Yemima Ben-Menahem

Conventionalism

From Poincare to Quine

The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twenti...

Causation in Science

This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of mos...

Conventionalism

"The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root of so-called necessary truths, on the one hand, and much of empirical science, on...