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The Border Space between Logic and Aesthetics in Mathematics Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Gerhard Heinzmann
The main thesis defended in this paper is that, interpreted in the light of reflections of Peirce and Poincaré, one can found in mathematical reasoning a non-logical symptom that may be aesthetic in Goodman’s sense. This symptom is called exemplification and serves to distinguish between only logically correct and even explanatory proofs. It broadens the scope of aesthetics to include all activities
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Imagination and Creativity in Science: an ‘Embodied’ Perspective Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Valentina Savojardo
The aim of this paper is to address the problem known as “the puzzle of imaginative” use, related to the ambiguities of an imagination that sometimes distances us from reality, but at other times, as for example in the use of scientific thought experiments, is used to understand some important aspects of the real world. The problem is closely related to that of imaginative constraints. It will be shown
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On Plantinga’s Way Out Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Lifeng Zhang
The conception of possible worlds, as proposed by Plantinga, presents certain issues, notably its dependence on the prior concept of modality. While Plantinga’s strategy for addressing the enigma of transworld identity carries metaphysical significance, it lacks epistemological value. This deficiency emerges because world-indexed properties do not serve as effective tools in epistemic practice compared
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Aetiological Naturalism in the Philosophy of Medicine: A Shaky Project Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Claudio Davini
Griffiths and Matthewson (2018) employ the selected effects theory to contend that disease involves the impairment of the normal functioning of biological items. Since the selected effects theory focuses on the past effects of those items, I refer to their proposal as “aetiological naturalism”. In this paper, I argue that aetiological naturalism cannot constitute an adequate theory of disease. This
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Why Consciousness Is Not Strongly Emergent Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Eli Haitov
According to strong emergentism, it is a brute fact that higher-level properties (e.g., consciousness, values, etc.) emerge given certain complex structures. In this paper, I will argue that since it is allegedly a brute fact that emergent properties emerge in certain complex systems, they should emerge in anything. Since they do not emerge in anything, they also do not emerge only in certain complex
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How Classical, Paracomplete and Paraconsistent Logicians (Dis-)Agree Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Elke Brendel
This paper develops an account of disagreement and agreement in logic in terms of rules of acceptance, rejection, and suspension of judgement. Acceptance, rejection, and suspension in logic are thereby taken to be doxastic attitudes resulting from, respectively, assenting, dissenting, or refraining from assenting and dissenting to arguments or propositions in light of their logical validity/invalidity
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Tense in Mathematical English Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Matthew Inglis, Jacob Strauss
Many authors have commented on the relative frequency of the present tense—and the relative infrequency of the past tense—in mathematical writing. However, none (to our knowledge) have provided an estimate for the size of this effect or explored how universal it is. In this short note we report an analysis of corpora of mathematical and day-to-day English. We conclude that the present-to-past ratio
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A Holistic Approach to Macro-Ethics of Technology: A Contribution to Mitcham’s Big Idea Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Mohammad Sobhan Jalilian, Mahdi Fatehrad, Javad Akbari Takhtameshlou
Carl Mitcham has recently pointed out that the current approach to the ethics of technology has failed to solve large-scale socio-ethical challenges in the technological world, such as climate change. He then suggests that, in the face of an iceberg of issues regarding technological development, philosophers should recognize the intellectual heritage of the classical philosophers of technology to better
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Value Judgments in Mathematics: G. H. Hardy and the (Non-)seriousness of Mathematical Theorems Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Simon Weisgerber
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Scientific Realism from a Polysystemic View of Physical Theories and Their Functioning Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Alexander M. Gabovich, Vladimir I. Kuznetsov
One of the vividly discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of science (especially physics) is the opposition between Realism and Anti-Realism. The supporters of the first way of thinking trust in the objective existence of realities studied by science, whereas their opponents do not. However, both sides base their argumentation on simplified notions of scientific theories. In this paper, we
