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Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts
By supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological...
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Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence
This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts...
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On the Epistemology of Observational Black Hole Astrophysics
We discuss three philosophically interesting epistemic peculiarities of black hole astrophysics: (1) issues concerning whether and in what sense...
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Practical concepts and productive reasoning
Can we think of a task in a distinctively practical way? Can there be practical concepts? In recent years, epistemologists, philosophers of mind, as...
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Taking phenomenology beyond the first-person perspective: conceptual grounding in the collection and analysis of observational evidence
Phenomenology has been adapted for use in qualitative health research, where it’s often used as a method for conducting interviews and analyzing...
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Evaluating Free Rides and Observational Advantages in Set Visualizations
Free rides and observational advantages occur in visualizations when they reveal facts that must be inferred from an alternative representation....
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An Introduction to Theory of Mind: Fundamental Concepts and Issues
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a construct that reflects people’s ability to understand the mental states of others. In our daily lives, we continuously...
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Reformed Empiricism, in Brief
This essay reviews the principal tenets of Reformed Empiricism about experience and its relationship to thought. It outlines the account the view...
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Climate Models and Robustness Analysis – Part I: Core Concepts and Premises
Robustness analysis (RA) is the prescription to consider a diverse range of evidence and only regard a hypothesis as well-supported if all the...
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Climate Models and Robustness Analysis – Part I: Core Concepts and Premises
Robustness analysis (RA) is the prescription to consider a diverse range of evidence and only regard a hypothesis as well-supported if all the...
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Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice
The existing philosophical views on what is the meaning of causality adequate to medicine are vastly divided. We approach this question and offer two...
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Experimentation in Physics
This chapter presents the different purposes of observation and experiment in physics using examples that allow us to grasp the historical...
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The Unmeasurability of Absolute Velocities from the Point of View of Epistemological Internalism
Absolute velocities in Newtonian mechanics are commonly regarded as unmeasurable. Roberts (Br J Philos Sci 59(2):143–168, 2008) provides a...
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Experimenting with Truth
In the last decade Robert Barnard and Joseph Ulatowski have conducted a number of experimental studies in order to better understand the ordinary...
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Human Sensory Knowledge
The first three chapters deal with different modes of experiential knowledge as these appear in animals and, as I suggest, in humans too. Following...
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Hybrid Enrichment of Theory and Observation in Next-Generation Stellar Population Synthesis
Next-generation observational surveys in astronomy provide empirical data with increasingly high resolution and precision. After presenting the basic...
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Exploring moral competence regression: a narrative approach in medical ethics education for medical students
BackgroundStudies from different countries report a stagnation or regression of moral competence in medical students between the first and the last...
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Documentation of ethically relevant information in out-of-hospital resuscitation is rare: a Danish nationwide observational study of 16,495 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests
BackgroundDecision-making in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should ideally include clinical and ethical factors. Little is known about the extent of...
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The Heart of Matter
In the concluding chapter, we return with a new perspective on the main principles, themes, and concepts of the previous six chapters. Past critiques...