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Axiomatizations in ZFC
This unification was attained in the domains we just described through a least-effort principle (Hamilton’s Principle) applied to some kind of basic...
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A Theory of Justice According to the Tawhidi Epistemic Worldview
In this chapter, many important principles and characteristics of the Islamic socioeconomic and socio-scientific order have been established. Among...
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The principle of virtual work, counterfactuals, and the avoidance of physics
Wilson (
2017 ) derives various broad philosophical morals from the scientific role played by the Principle of Virtual Work (PVW). He argues roughly...
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Democracy and Fair Labor Conditions
The democratic principle of political co-determination requires, for its realization, workplace processes that are often left out of political...
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Redefining Ability, Saving Educational Meritocracy
The meritocratic principle of educational justice maintains that it is unfair that individuals with similar ability who invest equal effort, have...
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When Should Society Override Parental Decisions? A Proposed Test to Mediate Refusals of Beneficial Treatments and of Life-Saving Treatments for Children
Health care workers or others may wish to override parental decisions because of their impact on the health or safetySafety of a child or others....
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A strike against a striking principle
Several authors believe that there are certain facts that are striking and cry out for explanation—for instance, a coin that is tossed many times and...
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Atoms, combs, syllables and organisms
Mereological atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed of atomic parts, i.e., parts without proper parts. Typically, this thesis...
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The Politics of Stakeholder Theory: Some Future Directions
The purpose of this paper is to enter the conversation about stakeholder theory with the goal of clarifying certain foundational issues. I want to...
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David Émile Durkheim: Founding ‘Scientific Sociology’
Durkheim was the promoter of “scientific sociology,” in the Third Republic France, using transfer from Spencerian Lamarckism/French neo-Lamarckism to...
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On Imprecise Bayesianism in the Face of an Increasingly Larger Outcome Space
Wilcox proposed an argument against imprecise probabilities and for the principle of indifference based on a thought experiment where he argues that...
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Informational Models of the Phenomenon of Consciousness and the Mechanistic Project in Neuroscience
I argue that informational models of consciousness, including those proposed by the Integrated Information Theory, don’t presuppose or entail any...
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A Defense and Development of the Volitional Self-Contradiction Interpretation
Kant’s Formula of Universal Law (FUL) is generally believed to require you to act only on the basis of maxims that you can will without contradiction...
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Leibniz’ Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics
The following text describes the development of the problem of the choice of the best of all possible worlds as a fruitful methodological means. It...
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Towards the implementation of law n. 219/2017 on informed consent and advance directives for patients with psychiatric disorders and dementia. Physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and practices in four northern Italian health care facilities
BackgroundOn December 2017 the Italian Parliament approved law n. 219/2017 “Provisions for informed consent and advance directives” regarding...
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On Pattern-Cladistic Analyses Based on Complete Plastid Genome Sequences
The fundamental Hennigian principle, grou** solely on synapomorphy, is seldom used in modern phylogenetics. In the submitted paper, we apply this...
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Epistemic characterizations of validity and level-bridging principles
How should we understand validity? A standard way to characterize validity is in terms of the preservation of truth (or truth in a model). But there...
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Truth and Reality in Whitehead’s Metaphysics
Glen Veitch challenges the notion of a determinate, singular reality within Whitehead’s philosophy. In order to achieve this, he sets out first to...
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Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics
In his Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770–1980) Robert Veatch presents a scholarly tour de...
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Reference in remembering: towards a simulationist account
Recent theories of remembering and of reference (or singular thought) have de-emphasised the role causation was thought to play in mid- to...