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What Now in Philosophy of Technology? Ethics, Time, and Poiêsis in Crisis Thinking Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Tricia Glazebrook
This paper challenges that Ihde’s and Stiegler’s approaches stand in radical opposition. It argues that ethos is prior to law, exposes a Heideggerian rift between technoscience and technics, and rejects separation of theory from practice in favor of logics of poiêsis.
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Operationalism: An Interpretation of the Philosophy of Ancient Greek Geometry Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Viktor Blåsjö
I present a systematic interpretation of the foundational purpose of constructions in ancient Greek geometry. I argue that Greek geometers were committed to an operationalist foundational program, according to which all of mathematics—including its entire ontology and epistemology—is based entirely on concrete physical constructions. On this reading, key foundational aspects of Greek geometry are analogous
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Before Empirical Turns And Transcendental Inquiry: Pre-Philosophical Considerations Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Robert C. Scharff
I approach the idea of empirical turns and transcendental theories indirectly. I do not start “post-“ or “neg-” anything; instead I begin pre-philosophically—that is, before everyone has a position and opposes other positions—with Heidegger’s “preparatory hermeneutical” question: As whom and with what concerns do empirically or transcendentally minded philosophers of technology respond to their experience
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Earth, Technology, Language: A Contribution to Holistic and Transcendental Revisions After the Artifactual Turn Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Mark Coeckelbergh
The empirical turn, understood as a turn to the artifact in the work of Ihde, has been a fruitful one, which has rightly abandoned what Serres and Latour call “the empire of signs” of the postmoderns. However, this has unfortunately implied too little attention for language and its relation to technology. The same can be said about the social dimension of technology use, which is largely neglected
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The Transcendental and the Agonistic: A Media Philosophy Perspective Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Timothy Barker
This critical response to Dominic Smith’s ‘Taking Exception: Philosophy of Technology as a Multidimensional Problem Space’ begins by outlining the key contributions of his essay, namely his insightful approach to the transcendental, on the one hand, and his introduction of the topological problem space as an image for thought, on the other. The response then suggests ways of furthering this approach
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Accepting the Exceptional? Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Jochem Zwier
This commentary attempts to contribute to a further elucidation of Dominic Smith’s call for a rehabilitation of the transcendental in philosophy of technology. On the one hand, it focuses on why such a rehabilitation is deemed necessary, particularly in light of Smith’s diagnosis of a contemporary tendency towards reification and presentism. Postphenomenology is discussed as a challenge and invitation
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Molecular Biology Meets Logic: Context-Sensitiveness in Focus Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Giovanni Boniolo, Marcello D’Agostino, Mario Piazza, Gabriele Pulcini
Some real life processes, including molecular ones, are context-sensitive, in the sense that their outcome depends on side conditions that are most of the times difficult, or impossible, to express fully in advance. In this paper, we survey and discuss a logical account of context-sensitiveness in molecular processes, based on a kind of non-classical logic. This account also allows us to revisit the
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Why Heidegger Makes Sense in Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Lars Botin
Heidegger has been blamed for being obsolete, irrelevant, ignorant and even dangerous in relation to contemporary philosophy of technology. Based on mainly two texts from Heidegger’s post-war production, “The Question Concerning Technology” (1953) and “Only a God can Save Us” (1966/1976), this commentary to Don Ihde’s article tries to show how Heidegger actually makes sense to philosophy of technology
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Dialectical Hegelian Logic and Physical Quantity and Quality Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 J. L. Usó-Doménech, J. A. Nescolarde-Selva, H. Gash
In Ontology, quality determines beings. The quality-quantity bipolarity reveals that a conceptual logical comprehension that can include negation must be a dialectical logic. Quality is a precise characteristic of something (or a subject predicate) capable of augmentation or diminution while remaining identical through differences or quantitative changes. Thus, quality and in opposition quantity are
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Stimmung/Nastrój as Content of Modern Science: On Musical Metaphors in Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Thought Styles and Thought Collectives Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Paweł Jarnicki
Thought style and thought collective are two well-known concepts from Ludwik Fleck’s theory of science, which he originally formulated in Polish and German. This paper contends that these two concepts cannot be fully understood without a third—Stimmung/nastrój, which is one of the musical metaphors that play an important role in Fleck’s thinking. Because it is most often translated into English as
