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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 ...
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 ...
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entitled "Godel's natural deduction," which presented and made comments about the natural deduction system in Godel's unpublished notes for the elementary logic course he gave ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution
(History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2022)
Numerous authors have examined the influence of other thinkers on Darwin’s formulation
of some of the key concepts of the theory of evolution. Amongst those,
Alexander von Humboldt often stands out – a scholar who, ...
Transitivity and Humeanism about Laws
(Institut za Filozofiju, Zagreb, 2023)
Humeanism about laws has been famously accused of the explanatory circularity by David Armstrong and Tim Maudlin, since the Humean laws hold in virtue of their instances and, at the same time, scientifically explain those ...