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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...
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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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Vindicating the verifiability criterion
The aim of this paper is to argue for a revised and precisified version of the infamous Verifiability Criterion for the meaningfulness of declarative...
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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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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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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 Criterion of Legitimacy in a Government: Analysing Ian Shapiro’s Concept of Representative Democracy
Ian Shapiro proposes a representative government that bases its understanding of truth on mature enlightenment philosophy . He examines various...
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Is the Reality Criterion Analytic?
Tim Maudlin has claimed that EPR’s Reality Criterion is analytically true. We argue that it is not. Moreover, one may be a subjectivist about quantum...
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Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics
In this paper, we tackle the widely held view that practice-oriented approaches to ethics are conservative, preserving the moral status quo, and, in...
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Human-AI Friendship: Rejecting the Appropriate Sentimentality Criterion
Most traditional philosophical views of friendship deny the possibility of human-AI friendship because they consider feeling love or something...
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Suffering as a Criterion for Medical Assistance in Dying
Canada has followed the pattern of Benelux nations by legislating sufferingSuffering as the pivotal eligibilityEligibility criterionCriterion for...
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Between Fiction, Reality, and Ideality: Virtual Objects as Computationally Grounded Intentional Objects
Virtual objects, such as online shops, the elements that go to make up virtual life in computer games, virtual maps, e-books, avatars,...
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Some Technical Issues and Problems in the Epistemic Model of Tawhidi Unified Reality
This chapter continues in a mix of abstract and applied philosophical issues of the socio-scientific field of inquiry. The focus is on the persistent...
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Levels of Reality and Levels of Description
The assumption of the causal closure of the fundamental level of reality has been used to support reductionism and undermine non-reductive views such...
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MAID for Persons with Mental Illness as a Sole Eligibility Criterion
The practice of EuthanasiaEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideSuicide (EAS), referred to in CanadaCanada as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID), evolved...
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Definition Versus Criterion: Ayer on the Problem of Truth and Validation
The age-old question “What is truth?” is not an unambiguous one. There are at least two different meanings. In one sense, it is a semantic question...
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A naturalist approach to social ontology
I argue that a certain kind of naturalist approach to social ontology is likely to be both philosophically fruitful and relevant to empirical social...
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Images of Science: A Reality Check
It will be argued that the dominant form of current academic science is based on ideas and concepts about science and research that date back to...
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How to Think about the Debate over the Reality of Beliefs
The aim of this paper is to propose a new conceptualization of the distinction between realism and anti-realism about beliefs that is based on the...
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Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
I defend the extremist position that the fundamental ontology of the world consists of a vector in Hilbert space evolving according to the...