- Dynamic Oppositional Symmetries for Color, Jungian, and Kantian Categories
- Jacob’s Ladder and Scientific Ontologies.
- The e-value and the Full Bayesian Significance Test: Logical Properties and Philosophical Consequences
- Irreversibility and Complexity
- The Evolutionary Roots of Moral Responsibility
- Symmetry, Invariance and Ontology in Physics and Statistics
- Constructive Verification, Empirical Induction, and Falibilist Deduction: A Threefold Contrast
- The New Logic of Willard Van Orman Quine and its Significance for the Success of Logic in Brazil
- A sharper image: the quest of science and recursive production of objective realities
- Evidence and Credibility: Full Bayesian Significance Test for Precise Hypotheses
- The Hole Argument and Beyond: Part II: Treating Non-isomorphic Spacetimes
- The Hole Argument and Beyond: Part I: The Story so Far
- The Map/Territory Relationship in Game-Theoretic Modeling of Cultural Evolution
- Value choices in European COVID-19 vaccination schedules: how vaccination prioritisation differs from other forms of priority setting
- Space-Time Normalisation in GRWf Theory
- Understanding Defective Theories: The case of Quantum Mechanics and non-individuality
- Libet-style experiments, neuroscience, and libertarian free will
- Deeply Rational Machines — What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence — Sample Chapter 1 — “Moderate Empiricism and Machine Learning”
- Brains as Quantum Mechanical Systems – A New Model
- Redundancies and Profundities
- Masking, Extrinsicness, and the Nature of Dispositions: The Role of Niche Signals in Muscle Stem Cells
- Are Entropy Bounds Epistemic?
- Commentary: “Physical Time within Human Time” and “Bridging the Neuroscience and Physics of Time”
- Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting
- Invariance and ontology in relativistic physics
- What are Side Effects?
- Relational space-time and de Broglie waves
- What is cognitive about ‘plant cognition’?
- Interactive Hypotheses: Towards a Dialogical Foundation of Surrogate Reasoning
- Of Records & Ruins: Metaphors about the Deep Past
- Is decoherence necessary for the emergence of many worlds?
- Comparative Learning
- A Nonstandard Formulation of Bohmian Mechanics
- Resituating the Relevance of Alternatives for Attributions
- Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons
- A note on the notion of now and time flow in special relativity
- Might text-davinci-003 have inner speech?
- Scientific Models and Thought Experiments: Same Same but Different
- Epistemic communities and their situated practices. Perspectival realism — a primer
- Many Worlds with both “And” and “Or”
- Who’s Afraid of the Measurement Problem? On the Incompatibility between Scientific Realism and Quantum Mechanics
- Traveling With TARDIS. Parameterization and Transferability in Molecular Modeling and Simulation
- Information Deprivation and Democratic Engagement
- Persistence and Reidentification in Systems of Identical Quantum Particles: Towards a Post-Atomistic Conception of Matter
- Gradualism, Natural Selection, and the Randomness of Mutation – Fisher, Kimura, and Orr, Connecting the Dots
- Gentzen’s “cut rule” and quantum measurement in terms of Hilbert arithmetic. Metaphor and understanding modeled formally
- Does quantum cognition imply quantum minds?
- Many-Worlds: Why Is It Not the Consensus?
- What if We Lived in the Best of All Possible (Quantum) Worlds?
- The Method of Resolving the Inconsistencies that Stymie Scientific fields
- A Transformation of Bayesian Statistics: Computation, Prediction, and Rationality
- The Information-Theoretic View of Quantum Mechanics and the Measurement Problem(s)_version forthcoming in EJPS 2023
- Materials Selection in Economic Modeling
- How Tracking Technology is Transforming Animal Ecology: Epistemic Values, Interdisciplinarity, and Technology-Driven Scientific Change
- The coevolution of transitive inference and memory capacity in the hawk–dove game
- Re-thinking geometrogenesis: instantaneity in Quantum Gravity scenarios
- Remarks on Hansson’s model of value-dependent scientific corpus
- Analogue Quantum Simulation: A New Instrument for Scientific Understanding
- “Ars Inveniendi” Today
- Defending Sentientism
- Regulating Possibly Sentient Human Cerebral Organoids
- Can organic intellectuals help to better communicate controversial scientific findings to the public opinion? A hint from geo-engineering
- Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws
- Can Bohmian Mechanics Make Sense of Local Reductive Explanation?
