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A Role for Cognitive Agents from a Kuhnian Point of View: A Comment to Juan Vicente Mayoral
In his paper, Juan Vicente Mayoral presents various aspects of Kuhn’s thought from a historical perspective. Besides the interesting approach that Mayoral proposes for several problems, in this commentary I am...
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Computer Simulations in Science
This chapter presents a brief and simple overview of the different technical understandings and types of computer simulations. While it offers brief descriptions of widespread types of computer simulations, su...
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Taking Historical Epistemology to the International Scene
The aim of this article is to examine the reception on the world stage, taking up what was a constant concern of Jean Gayon. Three major features distinguish this tradition. First, the use of the to design...
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The New Mechanistic Theory of Explanation: A Primer
In this chapter, I introduce the new mechanistic framework of explanation, focusing in particular on constitutive mechanistic explanation. I evaluate the accounts of mechanistic constitution derived from Crave...
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The Collaboration Between Writer and Reader
Plato’s is a kind of higher-order pedagogy in which the readers are not the passive receptors of a content but they discover themselves as authors of the content. I have chosen to respond to the Platonic intel...
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Cosmic Life
The present contribution is a new text which has been written under the impression of more than seventy years of active dedication to the innovative development of process philosophy. In this context, the topi...
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Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think
The paper puts Kant’s second paralogism in the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason into the context of eighteenth century debates on materialism. In the second paralogism, Kant argues that neither dua...
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Working Hypotheses, Mathematical Representation, and the Logic of Theory-Mediation
We examine the contrast between the “Newtonian style” and the Cartesian, hypothetico-deductive method in order to expand on George Smith's account of working hypotheses and theory-mediation. We stress the pivo...
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Finnish Versions of Pragmatist Humanism: Eino Kaila and Georg Henrik von Wright as Quasi-Pragmatists
Philosophers active in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century developed not only insightful and original responses to the American pragmatist tradition but also philosophical ideas not explicitly...
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Lifeworld Phenomenology After Husserl: Merleau-Ponty, Enactivism, Heidegger and Science
I investigate the possibility that ‘lifeworld phenomenology’ after Husserl (in Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger) escapes the critique of the Husserlian lifeworld. It is suggested that this depends on whether lifewo...
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Interdisciplinarity in the View of Researchers in the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Human Rights at the Federal Universitiy of Goiás (PPGIDH-UFG): A Case Study
This text consists of the report of the exercise and of the experience in interdisciplinary practice by professors and researchers of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Human Rights of the Federal...
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Linking Experiences to the Social World
This chapter is dedicated to the evolution of thoughts and language based on sensory information of the environment. Animals living in socially organized groups have a strong need for communication to convey t...
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Introduction
The book considers the relationship between governance and participation, and the ways participation has been understood, framed, and applied in the context of synthetic biology (SB) governance. Based on quest...
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Sappho’s (630–570) Poetics and the Science of Her Time
Ancient Greek thought was not simply rational and analytic but also mythical and intuitive, originating as it did from a fine intellectual and perceptual versatility where myth instigated but also crowned both...
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MAID Practice and Impact
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada is an ongoing project. Required by a court order in 2015, legalized in 2016 and amended in 2021, it was expected to have further expansion of eligibility criteria i...
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Review: Ilse Korotin, Amalia M. Rosenblüth-Dengler (1892-1979). Philosophin und Bibliothekarin. Biografische Spuren eines Frauenlebens zwischen Aufbruch und Resignation, Praesens Verlag 2021
The life of the philosopher and librarian Amalia Rosenblüth (1892–1979), who was in touch with the Lemberg-Warsaw-School (Lemberg-Warschauer-Schule) and the Vienna Circle (Wiener Kreis), remained in the dark for ...
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Russell and Carnap or Bourbaki? Two Ways Towards Structures
Recent years have featured the existence of a variety of structuralisms, with an important partition between methodological versus philosophical structuralism. Inside philosophical structuralism, many trends c...
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Repetition Without Replication: Notes Towards a Theory of Cultural Adaptation
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the study of cultural adaptation. A subfield within the larger field of cultural evolution, cultural adaptation is defined as the purposeful remediation of cultu...
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(What) Do We Learn from Code Comparisons? A Case Study of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Implementations
There has been much interest in the recent philosophical literature on increasing the reliability and trustworthiness of computer simulations. One method used to investigate the reliability of computer simulat...