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Taking Exception: Philosophy of Technology as a Multidimensional Problem Space Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Dominic Smith
This essay develops three key claims made in my 2018 book, Exceptional Technologies. Part one argues for ‘trivialising the transcendental’, to remove stigmas attached to the word ‘transcendental’ in philosophy in general and philosophy of technology in particular. Part two outlines the concept of ‘exceptional technologies’. These are artefacts and practices that show up as limit cases for our received
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Technologizing the Transcendental, not Discarding it Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Pieter Lemmens
In this reply I further defend my claim that the transcendental should always remain a primary concern for philosophy of technology as a philosophical enterprise, contra the empirical turn’s rejection of it. Yet, instead of emphasizing the non-technological conditions of technology, as ‘classic’ thinkers of technology such as Heidegger did, it should recognize technology itself as the transcendental
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Digital Imagination, Fantasy, AI Art Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Galit Wellner
In this reply to my reviewers, I touch upon Husserl’s notion of fantasy. Whereas Kant positions fantasy outside the scope of his own work, Husserl brings it back. The importance of this notion lies in freeing imagination from the tight link to images, as for Husserl imagination is an activity that functions as a “quasi perception.” Ihde and Stiegler enrich Husserl’s analysis of imagination with various
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This Strange Being Called the Cosmos Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Yuk Hui
This supplementary essay aims to respond to and clarify the misunderstandings concerning the concept of cosmotechnics, the ambiguities of the term cosmos arisen in the article “For a Cosmotechnical Event,” as well as the reason for the neologism of cosmotechnics.
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Commentary to “Practicing Dialectics of Technoscience During the Anthropocene” by Hub Zwart Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Hub Zwart’s article is about the idea—and the practice—of an embedded philosophy of science, that is, a philosophy participating in and at the same time reflecting about the current state of the sciences facing the Anthropocene, to which I am very sympathetic. There are, however, two caveats. The first is that participation is always in danger to end up in a more or less uncritical eulogy, in the present
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The object that technology is not and how we can relate to it Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Helena De Preester
I reply to two comments to my paper “Subjectivity and transcendental illusions in the Anthropocene,” by Johannes Schick and Melentie Pandilovski. Schick expands on the possibility that technical objects become “other” in a Levinasian sense, making use of Simondon’s three-layered structure of technical objects. His proposal is to free technical objects and install a different relationship between humankind
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Maneuvering in the Interval: Reflections on Immanent Entanglements Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Heather Wiltse
Both perspective and leverage are needed in order to arrive at a place where it is possible to do the philosophical work required in order to adequately account for our present sociotechnical landscape. One of the key characteristics of this landscape is the collapse of scale, as things become more like fluid assemblages and the economic incentives of surveillance capitalism turn ordinary things into
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Correction to: Preface of the Special Issue: International Symposium “Worlds of Entanglement” - Second Part Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo, Tomas Veloz
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-021-09793-2
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Are Language Games Also Confidence Tricks? Technology as Embodied Power and Collective Disempowerment Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Christopher John Müller
Mark Coeckelbergh’s mobilisation of Wittgensteinian language games makes an important contribution to exposing the social dimension of machine use. This commentary asks to what extent this social dimension of meaning and the wider imaginary that forms around technological objects on account of the transparency of language is also part of a technological “confidence trick”. It suggests that philosophical
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Dialectical Methodology of the Praxis of Biology Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Bart Gremmen
Zwart uses Hegel’s dialectical method to develop a dialectical methodology for assessing biology as technoscience during the Anthropocene. In this paper I will evaluate this use of Hegelian dialectics in biology. I will first elaborate the meaning of Hegel’s method of “Dialectics”. This helps me to evaluate Zwart’s dialectical scientific methodology from the perspective of Hegel’s method of “Dialectics”
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From Heideggerian Industrial Gigantism to Nanoscale Technologies Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Don Ihde
As a regular reader of Science, Scientific American, Nature and The Eonomist, I could not miss how so many articles in these science-technology journals refer to micro-processing, which today dominates so much science-praxis. I have become aware that how science happens, changes primarily with a wide context of instrument changes. That is what this paper is about. Heidegger’s technologies were largely
