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A Didactic and Metatheoretical Characterization of Computational Simulations in Science Education
Contemporary sciences, including the didactics of science, employ computational simulations as tools in their academic endeavors. The construction...
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Nonexistent Objects and Their Semantic and Ontological Dependence on Referential Acts
This paper argues for a distinction between fictional characters, as parts of intentionally created abstract artifacts, and intentional objects, as...
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Locative grounding harmony
In this paper, we explore locative grounding harmony, according to which the location of the grounds mirrors the location of the grounded. We proceed...
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Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof
This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First,...
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Are generics quantificational?
The standard view about generic generalizations is that they have a tripartite quantificational logical form involving a phonologically null...
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Amodal Completion: Mental Imagery or 3D Modeling?
In amodal completion the mind in some sense completes the visual perceptual representation of a scene by representing parts of the scene hidden...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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Emotion against reason? Self-control conflict as self-modelling rivalry
Divided-mind approaches to the conflict involved in self-control are pervasive. According to an influential version of the divided-mind approach,...
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The representation, quantification, and nature of genetic information
Current genetics studies often refer to notions from information science. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and structure the different...
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Umwelt Theory and Dis/Harmony: Forays into Dis/Ability, Dis/Ease, Trauma, and Ethological Divergence
This paper explores the relationship between the problem of dis/harmony in Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory and the inclusion of experiences of...
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Artificial consciousness: a perspective from the free energy principle
Does the assumption of a weak form of computational functionalism, according to which the right form of neural computation is sufficient for...
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Mental filing, continued
According to traditional versions of the mental file theory, we should posit mental files —that is, mental representations with containment...
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Salmón, Schiffer and Frege’s Constraint
In his (Philosophical Perspectives 1:455–480, 1987) and (Noûs, 40:361–368, 2006), Schiffer devised a puzzle about Salmón’s (in: Frege’s puzzle, MIT...
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Deepfakes: a survey and introduction to the topical collection
Deepfakes are extremely realistic audio/video media. They are produced via a complex machine-learning process, one that centrally involves training...
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Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), biomedical sciences have moved away from a gene-centred view and towards a multi-factorial...
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Carving teleology at its joints
This paper addresses the conceptualisation and measurement of goal-directedness. Drawing inspiration from Ernst Mayr’s demarcation between multiple...
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Compositionality, communication, and commitments
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in Rich Meaning Approaches (RMA) that understand the meanings of words as rich conceptual...
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Animal Attention in the Context of Zoosemiotics
Attention is viewed here as a complex of semiotic processes that leads to animals’ choices and behavioral decisions. Besides the focusing role of...
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Towards a pragmatist epistemology for theory choice in logic
In this paper, I outline a pragmatist epistemology of logic inspired by later work of Charles S. Peirce that shares many features with an...