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Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial data
The Galilean explanatory style is characterized by the search for the underlying structure of phenomena, the positing of "deep" explanatory...
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Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology
Abstraction and idealization are the two notions that are most often discussed in the context of assumptions employed in the process of model...
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Nagel on Idealization in Science
The goal of this paper is to reconstruct Nagel’s approach to idealization in the sciences and present his views as a viable option. In a nutshell,...
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Eudaimonia, Virtue, and Idealization
How can an ideal of human flourishing reveal what attributes are virtues, as eudaimonism aspires to do, when not all virtuous lives flourish? The...
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Informative Models: Idealization and Abstraction
Mauricio Suárez and Agnes Bolinska apply the tools of communication theory to scientific modeling in order to characterize the informational content...
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An Artifactual Perspective on Idealization: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model
Natalia Carrillo and Tarja Knuuttila claim that there are two traditions of thinking about idealization offering almost opposite views on their...
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Eudaimonia, Virtue, and Idealization
How can an ideal of human flourishing reveal what attributes are virtues, as eudaimonism aspires to do, when not all virtuous lives flourish? The...
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Idealizations in Astrophysical Computer Simulations
This chapter examines some of the philosophical literature on idealizations in science and the epistemic challenges idealizations potentially pose...
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In Defense of Idealization in Public Reason
Contemporary public reason liberalism holds that coercion must be publicly justified to an idealized constituency. Coercion must be justified to all qualified...
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Against Symmetry Fundamentalism
Symmetry fundamentalism claims that symmetries should be taken metaphysically seriously as part of the fundamental ontology. The main aim of this...
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The Role of Information in Evolutionary Biology
The Modern Synthesis has received criticism for its purported gene-centrism. That criticism relies on a concept of the gene as a unit of...
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The Power of Belief: Cognitive Resonance, Objectivism, and Well-being
The phenomenon of resonance is central in the contemporary literature on well-being. Many philosophers accept the Resonance Constraint: if something...
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Husserlian Phenomenology of Limit-Problems: a “‘Geometry’ of Lived Experience”?
The proper way in which limit-problems [ Grenzprobleme ]—birth, death, dreamless sleep, the “prior to birth” [ das vor der Geburt ], the “after death” [ da...
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Empathy is not so perfect! -For a descriptive and wide conception of empathy
Physician empathy is considered essential for good clinical care. Empirical evidence shows that it correlates with better patient satisfaction,...
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Analyzing the Role of Values and Ideals in the Development of Energy Systems: How Values, Their Idealizations, and Technologies Shape Political Decision-Making
This study examines an important aspect of energy history and policy: the intertwinement of energy technologies with ideals. Ideals play an important...
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Williamson’s Epistemicism and Properties Accounts of Predicates
If the semantic values of predicates are, as Williamson assumes ( Philsophical Perspectives, 13 , 505–517,
1999 , 509) properties in the intensional...
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Veritism refuted? Understanding, idealization, and the facts
Elgin offers an influential and far-reaching challenge to veritism. She takes scientific understanding to be non-factive and maintains that there are...
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Idealized Models as Selective Representations
This paper calls into question one fundamental claim at the basis of an alleged puzzle for veritistic accounts of the value of idealized models: the...
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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...
