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Rage against the what? The machine metaphor in biology
Machine metaphors abound in life sciences: animals as automata, mitochondria as engines, brains as computers. Philosophers have criticized machine...
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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms
The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European...
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The Sum Relation as a Primitive Concept of Mereology
Mereology in its formal guise is usually couched in a language whose signature contains only one primitive binary predicate symbol representing the par...
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Philosophical Investigations into AI Alignment: A Wittgensteinian Framework
We argue that the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and mathematics, substantially focused on rule-following, is relevant to understand and...
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Is the State a Socially Responsible Shareholder? State-Owned Enterprises, Political Ideology, and Corporate Social Performance
The effects of state ownership on firms’ outcomes depend on how governments influence the goals of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Yet scant...
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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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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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Does Social Media Pressure Induce Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence of ESG Greenwashing from China
Hypocrisy in corporate social responsibility has attracted increasing attention from scholars. Under the context of the digital era, we examine...
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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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A New Game Theoretic Semantics (GTS-2) for Weak Kleene Logics
Hintikka’s game theoretical approach to semantics has been successfully applied also to some non-classical logics. A recent example is Başkent ( A...
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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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Teleosemantics, Structural Resemblance and Predictive Processing
We propose a pluralist account of content for predictive processing systems. Our pluralism combines Millikan’s teleosemantics with existing...
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The Limits of Calibration and the Possibility of Roles for Trustworthy AI
With increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in high-stakes contexts, a race for “trustworthy AI” is under way. However, Dorsch and Deroy ( Phil...
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How (not) to Talk to a Plant: An Application of Automata Theory to Plant Communication
Plants are capable of a range of complex interactions with the environment. Over the last decade, some authors have used this as evidence to argue...
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Exploring mental systems within regenerative agriculture: systems thinking and rotational grazing adoption among Canadian livestock producers
Regenerative agriculture is an approach that places soil conservation at the center of its practices. As part of this approach, regenerative...
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Universalism, Pluralism, and the Moral Status of Social Robots: a Reply to Jecker
This reply address two issues raised by Nancy Jecker’s commentary, “Robots With and Without Sophisticated Cognitive Capacities: Are They Persons?”....
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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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Conspiracy Theories, Racial Liberalism and Fantasies of Freedom
This article provides a reading of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy, which emerged in response to Covid-19 related public health measures in 2022. It...