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Scientific Realism from a Polysystemic View of Physical Theories and their Functioning Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Alexander M. Gabovich, Vladimir Kuznetsov
One of the vividly discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of science (especially physics) is the opposition between Realism and Anti-Realism. The supporters of the first way of thinking trust in the objective existence of realities studied by science. They consider theories as approximate descriptions of these realities (Psillos 1999, xvii), whereas their opponents do not. However, both sides
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Central Themes and Open Questions in the Philosophy of Computer Science Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Nicola Angius, John Symons
This paper introduces the Global Philosophy symposium on Giuseppe Primiero’s book On the Foundations of Computing (2020). The collection gathers commentaries and responses of the author with the aim of engaging with some open questions in the philosophy of computer science. Firstly, this paper introduces the central themes addressed in Primiero’s book; secondly, it highlights some of the main critiques
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Epistemological Realism and Cognitive Science Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Vladislav A. Lektorsky
The author shows that the conception of epistemological realism as a contemporary variant of epistemological realism continues the realism tradition and at the same time takes into account some constructivist ideas, giving them a new interpretation. Constructive realism can be a fruitful strategy in cognitive studies, as it gives a philosophical interpretation of the current popular approach in cognitive
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Mainstream Science and African Worldview: A Plea for Diversity Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Husein Inusah, Maxwell Omaboe
Some notable scholars argue that traditional African worldview is a backward-looking belief system that proves to be irreconcilable with mainstream science. The contention is such that unlike the principles of mainstream science which demystifies our understanding of the universe through the search for discoverable laws of nature, traditional African worldview rather mystifies the nature of our universe
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Learning to Live with a Circle: Reflective Equilibrium and the Received View of the Scientific Realism Debate Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Kosmas Brousalis, Stathis Psillos
The Scientific Realism Debate (SRD) has been accused of going around in circles without reaching a consensus, so that several scholars have advocated its dissolution in favor of reformed projects that are eliminativist towards the distinctively philosophical aims and methods. In this paper, after outlining the project that SRD-participants have been involved in for some time now—which we call the Received
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Epistemological Implications of Perceptual Pluralism Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Themistoklis Pantazakos
Perceptual systems that integrate different principles and/or a different architecture at large may produce substantially varied outputs from the same scene. I call this thesis perceptual pluralism and I bring related empirical evidence to bear on the epistemological debate on perception. I argue that perceptual pluralism, coupled with the position that at least some different kinds of perception are
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Convergences and Divergences Between the “new realism” and the Realism of Evandro Agazzi Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Carlos-Adolfo Rengifo-Castañeda
The objective of this paper is to analyze the convergences and divergences between two conceptions of realism: Markus Gabriel’s “new realism” and Evandro Agazzi’s realism. Firstly, the main theses behind “new realism” will be presented, drawing on Gabriel’s text ‘Why the World Does Not Exist’ (2015), originally published in German as Warum es die Welt nicht gibt in 2013. Secondly, the constitutive
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Emergence, Continuity, and Scientific Realism Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Dennis Dieks
Scientific realism postulates that science aims for truth in both the domains of the observable and the unobservable, and is capable of achieving this aim, at least approximately. From the realist perspective our current scientific theories are on the right path to their aim, encapsulating a significant degree of theoretical truth. A key argument supporting this viewpoint is the continuity observed
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Categorical Abstractions of Molecular Structures of Biological Objects: A Case Study of Nucleic Acids Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Jinyeong Gim
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How to Account for the Falsehood of an Affirmative Proposition and the Truth of a Negative Proposition Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Bo Chen
There are two versions of the correspondence theory of truth: the object-based correspondence theory and the fact-based correspondence theory. Some scholars have put forward their objections to my rejection of the concept of a fact and their defence of that concept. But their arguments are not cogent, since they haven’t clarified the relation between facts and propositions, haven’t successfully argued
