student 2012 UW Madison
Casey Helgeson grad student 2013 UW Madison
Michael D Goldsby grad student 2006-2013 (Neurotree)
Frank J. Cabrera grad student 2018 UW Madison (Neurotree)
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Roche W, Sober E. (2020) Hypotheses that attribute false beliefs: A two‐part epistemology (Darwin + Akaike) Mind & Language
Barrett M, Sober E. (2020) The Requirement of Total Evidence: A Reply to Epstein’s Critique Philosophy of Science. 87: 191-203
Sober E. (2020) Histories, dynamical laws, and initial conditions −Invariance under time-reversibility and its failure in Markov processes, with application to the second law of thermodynamics and the past hypothesis Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 69: 26-31
Sober E. (2020) A theory of contrastive causal explanation and its implications concerning the explanatoriness of deterministic and probabilistic hypotheses European Journal For Philosophy of Science. 10: 1-15
Laplane L, Mantovani P, Adolphs R, et al. (2019) Opinion: Why science needs philosophy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116: 3948-3952
Roche W, Sober E. (2019) Disjunction and distality: the hard problem for purely probabilistic causal theories of mental content Synthese. 1-34
Sober E, Steel M. (2017) Similarities as Evidence for Common Ancestry{A Likelihood Epistemology The British Journal For the Philosophy of Science. 68: 617-638
Roche W, Sober E. (2017) Explanation = Unification? A New Criticism of Friedman’s Theory and a Reply to an Old One Philosophy of Science
Elgin M, Sober E. (2017) Popper’s Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory Hopos: the Journal of the International Society For the History of Philosophy of Science. 7: 31-55
Vassend O, Sober E, Fitelson B. (2017) The Philosophical Significance of Stein's Paradox European Journal For Philosophy of Science. 7: 411-433
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