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Non-human Order with Humanity
When an intelligent body (machine knowledge system) is no longer an object in the traditional sense of an artefact and is no longer a product of...
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Pandemics and flexible lockdowns: In praise of agent-based modeling
Philosophers have recently questioned the methodological status of agent-based modeling. Meanwhile, this methodology has been central to various...
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Are Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?
Philosophers have proposed many accounts of biological function. A coarse-grained distinction can be made between backward-looking views, which...
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Commitment: From Hunting to Promising
Humans are extremely prosocial and there are many possible explanations for how we came to be this way. Some have suggested that commitments explain...
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Knowing who occupies an office: purely contingent, necessary and impossible offices
This paper examines different kinds of definite descriptions denoting purely contingent, necessary or impossible objects. The discourse about...
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Motivation, counterfactual predictions and constraints: normativity of predictive mechanisms
The aim of this paper is to present the ontic approach to the normativity of cognitive functions and mechanisms, which is directly related to the...
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Prolegomenon
Nowadays, in an evolutionary environment dominated by Sociality Brain mind-inspired, it is possible and necessary to De-Anthropocentric due to the...
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Aristotelian Dialectic, Argumentation Theory and Artificial Intelligence
It is shown that Aristotelian dialectic can be analyzed as having two parts: a core formal model that has a formal dialogue structure and a set of...
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Promises and Pitfalls of Algorithm Use by State Authorities
Algorithmic systems are increasingly used by state agencies to inform decisions about humans. They produce scores on risks of recidivism in criminal...
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Formalization of Mathematical Proof Practice Through an Argumentation-Based Model
Proof requires a dialogue between agents to clarify obscure inference steps, fill gaps, or reveal implicit assumptions in a purported proof. Hence,...
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Climate Change and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter provides a partial overview of contemporary anthropological engagement with climate change. The aim is twofold: first, to provide a...
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Understanding molecular structure requires constructive realism
Since molecules are inaccessible to immediate observation, our conception of the molecule is brought about by transdiction which entails invention of...
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The Ethics of Machine Translation
Language technologies are gradually turning into key modalities of our algorithmic present and future. Real world texts embed patterns and patterns...
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A Reply to Manzo: The Role of Methodological Individualism for Analytical Sociology
Manzo (2023/2020, this volume) objects to Nathalie Bulle's article with Denis Phan “Can Analytical Sociology Do Without Methodological...
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The Effort of Reasoning: Modelling the Inference Steps of Boundedly Rational Agents
In this paper we design a new logical system to explicitly model the different deductive reasoning steps of a boundedly rational agent. We present an...
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Introduction: The Problem of Responsibility Voids
It may be hard to determine who is to be held responsible in complex cases. It is therefore vital to explore and systematize theories of moral...
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Climate Change and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter provides a partial overview of contemporary anthropological engagement with climate change. The aim is twofold: first, to provide a...
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Fundamental Reflections on Minds and Machines
We live in a complex world, and the complexity exists not just in degree but in diversity that is pluralistically rich and spectral.
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Interactive agential dynamics
The study of active matter systems demonstrates how interactions might co-constitute agential dynamics. Active matter systems are comprised of...