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Kant's phenomenology of aesthetic experience
(Peter Lang Ag, 2015)
Liberalism between Politics and Epistemology: A Discussion of Alessandro Ferrara's The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2017)
In this symposium, Alessandro Ferrara's recent book The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism - an attempt to expand the framework of Rawls' political liberalism in order to enable it ...
Emergence of complementarity and the Baconian roots of Niels Bohr's method
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford, 2013)
I argue that instead of a rather narrow focus on N. Bohr's account of complementarity as a particular and perhaps obscure metaphysical or epistemological concept (or as being motivated by such a concept), we should consider ...
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). ...
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. ...
The Roots of Empathy: A Lesson from Psychoanalysis
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2011)
Despite considerable improvement in our understanding of empathy and its development, most contemporary empathy theories still do not provide a sufficiently detailed picture of the developmental mechanisms involved in ...
Causation and Its Basis in Fundamental Physics
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2014)
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 ...
Distinction jus ad bellum and jus in bello within the just war theory: the emergence and importance
(Soc Advancement Philosophy-Zagreb, Zagreb, 2018)