Kathrin Koslicki,Olivier Massin
Kathrin Koslicki
Social phenomena-quite like mental states in the philosophy of mind-are often regarded as potential troublemakers from the start, particularly if they are approached with certain explanatory commitments, such as naturalism or social individ...
Back by popular demand, ontology: Productive tensions between anthropological and philosophical approaches to ontology [0.03%]
应观众要求，再次讨论本体论：人类学与哲学的本体论研究路径中的创造性张力
Julia J Turska,David Ludwig
Julia J Turska
In this paper we analyze relations between ontology in anthropology and philosophy beyond simple homonymy or synonymy and show how this diagnosis allows for new interdisciplinary links and insights, while minimizing the risk of cross-discip...
Cristian López,Michael Esfeld
Cristian López
In this paper, we put forward an alternative interpretation of time-reversal symmetry in philosophy of physics: Humean time-reversal symmetry. According to it, time-reversal symmetry is understood as a heuristic, epistemic virtue of the bes...
Jakub Rudnicki,Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska
Jakub Rudnicki
The traditional conception of lying, according to which to lie is to make an assertion with an intention to deceive the hearer, has recently been put under pressure by the phenomenon of bald-faced lies i.e. utterances that prima facie look ...
Tarja Knuuttila,Andrea Loettgers
Tarja Knuuttila
The omnipresence of the same basic equations, function forms, algorithms, and quantitative methods is one of the most spectacular characteristics of contemporary modeling practice. Recently, the emergence of the discussion of templates and ...
Daniel W McShea
Daniel W McShea
The conventional wisdom declares that evolution is not goal directed, that teleological considerations play no part in our understanding of evolutionary trends. Here I argue that, to the contrary, under a current view of teleology, field th...
How to be a capacitist [0.03%]
如何成为一名能力主义者
Christoph Kelp
Christoph Kelp
Capacitism is the view that capacities come first in epistemological theorising: they are explanatorily basic and key epistemic phenomena are to be analysed in terms of capacities. This paper develops a problem for capacitism and outlines a...
Marco Meyer
Marco Meyer
Vice epistemology studies the qualities of individuals and collectives that undermine the creation, sharing, and storing of knowledge. There is no settled understanding of which epistemic vices exist at the collective level. Yet understandi...
When Arne met J. L.: attitudes to scientific method in empirical semantics, ordinary language philosophy and linguistics [0.03%]
当阿内遇到J.L.:经验语义学、日常语言哲学和语言学中的研究方法态度
Siobhan Chapman
Siobhan Chapman
In the autumn of 1959, Arne Naess and J. L. Austin, both pioneers of empirical study in the philosophy of language, discussed their points of agreement and disagreement at a meeting in Oslo. This article considers the fragmentary record tha...
Francesco Guala,Frank Hindriks
Francesco Guala
We propose a bridge-builder perspective on social ontology. Our point of departure is that an important task of philosophy is to provide the bigger picture. To this end, it should investigate folk views and determine whether and how they ca...