Rose Trappes,Sabina Leonelli
Rose Trappes
Several philosophers of science have taken inspiration from biological research on niches to conceptualise scientific practice. We systematise and extend three niche-based theories of scientific practice: conceptual ecology, cognitive niche...
Questioning origins: the role of ethical and metaethical claims in the debate about the evolution of morality [0.03%]
质疑道德起源：伦理和元伦理诉求在关于道德进化论的争论中所扮演的角色
Rebekka Hufendiek
Rebekka Hufendiek
Research about the evolution of morality suffers from the lack of a clear, agreed-upon concept of morality. In response to this, recent accounts have become increasingly pluralist and pragmatic. In this paper, I argue that 1) both the conce...
Vincent Lam,Daniele Oriti
Vincent Lam
We discuss the challenges that the standard (Humean and non-Humean) accounts of laws face within the framework of quantum gravity where space and time may not be fundamental. This paper identifies core (meta)physical features that cut acros...
Philipp Berghofer
Philipp Berghofer
The program of reconstructing quantum theory based on information-theoretic principles enjoys much popularity in the foundations of physics. Surprisingly, this endeavor has only received very little attention in philosophy. Here I argue tha...
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky [0.03%]
论无自然种类的概念史哲学——回应雷东和埃雷斯克斯基教授的观点
David Ludwig
David Ludwig
The tradition of natural kinds has shaped philosophical debates about scientific classification but has come under growing criticism. Responding to this criticism, Reydon and Ereshefsky present their grounded functionality account as a stra...
Anatolii Kozlov,Michael T Stuart
Anatolii Kozlov
This paper attempts to revive the epistemological discussion of scientific articles. What are their epistemic aims, and how are they achieved? We argue that scientific experimental articles are best understood as a particular kind of narrat...
Cristian Lopez
Cristian Lopez
In this paper, I critically assess two recent proposals for an interpretation-independent understanding of non-relativistic quantum mechanics: the overlap strategy (Fraser & Vickers, 2022) and the textbook account (Egg, 2021). My argument h...
David Glick,Baptiste Le Bihan
David Glick
The question of whether Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) justifies the existence of metaphysical indeterminacy has recently come to the fore. Metaphysical indeterminacy has been argued to emerge from three sources: coherent superpositions...
Potentiality realism: a realistic and indeterministic physics based on propensities [0.03%]
倾向性实在论——基于倾向性的实在论和不定的物理理论
Flavio Del Santo,Nicolas Gisin
Flavio Del Santo
We propose an interpretation of physics named potentiality realism. This view, which can be applied to classical as well as to quantum physics, regards potentialities (i.e. intrinsic, objective propensities for individual events to obtain) ...
Eric G Cavalcanti,Andrea Di Biagio,Carlo Rovelli
Eric G Cavalcanti
Lawrence et al. have presented an argument purporting to show that "relative facts do not exist" and, consequently, "Relational Quantum Mechanics is incompatible with quantum mechanics". The argument is based on a GHZ-like contradiction bet...