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Continuous Glucose Monitoring as a Matter of Justice
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic illness that requires intensive lifelong management of blood glucose concentrations by means of external insulin...
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Does proper function come in degrees?
Natural selection comes in degrees. Some biological traits are subjected to stronger selective force than others, selection on particular traits...
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Presentism, Continuous Time-Travel and the Phenomenology of Passage
We argue that a certain variety of presentist time travel ends up significantly undermining the motivational foundations which lead some, but not...
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Cosmic Hylomorphism vs Bohmian Dispositionalism
The primitive ontology approach to Bohmian mechanics seeks to account for quantum phenomena in terms of particles that follow continuous trajectories...
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Invasive species and natural function in ecology
If ecological systems are functionally organised, they can possess functions or malfunctions. Natural function would provide justification for...
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Internal perspectivalism: the solution to generality problems about proper function and natural norms
In this paper, I argue that what counts as the proper function of a trait is a matter of the de facto perspective that the biological system, itself,...
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What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias?
Confirmation bias is one of the most widely discussed epistemically problematic cognitions, challenging reliable belief formation and the correction...
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“Design,” History of the Word and the Concept: Natural Sciences, History, Theology, and Aesthetics
The English word “Design” conveys so many possible connotations that its translation into French never came to a common agreement. In English, the...
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Genes and Natural Selection Finalize Nature
The power, form, and function of living things depend on nutrition and reproduction, which in turn depend on the unique power, form, and function of...
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The Categorical Equivalence Between Domains and Interpolative Generalized Closure Spaces
Closure space has been proven to be a useful tool to restructure lattices and various order structures. This paper aims to provide an approach to...
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Non-quantum Behaviors of Configuration-Space Density Formulations of Quantum Mechanics
The trajectories of the pilot-wave formulation of quantum mechanics and hence its empirical predictions may be recovered via the dynamics of a...
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Ethics Education and Institutional Ethics Committees
Ethics consultation, which emerged at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s in the United States and gradually spread to some other...
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Nishitani Keiji and the Nihility of the Christian Cross: On the Dialectic of Imitation and Worship
Nishitani Keiji elaborated the celebrated concept of nihility (虚無) in his seminal work Religion and Nothingness . In this paper, I discuss this...
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The “Continuous Line from the Formulations of the Magicians to the Formulations of the Sociologists”. Otto Neurath on the Anthropology of Magic and Religion
The present text deals with Neurath’s quest for a non-metaphysical sociology of magic and religion and takes into account a broader spectrum of...
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When Are You Present? Chrysippus and Henri Bergson on Continuous Time
We can situate the question of when you are “present” through the difference between (1) the Aristotelian present “now” and (2) the Chrysippean...
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Reducing thermodynamics to Boltzmannian statistical mechanics: the case of macro values
Thermodynamic macro variables, such as the temperature or volume macro variable, can take on a continuum of allowable values, called thermodynamic...
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The Reduction of the Continuous to the Discrete in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
The rapid development of mathematical analysis in the eighteenth century had not concealed the fact that its underlying concepts not only lacked...
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Mechanical Wits Used in the America Colonization: Engineering Assessment
The first European settlements in the new world faced technical issues with the help of the XVI century scientific advances. Besides briefly exposing...
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What a Functional Explanation Explains: The Case of Bio-Artefacts
Are functional explanations of natural phenomena eliminable? I argue that they are not, because what they explain cannot be explained otherwise. In...
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Is Moral Growth Possible for Managers?
Every managerial choice is an opportunity to either grow or decline morally. Pragmatism, at least the Deweyan version presented here, maintains that...