Search
Search Results
-
Early Conceptual Knowledge About Food
Recent research suggests that preschool (three- to six-years-old) children’s food cognition involves much more than the nutritional information...
-
Knowledge, algorithmic predictions, and action
I discuss the epistemic status of algorithmic predictions in the legal realm. My main claim is that algorithmic predictions do not give us knowledge,...
-
Inductive neutrality and scientific representation
Prima facie, accounts of scientific representation should illuminate how models support justified surrogative reasoning while remaining neutral on...
-
Knowledge as a (Non-factive) Mental State
The thesis that knowledge is a factive mental state plays a central role in knowledge-first epistemology, but accepting this thesis requires also...
-
Sámi Traditional Knowledge of Reindeer Meat Smoking
Reindeer meat, traditional food and knowledge are vital for the culture, health, and economy of Sámi reindeer herders. Nevertheless, the practices of...
-
Scientific Animism
Animism has been defined in many ways. Tylor defines it as the “the theory which endows the phenomena of nature with personal life” (1866: 82)....
-
The Epistemic Basis of the Contrast Between Islamic and Non-Islamic Scientific Thought
Continuing from previous chapters the discussion regarding the field of IPS based on qur’anic ta’wil interpretation of verses establishes grounds for...
-
Modals model models: scientific modeling and counterfactual reasoning
Counterfactual reasoning has been used to account for many aspects of scientific reasoning. More recently, it has also been used to account for the...
-
Scientific progress, normative discussions, and the pragmatic account of definitions of life
Discussions on the status of definitions of life have long been dominated by a position known as definitional pessimism. Per the definitional...
-
Benchmarking Scientific Image Forgery Detectors
The field of scientific image integrity presents a challenging research bottleneck given the lack of available datasets to design and evaluate...
-
Explaining ambiguity in scientific language
The idea that ambiguity can be productive in data science remains controversial. Efforts to make scientific publications and data intelligible to...
-
Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science
We review publications in automated scientific discovery using deep learning, with the aim of shedding light on problems with strong connections to...
-
Understanding and scientific progress: lessons from epistemology
Contemporary debate surrounding the nature of scientific progress has focused upon the precise role played by justification, with two realist...
-
Epidemiological Models and Epistemic Perspectives: How Scientific Pluralism may be Misconstrued
In a scenario characterized by unpredictable developments, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiological models have played a leading part,...
-
Scientific Understanding in Astronomical Models from Eudoxus to Kepler
In the following essay I present a narrative of the development of astronomical models from Eudoxus to Kepler, as a case-study that vindicates an...
-
Faith and Knowledge
This chapter examines issues that underlie the concerns of the previous two chapters: the relationship between faith and knowledge and the natures of...
-
Logical Journeys: A Scientific Autobiography
A short scientific biography emphasising the main phases of Abramsky’s research: duality theory and domains in logical form, game semantics,...
-
Knowledge and Belief
The different assessments of knowledge and belief provided by the Western philosophical tradition, on the one hand, and by the Abrahamic religious...
-
Scientific Realism from a Polysystemic View of Physical Theories and their Functioning
One of the vividly discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of science (especially physics) is the opposition between Realism and...
-
Collective vice and collective self-knowledge
Groups can be epistemically vicious just like individuals. And just like individuals, groups sometimes want to do something about their vices. They...