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Contact Versus Education: An Explorative Comparison Between the Contact and Education Strategy Considering Albinism Related Stigma in Tanzanian High Schools Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 T. M. M. De Groot, P. Meurs, W. Jacquet, R. M. H. Peters
Albinism in Tanzania causes fierce health-related stigma. Little research has focused on the impact of stigma reduction strategies aiming to reduce albinism related stigma. Therefore, this research assessed the impact of two short video interventions among high school students in Tanzania on their attitude towards people with albinism: a contact intervention (n = 95) and an education intervention (n = 97)
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Unspeakable Transport - What Quantum Teleportation Might be, and What it More Probably is Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Jean-Michel Delhôtel
A Controlled Not variant of the standard quantum teleportation protocol affords a step-by-step analysis of what is, or can be said to be, achieved in the process in either location. Dominant interpretations of what quantum teleportation consists in and implies are reviewed in this light. Being mindful of the statistical significance of the terms and operations involved, as well as awareness of classical
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Against the Tyranny of ‘Pure States’ in Quantum Theory Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 C. de Ronde, C. Massri
We argue that the notion of pure sate within Standard Quantum Mechanics is presently applied within the specialized literature in relation to two mutually inconsistent definitions. While the first (operational purity) provides a basis-dependent definition which makes reference to the certain prediction of measurement outcomes, the latter (trace-invariant purity) provides a purely abstract invariant
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On the Ontological Status of Mechanisms and Processes in the Social World Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Henrique Estides Delgado
This paper gives a philosophical outline of the importance of plausible ontologies in the social sciences and argues how mechanisms and processes should be placed as the foundation in the social world. The argumentation is mainly based on a critical appraisal of the use of mechanisms and processes in the works of Norbert Elias, Charles Tilly, and Jon Elster. I start by elaborating on how inquiries
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Mathematics as a Science of Non-abstract Reality: Aristotelian Realist Philosophies of Mathematics Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 James Franklin
There is a wide range of realist but non-Platonist philosophies of mathematics—naturalist or Aristotelian realisms. Held by Aristotle and Mill, they played little part in twentieth century philosophy of mathematics but have been revived recently. They assimilate mathematics to the rest of science. They hold that mathematics is the science of X, where X is some observable feature of the (physical or
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Quantum Bayesian Decision-Making Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Michael de Oliveira, Luis Soares Barbosa
As a compact representation of joint probability distributions over a dependence graph of random variables, and a tool for modelling and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty, Bayesian networks are of great importance for artificial intelligence to combine domain knowledge, capture causal relationships, or learn from incomplete datasets. Known as a NP-hard problem in a classical setting, Bayesian
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Unfolding the Layers of Mind and World: Wellner’s Posthuman Digital Imagination Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Melinda Campbell
Galit Wellner’s exploration of new kinds of digital technologies employing AI algorithms that simulate features and functions of the human imagination leads her to propose a conceptual analysis of the imagination as a composite of perception and memory. Wellner poses the question of whether the output of such technological applications might be regarded as not merely simulating creative activity but
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Cosmos and Technology (Dasein’s Planetary Condition) Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Frédéric Neyrat
In response to Yuk Hui’s essay “For a Cosmotechnical Event,” I argue that the cosmos can only be metaphysically apprehended through a deepening of its astrophysical understanding. This understanding makes the universe—and the Earth—a contingent, historical, and an-archic formation. Dasein is therefore under planetary condition, seeking to ensure that the Earth is finally able to recognize its strangeness
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Comparative Policy Analysis and the Science of Conceptual Systems: A Candidate Pathway to a Common Variable Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Guswin de Wee
In comparative policy analysis (CPA), a generally accepted historic problem that transcends time is that of identifying common variables. Coupled with this problem is the unanswered challenge of collaboration and interdisciplinary research. Additionally, there is the problem of the rare use of text-as-data in CPA and the fact it is rarely applied, despite the potential demonstrated in other subfields
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Thing-Transcendentality: Navigating the Interval of “technology” and “Technology” Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Yoni Van Den Eede
