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Moderate Realism and Deduction from Truthlike Theories
Moderate realists hold that scientific theories are truthlike, rather than exactly true. Although scientific realism has been challenged by arguments...
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Epistemological Implications of Perceptual Pluralism
Perceptual systems that integrate different principles and/or a different architecture at large may produce substantially varied outputs from the...
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The Epistemological Problem of the Objectivity of Knowledge
The problem of conscience in the Western tradition and the imprint of Kantian criticism. An objectivity without objects? Scientific objectivity in...
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Conjunctive paraconsistency
This article is a preliminary presentation of conjunctive paraconsistency , the claim that there might be non-explosive true contradictions, but...
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The Indeterminacy Bottleneck: Implications for Habitable Worlds
It is often assumed that the transition between chemical evolution and biological evolution undergoes a smooth process; that once life has arisen, it...
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Flat Ontology, a Negative Cosmology? The Aliquid and Its Other
The analyst of the philosophical field has, for the last twenty years, been confronted with a vast “conceptual constellation”, which is structured...
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No cause for collapse
We investigate a hitherto under-considered avenue of response for the logical pluralist to collapse worries. In particular, we note that standard...
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Two in One. What the Logic of Christology Can Teach Us
A new idea of ‘contradictory Christology’ has been recently advanced by JC Beall (The contradictory Christ. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021a)....
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Pleasure is Goodness; Morality is Universal
This paper presents the Universality Argument that pleasure is goodness. It proceeds from a moral sense theory that analyzes moral concepts as...
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No-Thing and Causality in Realistic Non-Standard Interpretations of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function: Ex Nihilo Aliquid?
It has been shown that quantum mechanics in its orthodox interpretation violates four different formulations of causality principle endowed with...
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Understanding Defective Theories
Here, we deal with the question of under which circumstances can scientists achieve a legitimate understanding of defective theories qua defective....
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Hegel, Beall, and the logic of Vereinigung
In 2023, Beall and Ficara present what they call Hegelian conjunctions. A Hegelian conjunction is a true conjunction of contradictory opposites in...
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Following logical realism where it leads
Logical realism is the view that there is logical structure in the world. I argue that, if logical realism is true, then we are deeply ignorant of...
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The Classic Inherence Theory of Attributes: Its Theses and Their Errors
Primary to both ontology and epistemology is the attributional union that properties and relations have with their subjects. Yet, the tradition’s...
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A Descriptive Study of Multi-dimensional Discursive Features in Chinese and American Banks’ CSR Reports
This chapter will answer the first research question in this study: What are the differences of the multi-dimensional discursive features between...
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Manifestation and Unrestricted Dispositional Monism
Most metaphysicians agree that powers (at least the non-fundamental ones) can exist without being manifested. The main goal of this paper is to show...
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Expanding Observability via Human-Machine Cooperation
We ask how to use machine learning to expand observability, which presently depends on human learning that informs conceivability. The issue is...
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The Morphogenetic Approach; Critical Realism’s Explanatory Framework Approach
Critical Realism, the philosophy of the social sciences used here is equally applicable to all such disciplines and accords no special place to...
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Simulation and Experiment Revisited: Temporal Data in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The ongoing debate in philosophy of science over whether simulations are experiments has so far operated at too high a level of generality. I revisit...
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Perspectives on Transparency: Interpretivism and Language
This chapter discusses the Nature of accountability and transparency within accountability regimes in environmental and global contexts. Presently,...