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Lawrence Sklar (1938–2024) was an American philosopher and university teacher. Born in Baltimore, he was educated at Princeton University, where his doctoral advisors were Carl Gustav Hempel and Paul Benacerraf. Sklar served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and died in Ann Arbor.
His notable works include *Nature of Scientific Theory*, *Physical Theory*, *The philosophy of science*, *Bayesian and Non-Inductive Methods*, and *Explanation, Law, and Cause*. Sklar received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lakatos Award. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Nature of Scientific Theory
- Physical Theory
- The philosophy of science
- Bayesian and Non-Inductive Methods (Philosophy of Science)
- Explanation, Law, and Cause (Philosophy of Science, Volume 1)
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,425x
- Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
· 2014 · cited 26,200x
- <i>Planck</i>
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· 2020 · cited 13,378x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,865x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,570x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lawrence
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Ann Arbor
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Employer
- University of Michigan
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Benacerraf
- Image
- Lawrence Sklar.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1938-06-25
- date of death
- 2024-00-00
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