The empirical-transcendental debate in philosophy of technology, as debates go, took a turn toward the counterposing of the two perspectives, ‘empirical’-pragmatic-pragmatist versus ‘transcendental’-critical. Postphenomenology aligns itself with the former standpoint, and it is in this spirit that commentators have criticized it for its too-instrumentalist stance and lack of overarching, i.e., transcendental
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Cosmotechnical Thought Between Substantivism and the Empirical Turn Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Andrés Vaccari
In this article I respond to Yuk Hui by revisiting the crossroads in the philosophy of technology as represented by the philosophies of Stiegler and Ihde. Whereas Hui proposes the concept of cosmotechnics as an integrating perspective, I conceive of the crossroads in other terms, namely from the perspective of substantivism. I characterize our present situation, what a philosophy of technology should
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Entanglement, Symmetry Breaking and Collapse: Correspondences Between Quantum and Self-Organizing Dynamics Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Francis Heylighen
Quantum phenomena are notoriously difficult to grasp. The present paper first reviews the most important quantum concepts in a non-technical manner: superposition, uncertainty, collapse of the wave function, entanglement and non-locality. It then tries to clarify these concepts by examining their analogues in complex, self-organizing systems. These include bifurcations, attractors, emergent constraints
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Practicing Dialectics of Technoscience during the Anthropocene Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Hub Zwart
This paper develops a dialectical methodology for assessing technoscience during the Anthropocene. How to practice Hegelian dialectics of technoscience today? First of all, dialectics is developed here in close interaction with contemporary technoscientific research endeavours, which are addressed from a position of proximity and from an ‘oblique’ perspective. Contrary to empirical (sociological or
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Reflections on an Externalized Digital Imagination Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Nicola Liberati
Wellner’s article aims at changing an essential element within phenomenology by introducing the idea of digital imagination. Assuming her thesis, I aim to raise two possible kinds of questions generated by the introduction of a technologically embedded imagination which is externalized.
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For a Cosmotechnical Event Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Yuk Hui
What will philosophy of technology be as its practitioners depart from the cross- roads of the ideas of Don Ihde and Bernard Stiegler? Their two lines of thought confront and cross each other, giving rise to different ways of understanding technologies. Rather than following one or the other of these directions, I propose an Erörterung of such crossroads. As Heidegger’s (1953) commentary on Georg Trakl’s
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Perspectives on Living and Thinking Vectors of the Anthropocene Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Melentie Pandilovski
Helena De Preester’s “Subjectivity and Transcendental Illusions in the Anthropocene” aims to rethink fundamentally the human–technology relationship against the backdrop of the Anthropocene. Essentially, the essay is concerned with the current form of subjectivity that characterizes humankind in the Anthropocene, and analyzes how it embeds knowledge, desire and behavior. De Preester indeed succeeds
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On Turning Away from “The Empirical Turn” (But not Necessarily Towards the Transcendental) Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Kirk M. Besmer
In my comments, I address two issues that are important but not central to the paper under review here. First, I present a reading of the postphenomenological concept of multistability by going back to Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the primacy of perception. I conclude that assertions affirming the multistability of technologies should not be seen as merely empirical. Second, I address the adequacy of
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The Transcendental of Technology Is Said in Many Ways Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Alberto Romele
In this contribution, the author contends that the way in which Pieter Lemmens interprets the transcendental of technology, particularly through the work of Bernard Stiegler, is only one of the possible ways of understanding the transcendental of technology. His thesis is that there are many other transcendentals of technology besides technology itself. The task of a philosophy of technology beyond
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On Technical Alterity Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Johannes F. M. Schick
This commentary introduces the notion of “technical alterity” in order to address the following questions: is it possible that technical objects can become “others” in analogy to Levinas’ ethics and can this relation provide solutions for the subject in the Anthropocene? According to Levinas, the human subject’s only break from having to be itself is in the consumption and enjoyment of things. Objects
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Albert Einstein and the Doubling of the Deflection of Light Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Jean-Marc Ginoux
