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Alternative explanations of the cosmic microwave background: A historical and an epistemological perspective
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford, 2018)
We historically trace various non-conventional explanations for the origin of the cosmic microwave background and discuss their merit, while analyzing the dynamics of their rejection, as well as the relevant physical and ...
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 ...
Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2020)
Symmetry-based explanations using symmetry breaking (SB) as the key explanatory tool have complemented and replaced traditional causal explanations in various domains of physics. The process of spontaneous SB is now a ...
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, ...
Similarity and cotenability
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2013)
In this paper I present some difficulties for Lewis's and similar theories of counterfactuals, and suggest that the problem lies in the notion of absolute similarity. In order to explain the problem, I discuss the relation ...
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 ...
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 ...