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The EThIC Model of Virtue-Based Allyship Development: A New Approach to Equity and Inclusion in Organizations
As organizations take on grand challenges in gender equality, anti-racism, LGBTQ+ protections and workplace inclusion, many well-intentioned...
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A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Social Distance
From its very beginning, sociological thought has been concerned with a topic central to our daily lives: social distance. Since inception, the...
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Mathematical Analogies in Physics: The Curious Case of Gauge Symmetries
Gauge symmetries provide one of the most puzzling examples of the applicability of mathematics in physics. The presented work focuses on the role of...
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Symbolic Understanding of the Sky and Celestial Entities: An Archaeological Approach of Late Prehistoric Celestial Signs in the Carpathian Basin
European prehistoric decorative art abounds in motifs that are not humble decorative elements but seem to be significant signs. Circles, concentric...
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Evaluating Reasoning in Natural Arguments: A Procedural Approach
In this paper, we formulate a procedure for assessing reasoning as it is expressed in natural arguments. The procedure is a specification of one of...
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Autonomous Driving and Public Reason: a Rawlsian Approach
In this paper, we argue that solutions to normative challenges associated with autonomous driving, such as real-world trolley cases or distributions...
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Elements for a Dialogical Approach on Parallel Reasoning. A Case Study of Spanish Civil Law
Nowadays, there is a quite considerable amount of literature on the use of analogy or more generally of inferences by parallel reasoning in...
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(What) Do We Learn from Code Comparisons? A Case Study of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Implementations
There has been much interest in the recent philosophical literature on increasing the reliability and trustworthiness of computer simulations. One...
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How Mathematics Figures Differently in Exact Solutions, Simulations, and Physical Models
The role of mathematics in scientific practice is too readily relegated to that of formulating equations that model or describe what is being...
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A coherent trio of, distance and size based, measures for nomic and actual truthlikeness
So far, the most prominent measure for actual truthlikeness, i.e. the likeness of a theory to the actual truth, is Ilkka Niiniluoto’s minsum...
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The dissipative approach to quantum field theory: conceptual foundations and ontological implications
Many attempts have been made to provide Quantum Field Theory with conceptually clear and mathematically rigorous foundations; remarkable examples are...
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Kant’s Universal Natural History and Analogical Reasoning in Cosmology
This chapter aims to shed new light on the arguments and philosophical significance of Kant’s Universal Natural History by examining the work’s...
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Welfare comparisons within and across species
One of the biggest problems in applications of animal welfare science is our ability to make comparisons between different individuals, both within...
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Australia II: A Case Study in Engineering Ethics
Australia II became the first foreign yacht to win the America's Cup in 1983. The boat had a revolutionary wing keel and a better underwater hull...
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A pragmatic approach to the ontology of models
What are scientific models? Philosophers of science have been trying to answer this question during the last three decades by putting forward a...
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Map** representational mechanisms with deep neural networks
The predominance of machine learning based techniques in cognitive neuroscience raises a host of philosophical and methodological concerns. Given the...
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An ethical analysis of clinical triage protocols and decision-making frameworks: what do the principles of justice, freedom, and a disability rights approach demand of us?
BackgroundThe expectation of pandemic-induced severe resource shortages has prompted authorities to draft and update frameworks to guide clinical...
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Is Approximation of an Ideal Defensible?
What role does our knowledge about the ideal society play in guiding policymaking in the real world? One intuitive answer is to approximate. Namely,...
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Synonymy and Contextual Dependence
Synonymy is a very common phenomenon in our daily speech and can be defined, in most cases, not as identity but as similarity of meaning. Speakers of...
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The Activity Approach in Late Soviet Philosophy
This chapter focuses on the “activity approach,” which was popular in Soviet philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as in...