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On the Reality of the Base-Rate Fallacy: A Logical Reconstruction of the Debate
Does the most common response given by participants presented with Tversky and Kahneman’s famous taxi cab problem amount to a violation of Bayes’...
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Two approaches to naturalistic social ontology
Social ontological inquiry has been pursued in analytic philosophy as well as in the social scientific tradition of critical realism. These...
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A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough
In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a...
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Toward a Coherent Naturalistic Scientific Ontology
This chapter anchors the Tree of Knowledge System to three proposals in natural philosophy. It begins with a brief review of the work of Nicolai...
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Why Naturalistic Metaphysics Is Needed
Analytic philosophy started as an anti-metaphysical project, yet has become a strong advocate of metaphysics. Against appearances, this development...
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How Methods of Moral Philosophy Inform Business
How can moral theory be applied to the human actions, institutions, and practices in business? Popular methods from sociology, psychology, economics,...
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Epidemiology of Fallacies
In this paper I apply the epidemiological model of the spread of beliefs and how they become cultural representations to the field of fallacies. The...
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A Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics? Concluding Reflections
This final chapter reflects on all contributions in the volume, replying to critical questions brought up in the overall discussion, including the...
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Placing Mind in the Natural World: In Search of an Alternative Naturalism
In contemporary philosophy, various attempts have been made in relation to placing our minds or mental states in the natural world or nature. In this...
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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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Evolutionary Ethics: Understanding its Transition
This paper offers a descriptive account of the transition in evolutionary ethics with reference to some major works from ethics, sociobiology, moral...
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Scientific metaphysics and social science
Recently, philosophers have developed an extensive literature on social ontology that applies methods and concepts from analytic metaphysics. Much of...
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The given and the hard problem of content
Wilfrid Sellars’ denunciation of the Myth of the Given was meant to clarify, against empiricism, that perceptual episodes alone are insufficient to...
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Representations and Mechanisms Do Not Mix
In this chapter, I outline an argument against explanatory relevance of neural representations. After clarifying the concept of neural representation...
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The Explanatory Gap
This chapter contains a discussion of two frameworks within which the problem of the explanatory gap can be situated: dualism and materialism. The...
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Johnston versus Johnston
Personites are like continuant people but shorter-lived. Johnston argues that personites do not exist since otherwise personites would have the same...
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John Finnis and the New Natural Law Theory
The so-called “New Natural Law Theory”, whose most important representatives are Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and Robert P. George, is part of a...
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The Constitution-Turn and Extended Conscious Mind
This chapter analyses the lively, ongoing debate at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science about the causal–constitution...
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The Risks of Evolutionary Explanation
Evolutionary explanations of behavior are special in that they involve both proximate and ultimate components. Proximately, evolutionary accounts...