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The Contextuality-by-Default View of the Sheaf-Theoretic Approach to Contextuality
The Sheaf-Theoretic Contextuality (STC) theory developed by Abramsky and colleagues is a very general account of whether multiply overlap** subsets...
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Constraining Meanings With Contextuality
In this paper, we defend two claims. First, we argue that a notion of contextuality that has been formalized in physics and psychology is applicable...
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Closing Bell Boxing Black Box Simulations in the Resource Theory of Contextuality
This chapter contains an exposition of the sheaf-theoretic framework for contextuality emphasising resource-theoretic aspects, as well as some...
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Duality, Intensionality, and Contextuality: Philosophy of Category Theory and the Categorical Unity of Science in Samson Abramsky
Science does not exist in vacuum; it arises and works in context. Ground-breaking achievements transforming the scientific landscape often stem from...
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Gödel, Escher, Bell: Contextual Semantics of Logical Paradoxes
Quantum physics exhibits various non-classical and paradoxical features. Among them are non-locality and contextuality (e.g. Bell’s theorem or the...
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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,...
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Modeling Organogenesis from Biological First Principles
Unlike inert objects, organisms and their cells have the ability to initiate activity by themselves and thus change their properties or states even...
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The polysemy of proper names
Proper names are usually considered devices of singular reference but, when considered as word-types, they also exhibit other kinds of uses. In this...
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Default Soundness in the Old Approach: An Epistemic Analysis of Default Reasoning
By means of an epistemological analysis of the internal components of default reasoning, and revisiting Geffner’s proposal about causal asymmetries,...
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Adaptationism and the Author
Adaptationism endorses the gene as the primary locus of change (leading to new structures in evolution). This functionalist position is consistent...
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The Enigma of Metaphor
In this chapter, we aim to provide a transdisciplinary account of the phenomenon of “metaphor” by looking at selected topics in order to gain a basic...
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Informational richness and its impact on algorithmic fairness
The literature on algorithmic fairness has examined exogenous sources of biases such as shortcomings in the data and structural injustices in...
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Towards Transparency by Design for Artificial Intelligence
In this article, we develop the concept of Transparency by Design that serves as practical guidance in hel** promote the beneficial functions of...
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Perceiving and Naming as Situated Acts
I have repeatedly had the following experience. I take a walk through an unfamiliar part of town, willing myself to pay attention to the buildings,...
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Do the Ends Justify the Means? Variation in the Distributive and Procedural Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms
Recent advances in machine learning methods have created opportunities to eliminate unfairness from algorithmic decision making. Multiple...
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A Contextualist Reconsideration of the “Happy Fish” Passage in the Zhuangzi and Its Implications for Relativism
The “happy fish” passage in the Zhuangzi 莊子 is often interpreted as endorsing some form of perspectivism which precludes objective claims of...
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How to Protect Children? A Pragmatic Approach: On State Intervention and Children’s Welfare
If a child’s well-being is at risk of considerable harm within their own family, state institutions usually intervene. In severe cases, the parents’...
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The Game Semantics of Game Theory
We use a reformulation of compositional game theory to reunite game theory with game semantics, by viewing an open game as the System and its choice...
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The salience of things: toward a phenomenology of artifacts (via knots, baskets, and swords)
What things mean to us involves more than what they afford in a straightforward sense (e.g., motor affordances). One can think of bodily adornments,...
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Narratives as a Tool for Practically Wise Leadership
Recent studies have identified practical wisdom as a critical area for exploration in the domains of management and leadership. This paper delves...