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Revisiting, Synthesizing, and Critiquing Searle on Social Construction Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Abigail Klassen
The main goal of this paper is to revisit, synthesize, and critique John R. Searle’s thinking over time concerning social ontology and what it means for something to be a social construction. Primarily, I undertake this task by elucidating and problematizing aspects of John R. Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality (herein, CSR) (1995), though attention is paid to his later and corollary works
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Why do we Need Norm Sensitive Design? A WEIRD Critique of Value Sensitive Approaches to Design Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Diana Adela Martin, Rockwell F. Clancy, Qin Zhu, Gunter Bombaerts
The article argues that mainstream value-sensitive approaches to design have been based on narrow understandings of personhood and social dynamics, which are biased toward Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic cultures and contradicted by empirical evidence. To respond to this weakness, the article suggests that design may benefit from focusing on user behaviours from the joint perspective
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Blockchain Civitas Dei and Civitas Terrena: Governance Experiments as a Problem of ‘Frontier Epistemology’ and ‘Heuristic Appraisal’ Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Denisa Reshef Kera, Joshua Ellul, Diego Fernando Bernard Francia
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Recalcitrant Disagreement in Mathematics: An “Endless and Depressing Controversy” in the History of Italian Algebraic Geometry Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Silvia De Toffoli, Claudio Fontanari
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On the Foundations of Computing: Limits and Open Issues Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Giuseppe Primiero
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Symbolic Understanding of the Sky and Celestial Entities: An Archaeological Approach of Late Prehistoric Celestial Signs in the Carpathian Basin Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Emilia Pasztor
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Neutrality, Ecofeminist Theory, and the Mathematical Analysis of Partisan Gerrymandering Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Benjamin Braun
Mathematics is often positioned as either neutral or non-neutral by mathematicians. However, in practice, issues of neutrality arise in situated contexts, and the positioning of mathematics as either neutral or non-neutral is done for many purposes. We interpret positioning of mathematical work, with different degrees of neutrality, as a response to conflicts of interest and power dynamics. Using a
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Formalization of Mathematical Proof Practice Through an Argumentation-Based Model Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Sofia Almpani, Petros Stefaneas, Ioannis Vandoulakis
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A Debate in Need of Change Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Jan Faye
This paper discusses the realism-antirealism problem in philosophy of science and the stalemate we see with respect to solving this problem. The thesis is that both realism and antirealism rest on a priori arguments, which the other part does not accept. The suggested solution is to avoid a priori arguments and focus on epistemic naturalism, which embraces theories about human cognitive evolution and
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Accepting Organizational Theories Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Herman Aksom
In this paper we aim to contribute to the recent debate on non-empirical theory confirmation by analyzing why scientists accept and trust their theories in the absence of clear empirical verification in social sciences. Given that the philosophy of social sciences traditionally deals mainly with economics and sociology, organization theory promises a new area for addressing a wide range of key questions
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Mathematical Explanation: Epistemic Aims and Diverging Assessments Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Joachim Frans, Bart Van Kerkhove
Mathematicians suggest that some proofs are valued for their explanatory value. This has led to a philosophical debate about the distinction between explanatory and non-explanatory proofs. In this paper, we explore whether contrasting views about the explanatory value of proof are possible and how to understand these diverging assessments. By considering an epistemic and contextual conception of explanation
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Structural Realism and Agnosticism about Objects Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Jared Hanson-Park
Among scientific realists and anti-realists, there is a well-known, perennial dispute about the reality and knowability of unobservable objects. This dispute is also present among structural realists, who all agree that science gives us genuine knowledge of structure at the unobservable level (however that structure may be understood). Ontic structural realists reduce or eliminate the ontological role
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Political Poverty, Justice, and Citizenship Education Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Raṣit Çelik