- Evolution, Complexity, and Life History Theory
- Neural Networks, AI, and the Goals of Modeling
- Axiomatization of Galilean Spacetime
- What Lakatos Overlooked: A Metaphysical “Hard Core” of Unity for Science
- The Dark Side of Niche Construction: Challenges in Modern Medicine & Healthcare
- William Whewell, Cluster Theorist of Kinds
- A relevantist’s glance at Bell’s theorem
- The Stopping Rule Principle and Confirmational Reliability
- An Instrumentalist Take on the Models of the Free-Energy Principle
- An Extra-Mathematical Program Explanation of Color Experience
- Normative foundations of Kant’s cosmopolitan right: the overlooked legacy of Kant’s metaphysics of nature
- A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining
- Domination for Finite Proper Scoring Rules
- On the Recognition of Phenomena, using Empirical Correlations
- The Ethics of Competition in Education and Competitive Exams
- Interpretation and equivalence; or, equivalence and interpretation
- The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture
- The Deep Neural Network Approach to the Reference Class Problem
- The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence
- Evidence-Based Science
- Taking Approximations Seriously: The Cases of the Chew and the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Models
- Christiaan Huygens’ ‘Verisimilia de planetis’ and its Relevance for Interpreting the ‘Cosmotheoros’. With its First English Translation
- The Concept of Nature, the Epistemic Ideal, and Experiment: Why is Modern Science Technologically Exploitable?
- Objectivity, Value-Free Science, and Inductive Risk
- Narratives, Events & Monotremes: The Philosophy of History in Practice
- Respecting Boundaries: Theoretical Equivalence and Structure Beyond Dynamics
- Experimental criteria for accessing reality: Perrin’s experimental demonstration of atoms and molecules
- Teleology and function in non-living nature
- Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited
- The medical microbiome paradigm and its parallels with humoural medicine
- Does Bohmian mechanics solve the measurement problem? Maybe not yet
- Natural Law, the Modeling Relation, and Two Roots of Perspectivism
- A quantum observer cannot report her observation; otherwise superluminal signaling is possible
- Sex By Design: A New Account of the Animal Sexes
- Quantum Haecceity
- THE SPATIAL INFINITY OF THE UNIVERSE: THE NEGLECTED PROBLEM OF COSMOLOGY
- Icons, magnitudes, and their parts
- Process-Sensitive Naming: Trait Descriptors and the Shifting Semantics of Plant (Data) Science
- Data Science in Times of Pan(dem)ic
- Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development
- Can Humeans be Scientific Realist?
- Weinstein on Berger and DiRuggiero, ‘Einstein: The Man and His Mind’
- Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science
- Extended animal cognition
- Ad hominem arguments and virtue epistemology: How to attack the person without committing a logical or moral failure in the attempt
- Two systems of mind reading? A critical analysis of the two-systems theory
- Metalinguistic and metacontextual effects
- The machine-like repair of aging. Disentangling the key assumptions of the SENS agenda
- Conceptual recombination and stimulus-independence in non-human animals
- Kripke’s Gödel case: Descriptive ambiguity and its experimental interpretation
- The Closure of the Physical, Consciousness and Scientific Practice
- Ad Hocness, Accommodation and Consilience: A Bayesian Account
- Length Abstraction in Euclidean Geometry
- Institutional Values Influence the Design and Evaluation of Transition Knowledge in Funding Proposals at NOAA
- Heuristics facilitates the evolution of transitive inference and social hierarchy in a large group
- Ecological-enactive account of autism spectrum disorder
- Bell’s Theorem Begs the Question
- Who Makes the Choice? Artificial Neural Networks in Science and Non-Uniqueness
- Five lessons from teleology-neutrality and metaphor in ecology: Bottom-up and top-down all at once
- Epistemic Probabilities are Degrees of Support, not Degrees of (Rational) Belief
- Scaffolds and Scaffolding: An explanatory strategy in evolutionary biology
- The Concept of Entropic Time: A Preliminary Discussion
- Reichenbach’s ‘Causal’ Theory of Time: A Re-Assessment
- The Quadruple Scientific Tragedy involved in the Discovery of Spacetime Physics
- Running Causation Aground
- Critical Review of Leveraging Distortion, by Collin Rice.
