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Stakeholder Theory: Toward a Classical Institutional Economics Perspective
Stakeholder theorists have traditionally objected to the neoclassical conception of the firm as a vehicle for maximizing profit or shareholder...
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On the Difficulty of the Evolutionary Debunking of Scientific Realism: Graber and Golemon Buttressed
In their recent article, Graber and Golemon ( Sophia 1–18,
2019 ) argue that any attempted evolutionary debunking of naturalism faces a dilemma. First,... -
Game theory and omniscience
Game theory studies the choices of two or more agents strategically interacting under various conditions. This paper examines two applications of...
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What is Agency? A View from Autonomy Theory
The theory of biological autonomy provides a naturalized characterization of agency, understood as a general biological phenomenon that extends...
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From the Method of Division to the Theory of Transformations: Thompson After Aristotle, and Aristotle After Thompson
Aristotle’s influence on D’Arcy Thompson was praised by Thompson himself and has been recognized by others in various respects, including the...
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Conspiracy Theory Belief: A Sane Response to an Insane World?
Are conspiracy theory beliefs pathological? That depends on what is meant by "pathological." This paper begins by unpacking that ill-defined and...
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Function and Adaptation: A Conceptual Demarcation, Instigated by Borderline Cases for Etiological Theory
Insofar as in etiological theory, “the function of X is Z” means that X has been selected for Z, while evolutionary biology often defines adaptation...
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The Evolutionary Archetypes: Values and Needs
This chapter analyzes in both languages the archetypal motives that human minds share in common, and how they pervade and can affect, even in...
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On the use of evolutionary mismatch theories in debating human prosociality
According to some evolutionary theorists human prosocial dispositions emerged in a context of inter-group competition and violence that made our...
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The Theory of Moral Entitlement in IPS
Moral entitlement as a developmental topic of moral sustainability is expounded in respect of the Tawhidi epistemic explanation in the derived...
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Morality as an Evolutionary Exaptation
The dominant theory of the evolution of moral cognition across a variety of fields is that moral cognition is a biological adaptation to foster...
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Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems
Recent work in the cognitive sciences has argued that beliefs sometimes acquire signaling functions in virtue of their ability to reveal information...
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From Evolutionary Epistemology to an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
The first part of this essay reconstructs the scientific and philosophical paths that led, between the 1940s and the late 1990s, to the formulation...
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Did Human Culture Emerge in a Cultural Evolutionary Transition in Individuality?
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETI) have been responsible for the major transitions in levels of selection and individuality in natural...
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Cooperative Equilibrium in Biosphere Evolution: Reconciling Competition and Cooperation in Evolutionary Ecology
As our understanding of biological evolution continues to deepen, tension still surrounds the relationship between competition and cooperation in the...
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Artifacts and intervention: a persistence theory of artifact functions
This paper presents a novel theory of artifact functions, drawing from persistence-based accounts of social functions, according to which the...
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Interpreting the probabilities in Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism
While much has been written about the probabilities referenced in Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, insufficient attention has...
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Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda
This special issue for the Journal for General Philosophy of Science is devoted to exploring the impact and many ramifications of current research in...
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Cultural Model Theory: Culture, Mind, and Knowledge
In this chapter, I explore three fundamental issues related to the investigation of culture as a mental phenomenon. The first issue is a short survey...
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Theory Evaluation and Formulation: A Reply to Ludic Theory through A.N.Whitehead´s Aesthetic Experience
This article uses Whitehead's process ontology and epistemology to propose Aesthetic Experience as a theory that can be used in organizational...
