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Emotion against reason? Self-control conflict as self-modelling rivalry
Divided-mind approaches to the conflict involved in self-control are pervasive. According to an influential version of the divided-mind approach,...
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The representation, quantification, and nature of genetic information
Current genetics studies often refer to notions from information science. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and structure the different...
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Umwelt Theory and Dis/Harmony: Forays into Dis/Ability, Dis/Ease, Trauma, and Ethological Divergence
This paper explores the relationship between the problem of dis/harmony in Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory and the inclusion of experiences of...
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Salmón, Schiffer and Frege’s Constraint
In his (Philosophical Perspectives 1:455–480, 1987) and (Noûs, 40:361–368, 2006), Schiffer devised a puzzle about Salmón’s (in: Frege’s puzzle, MIT...
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Mental filing, continued
According to traditional versions of the mental file theory, we should posit mental files —that is, mental representations with containment...
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Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP), biomedical sciences have moved away from a gene-centred view and towards a multi-factorial...
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Deepfakes: a survey and introduction to the topical collection
Deepfakes are extremely realistic audio/video media. They are produced via a complex machine-learning process, one that centrally involves training...
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Carving teleology at its joints
This paper addresses the conceptualisation and measurement of goal-directedness. Drawing inspiration from Ernst Mayr’s demarcation between multiple...
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Compositionality, communication, and commitments
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in Rich Meaning Approaches (RMA) that understand the meanings of words as rich conceptual...
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Animal Attention in the Context of Zoosemiotics
Attention is viewed here as a complex of semiotic processes that leads to animals’ choices and behavioral decisions. Besides the focusing role of...
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The Implications of Umwelt in Poetics: The Case of Ye **e, a Seventeenth-Century Chinese Poet and Critic
The Umwelt investigated in this essay is a textualized world that a person dwells in, perceives, and experiences, as presented through classical...
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Towards a pragmatist epistemology for theory choice in logic
In this paper, I outline a pragmatist epistemology of logic inspired by later work of Charles S. Peirce that shares many features with an...
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Reliability and Interpretability in Science and Deep Learning
In recent years, the question of the reliability of Machine Learning (ML) methods has acquired significant importance, and the analysis of the...
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The Evolution of the Bell Notion of Beable: From Bohr to Primitive Ontology
John S. Bell introduced the notion of beable , as opposed to the standard notion of observable , in order to emphasize the need for an unambiguous...
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Engaging with Conspiracy Believers
Conspiracy theories abound in social and political discourse, believed by millions of people around the world. In this article, we highlight when it...
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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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Early Conceptual Knowledge About Food
Recent research suggests that preschool (three- to six-years-old) children’s food cognition involves much more than the nutritional information...
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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...