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Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Co-evolution of the Universe and Observers as an Explanatory Hypothesis
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2018)
The answer to the fine-tuning problem of the universe has been traditionally sought in terms of either design or multiverse. In philosophy circles, this is sometimes expanded by adding the option of explanatory nihilism-the ...
Scepticism, Externalism and Predictive Dimension of Knowledge Claims
(Prolegomena, 2011)
Ordinary knowledge claims are challenged by philosophical scepticism which holds that we are unable to exclude the possibilities of error involved in well-known sceptical alternatives (e.g., the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis). ...
Weakness of will and motivational internalism
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2017)
The unconditional version of motivational internalism says that if an agent sincerely judges that to phi in circumstances C is the best option available to her, then, as a matter of conceptual necessity, she will be motivated ...
Godel's Notre Dame course
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2016)
This is a companion to a paper by the authors entitled "Godel's natural deduction," which presented and made comments about the natural deduction system in Godel's unpublished notes for the elementary logic course he gave ...
"The king of France is bald" reconsidered: a case against Yablo
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2014)
Stephen Yablo has argued for metaontological antirealism: he believes that the sentences claiming or denying the existence of numbers (or other abstract entities or mereological sums) are inapt for truth valuation, because ...
Content Extraction, Ontological Mootness and Nominalism: Difficulties on the Easy Road
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
In his latest bookAboutness, Stephen Yablo has proposed a new 'easy road' nominalist strategy: instead of engaging in the hard work of paraphrasing a scientific theory which presupposes numbers in a nominalistically ...
McDowell and Brandom on observational knowledge
(Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theatre and Film Research of the Center for Research in Art, 2021)
In this paper, I will analyze whether John McDowell’s critique of Robert Brandom’s account of observational knowledge is a success. First, I will present Brandom’s view of observational knowledge. Then I will lay out the ...
On an Alleged Loophole in Causal Closure: A Reply to Gamper
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
This paper intends to critically consider the idea put forward by Johan Gamper (Philosophia 45: 631-636, 2017) that the principle of causal closure can be reconciled with the possibility of pluralism. This idea is based ...
Plato on the "godlikeness of humans
(Univerzitet u Novom Sadu - Filozofski fakultet - Odsek za filozofiju, Novi Sad, 2014)
Taking into account the general philosophical and cultural framework, the author will attempt to discuss the meaning and significance of Plato's Deus-mensura statement and its various implications. The fundamental claim ...
How Theories of Induction Can Streamline Measurements of Scientific Performance
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2020)
We argue that inductive analysis (based on formal learning theory and the use of suitable machine learning reconstructions) and operational (citation metrics-based) assessment of the scientific process can be justifiably ...