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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 ...
Observation, Experiment, and Scientific Practice
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
Ian Hacking has argued that the notions of experiment and observation are distinct, not even the opposite ends of a continuum. More recently, other authors have emphasised their continuity, saying it is futile to distinguish ...
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 ...
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 ...
Godel on Deduction
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2019)
This is an examination, a commentary, of links between some philosophical views ascribed to Godel and general proof theory. In these views deduction is of central concern not only in predicate logic, but in set theory too, ...
Why are myths true: Plato on the veracity of myths
(St Petersburg Univ Press, St Petersburg, 2020)
Distinguishing myths in terms of their veracity had almost been neglected in Plato's studies. In this article, the author focuses on Plato's controversial claims about the truth-status of myths. An attempt is made to ...
Do Political Attitudes Matter for Epistemic Decisions of Scientists?
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
The epistemic attitudes of scientists, such as epistemic tolerance and authoritarianism, play important roles in the discourse about rivaling theories. Epistemic tolerance stands for the mental attitude of an epistemic ...
Logic for the theory of concepts2
(Univerzitet u Novom Sadu - Filozofski fakultet - Odsek za filozofiju, Novi Sad, 2020)
In this paper, we follow Gödel's remarks on an envisioned theory of concepts to determine which properties should a logical basis of such a theory have. The discussion is organized around the question of suitability of the ...
A proof-theoretic semantic analysis of dynamic epistemic logic
(Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, 2016)
The present article provides an analysis of the existing proof systems for dynamic epistemic logic from the viewpoint of proof-theoretic semantics. Dynamic epistemic logic is one of the best known members of a family of ...
Experimenter's regress argument, empiricism, and the calibration of the large hadron collider
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2017)
H. Collins has challenged the empiricist understanding of experimentation by identifying what he thinks constitutes the experimenter's regress: an instrument is deemed good because it produces good results, and vice versa. ...