- Inclusivity in the Education of Scientific Imagination
- Experimental Modeling in Biology: In Vivo Representation and Stand-ins As Modeling Strategies
- How localized are computational templates? A machine learning approach
- Review of Observing Evolution by Bruce S. Grant
- The Species Category as a Scientific Kind
- Machine Understanding and Deep Learning Representation
- Practice-centered pluralism and a disjunctive theory of art
- Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy
- The Twin Origins of Renormalization Group Concepts
- Why can’t we say what cognition is (at least for the time being)
- Reciprocal Causation and Biological Practice
- Review of Causation With a Human Face, James Woodward.
- Some Neglected Possibilities: a Reply to Teitel
- BATTER (MAN)ING FUNDAMENTALISM: SOME REFLECTIONS ON BOB’S A MIDDLE WAY
- Quantum Measurements and their Place in Nature
- Author Meets Critics: Jill North, Physics, Structure and Reality
- Supposition and (Statistical) Models
- Putting the ‘Experiment’ back into the ‘Thought Experiment’
- Strengthening the Epistemic Case against Epistocracy and for Democracy.
- Adaptationism and Trait Individuation
- Principle Theory or Constructive Theory?
- Relativistic Mass is an Experimental Fact
- Trick or treat: A response to commentaries on “The Markov blanket trick”
- Editorial: Philosophical Perspectives on Covid-19
- Do We Have Any Viable Solution to the Measurement Problem?
- Modal-Logical Reconstructions of Thought Experiments
- Propositions as intentions
- The Design Space of Human Communication and the Non-Evolution of Ideography (Preprint)
- What’s wrong with global challenges?
- The Central Dogma as a Thesis of Causal Specificity
- Science and Justice: Beyond the New Orthodoxy of Value-Laden Science Preprint
- From Naturalness to Materiality: Reimagining Philosophy of Scientific Classification Preprint
- Representing Genes: Classical Mapping Techniques and the Growth of Genetical Knowledge
- The Aim and Structure of Ecological Theory
- Gödel mathematics versus Hilbert mathematics. II Logicism and Hilbert mathematics, the identification of logic and set theory, and Gödel’s “completeness paper” (1930)
- Functionalism, Reductionism, and Levels of Reality
- Standard Aberration: Cancer Biology and the Modeling Account of Normal Function
- That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance
- Defending the Pathological Complexity Thesis (Preprint)
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Interdisciplinary Integration (Preprint)
- Pursuitworthiness in the Scheme of Futures
- Author Meets Critics: Jill North, Physics, Structure, and Reality
- Kantian and Neo-Kantian First Principles for Physical and Metaphysical Cognition
- When is Similarity-biased Social Learning Adaptive?
- Categorial Modal Realism
- Philosophy of Medicine and Covid-19: Must Do Better
- Quantum Systems and Identity: Against “Permutation Invariance”
- Affordances and Organizational Functions
- Inconvenient Truth and Inductive Risk in Covid-19 Science
- Value choices in European COVID-19 vaccination schedules: how vaccination prioritization differs from other forms of priority setting
- Sleeping Beauty Remains Undecided
- What good is Haag’s no-go theorem? What axiomatic methods can teach us about particle physics
- Review of Paul A. Roth’s The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation
- Tightrope-walking rationality in action: Feyerabendian insights for the foundations of quantum mechanics
- Disagreement, Progress, and the Goal of Philosophy
- The Old Evidence Problem and the Inference to the Best Explanation
- Medium Independence and the Failure of the Mechanistic Account of Computation
- The Best Paper You’ll Read Today: Media Biases and the Public Understanding of Science
- On the Incompatibility of Dynamical Biological Mechanisms and Causal Graph Theory
- Equivalence and Convention
- Going big by going small: trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer
- Pain Linguistics: A Case for Pluralism
- Back to Kant! QBism, Phenomenology, and Reality from Invariants
- Longtermism and Animals (Preprint)
- Is Fourier Analysis Conservative over Physical Theory?
- Causal Theories of Spacetime
- Accuracy and Infinity: A Dilemma for Subjective Bayesians
- Why entanglement?
- Towards a Conative Account of Mental Imagery
- Putting the ‘Experiment’ Back into the ‘Thought Experiment’
- The Unity of Robustness: Why Agreement Across Model Reports is Just as Valuable as Agreement Among Experiments
- Well-Defined Interventions and Causal Variable Choice
- Scientific progress and idealisation
- How Haag-tied is QFT, really?
