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Once upon a time in superspace: the diegetic ideal for the interpretation of physical theories
This paper offers a novel argument for superspace substantivalism. Superspace is a modified spacetime represented formally through combining ordinary...
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Ideological innocence
Quine taught us the difference between a theory’s ontology and its ideology. Ontology is the things a theory’s quantifiers must range over if it is...
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Death pluralism: a proposal
The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death...
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Demolishing Prejudices to Get to the Foundations: A Criterion of Demarcation for Fundamentality
In this paper, we reject commonly accepted views on fundamentality in science, either based on bottom-up construction or top-down reduction to...
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Pragmatic realism: towards a reconciliation of enactivism and realism
This paper addresses some apparent philosophical tensions between realism and enactivism by means of Charles Peirce’s pragmatism. Enactivism’s...
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From perception to the Digital World: phenomenological observations
This article is based on Gibson’s “experimental phenomenology” and ecological perspective. It aims to develop Merleau-Ponty’s concept of “incarnate”...
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Criminal Justice and Artificial Intelligence: How Should we Assess the Performance of Sentencing Algorithms?
Artificial intelligence is increasingly permeating many types of high-stake societal decision-making such as the work at the criminal courts. Various...
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Madhyamaka Metaethics
This paper develops two novel views that help solve the ‘now what’ problem for moral error theorists concerning what they should do with morality...
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Dialectics of addiction: a psychopathologically-enriched comprehension of the clinical care of the addicted person
The problem of addiction to psychoactive substances, such as alcohol and other drugs, has been addressed in psychiatry traditionally from the...
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Observer Dependent Physicalism: A New Argument for Reductive Physicalism and for Scientific Realism
Reductive physicalism is a minority view in contemporary philosophy as well as in science, and therefore arguments for endorsing it often amount to...
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The metaphysical issues in the social sciences and how social scientists debate them
Most philosophical work on social ontology continues to be done without much connection to social scientific concerns. This special issue, however,...
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Re-enchanting Reality: Practical Ways to Become Freer
This chapter gives the reader an indication of what was uppermost in Bhaskar’s mind at the time of crystallisation of the philosophy of metaReality....
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Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts
By supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological...
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A contemporary example of Reichenbachian coordination
This article is an attempt to provide an example that illustrates Hans Reichenbach’s concept of coordination . Throughout Reichenbach’s career the...
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Notational Variants and Cognition: The Case of Dependency Grammar
In recent years, dependency grammars have established themselves as valuable tools in theoretical and computational linguistics. To many linguists,...
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How to Derive the Socio-scientific Laws from the Qur’an in Respect of Tawhid as Law
In this chapter, we have developed the substantive content of the Tawhidi epistemic worldview as the qur’anic law, contrary to the mistaken...
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Exploring Alternative Realities
The idea of alternative realties is fundamental to science, especially contemporary physics that suggests that reality is far different than the...
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The Philosophising Machine – a Specification of the Turing Test
Block’s ( The Philosophical Review, 90 (1), 5–43
1981 ) anti-behaviourist attack of the Turing Test not only illustrates that the test is a... -
The Many Faces of Realism about Natural Kinds
The label realist in the debate about natural kinds can imply different things. Many authors in this debate subscribe to views that are in some way...
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The Tawhidi Worldview of Socio-political Action
The reality of the principle of pervasive complementarities derived from the primal ontology of Tawhidi unity of knowledge and its embedding in the...