One of the three consequences of Einstein’s theory of general relativity was the curvature of light passing near a massive body. In 1911, he published a first value of the angle of deflection of light, then a second value in 1915, equal twice the first. In the early 1920s, when he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, a violent controversy broke out over this result. It was then disclosed that the first
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Subjectivity and Transcendental Illusions in the Anthropocene Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Helena De Preester
This contribution focuses on one member in particular of the anthropocenic triad Earth – technology – humankind, namely the current form of human subjectivity that characterizes humankind in the Anthropocene. Because knowledge, desire and behavior are always embedded in a particular form of subjectivity, it makes sense to look at the current subjective structure that embeds knowledge, desire and behavior
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Some Model-Theoretic Remarks on the Ramsey Sentence, with a Closer Look at Ketland’s Argument Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Guido Del Din
The major argument against Ramsey-style epistemic structural realism is the model-theoretic refinement of Newman’s objection against Russell, presented in Ketland (Brit J Philos Sci 55(2): 409–424, 2004), where a technical result is interpreted as showing that the Ramsey-sentence approach collapses into instrumentalism. This paper addresses some questions raised by the application of model theory to
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Thinking Technology Big Again. Reconsidering the Question of the Transcendental and ‘Technology with a Capital T’ in the Light of the Anthropocene Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Pieter Lemmens
This article has two general aims. It first of all critically reconsiders the empirical turn’s dismissal of transcendentalism in the philosophy of technology, in particular through the work of Ihde and Verbeek, and defends the continuing relevance of the notion of the transcencental in thinking about technology today, illustrating this mainly through a reading of Stiegler’s understanding of the human
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On the Relationship Between Modelling Practices and Interpretive Stances in Quantum Mechanics Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Quentin Ruyant
The purpose of this article is to establish a connection between modelling practices and interpretive approaches in quantum mechanics, taking as a starting point the literature on scientific representation. Different types of modalities (epistemic, practical, conceptual and natural) play different roles in scientific representation. I postulate that the way theoretical structures are interpreted in
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The Einstein–Bohr Debate: Finding a Common Ground of Understanding? Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Nayla Farouki, Philippe Grangier
After reminding the main issues at stake in the famous Einstein–Bohr debate initiated in 1935, we tentatively propose a way to get them closer, thus shedding a new light on this historical discussion.
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Facing up to the Hard Problem of Consciousness as an Integrated Information Theorist Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Robert Chis-Ciure, Francesco Ellia
In this paper we provide a philosophical analysis of the Hard Problem of consciousness and the implications of conceivability scenarios for current neuroscientific research. In particular, we focus on one of the most prominent neuroscientific theories of consciousness, integrated information theory (IIT). After a brief introduction on IIT, we present Chalmers’ original formulation and propose our own
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Causal Stories and the Role of Worldviews in Analysing Responses to Sorcery Accusations and Related Violence Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Miranda Forsyth, Philip Gibbs
This paper uses the concept of causal stories to explore how death, sickness and misfortune lead to accusations of sorcery or witchcraft. Based on empirical research in Papua New Guinea, we propose a new analytical framework that shows how negative events may trigger particular narratives about the use of the supernatural by individuals and groups. These narratives then direct considerations about
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Biological Teleology, Reductionism, and Verbal Disputes Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Sandy C. Boucher
The extensive philosophical discussions and analyses in recent decades of function-talk in biology have done much to clarify what biologists mean when they ascribe functions to traits, but the basic metaphysical question—is there genuine teleology and design in the natural world, or only the appearance of this?—has persisted, as recent work both defending, and attacking, teleology from a Darwinian
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How we Think About Human Nature: Cognitive Errors and Concrete Remedies Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Alexander J. Werth, Douglas Allchin
Appeals to human nature are ubiquitous, yet historically many have proven ill-founded. Why? How might frequent errors be remedied towards building a more robust and reliable scientific study of human nature? Our aim is neither to advance specific scientific or philosophical claims about human nature, nor to proscribe or eliminate such claims. Rather, we articulate through examples the types of errors
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The Santa Fe Institute and Econophysics: A Possible Genealogy? Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Christophe Schinckus
