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Newton’s Example of the Two Globes
At the end of the Scholium Newton includes a long paragraph about two globes revolving around their center of gravity and held together by a tensed cord. It has been interpreted as a thought experiment (Sect. ...
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The Will to Believe, Epistemic Virtue, and Holistic Transcendental Pragmatism
While Christopher Hookway has always been primarily a “Peircean” pragmatist rather than a “Jamesian” one, many of his writings manifest a remarkably sensitive and appreciative approach to William James’s thoug...
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What do Opinions Mean?
Hannah Ahrendt has pointed out how important it is to distinguish between truths, facts and opinions. Here, based on the concept of recognition by Paul Ricoeur, it is about the analysis of opinions. Recognition m...
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Prelude: Sellars’ Project and Its Essential Tension
In this prelude, I give a brief overview of two main pillars of Sellars’ thought, the myth of the Given and his non-representationalist account of semantics, for better orienting the reader to the themes of th...
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Affordances, the Social Environment, and the Notion of Field: State of the Debate and Methodological Insights
In his writings, Gibson firmly claimed that cultural or social factors could never distort perception. Cultural artefacts, social norms, language and signs were instead described as influencing perception and ...
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Super-Contemporaneity (The Regime of Creation Beyond Transdisciplinary Innovation)
A creation regime is characterized by a reciprocal relationship between the ability to be creative, i. e. to produce new concepts, and the ability to create, i. e. to produce valuable new objects and social re...
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Experiential Knowledge Without Beliefs
Here the focus is on sensory knowledge that we gain not from the external senses but from the internal senses such as the kinesthetic ones. Just as I distinguish between the two modes of knowledge we obtain fr...
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Introduction
Since the last quarter of the twentieth century there has been growing interest in women’s contributions to the histories of science, philosophy, and literature dating back to the very beginnings of these disc...
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Freedom of Conscience and Medical Assistance in Dying—Clinical Perspective
In Carter emphasized that a physician’s decision to participate in assisted dying is a matter of conscience or religious belief, and that nothing in Carter would compel physicians to provide assistance in dyin...
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Death on Demand?: Canada’s Culture and Values at a Crossroads
The 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision Carter v. Canada marks an inflection point in legal and medical thought and practice. For the first time since capital punishment was abolished in Canada in 1976, active ...
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Review: Meike G. Werner (Ed.), Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein, Wallstein Verlag 2021
In 1917/18 the German publisher Eugen Diederichs organized three “closed meetings” at Lauenstein castle in Upper Franconia (Germany) where about 60 representatives of science, art, and “the youth” discussed “t...
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Federigo Enriques and the Philosophical Background to the Discussion of Implicit Definitions
Implicit definitions have been much discussed in the history and philosophy of science in relation to logical positivism. Not only have the logical positivists been influential in establishing this notion, but...
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Is a Non-evolutionary Psychology Possible?
The last 30 years has seen the emergence of a self-styled ‘evolutionary’ paradigm within psychology (henceforth, EP). EP is often presented and critiqued as a distinctive, contentious paradigm, to be contraste...
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Individuality and Freedom
In this article, Ellen Bliss Talbot explores the free will/determinism debate through an examination of the notions of individual unity, uniqueness, and self-sufficiency.
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Through Numerical Simulation to Scientific Knowledge
Numerical simulations are used for the approximate prediction of situations under strictly defined conditions. They are based on mathematical models and represent interdependencies in the form of algorithms and c...
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Doing Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology with Jean Gayon
Throughout my university career, and since I began my Ph.D., Jean Gayon was there. Unlike many contributors to this volume, to the early or mid-career researchers who do French philosophy of biology today, I d...
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Inductive Inferences on Galactic Redshift, Understood Materially
A two-fold challenge faces any account of inductive inference. It must provide means to discern which are the good inductive inferences or which relations capture correctly the strength of inductive support. I...
