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Potential Consciousness of Human Cerebral Organoids: on Similarity-Based Views in Precautionary Discourse
Advances in research on human cerebral organoids (HCOs) call for a critical review of current research policies. A challenge for the evaluation of...
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Same but Different: Providing a Probabilistic Foundation for the Feature-Matching Approach to Similarity and Categorization
The feature-matching approach pioneered by Amos Tversky remains a groundwork for psychological models of similarity and categorization but is rarely...
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Refining the Bayesian Approach to Unifying Generalisation
Tenenbaum and Griffiths ( Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(4):629–640,
2001 ) have proposed that their Bayesian model of generalisation unifies... -
A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms
The aim of this paper is to propose a qualitative approach to the theory of conceptual spaces, in contrast to the usual metric framework. This...
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The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach
Metaphysicians of causation have long debated the existence of primitive causal modalities (e.g., powers), with reductionists and realists taking...
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A Mimetic Approach to Social Influence on Instagram
We combine philosophical theories with quantitative analyses of online data to propose a sophisticated approach to social media influencers....
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Criticizing Danaher’s Approach to Superficial State Deception
If existing or future robots appear to have some capacity, state or property, how can we determine whether they truly have it or whether we are...
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A Particularist Approach to Arguments by Analogy
In this article I defend what I call a ‘particularist approach to arguments by analogy.’ Particularism is opposed to generalism, which is the thesis...
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Quantified Modal Logics: One Approach to Rule (Almost) them All!
We present a general approach to quantified modal logics that can simulate most other approaches. The language is based on operators indexed by terms...
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Predication and truthmaking: an improvement on the essentialist approach to truthmaking
This paper addresses some problems related to the relation of truthmaking, especially those concerning its necessity, adopting an essentialist point...
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Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach
The paper proposes a dialectical approach to our understanding of the relation between teleology and mechanism. This approach is dialectical both in...
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Similarity-based cognition: radical enactivism meets cognitive neuroscience
Similarity-based cognition is commonplace. It occurs whenever an agent or system exploits the similarities that hold between two or more items—e.g.,...
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A critical and systematic literature review of epistemic justice applied to healthcare: recommendations for a patient partnership approach
Invalidation from healthcare practitioners is an experience shared by many patients, especially those marginalized or living with contested...
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Truth in philosophy: a conceptual engineering approach
The focus of this paper will be to examine the implications that a “practical” approach to conceptual engineering might have for the “traditional”...
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Lakatosian and Euclidean populations: a pluralist approach to conceptual change in mathematics
Lakatos’ (Lakatos,
1976 ) model of mathematical conceptual change has been criticized for neglecting the diversity of dynamics exhibited by...
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Solidarity as an Empirical-Ethical Framework for the Analysis of Contact Tracing Apps — a Novel Approach
Digital contact tracing is used in different countries to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. It raises challenging empirical and ethical questions...
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The structuralist approach to underdetermination
This paper provides an exposition of the structuralist approach to underdetermination, which aims to resolve the underdetermination of theories by...
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The Ethics of Entrepreneurship: A Millian Approach
What is morally valuable—if anything at all—in entrepreneurship? Existing normative takes can be broadly categorized as belonging to two main views:...
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A Holistic Approach to Macro-Ethics of Technology: A Contribution to Mitcham’s Big Idea
Carl Mitcham has recently pointed out that the current approach to the ethics of technology has failed to solve large-scale socio-ethical challenges...
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A Pragmatics-First Approach to Faces
This article aims to make a philosophical contribution to the understanding of the communicative dimensions and functions of faces and facial...