- On Certainty, Change, and “Mathematical Hinges”
- Introduction to the edited volume “Scientific Understanding and Representation: Modeling in the Physical Sciences”
- Diagnostic Parsimony: Ockham Meets Bayes
- On Validators for Psychiatric Categories
- Experts, Democracy, and Covid-19
- Towards the multileveled and processual conceptualisation of racialised individuals in biomedical research
- On the uncertainty relations and quantum measurements: conventionalities, shortcomings, reconsiderations
- Directed Temporal Asymmetry from Scale Invariant Dynamics: Is the Problem of Time’s Arrow Solved?
- The Reduction of Classical Experimental Embryology to Molecular Developmental Biology: A Tale of Three Sciences
- On a Morphology of Theories of Emergence
- Integrating Evolution into Animal Sentience (Preprint)
- Counterpossibles in Science: An Experimental Study
- In conversation with Artificial Intelligence: aligning language models with human values
- Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models
- The future won’t be pretty: The nature and value of ugly, AI-designed experiments
- Framework generalization: Structuring searches for new physics
- Can the ontology of Bohmian mechanics consists only in particles? The PBR theorem says no
- The Information Catastrophe and Space Settlement
- The Nature of Awareness Growth
- Why Subjectivism?
- Can Causal Powers Cause Their Effects?
- How Values Shape the Machine Learning Opacity Problem
- Link Uncertainty, Implementation, and ML Opacity: A Reply to Tamir and Shech
- What are general models about?
- Laws of Nature: Necessary and Contingent
- How to be a powers theorist about functional laws, conservation laws and symmetries
- Integrated HPS? Formal vs Historical Approaches to Philosophy of Science
- High Quality Research Environments
- Health, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Subjects (Preprint)
- Puritanical Morality and the Scaffolded Evolution of Self-Control (Preprint)
- Locality Implies Reality of the Wave Function: Hardy’s Theorem Revisited
- Resolving conceptual conflicts through voting
- A Philosophical Approach to MOND: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology
- Reversing the Arrow of Time
- Minimum Viable Experiment to Replicate
- The Organism in Evolutionary Explanation: From Early 20th Century to the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
- Darwin and the Golden Rule: How To Distinguish Differences of Degree from Differences of Kind Using Mechanisms
- The Metaphysics of Fibre Bundles
- Kuhn’s ‘5th Law of Thermodynamics’: Measurement, Data, and Anomalies
- Nonrational Belief Paradoxes as Byzantine Failures
- Against Methodological Continuity and Metaphysical Knowledge
- Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science
- Cosmology and Convention
- Non-Kolmogorovian Probabilities and Quantum Technologies
- Scientific Explanation as Ampliative, Specialized Embedding: The Case of Classical Genetics
- The practical ethics of repurposing health data: how to acknowledge invisible data work and the need for prioritization
- Mereological Atomism’s Quantum Problems
- Free Will in the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Scientific Progress: By-Whom or For-Whom?
- Fast and Slow Causation: An Interventionist Account of Speed of Change
- Reducing Thermodynamics to Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics: The Case of Macro Values
- Transfer of quantum information in teleportation
- An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology
- Measuring the non-existent: validity before measurement
- Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
- Spontaneous Localization Theories
- Primitive Beables are not Local Ontology: On the Relation between Primitive Ontology and Local Beables
- The Paradox of Deterministic Probabilities
- On The Galilean Invariance of the Pilot-Wave Theory
- Some Reflections on the Statistical Postulate: Typicality, Probability and Explanation between Deterministic and Indeterministic Theories
- Towards a Structuralist Elimination of Properties
- Spontaneous Localization Theories with a Particle Ontology
- Fundamental Objects without Fundamental Properties: A Thin-object-orientated Metaphysics Grounded on Structure
- Why Scientific Realists Should Reject the Second Dogma of Quantum Mechanics
- Living Objects
- Operationalising sustainability? Why sustainability fails as an investment criterion for safeguarding the future
- New Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Quantitative Genetics
- Indirect Genetic Causes
- The Relational Dissolution of the Quantum Measurement Problems
- Do moving clocks slow down?
- First-Class Constraints, Gauge Transformations, de-Ockhamization, and Triviality: Replies to Critics, Or, How (Not) to Get a Gauge Transformation from a Second-Class Primary Constraint
- Interpreting the Probabilistic Language in IPCC Reports
- A coherent trio of, distance and size based, measures for nomic and actual truthlikeness
- Are there observational differences between Bohmian mechanics and other interpretations?
- Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: Putting the horse before the cart
- Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom
- Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ψ-Ontic or ψ-Epistemic?
- Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations
- Apt Causal Models and The Relativity of Actual Causation
- Community-level evolutionary processes: Linking community genetics with replicator-interactor theory
- The Role of Reconstruction in the Elucidation of Quantum Theory
- Specificity of Association in Epidemiology
- Philosophical Foundations of Loop Quantum Gravity
- Free-Viewing as Experimental System to Test the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis: A Case of Theory-Generative Experimental Practice
- Can neuroscientists ask the wrong questions? On why etiological considerations are essential when modeling cognition
- Two Types of Explainability for Machine Learning Models
- A Causal-Role Account of Ecological Role Functions
- Arche-writing and data production in theory-oriented scientific practice. The case of free-viewing as experimental system to test the temporal correlation hypothesis
- From Gregor Mendel’s 1865-lectures to his 1866-masterpiece
- Validating indicators of subjective animal welfare (preprint)
- Identical Particles in Quantum Mechanics: Against the Received View (version 2022)
- Constraining structures and the emergence of macro-levels of organization
- Understanding and Deep Learning Representation
- Random foraging and perceived randomness
- Constructive Axiomatics in Spacetime Physics Part II: Constructive Axiomatics in Context
- The Ideology of Pragmatic Humeanism
- Collaborating with Administrators and Students to Restructure Your Bioethics Course to Meet Best Practices in UDL and Trauma-informed Pedagogy
- Reorienting Realism
- Synthetic Biology and the Goals of Conservation
- Are Citation Metrics a Good Thing?
- Feminism and Enhancement (Preprint)
- How institutional solutions meant to increase diversity in science fail
- The Adverse Event Paradox
- Should Doctors Care About Their Patients?
- The Wentaculus: Density Matrix Realism Meets the Arrow of Time
- Strict Dominance and Symmetry
- Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness
- Does Artificial Intelligence Use Private Language?
- Evolutionary Mismatch and Anomalies in the Memory System (Preprint)
- Newton’s Bucket Experiment: Fictional or Real?
- Genericity and Inductive Inference
- Background freedom leads to many-worlds with local beables and probabilities
- Review of “On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives”, by Noel Swanson
- Testing spacetime orientability
- Coherent Causal Control: A New Distinction within Causality
- Swampman, Teleosemantics and Kind Essences
- Instruments, Agents, and Artificial Intelligence: Novel Epistemic Categories of Reliability
- How Data Governance Principles Influence Participation in Biodiversity Science
- Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the Ascription of Normal Function to Cancer
- The severity score is fundamentally flawed: A reply to Spanos’ “Severity and Trustworthy Evidence”
- Born rule: quantum probability as classical probability
- Possible Perspective for Quantum Mechanics Interpretation: An Essay-Suggestion
- Path-Specific Discrimination
- How causation is rooted into thermodynamics
- A Modal Condition for the Beginning of the Universe
- On the Logical Structure of Best Explanations
- Modal Ω-Logic
- Epistemic Modality and Hyperintensionality in Mathematics
- Understanding risk with FOTRES?
- Empirical concepts: Their meaning and its emergence
- A Lineage Explanation of Human Normative Guidance: The Coadaptive Model of Instrumental Rationality and Shared Intentionality
- Whence deep realism for Everettian quantum mechanics?
- Optimism about measuring animal feelings (Preprint)
- Darwinian and Autopoietic Views of the Organism (Preprint)
- Understanding the development and use of tools in neuroscience. The case of the tungsten microelectrode
- Reflexivity of Predictions as a Statistical Bias
- Socio-Functional Foundations In Science: The Case Of Measurement
- Quantum Mechanics: Statistical Balance Prompts Caution in Assessing Conceptual Implications
- Bad News for Inference to the Best Explanation, but Good News for the Epistemology of Science.
