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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 ...
Egalitarian Paradise or Factory Drudgery? Organizing Knowledge Production in High Energy Physics (HEP) Laboratories
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2018)
The organization of cutting-edge HEP laboratories has evolved in the intersection of academia, state agencies, and industry. Exponentially ever larger and more complex knowledge-intensive operations, the laboratories have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Utemeljenje "nove ontologije" u filozofiji Nicolaia Hartmanna kao kritika necjelovitih filozofskih sustava / Laying the groundwork for a "New Ontology" in the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann as a criticism of non-integral philosophical systems
(Institute of Philosophy and Theology of Society of Jesus, 2016)
The aim of this paper is to study the significance of Nicolai Hartmann's contribution to ontology and, furthermore, to point out the consequences of his laying the groundwork for a "new ontology" which fact may be interpreted ...