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Epistemology and anomaly detection in astrobiology
We examine the epistemological foundations of a leading technique in the search for evidence of life on exosolar planets. Specifically, we consider...
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A Sound and Complete Tableaux Calculus for Reichenbach’s Quantum Mechanics Logic
In 1944 Hans Reichenbach developed a three-valued propositional logic (RQML) in order to account for certain causal anomalies in quantum mechanics....
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Causality
Diseases depend on a causal network. Causes are dispositions characterized by the strength of association, their plausibility, their manipulability,...
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Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology
This paper presents explication on how paleontologists reconstruct the past using fossils when good modern analogues are not available. I call these pastist...
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Taking the Russo-Williamson thesis seriously in the social sciences
The Russo Williamson thesis (RWT) states that a causal claim can be established only if it can be established that there is a difference-making...
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Evidence for interactive common causes. Resuming the Cartwright-Hausman-Woodward debate
The most serious candidates for common causes that fail to screen off (‘interactive common causes’, ICCs) and thus violate the causal Markov...
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Inquiry, value, and some peculiarities of the Pyrrhonist’s psychology
This paper offers a new psychological reading of the Pyrrhonian Skeptic and their way of life (the so-called Skeptic Way). The Pyrrhonist, I suggest,...
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Mind-Body Entanglement and Healing
The biomedical model of health exclusively focuses on the body’s dysfunctions, or even on the dysfunctioning of a single organ or a single genetic...
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Function and Adaptation: A Conceptual Demarcation, Instigated by Borderline Cases for Etiological Theory
Insofar as in etiological theory, “the function of X is Z” means that X has been selected for Z, while evolutionary biology often defines adaptation...
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Proxy measurement in paleoclimatology
In this paper we argue that the difference between standard measurement and proxy measurement in paleoclimatology should not be understood in terms...
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Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life
Our goal in this paper is to reassess the relationship between norms and life by drawing on the philosophy of Georges Canguilhem, particularly some...
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Does Explaining Past Success Require (Enough) Retention? The Case of Ptolemaic Astronomy
According to selective, retentive, scientific realism, past empirical success may be explained only by the parts of past theories that are...
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Kuhn, Coherentism and Perception
In the latter half of the twentieth century, foundationalist approaches to epistemology and philosophy of science were widely rejected in favour of...
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What Is Biological Normativity?
This essay focuses on two philosophical assumptions. According to the first one, biological normativity is not an irreducible property of the living,...
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A Vindication of Structure in Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A Comment to K. Brad Wray
In “A Defense of Structure in Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” Prof. K. Brad Wray discusses the critical interpretation introduced by Lorraine...
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A Cosmotechnology for the Post-Anthropocene?
This chapter supports Mark B.N. Hansen’s thesis developed in Feed-Forward regarding twenty-first-century media. It is suggested that it is an...
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Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory without Homeostatic Mechanisms: Two Recent Attempts and their Costs
The homeostatic property cluster theory (HPC) is widely influential for its ability to account for many natural-kind terms in the life sciences....
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Theory-Mediated Measurement and Newtonian Methodology
My argument owes much to two contemporary philosophical scholars of the development of modern physics beginning with Newton and extending through the...
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Overdetermination, underdetermination, and epistemic granularity in the historical sciences
The optimism vs. pessimism debate about the historical sciences is often framed in terms of arguments about the relative importance of...
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Structural Agency
Action theory in classical antiquity undoubtedly had in mind what we in this book have called “structural rationality”: How does the single action...