For the last three decades, physicists have been moving beyond the boundaries of their discipline, using their methods to study various problems usually instigated by economists. This trend labeled ‘econophysics’ can be seen as a hybrid area of knowledge that exists between economics and physics. Econophysics did not spring from nowhere—the existing literature agrees that econophysics emerged in the
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Digital Imagination: Ihde’s and Stiegler’s Concepts of Imagination Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Galit Wellner
As AI algorithms advance and produce surprising outputs, the question of imagination arises. Can we classify their output as imaginative? And what is their effect on human imagination? Apparently, algorithms follow Kant’s explanations on human imagination, thereby pushing us to update our understanding of imagination by taking into account the co-shaping between humans and their technologies. Such
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Formal Causation in Integrated Information Theory: An Answer to the Intrinsicality Problem Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Javier Sánchez-Cañizares
Integrated Information Theory (IIT) stands out as one of the most promising theories for dealing with the hard problem of consciousness. Founded on five axioms derived from phenomenology, IIT seeks for the physical substrate of consciousness that complies with such axioms according to the criterion of maximally integrated information (Φ). Eventually, IIT identifies phenomenal consciousness with maximal
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Nanomaterials and Intertheoretical Relations: Macro and Nanochemistry as Emergent Levels Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Alfio Zambon, Mariana Córdoba
The purpose of this work is to discuss which relation can be established between molecular chemistry, on the one hand, and macrochemistry and nanochemistry, on the other hand. In order to do this, we will consider molecular chemistry as an underlying level, and macrochemistry and nanochemistry as emergent levels. Emergence is characterized in very different ways in the philosophical literature; we
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Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Barbara Astle, Ikponwosa Ero, Elvis Imafidon, Emma Strobell
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, mothers impacted by the genetic condition of albinism, whether as mothers of children with albinism or themselves with albinism, are disproportionately impacted by a constellation of health-related stigma, social determinants of health (SDH), and human rights violations. In a critical ethnographic study in Tanzania, we engaged with the voices of mothers impacted
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Are Borders Inside or Outside? Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Arturo Tozzi
When a boat disappears over the horizon, does a distant observer detect the last moment in which the boat is visible, or the first moment in which the boat is not visible? This apparently ludicrous way of reasoning, heritage of long-lasting medieval debates on decision limit problems, paves the way to sophisticated contemporary debates concerning the methodological core of mathematics, physics and
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Understanding Stigmatisation: Results of a Qualitative Formative Study with Adolescents and Adults in DR Congo Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Kim Hartog, Ruth M. H. Peters, Mark J. D. Jordans
While stigmatisation is universal, stigma research in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is limited. LMIC stigma research predominantly concerns health-related stigma, primarily regarding HIV/AIDS or mental illness from an adult perspective. While there are commonalities in stigmatisation, there are also contextual differences. The aim of this study in DR Congo (DRC), as a formative part in the
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Classical Logic with n Truth Values as a Symmetric Many-Valued Logic Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2020-09-25 A. Salibra, A. Bucciarelli, A. Ledda, F. Paoli
We introduce Boolean-like algebras of dimension n ( $$n{\mathrm {BA}}$$ s) having n constants $${{{\mathsf {e}}}}_1,\ldots ,{{{\mathsf {e}}}}_n$$ , and an $$(n+1)$$ -ary operation q (a “generalised if-then-else”) that induces a decomposition of the algebra into n factors through the so-called n-central elements. Varieties of $$n{\mathrm {BA}}$$ s share many remarkable properties with the variety of
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Scientific Realism Without Reality? What Happens When Metaphysics is Left Out Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Alberto Corti
Scientific realism is usually presented as if metaphysical realism (i.e. the thesis that there is a structured mind-independent external world) were one of its essential parts. This paper aims to examine how weak the metaphysical commitments endorsed by scientific realists could be. I will argue that scientific realism could be stated without accepting any form of metaphysical realism. Such a conclusion
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On Finch’s Conditions for the Completion of Orthomodular Posets Foundations of Science (IF 0.67) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 D. Fazio, A. Ledda, F. Paoli
In this paper, we aim at highlighting the significance of the A- and B-properties introduced by Finch (Bull Aust Math Soc 2:57–62, 1970b). These conditions turn out to capture interesting structural features of lattices of closed subspaces of complete inner vector spaces. Moreover, we generalise them to the context of effect algebras, establishing a novel connection between quantum structures (orthomodular