- Levels of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity
- TGFT condensate cosmology as an example of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity
- Reality of mass and charge and its implications for the meaning of the wave function
- UnBorn: Probability in Bohmian Mechanics
- Not so fast with fast funding
- Same-diff? Conceptual similarities between gauge transformations and diffeomorphisms. Part II: Challenges to sophistication
- Same-Diff? Conceptual similarities between gauge transformations and diffeomorphisms Part I: Symmetries and isomorphisms
- “Is spacetime locally flat?”: a note
- Design principles and mechanistic explanation
- Classifying Exploratory Experimentation – Three Case Studies of Exploratory Experimentation at the LHC
- Kuhn and the historiographical revolution
- Epistemic-Pragmatist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: A Comparative Assessment
- Top-Down Causation in Psychiatric Disorders: A Clinical-Philosophical Inquiry
- There is No Such Thing As A Statistical Explanation
- Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms
- How do we transform appearance into experience? Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Phenomenology
- A Wittgensteinian View of Naturalist Against Non-Naturalist Conceptions of Health
- Understanding from Deep Learning Models in Context
- A Note on Density Matrix Realism
- Reconciling temporal experience with physical time: an integration of phenomenology, neuropsychology, and physics
- Screening Out Neurodiversity
- The potential of plant action potentials
- Incoherent? No, Just Decoherent: How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
- Connecting the revolutionary with the conventional: Rethinking the differences between the works of Brouwer, Heyting, and Weyl
- Gödel mathematics versus Hilbert mathematics. I The Gödel incompleteness (1931) statement: axiom or theorem?
- A crack in the track of the Hubble constant
- “Perception” at a distance in EPR-Bohm experiments with reversible measurements
- Confidence Levels or Degrees of Sentience? (forthcoming)
- Functionalising the Wavefunction
- Modeling Interventions in Multi-level Causal Systems: Supervenience, Exclusion and Underdetermination
- What spacetime does: ideal observers and (Earman’s) symmetry principles
- The Insufficiency of Statistics for Detecting Racial Discrimination by Police
- First-class constraints generate gauge transformations in electromagnetism (reply to Pitts)
- The Nature of a Constant of Nature: the Case of G
- The Nature of a Constant of Nature
- The Simplicity of Physical Laws
- On the (In?)Stability of Spacetime Inextendibility
- The process theory of causality: an overview
- Thomas Kuhn, Modern Mathematics and the Dynamics of Reason
- Towards Ideal Understanding
- Representation without Informative Signalling
- Sharpening the tools of imagination
- Pandemic Modeling, Good and Bad
- Vital Norms: Canguilhem’s “The Normal and the Pathological” in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot
- Anya Plutynski’s Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder
- A Mechanistic Guide to Reductive Physicalism
- The Dialectics of Accuracy Arguments for Probabilism
- Scientific Disagreements, Fast Science and Higher-Order Evidence
- AI as an Epistemic Technology
- Conceptual Modelling, Combinatorial Heuristics and Ars Inveniendi: An Epistemological History
- Idealization, Representation, and Explanation in the Sciences
- What Can we Learn (and not Learn) from Thought Experiments in Black Hole Thermodynamics?
- Does quantum mechanics require “conspiracy”?
- Not by Demography Alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation
- Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies
- On the Initial State of the Universe
- From Psychiatric Kinds to Harmful Symptoms
- What If Light Doesn’t Exist?
- Unrealistic Models in Mathematics
- Networks in philosophy: Social networks and employment in academic philosophy
- Animal Models in Neuropsychiatry: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Moral Costs?
- Time for Pragmatism
- Empirical adaptationism revisited: Is it testable and is it worth testing?
- Technology-Driven Surrogates and the Perils of Epistemic Misalignment: An Analysis from Contemporary Microbiome Science
- Pandemics, Policy, and Pluralism: A Feyerabend-Inspired Perspective on COVID-19
- Quantum mechanics requires “conspiracy”
- Revising scientific concepts with multiple meanings: beyond pluralism and eliminativism
- Conceptual Patchworks and Conceptual Housekeeping
- What Could Cognition Be, If Not Human Cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution
- Aesthetic Motivation in Quantum Physics: Past and Present
- Death Sentences: Criminalization, Medicalization, and the Nature of Disease
- Reviewing the Reproduction Number R in Covid-19 Models
- When Is Lockdown Justified?
