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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Interpretation plays a central role in using scientific models to explain natural phenomena: Meaning must be bestowed upon a model in terms of what it...
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Exploring the transition: biology, technology, and epistemic activities
By focusing on biorobotics, this article explores the epistemological foundations necessary to support the transition from biological models to...
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In defense of humean non-universal laws
In this paper, I raise a novel objection to David Lewis’s Humean account of laws. The objection is that non-universal laws are metaphysically...
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Quantum Ontology: A Modal Bundle-Theorist Relational Proposal
Quantum mechanics poses several challenges in ontological elucidation. Contextuality threatens determinism and favors realism about possibilia ....
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Designing Ethical A.I. Under the Current Socio-Economic Milieu: Philosophical, Political and Economic Challenges of Ethics by Design for A.I.
A promising paradigm in the discourse on Technology Ethics and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has manifested in scholarly literature and...
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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self
Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the...
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Blameworthiness Implies ‘Ought not’
Here is a crucial principle for debates about moral luck, responsibility, and free will: a subject is blameworthy for an act only if, in acting, she...
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An all-purpose framework for affordances. Reconciling the behavioral and the neuroscientific stories
Research on the concept of affordance generated different interpretations, which are due to different stories aimed at describing how this notion...
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Gods, Absolute, Non-theistic Divinity, and Monotheism in Indian Philosophy of Religion: A Genealogical Critique of Evolutionary Theogony
There are various permutations of theism: henotheism, pantheism, panentheism, a/theism, and nontheistic divinity. There is debate whether the idea of...
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Having a Disposition and Making a Contribution
Dispositional accounts of various phenomena have claimed that dispositions can be intrinsically masked. In cases of intrinsic masking, something has...
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Interpersonal independence of knowledge and belief
We show that knowledge satisfies interpersonal independence , meaning that a non-trivial sentence describing one agent’s knowledge cannot be...
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Alternatives to the self-indication assumption are doomed
The self-indication assumption (SIA) claims that given that one exists, one should think that the universe has many people, for a universe that has...
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Love and Organizing in the Context of the Base of the Pyramid: An Integrative Justice Perspective
This paper provides an overview of the Integrative Justice Model (IJM) for impoverished populations that was introduced in the marketing literature...
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Propositional Logic for Infinitive Sentences
This paper is about sentences of form To be human is to be an animal , To live is to fight , etc. I call them ‘infinitive sentences’. I define an...
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...