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Addressing Multiple Responsibilities in the Early Stages of R&D with Provenance Assessment
A wealth of literature and best practices on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) document how it can be implemented in projects. However, each...
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The Moral Agent: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
Despite the moral underpinnings of Karl Popper’s philosophy, he has not presented a well-established moral theory for critical rationalism (CR). This...
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Human Autonomy at Risk? An Analysis of the Challenges from AI
Autonomy is a core value that is deeply entrenched in the moral, legal, and political practices of many societies. The development and deployment of...
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A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model
We study implications of Leibnizian ideas such as the identity of indiscernibles, and variety (due to Barbour and Smolin) in the context of Wolfram...
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(Re)considering Nature of Science Education in the Face of Socio-scientific Challenges and Injustices
Throughout the past decades, challenges of socio-scientific nature such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate degradation and scientific racism...
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Wittgenstein and the liar
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on contradictions and paradoxes have been met with incomprehension and have fueled the widespread and long-standing...
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Gene Editing Cattle for Enhancing Heat Tolerance: A Welfare Review of the “PRLR-SLICK Cattle” Case
In March 2022 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a risk assessment of a recent animal gene editing proposal submitted by Acceligen™....
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The (In)Vulnerable: the futures of the Halligen in the North Sea in the face of climate change
Islands and small island groups are among the areas most affected by global climate change and face major adaptation challenges. Their role as...
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Sounds are broad events
The debate over the metaphysics of sounds is about the nature of what we immediately auditorily perceive. There are good reasons to identify a sound...
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Materializing values
In contrast to the history of science and to science and technology studies, the value discourse in the philosophy of science has not provided a...
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Indistinguishability as a constraint on priors
Invoking metaphysical naturalness is “perhaps the most popular proposed solution” to the problem of grue (Hedden in Can J Philos 45:716–743, 2016)....
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Exploring the socio-ecology of science: the case of coral reefs
In this paper I use data from interviews conducted with coral scientists to examine the socio-ecological dimensions of science, i.e. how science...
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The development of the concept of exchange forces in the 1930s: close encounters between Europe and Japan and the birth of nuclear theory
The onset and the development of the concept of exchange force in quantum physics are historically reconstructed, starting from Heisenberg’s seminal...
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Anthropomorphizing Machines: Reality or Popular Myth?
According to a widespread view, people often anthropomorphize machines such as certain robots and computer and AI systems by erroneously attributing...
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A New Approach to Evaluate Pressure of Solids at High Compression
The new isothermal equation of state (NEOS) for solids is derived through the theory of lattice potential, utilizing the concept of volume dependence...
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Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure
Franklin and Seifert (2021) argue that solving the measurement problem of quantum mechanics (QM) also answers a question central to the philosophy of...
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Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation
Phenomenology, particularly as developed by Merleau-Ponty, primarily concerns how human beings perceive and act towards the world they encounter,...
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On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach
We investigate a model of becoming—classical sequential growth (CSG)—that has been proposed within the framework of causal sets (causets), with the...
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Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?
We have revised the problem of the motion of a heavy symmetric top. When formulating equations of the Lagrange top with the diagonal inertia tensor,...
