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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Interpretation plays a central role in using scientific models to explain natural phenomena: Meaning must be bestowed upon a model in terms of what it...
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Exploring the transition: biology, technology, and epistemic activities
By focusing on biorobotics, this article explores the epistemological foundations necessary to support the transition from biological models to...
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In defense of humean non-universal laws
In this paper, I raise a novel objection to David Lewis’s Humean account of laws. The objection is that non-universal laws are metaphysically...
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Quantum Ontology: A Modal Bundle-Theorist Relational Proposal
Quantum mechanics poses several challenges in ontological elucidation. Contextuality threatens determinism and favors realism about possibilia ....
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An all-purpose framework for affordances. Reconciling the behavioral and the neuroscientific stories
Research on the concept of affordance generated different interpretations, which are due to different stories aimed at describing how this notion...
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Interpersonal independence of knowledge and belief
We show that knowledge satisfies interpersonal independence , meaning that a non-trivial sentence describing one agent’s knowledge cannot be...
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Alternatives to the self-indication assumption are doomed
The self-indication assumption (SIA) claims that given that one exists, one should think that the universe has many people, for a universe that has...
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Truthmaker Semantics, Ground, and Generality
Our aim in this paper is to extend the semantics for the kind of logic of ground developed in deRosset and Fine (
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...
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Singular concepts
Alonzo Church proposed a powerful and elegant theory of sequences of functions and their arguments as surrogates for Russellian singular propositions...
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The Role of Moral Norms in Political Theory
In the recent debate on political normativity in political philosophy, two positions have emerged among so-called political realists. On the first...
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Indeterministic grounding
Grounding is sometimes thought of as metaphysical causation. If we take this analogy seriously, given the possibility of indeterministic causation we...
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Extended mentality and ascriptive authority
Self-ascriptions of one’s current mental states often enjoy a distinctively strong presumption of truth. Some philosophers claim that this ascriptive...
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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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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,...