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Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC
This paper provides an account of the nature of creativity in high-energy physics experiments through an integrated historical and philosophical...
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Revisiting N.I. Vavilov’s “The Law of Homologous Series in Variation” (1922)
We discuss N. I. Vavilov’s 1922 landmark publication, “The Law of Homologous Series in Variation,” and highlight its salient points. Vavilov drew...
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Theory of Mind After Acquired Brain Injury: Basic Aspects, Evaluation and Intervention
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. It presents with a wide range of symptoms affecting cognitive,...
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Introduction
Like no other thinker of his time, Leibniz had a finely developed sensitivity for writing occasions: his extensive correspondence shows particularly...
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Philosophy of Engineering: An Emerging Branch of Philosophy
The theme of this chapter is to briefly discuss the significance ofEngineeringphilosophy of engineering philosophy of engineering in the field of...
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Against Phylogenetic Conceptions of Race
Biological racial realism (BRR) continues to be a much-discussed topic, with several recent papers presenting arguments for the plausibility of some...
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To Save the Bees or not to Save the Bees: Honey Bee Health in the Anthropocene
As honey bee colonies continue to perish at high rates, beekeepers are divided on how best to keep bees healthy and productive. In this article, I...
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Revisiting George Gaylord Simpson’s “The Role of the Individual in Evolution” (1941)
“The Role of the Individual in Evolution” is a prescient yet neglected 1941 work by the 20th century’s most important paleontologist, George Gaylord...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces Bart Jansen’s study The Juridification of Business Ethics. The core argument of this study is that business ethics is...
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Conceptual and Theoretical Specifications forAccuracy in Medicine
Technological developments in genomics and other -omics originated the idea that precise measurements would lead to better therapeutic strategies....
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Are thick aesthetic predicates assessment-sensitive?
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the prospects for an aesthetically informed assessment-sensitive semantic account of thick aesthetic predicates...
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VI Value Ethics
This chapter is about the ethics of value. If the term ‘value’ originally belonged to the thinking of economics, then the concept of a value...
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Technology-driven surrogates and the perils of epistemic misalignment: an analysis in contemporary microbiome science
A general view in philosophy of science says that the appropriateness of an object to act as a surrogate depends on the user’s decision to utilize it...
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The Conditional View of Trust
The stability with regard to how we perceive the relevance of trust for human relations depends on the locus of its value. If its intrinsic nature...
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Revisiting Hans Böker’s "Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms" (1935)
Against the common historiographic narratives of evolutionary biology, the first decades of the 20th century were theoretically far richer than...
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The Darwinian Naturalization of Teleology
In the theory of natural selection, the concept of biological function must be assumed in order to define the concept of fitness. In its turn, the...
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Introduction: The Paradoxical Onion
The introduction argues that the main purpose of this book is giving a rigorous definition of software from the point of view of continental...
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Portmann’s View on Anthropological Difference
The most influential of Portmann’s concepts up to the present is his characterization of early human ontogeny as secondarily altricial. This finding...
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On the Ontological Status of Molecular Structure: Is it Possible to Reconcile Molecular Chemistry with Quantum Mechanics?
According to classical molecular chemistry, molecules have a structure, that is, they are sets of atoms with a definite arrangements in space and...
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Of elephants and errors: naming and identity in Linnaean taxonomy
What is it to make an error in the identification of a named taxonomic group? In this article we argue that the conditions for being in error about...
