Curriculum Vitæ

B. Skyrms

 
Logic and Philosophy of Science Phone, voice mail: 949-824-6489 
School of Social Sciences
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92612

Publications:

Books:
  1. Choice and Chance: An Introduction to Inductive Logic 1st ed. (Dickenson: Belmont, California, 1966) 162 pp.
  2. Causal Necessity (Yale University Press: New Haven, 1980) 201 pp.
  3. Pragmatics and Empiricism (Yale University Press: New Haven, 1984) 143 pp.
  4. The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation (Harvard University Press: Cambridge,Mass., 1990) 199 pp.
  5. Evolution of the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1996) 146 pp.

    6. Edited Books:
  6. Causation, Chance and Credence [edited with W. Harper] (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1988) 284 pp.
  7. Causation in Decision, Belief Change and Explanation [edited with W. Harper] (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1988) 252 pp.
  8. Existence and Explanation [ed. with W. Spohn and B. van Fraassen] (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1991).
  9. Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IX - Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science [edited with D. Prawitz and D. Westerstahl] (Elsevier: Amsterdam, 1994) 989 pp.
  10. Probability and Conditionals [edited with Ellery Eells] (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1994) 207 pp.
  11. The Dynamics of Norms [edited with Cristina Bicchieri and Richard Jeffrey] (Cambridge University Press: New York, forthcoming).
  12. The Logic of Strategy [edited with Cristina Bicchieri and Richard Jeffrey] (Oxford University Press: New York, forthcoming).
Articles:
  1. "Falsifiability and the Logic of Experimental Tests" Methodos XIV (1962) 1-13.
  2. "Professor Grunbaum and Teleological Mechanisms" Philosophy of Science XXXI (1964).
  3. "Necessity, the A Priori and Unexpressible Statements" with E. Sosa) Philosophical StudiesXVI (1965) 65-74.
  4. "On Failing to Vindicate Induction" Philosophy of Science XXXII (1965) 235-268.
  5. "Nomological Necessity and the Paradoxes of Confirmation" Philosophy of Science XXXIII (1966) 230-249.
  6. "The Explication of `X knows that p'" The Journal of Philosophy LXIV (1967) 373- 389.
  7. "The Explication of 'X knows that p' "Reprinted in Knowing: Essays in the Analysis of Knowledge ed. Roth and Gallis (Random House: N.Y.,1970).
  8. "A Methodological Problem in the Evaluation of Explanations" (with N. Rescher) Nous (1968) 121-129.
  9. "Comments on Ackerman's `Problems'" in Philosophical Logic ed. Davis, Hockney and Wilson (Reidel: Dordrecht, 1968) 152-157.
  10. "A Neglected Logical Lapse in Reichenbach's Pragmatic Justification of Induction" Methodology and Science 1 (1968) 155-159.
  11. "Return of the Liar: Three Valued Logic and the Nature of Truth" American Philosophical Quarterly VII (1970) 153-161.
  12. "Notes on Quantification and Self-Reference" in The Liar ed. R. Martin (Yale University Press: New Haven, 1971) 67-74.
  13. "Contraposition of the Conditional" Philosophical Studies 26 (1974) 145-147.
  14. "The Goodman Paradox" in Readings in Philosophical Analysis ed. Feigl,Sellars and Lehrer (Appleton,Century Crofts: N.Y., 1972).
  15. "Physical Laws and the Nature of Philosophical Reduction" in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science VI ed. Maxwell and Anderson (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, Minn., 1975) 496-529.
  16. "Definitions of Semantical Reference and Self-Reference" Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic XVII (1976) 147-148.
  17. "Supervaluations: Identity, Existence and Individual Concepts" The Journal of Philosophy LXV (1968) 477-482.
  18. "Possible Worlds, Physics and Metaphysics" Philosophical Studies 30 (1976) 323-332.
  19. "Resiliency, Propensity and Causal Necessity" The Journal of Philosophy LXXIV (1977) 704-713.
  20. "An Immaculate Conception of Modality" The Journal of Philosophy LXXV (1978) 368-387.
  21. "The Prior Propensity Account of Subjunctive Conditionals" in IFs ed. Harper et al (Reidel:Dordrecht, 1980) 259-265.
  22. "Higher Order Degrees of Belief" in Prospects for Pragmatism: Essays in Honor of F.P.Ramsey ed. D.H. Mellor (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1980).
  23. "Statistical Laws and Personal Propensities" in PSA 1978 vol. 2 ed. Asquith and Hacking (Philosophy of Science Assn.: East Lansing, Michigan, 1982).
  24. "Counterfactual Definiteness and Local Causation" Philosophy of Science 49 (1982) 43-50.
  25. "Mates Quantification and Intensional Logic" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 59 (1981) 177-188.
