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Maheśa Chandra’s Exposition of the Navya-Nyāya Concept of “Cognition” (jñāna) from the Perspective of Inquisitive Logic
The present paper is about three concepts which are crucially involved in Gaṅgeśa's interpretation of a Mīmāṃsā argument against the well-known...
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Theories of Confirmation in Which Hypotheses Have Probabilities and Inference to the Best Explanation
In this chapter, I discuss BayesianismBayesianism and Peter Achinstein’s theory together since in both theories hypotheses have probabilities (i.e.,...
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Bernoulli’s golden theorem in retrospect: error probabilities and trustworthy evidence
Bernoulli’s 1713 golden theorem is viewed retrospectively in the context of modern model-based frequentist inference that revolves around the concept...
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The Grounds of Excuses
According to a popular view, excuses undermine blameworthiness. At the same time, philosophers commonly accept that blameworthiness is composed of...
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Medical Explanation
Medical explanation may consist in hierarchical research, reduction, supervenience, inference to the best explanation. The degree of inductive...
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Truth and Truth-Recognition
This chapter is concerned with the relation between the intuitive notions of truth and evidence or truth-recognition. While the intuitionists grant...
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Mental measurement and the introspective privilege
According to a long-standing belief, introspection provides privileged access to the mind, while objective methods, which we denote as...
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Econometric methods and Reichenbach’s principle
Reichenbach’s ‘principle of the common cause’ is a foundational assumption of some important recent contributions to quantitative social science...
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From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium
I explore the process of changes in the observability of entities and objects in science and how such changes impact two key issues in the scientific...
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Generalized frameworks: Structuring searches for new physics
Many areas of frontier physics are confronted with the crisis of a lack of accessible, direct evidence. As a result, direct model building has failed...
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\({\mathcal{C}}\) -Justifications for Atomic Sentences. Names and Predicates, \({\mathcal{C}}\) -Objects and \({\mathcal{C}}\) -Concepts
The aim of this chapter is to define the theoretical notion of \({\mathcal{C}}\)...
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Semantic Information and the Complexity of Deduction
In the chapter “Information and Content” of their Impossible Worlds, Berto and Jago provide us with a semantic account of information in deductive...
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Reflecting on Connections Across Time
Passive synthesis has been shown to be the reader’s non-deliberate adjustment of experienced text meanings to each other’s co-presence. This...
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That’s Not IBE: Reply to Park
Park (Sociologija 28(1):56–64, 2017; Axiomathes 28(4):435–446, 2018;Soc Epistemol 33(1):88–99, 2019) argues that Bas van Fraassen (1980) uses...
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Perceptual justification and the demands of effective agency
Pragmatist responses to skepticism about empirical justification have mostly been underwhelming, either presupposing implausible theses like...
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A deductive variation on the no miracles argument
The traditional No-Miracles Argument (TNMA) asserts that the novel predictive success of science would be a miracle, and thus too implausible to...
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The quantification of intelligence in nineteenth-century craniology: an epistemology of measurement perspective
Craniology – the practice of inferring intelligence differences from the measurement of human skulls – survived the dismissal of phrenology and...
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Inquiry, reasoning and the normativity of logic
According to the traditional view in the philosophy of logic facts of logic bear normative authority regarding how one ought to reason. Usually this...
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Can an algorithm become delusional? Evaluating ontological commitments and methodology of computational psychiatry
The computational approach to psychiatric disorders, including delusions, promises explanation and treatment. Here, we argue that an information...
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Introduction
Plato’s words are aimed, not at conveying a static description of how things are, but at creating cognitive stimulations for his readers. I will...