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Structuralism and the Quest for Lost Reality
The structuralist approach represents the relation between a model and physical system as a relation between two mathematical structures. However,...
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Appearance and reality: Einstein and the early debate on the reality of length contraction
In 1909, Ehrenfest published a note in the Physikalische Zeitschrift showing that a Born rigid cylinder could not be set into rotation without...
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Dispositional Reality
This chapter introduces and discusses the concept of Dispositional Reality. To believe that there is Dispositional Reality is to believe that (at...
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Virtual reality as a path to self-knowledge
I discuss how virtual reality can be used to acquire self-knowledge. Lawlor (Philos Phenomenol Res 79(1):47–75, 2009) and Cassam (Vices of the mind:...
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Human Enhancement and Augmented Reality
Bioconservative bioethicists (e.g., Kass,
2002 , Human Dignity and Bioethics , 297–331,2008 ; Sandel,2007 ; Fukuyama,2003 ) offer various kinds of... -
For I Do Not Know How to Act: Tadeusz Kantor and the Reality of Theatre
This paper presents a discussion, in honour of the late Ari Hirvonen, of the reality of theatre, the space of the tragic and the ethical condition....
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Immersive Experience and Virtual Reality
Much of the excitement about virtual reality and its potential for things like entertainment, art, education, and activism is its ability to generate...
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Decoherence, appearance, and reality in agential realism
This paper reconsiders what implications quantum decoherence has for Karen Barad’s agential realism. In contrast with the recent claim of Thomas...
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Once upon a time in superspace: the diegetic ideal for the interpretation of physical theories
This paper offers a novel argument for superspace substantivalism. Superspace is a modified spacetime represented formally through combining ordinary...
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Minds in the Metaverse: Extended Cognition Meets Mixed Reality
Examples of extended cognition typically involve the use of technologically low-grade bio-external resources (e.g., the use of pen and paper to solve...
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In Favour of Dispositional Reality
In this chapter I will present an epistemology for Dispositional Reality. According to the neo-Quinean methodology proposed in earlier chapters, and...
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Virtual Reality, Embodiment, and Allusion: an Ecological-Enactive Approach
It is common in the cognitive and computational sciences to regard virtual reality (VR) as composed of illusory experiences, given its immersive...
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Augmented Reality, Augmented Epistemology, and the Real-World Web
Augmented reality (AR) technologies function to ‘augment’ normal perception by superimposing virtual objects onto an agent’s visual field. The...
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“The Gate of Reality”: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Idea of Reality in Realontologie
The question “what is reality?” that opens Realontologie (HCM, 1923), the establishing book in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s (HCM) oeuvre, establishes her...
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On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion
This essay has two main claims about EPR’s Reality Criterion. First, we claim that the application of the Reality Criterion makes an essential...
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A Critical Notice on the Moral Grounding Question in David Chalmers’ Reality+
In this critical discussion, I evaluate David Chalmers’ position on the moral grounding question from his (2022) Reality + . The moral grounding...
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Ethics of Virtual Reality
Human beings have been spending a lot of time in front of a screen for many years. Through the computer and other electronic devices, we interact...
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The Simulated Body: A Preliminary Investigation into the Relationship Between Neuroscientific Studies, Phenomenology and Virtual Reality
The author of this paper discusses the theme of the "simulated body", that is the sense of "being there” in a body that is not one's own, or that...
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The Vocabulary of Reality
This chapter seeks to extricate and explicate the unique vocabulary that was consolidated by the realistic phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius...
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The Epistemic Value of Cognitive Contact with Reality
There seems to be an important intuition that there is a distinctive value associated with direct cognitive contact with reality, in the sense of a...