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Affect and Consciousness
The arguments of this chapter and the next have two overarching objectives. The first is to show how affect is essential to consciousness, such that...
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The Quantum World as a Resource. A Case for the Cohabitation of Two Paradigms
In this paper I analyse the contraposition between two families of interpretations of QT. On the one hand, Information-Theoretic Interpretations of...
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A Thicker Process Cosmology
John Buchanan reveals the “wider spiritual landscape” opened up by integrations of Whitehead’s philosophical cosmology and Stanislav Grof’s...
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Do babies represent? On a failed argument for representationalism
In order to meet the explanatory challenge levelled against non-representationalist views on cognition, radical enactivists claim that cognition...
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How to Solve Priest’s Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic
Objections are made to (almost) all of the “priestly” arguments for dialetheism discussed in Chap. 2 . For...
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Inoculating Students Against Conspiracy Theories: The Case of Covid-19
Posing a significant danger to society are conspiracy theories, particularly those regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper argues for the crucial...
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Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account
Engineering accident investigations are systematic inquiries into the facts and causes of engineering accidents. The aims of an engineering accident...
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Autonomous Weapon System: Debating Legal–Ethical Consideration and Meaningful Human Control Challenges in the Military Environment
The human experience of warfare is changing with the introduction of AI in the field of advance weapon technology. Particularly, in the last five...
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A Positively Relaxed Take on Naturalism: Reasons to be Relaxed but not too Liberal
Relaxed naturalism and liberal naturalism both invite us to adopt a philosophy of nature that includes a range of non-scientific phenomena in its...
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Accepting Organizational Theories
In this paper we aim to contribute to the recent debate on non-empirical theory confirmation by analyzing why scientists accept and trust their...
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Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion
Empowerment is a prominent ideal in health promotion. However, the exact meaning of this ideal is often not made explicit. In this paper, we outline...
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Two roads to retrocausality
In recent years the quantum foundations community has seen increasing interest in the possibility of using retrocausality as a route to rejecting the...
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Human Rights Law and the Obligation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Human rights law has been called upon to help with the problem of persistently high greenhouse gas emissions. An obligation on states and other legal...
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Whiteheadian Cosmotheology: Platonic Entities, Divine Realities and Shared Extraterrestrial Values
Andrew M. Davis argues for the reality of intergalactic commonalty between human intuitions of objective rational, aesthetic, and moral/ethical...
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery in Macroeconomics
There have been a number of findings in macroeconomics that appear to be worthy of the title of scientific discovery. A striking fact about these...
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Practical Abduction for Research on Human Practices: Enriching Rather Than Testing a Hypothesis
Following C. S. Peirce, abduction is often interpreted as a first phase of inquiry where a hypothesis is formulated requiring testing. I maintain,...
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Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose
Canguilhem criticized the concept of “public health”: health and disease are concepts that only apply to individuals, taken as organic totalities....
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How to Read Ameghino’s Filogenia?
The studies on the history of the science made in Latin America are usually disinterested in epistemological questions. The analysis of the...
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How to Read Ameghino’s Filogenia?
The studies on the history of the science made in Latin America are usually disinterested in epistemological questions. The analysis of the...