  26. "Tractarian Nominalism" Philosophical Studies 40 (1981) 199-206.
  27. "Tractarian Nominalism" reprinted as an appendix to Armstrong, D. M. A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989).
  28. "Conditional Probabilities, Taxicabs and Martingales," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1981) 331-32.
  29. "Causal Decision Theory" The Journal of Philosophy LXXIX (1982) 695-711.
  30. "Zeno's Paradox of Measure" in Philosophy, Physics and Psychoanalysis ed R. Cohen et. al. (Reidel: Dordrecht, 1983) 233-254.
  31. "Maximum Entropy Inference as a Special Case of Conditionalization" Synthese 63 (1985) 55-74.
  32. "Intensional Aspects of Semantical Self-Reference" in Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar ed R. Martin (Oxford University Press:Oxford,1984) 119-131.
  33. "EPR: Lessons for Metaphysics" in Causation and Causal Theories (Midwest Studies in Philosophy,vol.IX) ed H.Wettstein (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1984) 245-255.
  34. "Three Ways to Give a Probability Assignment a Memory" in Testing Scientific Theories(Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. X) ed John Earman (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis,1983).
  35. "A Bayesian Theory of Conditionals" (abstract) Proceedings of the International Congress on Logic,Methodology and Philosophy of Science (University of Salzburg: Salzburg, 1983).
  36. "Pragmatics and the Principle of Empiricism" in The Heritage of Logical Positivism ed. N. Rescher (University Press of America: New York, London, 1985) 23-28.
  37. "Ultimate and Proximate Consequences in Causal Decision Theory" Philosophy of Science 52 (1985) 608-611.
  38. "EPR and the Metaphysics of Causation" in Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics:50 Years of the EPR Gadanken Experiment ed. P. Lakki and P. Mittlestadt (World Scientific Publishing Co.:Singapore,1986) 609-623.
  39. "Deliberational Equilibria" Topoi 5 (1986) 59-67.
  40. "Coherence" in Scientific Inquiry in Philosophical Perspective ed. N. Rescher (University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1987) 225-242.
  41. "Dynamic Coherence" in Advances in the Statistical Sciences:Vol.II Foundations of Statistical Inference ed. I.B. MacNeill and G. Umphrey (Reidel:Dordrecht,1987) 233-243.
  42. "Dynamic Coherence and Probability Kinematics" Philosophy of Science 54 (1987) 1-20.
  43. "Presuppositions of Induction" in The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism ed. Merilee Salmon (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1990) 285-319.
  44. "The Value of Knowledge" in Scientific Theories [Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 14] ed. C.W. Savage (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1990) 245-266.
  45. "On the Principle of Total Evidence with and without Observation Sentences" in Logic, Philosophy of Science and Epistemology: Proceedings of the 11th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Holder-Pichler-Tempsky: Vienna, 1987) 187-195.
  46. " Introduction to Probability and Causation" in Causation,Chance and Credence ed. Harper and Skyrms (Kluwer: Dordrecht, l988).
  47. "Introduction to `Three Theorems of Metaphysics'"Synthese 81 (1989) 203-205.
  48. "Probability and Causation" in Journal of Econometrics (1988), 53-68.
  49. "Deliberational Dynamics and the Foundations of Bayesian Game Theory" in Epistemology [Philosophical Perspectives vol.2] ed. J.E.Tomberlin (Ridgeview: Atascadero, California, 1988) 345-367.
  50. "Updating, Supposing and MAXENT" in Theory and Decision 22 (1987) 225-246.
  51. "Conditional Chance" in Probability and Causality: Essays in Honor of Wesley Salmon ed. J.Fetzer (Reidel:Dordrecht,Holland,1988) 161-178.
  52. "Correlated Equilibria and the Dynamics of Rational Deliberation" Erkenntnis 31, (1989) 347-364.
  53. "Quantification, Modality and Semantic Ascent" in Causality, Method and Modality ed. G. G. Brittan, Jr. (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1991) 175-183.
  54. "Ratifiability and the Logic of Decision" in Philosophy of the Human Sciences ED. P. French et. al. (Midwest Studies in Philosophy v. 15) (University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, Indiana, 1990) 44-56 .
  55. "Ratifiability and the Logic of Decision" [preprint of 52] available as Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Science Technical Report MBS 89-05.
  56. "Inductive Deliberation, Admissible Acts, and Perfect Equilibrium" Foundations of Decision Theory edited by M. Bacharach and S. Hurley (Blackwell: Oxford, 1991) 220-241.
  57. "Inductive Deliberation, Admissible Acts, and Perfect Equilibrium" [preprint of 53] available as Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Science Technical Report MBS 89-14.
