Benjamin Chin-Yee
Benjamin Chin-Yee
Biomarkers are central to the practice of precision oncology, which looks to novel biomarkers to 'personalize' cancer care. Philosophers have highlighted epistemic issues surrounding biomarkers but a general account of their role in clinica...
Leon Chwistek's discussion of Leonard Nelson's proof of the impossibility of the theory of knowledge [0.03%]
伦涅尔·克维斯特论伦纳德· Nelson 的关于知识理论不可能性的证明
Tomasz Kubalica
Tomasz Kubalica
The article discusses Leon Chwistek's analysis of Nelson's argumentation in light of the theory of the multiplicity of realities and the theory of orders (types). Drawing on these frameworks, Chwistek engages with Nelson's proof of the impo...
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism? [0.03%]
法尔的霍乱高度法则是对选择现实主义的一种反例吗？
Chrysi Maria Malouchou Kanellopoulou
Chrysi Maria Malouchou Kanellopoulou
William Farr, a renowned nineteenth-century disease theoretician, successfully predicted mortality rates due to cholera in London and Liverpool through the law of elevation, a law inversely correlating mortality from cholera with the elevat...
"Sciences versus lettres: a state-sanctioned dualism (France, 1808-2020 ?)" [0.03%]
“科学 vs 文学：一个受国家认可的二分法？（1808-2020年的法国）」
Wolf Feuerhahn
Wolf Feuerhahn
The thesis that the humanities and social sciences cannot be reduced to the natural sciences is generally considered to be typically German. This article aims to propose an alternative history of these divisions and debates, and to examine ...
Philip Goyal
Philip Goyal
For a century, quantum theory has posed a fundamental challenge to philosophical thinking. On its face, it repudiates many of the key features of the mechanical conception of physical reality. However, the challenge of developing a precise,...
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744-1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague [0.03%]
丹尼洛•萨莫伊洛维奇（1744－1805年）关于鼠疫的预防、病程及治疗的观点
Olga Gaidai
Olga Gaidai
In the paper I analyse Danylo Samoylovich's views on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague. In addition to the traditional method of source analysis, I also use other theoretical tools: anthropology of knowledge, theory of mode...
Adrian Erasmus
Adrian Erasmus
Disease classification plays an important role in numerous medical goals, from improving communication between researchers, physicians, and insurers to diagnosis and therapeutic prediction. Therefore, it's important to understand the princi...
Denizhan Eren,Majid D Beni
Denizhan Eren
This paper examines two approaches to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, invoking the concept of consciousness and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. The first approach is the model proposed by David Chalmers and ...
Simon Lohse
Simon Lohse
I analyse arguments for social emergentism based on the notion of unpredictability. After examining and ultimately rejecting weak emergentism as relevant theoretical counterpart to (predictive) reductionism, I discuss three arguments assert...