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Conceptual Spaces for Conceptual Engineering? Feminism as a Case Study
Recently, there has been much research into conceptual engineering in connection with feminist inquiry and activism, most notably involving gender...
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Criteria for naturalness in conceptual spaces
Conceptual spaces are a frequently applied framework for representing concepts. One of its central aims is to find criteria for what makes a concept...
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A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms
The aim of this paper is to propose a qualitative approach to the theory of conceptual spaces, in contrast to the usual metric framework. This...
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Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Expectations Orderings, and Conceptual Spaces
In Gärdenfors and Makinson (Artif Intell 65(2):197–245, 1994) and Gärdenfors (Knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty,...
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Prototypes, poles, and tessellations: towards a topological theory of conceptual spaces
The aim of this paper is to present a topological method for constructing discretizations (tessellations) of topological conceptual spaces. The...
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Conceptual Structuralism
This paper defends a conceptualistic version of structuralism as the most convincing way of elaborating a philosophical understanding of...
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Lakatosian and Euclidean populations: a pluralist approach to conceptual change in mathematics
Lakatos’ (Lakatos,
1976 ) model of mathematical conceptual change has been criticized for neglecting the diversity of dynamics exhibited by...
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Work in progress: power in transformation to postcapitalist work relations in community–supported agriculture
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) initiatives are spaces where diverse work relations are performed. From a postcapitalist perspective, these...
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The conceptual foundation of the propensity interpretation of fitness
The propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF) holds that evolutionary fitness is an objectively probabilistic causal disposition (i.e., a...
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Taking Up Thagard’s Challenge: A Formal Model of Conceptual Revision
Thagard (1992) presented a framework for conceptual change in science based on conceptual systems. Thagard challenged belief revision theorists,...
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Can we Use Conceptual Spaces to Model Moral Principles?
Can the theory of conceptual spaces developed by Peter Gärdenfors (
2000 ,2014 ) and others be applied to moral issues? Martin Peterson (2017 ) argues...
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Explicating ‘Explication’ via Conceptual Spaces
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the method of explication as a procedure for conceptual engineering in philosophy and in...
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The Inclusion Tax: The Price of the Ticket in White Spaces
The highly publicized killing of Black people in spring 2020 sparked a national and global social movement to address racial violence. This led to...
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Experience of Marginalization in Noncooperative Spaces: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Italy
Undocumented migrant workers are among a group of marginalized stakeholders who are severely exploited at their workplace and across broader society....
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Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework
The concept of inclusive innovation has become widely embraced in the agricultural domain and promises to overcome traditional innovation paradigms...
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Conceptual Learning and Local Incommensurability: A Dynamic Logic Approach
In recent decades, the logical study of rational belief dynamics has played an increasingly important role in philosophy. However, the dynamics of...
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Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations
It is largely assumed that conceptual engineering is essentially about revising, introducing, or eliminating representational devices, in particular...
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Diagrams, Conceptual Space and Time, and Latent Geometry
The “origins” of (geometric) space is examined from the perspective of the so-called “conceptual space” or “semantic space”. Semantic space is...
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Cultivating Organizations as Healing Spaces: A Typology for Responding to Suffering and Advancing Social Justice
Historic inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 and spotlighted by social justice movements like Black Lives Matter have reinforced the necessity and...