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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 ...
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 ...
Sceptical Doubts - Raising the Standards or Changing the Angle?
(Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb, 2020)
The goal of this paper is to explore two different accounts of the mechanisms by which epistemic standards change, as a basis for the explanation of how arguments for radical scepticism get their appearance of legitimacy ...
Boys Just Don't! Gender Stereotyping and Sanctioning of Counter-Stereotypical Behavior in Preschoolers
(Springer/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2020)
Although children start to adopt gender stereotypes by the age of three, there is less evidence about how early they start to sanction other children's counter-stereotypical behaviors. The present study explored the two ...
Fregeovska interpretacija Anselmovog ontološkog argumenta
(ALFA BK UNIVERZITET, 2011)
Ovaj esej se bavi pokušajem da se ponudi jedna interpretacija Anselmovog ontološkog argumenta, koja će argument činiti deduktivno valjanim.i ujedno pojašnjavati Anselmovu terminologiju. Nakon izlaganja deduktivno valjanog ...
Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work
(Sciendo, Warsaw, 2015)
In his "anti-zombie argument", Keith Frankish turns the tables on "zombists", forcing them to find an independent argument against the conceivability of anti-zombies. I argue that zombists can shoulder the burden, for there ...
Self-Education and University
(Hratsko Filozofsko Drustvo (Croatian Philosophical Society), 2014)
In an attempt to articulate the link between the "ideas" of university and self-education, the authors of this paper firstly set forth the classical understanding of education that precedes the conception of self-education. ...