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Pursuits of Belief: Reflecting on the Cessation of Belief
This paper attempts to revisit how ‘acquaintance’ could bring about belief and how belief becomes knowledge in our language system due to the...
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Ethics of Belief
This chapter attempts to show that, in An Essay concerning Human Understanding, Locke deploys a reasoning based on the notion of due examination in...
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Revisiting stance voluntarism: in defense of an active stance pluralism
Bas van Fraassen’s stance voluntarism has raised the question of how to justify one’s own stance choice if one is to follow the voluntarist dictum...
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Modal Structuralism with Theoretical Terms
In this paper, we aim to explore connections between a Carnapian semantics of theoretical terms and an eliminative structuralist approach in the...
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Emergence, Continuity, and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism postulates that science aims for truth in both the domains of the observable and the unobservable, and is capable of achieving...
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Mainstream Science and African Worldview: A Plea for Diversity
Some notable scholars argue that traditional African worldview is a backward-looking belief system that proves to be irreconcilable with mainstream...
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Process Ontology: Conversations and Argumentations, Controversies in Mathematics and Mathematics as Socialisation
To better conceive the socializing and pragmatic aspects of mathematics, it can be useful to use a process ontology, which allows, starting from an...
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Science, Faith and Society and Polanyi’s Metaphysical Account
This essay focuses attention on Polanyi’s 1946 book Science, Faith and Society as an early constructive philosophical effort to rehabilitate belief...
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The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate
In recent years there has been a noticeable yet largely unacknowledged ‘pragmatic turn’ in the scientific realism debate, inspired in part by van...
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Dual process theory and the challenges of functional individuation
Despite on-going debates in philosophy and cognitive science, dual process theory (DPT) remains a popular framework for theorizing about human...
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There is an epistemic problem in animal consciousness research
Which non-human animals are phenomenally conscious? In this paper I argue that the distribution of phenomenal consciousness in the animal world is...
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Scientific Realism: What Is at Stake?
This chapter begins by discussing what Bas van Fraassen called “the loss of reality objection”. Since models are constructed by our action of...
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Epistemic Values from a Naturalistic Perspective
Explanations are in my view answers to explanatory questions. Such answers may deliver knowledge but also understanding which has a different...
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Do you believe in Deep Down? On two conceptions of valuing
In this paper, we explicate an underappreciated distinction between two conceptions of valuing. According to the first conception, which we call the...
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To Believe, or Not to Believe – That is Not the (Only) Question: The Hybrid View of Privacy
In this paper, we defend what we call the ‘Hybrid View’ of privacy. According to this view, an individual has privacy if, and only if, no one else...
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A Debate in Need of Change
This paper discusses the realism-antirealism problem in philosophy of science and the stalemate we see with respect to solving this problem. The...
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From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium
I explore the process of changes in the observability of entities and objects in science and how such changes impact two key issues in the scientific...
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Against methodological continuity and metaphysical knowledge
The main purpose of this paper is to refute the ‘methodological continuity’ argument supporting epistemic realism in metaphysics. This argument aims...
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Time Will Tell: Against Antirealism About the Past
Past entities, events, and circumstances are neither observable nor manipulatable. Several philosophers argued that this inaccessibility precludes a...
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Acting for reasons and the metaphysics of time
This paper concerns acting for reasons and how this can inform debates about the metaphysics of time. Storrs-Fox (
2021 ) has argued against the...