Poverty is a fundamental problem of contemporary societies including both developed and developing democracies. Although the literature on poverty is heavy concentrated on the material well-being of individuals and societies, some other aspects of poverty are to be considered as significant for democratic societies, especially for the discussions of justice and democratic order. In this regard, this
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Why Philosophy Makes No Progress Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Eric Dietrich
This paper offers an explanation for why some parts of philosophy have made no progress. Philosophy has made no progress because it cannot make progress. And it cannot because of the nature of the phenomena philosophy is tasked with explaining—all of it involves consciousness. Here, it will not be argued directly that consciousness is intractable. Rather, it will be shown that a specific version of
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Can the Epistemic Basing Relation be a Brain Process? Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Dwayne Moore
There is a difference between having reasons for believing and believing for reasons. This difference is often fleshed out via an epistemic basing relation, where an epistemic basing relation obtains between beliefs and the actual reasons for which those beliefs are held. The precise nature of the basing relation is subject to much controversy, and one such underdeveloped issue is whether beliefs can
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Attention as Practice Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Gunter Bombaerts, Joel Anderson, Matthew Dennis, Alessio Gerola, Lily Frank, Tom Hannes, Jeroen Hopster, Lavinia Marin, Andreas Spahn
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How You Play the Game: Kantian Ethics in Non-ideal Conditions Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Iris Spoor
In “Compliance, Complicity, and the Nature of Nonideal Conditions” (2003), Tamar Schapiro suggests a framework that deontological theories might use to mitigate the stringency of the moral law in certain cases. This framework depends on a crucial distinction between two forms of non-compliance: transgression and subversion. Schapiro considers several possibilities for cases of subversive non-compliance
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The Liar Paradox: A Case of Mistaken Truth Attribution Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Jasper Doomen
A semantic solution to the liar paradox (“This statement is not true”) is presented in this article. Since the liar paradox seems to evince a contradiction, the principle of non-contradiction is preliminarily discussed, in order to determine whether dismissing this principle may be reason enough to stop considering the liar paradox a problem. No conclusive outcome with respect to the value of this
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Should Type Theory Replace Set Theory as the Foundation of Mathematics? Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Thorsten Altenkirch
Mathematicians often consider Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory with Choice (ZFC) as the only foundation of Mathematics, and frequently don’t actually want to think much about foundations. We argue here that modern Type Theory, i.e. Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT), is a preferable and should be considered as an alternative.
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Composition as Identity and the Logical Roots of Leibniz’s Nominalism Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Filippo Costantini
The paper deals with Leibniz’s ontology and the metaphysics of the aggregate. Concerning the ontology of aggregates, the main aim is to provide a new argument in favor of the claim that an aggregate and its constituents have the same ontological import. This argument takes the form of a weakening of a principle known in the contemporary literature of mereology as ‘composition as identity’ (CAI). The
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Implementing a Computing System: A Pluralistic Approach Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Syed AbuMusab
In chapter eleven of "On The Foundation of Computing," Primiero takes on the implementation debate in computer science. He contrasts his theory with two other views—the Semantic and the specification—artifact. In this paper, I argue that there is a way to fine-tune the implementation concept further. Firstly, contrary to Primiero, I claim it is problematic to separate the implementation relationship
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Davidsonian Metasemantics and Radical Interpretation Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Maciej Tarnowski
In the current debate on the metaphysical grounding of semantic properties Donald Davidson is usually taken to represent interpretationism, a stance according to which the meaning of expressions is metaphysically grounded by the process of assigning them semantic values which maximize certain parameters such as truth or rationality of the speaker. This stance is often contrasted with productivism,
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Deep Disagreement in Mathematics Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Andrew Aberdein
Disagreements that resist rational resolution, often termed “deep disagreements”, have been the focus of much work in epistemology and informal logic. In this paper, I argue that they also deserve the attention of philosophers of mathematics. I link the question of whether there can be deep disagreements in mathematics to a more familiar debate over whether there can be revolutions in mathematics.