- On the ontologies of quantum theories
- From Philosophical Traditions to Scientific Developments: Reconsidering the Response to Brouwer’s Intuitionism
- Time in Cosmology
- Value choices in European COVID-19 vaccination schedules: how vaccination prioritisation differs from other forms of priority-setting
- Native diagrammatic soundness and completeness proofs for Peirce’s Existential Graphs (Alpha)
- Economic models in the courtroom: a methodological approach
- There Is No Such Thing As Miscomputation
- Causal Inference, Moral Intuition, and Modeling in a Pandemic
- Interpreting Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Narrative and the “Fusion of Horizons”
- Dementia and the Boundaries of Secular Personhood
- “Vaccine Hesitancy” by Maya J. Goldenberg: The Publics Are Not Ignorant but Distrustful
- (Competing?) Formulations of Newtonian Gravitation: Reflections at the Intersection of Interpretation, Methodology, and Equivalence
- When “Replicability” is More than Just “Reliability”: The Hubble Constant Controversy
- How Computation Explains
- A fictionalist account of open label placebo
- Legitimizing Values in Regulatory Science
- Open science, the replication crisis, and environmental public health
- The P value plot does not provide evidence against air pollution hazards
- When Virtues are Vices: ‘Anti-Science’ Epistemic Values in Environmental Politics
- On Progress in Metaphysics
- Lotteries, Bookmaking and Ancient Randomizers: Local and Global Analyses of Chance
- Representational Enactivism
- Review of Slobodan Perović’s From Data to Quanta — Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics
- Born rule from counting states
- Counting 3d-spaces: classicality and probability in standard and many-worlds quantum mechanics from quantum-gravitational background-freedom
- Accuracy, Probabilism and Bayesian Update in Infinite Domains
- On the Brink of Disaster: Vulnerability to Mental Disorders
- Abject Object Relations and Epistemic Engagement in Clinical Practice
- “Doctor Knows Best”: On the Epistemic Authority of the Medical Practitioner
- How to measure effect sizes for rational decision-making
- The Causal Axioms of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory: A Diagnostic
- Pilot-Wave Theory without Nonlocality
- Challenges and recommendations for wearable devices in digital health: Data quality, interoperability, health equity, fairness
- Perspectival Realism and Frequentist Statistics: The Case of Jerzy Neyman’s Methodology and Philosophy
- Reactivity as a tool in emancipatory activist research
- Big Bang Singularity Resolution In Quantum Cosmology
- Realistic From Far But Far From Realism: Withering Scientific Realism in the Quantum Case
- The hypothesis of “differentiation” in the process of understanding and in interpersonal relationships
- Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons
- Quantifying over indiscernibles
- Halfway Proportionality
- The Disconnection That Wasn’t: Philosophy in Modern Bioethics from a Quantitative Perspective
- Circadian clocks signal future states of affairs
- A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics by Robert Batterman: Autonomy and Varieties of Reduction
- Follow the Math!:The mathematics of quantum mechanics as the mathematics of set partitions linearized to (Hilbert) vector spaces.
- Randomized Controlled Trials in Medical AI: A Methodological Critique
- Malignant by Vinay Prasad: Oncology’s Leading Gadfly
- Skills, Scalpels and Robots: The Surgeon as Technician
- Linguistic Corpora and Ordinary Language: On the Dispute between Ryle and Austin about the Use of ‘Voluntary’, ‘Involuntary’, ‘Voluntarily’, and ‘Involuntarily’
- Normative relations, mind points and social ontology
- Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding Introduction to the Volume
- Absence and Abnormality
- A Proposal for a Metaphysics of Self-Subsisting Structures. I. Classical Physics
- What Makes the Identity of a Scientific Method? A History of the “Structural and Analytical Typology” in the Growth of Evolutionary and Digital Archaeology in Southwestern Europe (1950s–2000s)
- A Hierarchy of Spacetime Symmetries: Holes to Heraclitus
- Review of Alyssa Ney’s The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics
- Absolutely 0 Evidence
- Formal verification, scientific code, and the epistemological heterogeneity of computational science
- Collective epistemic vice in science: Lessons from the credibility crisis
- Renormalization Group Methods: Which Kind of Explanation?
- Algorithmic political bias in artificial intelligence systems
- Can Bohmian brains make minds? On shadows, puppets and zombies
- Progress in Psychology.