  58. "Models of Dynamic Deliberation and the Theory of Games" for Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the Third Conference (TARK 1990) ed. R. Parikh (Morgan Kaufmann: Los Altos, California, 1990) 185-200.
  59. "Stability and Chance" in Existence and Explanation ed. W. Spohn, et. al. (Kluwer: Dordrecht, 1991) 149-161.
  60. "Stability and Chance" [preprint of 55] available as Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Science Technical Report MBS 90-03.
  61. "Carnapian Inductive Logic for Markov Chains" Erkenntnis 35 (1991) 439-460.
  62. "Carnapian Inductive Logic for Markov Chains" [preprint of 56] Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences Technical Report MBS 90-11.
  63. "Deliberation and Games" in Economics and Artificial Intelligence (Express-Tirages: Paris, 1990) 159-164.
  64. "Coherence, Probability and Induction" in Rationality in Epistemology ed E. Villanueva (Ridgeview: Atascadero, California, 1992) 215-226.
  65. "Theories of Probability" in A Companion to Epistemology ed. J. Dancy and E. Sosa. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.
  66. "Analogy by Similarity in HyperCarnapian Inductive Logic" in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays On the Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum ed. Earman et al. (University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh 1993) 273-282.
  67. "Analogy by Similarity in Hypercarnapian Inductive logic" [preprint of 60] Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences Technical Report MBS 91-04.
  68. "Adaptive and Inductive Deliberational Dynamics" in Economics and Cognitive Science ed. P. Bourgine and B. Walliser (Pergamon Press: Oxford, 1992) 93-107.
  69. "Logical Atomism and Combinatorial Possibility" The Journal of Philosophy 90 (1993) 219-232.
  70. "Logical Atomism and Combinatorial Possibility" [preprint of 62] Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences Technical Report MBS 91-05.
  71. "Logical Atomism and Combinatorial Possibility" [reprint of 62] in The Philosopher's Annual v.XVI - 1993 ed. Grim, P., Mar, G. and Williams, P. (Atascadero: Ridgeview, 1995) 219-232.
  72. "Equilibria and the Dynamics of Rational Deliberation" in Knowledge, Belief and Strategic Interaction ed. C. Bicchieri et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 93-106).
  73. "Chaos in Game Dynamics" Journal of Logic,Language and Information 1, (1992) 111-130.
  74. "Bayesian Projectibility" in Grue: Essays on the New Riddle of Induction ed. D. Stalker. (Chicago: Open Court, 1994) 241-262.
  75. "A Mistake in Dynamic Coherence Arguments?" Philosophy of Science (1993).
  76. "Carnapian Inductive Logic for a Value Continuum" in The Philosophy of Science (Midwest Studies in Philosophy Volume 18) ed. H. Wettstein (University of Notre Dame Press: South Bend, Indiana) 78-89.
  77. "Chaos and the Explanatory Significance of Equilibrium: Strange Attractors in Evolutionary Game Dynamics" PSA 1992, Volume 2 374-394.
  78. "Deliberational Correlated Equilibria" (with Peter Vanderschraaf) Philosophical Topics 21 (1993) 191-227.
  79. "Strict Coherence, Sigma Coherence and the Metaphysics of Quantity" Philosophical Studies77 (1995) 39-55.
  80. "Adams Conditionals" in Probability and Conditionals ed. Eells and Skyrms Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1994 13-26.
  81. "Resiliency and Laws in the Web of Belief" (with Karel Lambert) in Laws of Nature Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions ed. F. Weinert. de Gruyter: Berlin, New York, 1995 139-156.
  82. "Darwin meets The Logic of Decision" Philosophy of Science 61 (1994), 503-528.
  83. "Sex and Justice" The Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994) 305-320.
  84. "Sex and Justice" [reprint of 74] forthcoming in The Philosopher's Annual v.XVII Atascadero: Ridgeview.
  85. "Mutual Aid" forthcoming in Modeling Rational and Moral Agents ed. P. Danielson (Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 376- 405.
  86. "Introduction to the Nobel Symposium on Game Theory" Games and Economic Behavior 8 (1995) 3-5.
  87. "Evolution of an Anomaly" forthcoming in After the Received View. Developments in the Theory of Science ed G. Preyer and A. Ulfig.
  88. "Convergence in Radical Probabilism" in PSA 1994 ed. Hull, D., Forbes, M. and Burian, R. M., East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association, 1995 349-353.
  89. "The Structure of Radical Probabilism" forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
  90. "Game Theory, Rationality and Evolution" forthcoming in Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. ed. M. L. Dalla Chiara, K. Doets, D. Mundici, J. van Bentham. Amsterdam, Kluwer.
  91. "The Shadow of the Future" forthcoming in Rational Committment and Social Justice ed. C. Morris. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  92. "Inductive Logic and Bayesian Statistics" forthcoming in Statistics, Probability and Game Theory: Papers in Honor of David Blackwell IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series 30 (1996).
