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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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Introduction to Metametaphysics
(Soc Advancement Philosophy-Zagreb, Zagreb, 2016)
Facets of intensionality
(Univerzitet u Novom Sadu - Filozofski fakultet - Odsek za filozofiju, Novi Sad, 2020)
The goal of this paper is to introduce the reader to the distinction between intensional and extensional as a distinction between different approaches to meaning. We will argue that despite the common belief, intensional ...
Godel's Natural Deduction
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2018)
This is a companion to a paper by the authors entitled "Godel on deduction", which examined the links between some philosophical views ascribed to Godel and general proof theory. When writing that other paper, the authors ...
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)