Aristotle’s Solution to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox and its Implications
(2022)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. M. (2022). Aristotle’s Solution to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox and its Implications. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 4(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2022.0061
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Cosmic Hylomorphism vs Bohmian Dispositionalism: Implications of the ‘No-Successor Problem’ (2022)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W. M. R., & Pemberton, J. M. (2022). Cosmic Hylomorphism vs Bohmian Dispositionalism: Implications of the ‘No-Successor Problem’. In Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy (269-282). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99642-0_18
Mechanisms, laws and explanation (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2020). Mechanisms, laws and explanation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(3), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00284-yMechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases whe... Read More about Mechanisms, laws and explanation.
Individuating Processes (2018)
Book Chapter
Pemberton, J. (2018). Individuating Processes. In O. Bueno, R.-L. Chen, & M. B. Fagan (Eds.), Individuation, process, and scientific practices (39-62). Oxford University Press
Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them (2014)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J., & Cartwright, N. (2014). Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them. Erkenntnis, 79(10), 1745-1758. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9639-4Most of the regularities that get represented as ‘laws’ in our sciences arise from, and are to be found regularly associated with, the successful operation of a nomological machine. Reference to the nomological machine must be included in the cp-clau... Read More about Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them.
Aristotelian Powers: Without Them, What Would Modern Science Do? (2013)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N., & Pemberton, J. (2013). Aristotelian Powers: Without Them, What Would Modern Science Do?. In J. Greco, & R. Gross (Eds.), Powers and capacities in philosophy : the new Aristotelianism (93-112). Routledge
Why idealized models in economics have limited use (2005)
Book Chapter
Pemberton, J. (2005). Why idealized models in economics have limited use. In M. R. Jones, & N. Cartwright (Eds.), Idealization XII: Correcting the Model (35-46). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401202732_005
The Methodology of Actuarial Science (1999)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. (1999). The Methodology of Actuarial Science. British Actuarial Journal, 5, 115-195. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1357321700000416