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Reality
The metaphysical backdrop of my proposal revolves around the notions of appearance and reality. In this chapter I discuss reality. The key idea is to...
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Perspectivalism about temporal reality
It is usually agreed that reality is temporal in the sense of containing entities that exist in time, but some philosophers, roughly those who have...
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Dispositional Reality
This chapter introduces and discusses the concept of Dispositional Reality. To believe that there is Dispositional Reality is to believe that (at...
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Appearance and reality: Einstein and the early debate on the reality of length contraction
In 1909, Ehrenfest published a note in the Physikalische Zeitschrift showing that a Born rigid cylinder could not be set into rotation without...
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Virtual reality as a path to self-knowledge
I discuss how virtual reality can be used to acquire self-knowledge. Lawlor (Philos Phenomenol Res 79(1):47–75, 2009) and Cassam (Vices of the mind:...
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Human Enhancement and Augmented Reality
Bioconservative bioethicists (e.g., Kass,
2002 , Human Dignity and Bioethics , 297–331,2008 ; Sandel,2007 ; Fukuyama,2003 ) offer various kinds of... -
For I Do Not Know How to Act: Tadeusz Kantor and the Reality of Theatre
This paper presents a discussion, in honour of the late Ari Hirvonen, of the reality of theatre, the space of the tragic and the ethical condition....
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Experimental criteria for accessing reality: Perrin’s experimental demonstration of atoms and molecules
This paper develops an approach to the scientific realism debate that has three main features. First, our approach admits multiple criteria of...
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Immersive Experience and Virtual Reality
Much of the excitement about virtual reality and its potential for things like entertainment, art, education, and activism is its ability to generate...
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Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality
The structuralist approach represents the relation between a model and physical system as a relation between two mathematical structures. However,...
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Dispositional Reality A Novel Approach to Power Ontology and Metaphysics
Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the...
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Decoherence, appearance, and reality in agential realism
This paper reconsiders what implications quantum decoherence has for Karen Barad’s agential realism. In contrast with the recent claim of Thomas...
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The Extent of Dispositional Reality
In this chapter I will address two interconnected questions concerning the extent of Dispositional Reality vis-à-vis the overall structure of...
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Minds in the Metaverse: Extended Cognition Meets Mixed Reality
Examples of extended cognition typically involve the use of technologically low-grade bio-external resources (e.g., the use of pen and paper to solve...
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The Future of Dispositional Reality
Some conclusion is drawn from the previous chapters, and some direction for future research are sketched concerning Dispositional Reality.
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In Favour of Dispositional Reality
In this chapter I will present an epistemology for Dispositional Reality. According to the neo-Quinean methodology proposed in earlier chapters, and...
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Virtual Reality, Embodiment, and Allusion: an Ecological-Enactive Approach
It is common in the cognitive and computational sciences to regard virtual reality (VR) as composed of illusory experiences, given its immersive...
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“The Gate of Reality”: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Idea of Reality in Realontologie
The question “what is reality?” that opens Realontologie (HCM, 1923), the establishing book in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s (HCM) oeuvre, establishes her...
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A Critical Notice on the Moral Grounding Question in David Chalmers’ Reality+
In this critical discussion, I evaluate David Chalmers’ position on the moral grounding question from his (2022) Reality + . The moral grounding...
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On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion
This essay has two main claims about EPR’s Reality Criterion. First, we claim that the application of the Reality Criterion makes an essential...