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On the Foundations of Computing. Computing as the Fourth Great Domain of Science Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
This review essay analyzes the book by Giuseppe Primiero, On the foundations of computing. Oxford: Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-19-883564-6/hbk; 978-0-19-883565-3/pbk). xix, 296 p. (2020). It gives a critical view from the perspective of physical computing as a foundation of computing and argues that the neglected pillar of material computation (Stepney) should be brought centerstage and computing
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Domain Restrictions in the Aggregation of Classifications Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 John Craven
The possibility of domain restrictions that allow the consistent use of majority-based aggregators for rankings of objects has been widely explored. This paper extends this exploration to structures in which equivalence relations or classifications are aggregated, and shows that there is very limited scope for such restrictions in the binary structure of Mirkin and in the unary structure of Maniquet
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Rejection, Disagreement, Controversy and Acceptance in Mathematical Practice: Episodes in the Social Construction of Infinity Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Paul Ernest
The concept of infinity has a long and troubled history. Thus it is a promising concept with which to explore rejection, disagreement, controversy and acceptance in mathematical practice. This paper briefly considers four cases from the history of infinity, drawing on social constructionism as the background social theory. The unit of analysis of social constructionism is conversation. This is the
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Reichenbach’s ‘Causal’ Theory of Time: A Re-assessment Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Friedel Weinert
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Do Imaginings have a Goal? Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Marcus William Hunt
The paper investigates whether imaginative states about propositions can be assessed in terms of fittingness (also known as correctness, appropriateness, aptness). After characterizing propositional imaginings and explaining the idea of fittingness, I present some considerations in favour of the no conditions view: imagining seems to be the sort of action that cannot be done unfittingly, and imaginings
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Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Hans Radder
This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts is shown to be the result of multifaceted, cognitive processes, which require both material realization and conceptual interpretation. Generally speaking, the meaning of empirical concepts consists of several distinct components, but it includes at least
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Primiero on Physical Computation Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 André Curtis-Trudel
This note discusses the account of physical computation offered in Part II of Primiero’s On the Foundations of Computing. Although there is much to find attractive about the account, I argue that the account is obscure at certain crucial junctures and that it does not supply a wholly satisfactory account of miscomputation. I close by considering whether the engineering foundation of computing requires
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The Problem of Truth in Quantum Mechanics Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Adrian Heathcote
There is a large literature on the issue of the lack of properties (i.e. accidents) in quantum mechanics (the problem of “hidden variables”) and also on the indistinguishability of particles. Both issues were discussed as far back as the late 1920’s. However, the implications of these challenges to classical ontology were taken up rather late, in part in the ‘quantum set theory’ of Takeuti (Curr Issues
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The Citadel Itself: Defending Semantic Internalism Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Elliot Murphy
Semantic internalism is the view that linguistic meaning amounts to forms of conceptual instructions, and that the process of forming linguistic representations does not involve reference to extra-mental entities. Contemporary philosophy of language remains predominantly externalist in focus, having developed systems of extensional reference which depart from classical rationalist assumptions. Semantic
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Against Phylogenetic Conceptions of Race Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Kamuran Osmanoglu
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Technologies, Inbetweenness and Affordances Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Alexander Koutamanis
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Temporal Omniscience, Free will, and Their Logic Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Lifeng Zhang
Taking divine omniscience as including temporal omniscience, which means God exists at all times and knows everything, I point out the fallacies in an incompatibilist argument. Syntactically, due to misapplication of the principle of substitutivity, this incompatibilist argument isn’t valid. Semantically, due to cancelation of a supposition on which God’s earlier belief depends, an agent’s alternative
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Lithbea, a New Domain Outside the Tree of Life Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Jaime Gómez-Márquez
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Causes Versus Background Conditions: A Double Negation Account Axiomathes (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Michele Paolini Paoletti
I shall present in this article a double negation account of the distinction between causes and background conditions. Such an account will be based on the idea that, unlike causes, background conditions allow for certain effects by way of double prevention. In Sect. 1 I shall introduce objective and non-objective theories of the causes-background conditions distinction and I shall discuss and reject