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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 ...
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 ...
Functionally Extended Cognition
(Soc Advancement Philosophy-Zagreb, Zagreb, 2013)
The hypothesis of the Extended Cognition (ExCog), formulated by Clark and Chalmers (1998), aims to be a bold and new hypothesis about realisers of cognitive processes. It claims that sometimes cognitive processes extend ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...