Harry Sticker
Harry Sticker
The fine-structure constant α≈1/137 is traditionally regarded as a fundamental dimensionless parameter. I argue instead that α is a scaled quantity that arises only where the structural scales contributed by classical electromagnetism (e...
From lay to scientific cognition: the case of pre-evolutionary homologies [0.03%]
从常识到科学的认知：前进化同源性的例子
Ulrich E Stegmann,Filipp Schmidt
Ulrich E Stegmann
Continuity views of the relation between lay and scientific cognition hold that the basic cognitive abilities of scientists are not much different from those of laypeople. Recent psychological studies revealed strong candidate examples of c...
Przemysław R Nowakowski,Michał Piekarski
Przemysław R Nowakowski
This paper proposes a reinterpretation of predictive coding (PC) in terms of heterarchical networks of control mechanisms. Standard accounts of PC typically assume a rigid hierarchical organization, in which information flows in fixed direc...
Aydin Mohseni,Daniel A Herrmann,Gabe Avakian Orona
Aydin Mohseni
Debates about whether the social sciences are harder than the natural sciences rarely analyze what discipline-level hardness amounts to. We offer a simple formal framework that models disciplines as sets of prediction tasks with associated ...
Steven French
Steven French
Dawid Megger
Dawid Megger
This article examines an apparent tension in the writings of Ludwig von Mises, who claims that (1) all human actions are rational and that (2) rational economic activity in the socialist economy is impossible. It is argued that the tension ...
The biological analogy: History of ecological metaphors in industrial ecology (1989-2011) [0.03%]
生物类比：工业生态学中生态隐喻的历史(1989—2011)
Marcin Krasnodębski
Marcin Krasnodębski
Industrial ecology emerged as a discipline in the 1990s, founded on the belief that industrial systems parallel natural ecosystems and that insights from ecology could help reorganize industry to achieve circularity. This supposed parallel,...
Doohyun Sung
Doohyun Sung
Justin Biddle and Quill Kukla's taxonomy of epistemic risk maps the theoretical terrain in ways that can assist researchers balance the cost of various types of errors. Based on a case study of method validation in toxicology, I argue that ...
Propensity and complementarity: A rational reconstruction of Bohr's quantum ontology [0.03%]
倾向与互补性：对玻尔量子本体论的理性重构
Ali Barzegar
Ali Barzegar
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between Popper's propensity interpretation of probability and Bohr's principle of complementarity. While Popper is often regarded as a philosophical antagonist of the Copenhagen interpretation,...
Eric Hochstein
Eric Hochstein
Mechanistic theories of explanation are widely held in the philosophy of science, especially in philosophy of biology, neuroscience and cognitive science. While such theories remain dominant in the field, there have been an increasing numbe...