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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 ...
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 ...
Causation and Its Basis in Fundamental Physics
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2014)
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). ...
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 ...
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entitled "Godel's natural deduction," which presented and made comments about the natural deduction system in Godel's unpublished notes for the elementary logic course he gave ...
Seeking Depth in Science
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2012)
Michael Strevens develops kairetic account of causal explanations as a brand of explanatory reductionism. He argues that explanations in higher-level sciences are complete (stand-alone) only because they can be potentially ...
The challenge of amoralism
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2018)
According to unconditional motivational internalism, there is an a priori constraint on an agent's forming a sincere moral judgement, namely that she is, at least to some minimal extent, motivated to act as it dictates. ...
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. ...