  93. "Game Theory" (with Peter Vanderschraaf) forthcoming in Handbook of Practical Reasoninged. P. Smets.
  94. "Bayesian Subjunctive Conditionals for Games and Decisions" forthcoming in Yearbook of the Institute Vienna Circle, 1997 ed Leinfellner, et. al. Dordrecht, Kluwer.
  95. "The Social Contract Naturalized" forthcoming in Justice, Political Liberalism and Utilitarianism: Proceedings of the Caen Conference in Honor of John Harsanyi and John Rawls. ed. M. Salle and John Weymark. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  96. Parametric Conditionals, Stalnaker Conditionals, Natural Families and General Bayesian Conditionals:What is needed for Decision Theory?" co-authored with Peter Woodruff and Gary D. Bell. Forthcoming in The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy: Proceedings of the 20th International Wittgenstein Symposium ed. P. Weingartner, G. Schurz and G. Dorn. Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky.
  97. "Precis of Evolution of the Social Contract" and "Reply to Critics" Philosophy of Phenomenological Research 59 (1999) 217-220;243-254.
  98. "Subjunctive Conditionals and Revealed Preference" Philosophy of Science 65 (1998) 545-574.
  99. "Salience and Symmetry-Breaking in the Evolution of Convention" Law and Philosophy 17 (1998) 411-418.
  100. "Evolution of Inference" in Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies ed. T. Kohler and G. Gumerman. New York: Oxford University Press (1999) 77-88.
  101. "Theories of Counterfactual and Subjunctive Conditionals in Contexts of Strategic Interaction" Research in Economics 53 (1999) 275-291.
  102. "Truth Dynamics" forthcoming in  Circularity, Definition and Truth ed. A. Chapuis and A. Gupta.
  103. "Convergence to a Signaling System Equilibrium" forthcoming in Rationality, Rules and Structure Ed. J. Nida-Rumelin and W. Spohn. Dordrecht: Reidel.
  104. "Game Theory, Rationality, and Evolution of the Social Contract" Journal of Consciousness Studies (Special Issue of Evolutionary Origins of Morality ed. J. Katz) 7 (2000) 269-284.
  105. "Adaptive Dynamic Models and the Social Contract"  Journal of Consciousness Studies (Special Issue of Evolutionary Origins of Morality ed. J. Katz) 7 (2000) 335-339.
  106. "Bargaining with Neighbors: Is Justice Contagious?" (co-authored with Jason Alexander) The Journal of Philosophy 96 (1999) 588-598.
  107. "Stability and Explanatory Significance of Some Evolutionary Models" Philosophy of Science 67 (2000) 94-113.
  108. "A Dynamic Model of Social Network Formation" (co-authored with Robin Pemantle)  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 97 (2000) 9340-9346.
Reviews:
  1. Review of Scheffler's Science and Subjectivity for The Journal of Philosophy LXV (1968)
  2. Review of Burks' Cause, Chance and Reason for Theory and Decision 12 (1980) 1-11.
  3. Critical Notice of Brian Ellis' Rational Belief Systems for Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (1980) 66-71.
  4. Review of Jeffrey The Logic of Decision 2nd ed. and "Preferences Among Preferences" for The Journal of Symbolic Logic 50 (1985) 247-48.
  5. Review of Soren Hallden's, The Foundations of Decision Logic for The Journal of Symbolic Logic 48 (1983) 502-503.
  6. Review of Patrick Suppes' Probabilistic Metaphysics for Philosophical Review 96 (1987) 447-450.
  7. Review of John Earman's A Primer on Determinism for Foundations of Physics 19 (1989) 111-113.
  8. Review of Glymour "Hypothetico-deductivism is hopeless", Waters "Relevance Logic brings hope for hypothetico-deductivism" and Grimes "Truth, Content and Hypothetico-deductive method" The Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (1992) 756-758.
  9. Review of Ken Binmore's Game Theory and the Social Contract: Volume 1: Playing Fair. Economica 62 (1995) 577-578.
  10. Review of Jordan Howard Sobel's Taking Chances for Philosophical Review (forthcoming)
  11. Review of Cristina Bicchieri's Rationality and Coordination for British Journal for Philosophy of Science (forthcoming).
  12. Review of Frederick Schick's Making Choices for The Times Literary Supplement 949 (Feb. 6, 1998) 30.
  13. "General Facts" for a symposium on David Armstrong's A World of States of Affairs in Metascience 8 (1999)77-79.
  14. Critical Notice of John Earman's Bayes or Bust (Co-authored with Alan Hajek) for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
  15. Review of Ken Binmore's Game Theory and the Social Contract Volume II: Just Playing for Economics and Philosophy.
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