- Are larger studies always better? Sample size and data pooling effects in research communities
- Aesthetics and Agency in Experiments
- Levels of Description and Levels of Reality: A General Framework
- Why Race and Ethnicity Are Not Like Other Risk Factors: Applying Structural Competency and Epistemic Humility in the Covid-19 Pandemic
- How to Interpret Covid-19 Predictions: Reassessing the IHME’s Model
- On the Meaning of Medical Evidence Hierarchies
- How understanding shapes reasoning: Experimental argument analysis with methods from psycholinguistics and computational linguistics
- Polygenic Scores and Social Science (Preprint)
- Review Essay of Levy, Neil. Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 forthcoming in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
- Cognitive Variation: The Philosophical Landscape
- Accuracy-first epistemology and scientific progress
- How (and Why) to Think that the Brain is Literally a Computer
- Comparative Opinion Loss
- Statements and open problems on decidable sets X⊆N that contain informal notions and refer to the current knowledge on X
- Hominin Life History, Pathological Complexity, and the Evolution of Anxiety (Preprint)
- Ehrenfest Theorems, Deformation Quantization, and the Geometry of Inter-Model Reduction
- The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?
- Do quantum observers have minds?
- In Defense of Really Statistical Explanations
- Why studying plant cognition is valuable, even if plants aren’t cognitive
- Putting Races on the Ontological Map A close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race
- Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant
- Personhood with Human Potentialities: The Biomedical Framework for Pre-birth Attribution of Personhood is Incremental and Includes Both Punctualist and Gradualist Features
- Can pragmatist quantum realism explain protective measurements?
- The quantification of intelligence in nineteenth-century craniology: An epistemology of measurement perspective
- Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory
- What have we learned about the engram?
- Cantor diagonal argument for real numbers
- Publish without Bias, or Perish without Replications
- When should researchers cite study differences in response to a failure to replicate?
- Has the Side-Effect Effect been cancelled? (No, not yet)
- Physical Time as Human Time
- Constructive Axiomatics in Spacetime Physics Part III: A Constructive Axiomatic Approach to Quantum Spacetime
- Climate Models and Robustness Analysis – Part II: The Justificatory Challenge
- Climate Models and Robustness Analysis – Part I: Core Concepts and Premises
- How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents
- On Epistemic Black Holes. How Self-Sealing Belief Systems Develop and Evolve
- No Quantum Threat to Relativity
- The FAIR and CARE Data Principles Influence Who Counts As a Participant in Biodiversity Science by Governing the Fitness-for-Use of Data
- For Whom the Bell Inequality Really Tolls
- Edge modes and dressing fields for the Newton-Cartan quantum Hall effect
- Trueing
- Individual Differences, Uniqueness, and Individuality in Behavioural Ecology
- Automated Discoveries, Understanding, and Semantic Opacity
- Distributing Epistemic and Practical Risks: A Comparative Study of Communicating Earthquake Damages
- Editorial Introduction to “Digital Studies of Digital Science”
- Markets, Market Algorithms, and Algorithmic Bias
- Generalization Bias in Science
- The story of the tablecloth: deriving “before” from atemporal notions
- The Origins of Consciousness or the War of the Five Dimensions (forthcoming)
- Exploratory concept formation and tool development in neuroscience
- Is Philosophy Exceptional? A Corpus-Based, Quantitative Study
- Why It Matters that Idealizations Are False
- The Bearable Thinness of Being: A Pragmatist Metaphysics of Affordances
- Creativity Without Agency: Evolutionary Flair & Aesthetic Engagement
- The Historiography of Scientific Revolutions: A Philosophical Reflection
- Is There Causation in Fundamental Physics? New Insights from Process Matrices and Quantum Causal Modelling
- A Generalized Patchwork Approach to Scientific Concepts
- Open Texture, Rigor, and Proof
- A Reassessment of Cantorian Abstraction based on the ε-operator
- Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity
- Homeorhesis: Envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects
- Can you remember silence? Epigenetic memory and reversibility as a site of intervention
- Mario Gómez-Torrente. 2020. Roads to Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Rectification note to “Scientific models and metalinguistic negotiation” (Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 34(2), 277-295)
- Darwinian functional biology
- Towards a Pricean foundation for cultural evolutionary theory
- Inductive risk: does it really refute value-freedom?
- Duchenne smiles are actions not mere happenings: lessons from the debate on expressive action
- Perceptual science and the nature of perception
- Explanation, persistence, and location
- Newton’s Example of the Two Globes
- Limits of Conceivability in the Study of the Future. Lessons from Philosophy of Science
- Co-constructing Markov blankets: tricky solutions
- Understanding with theoretical models
- Explaining Institutional Change
- Mathematical Explanation in Computer Science
- TOWARDS AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC CONSTRUCTS
- Jean Nicod: familial background and pacifist commitment
- Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories
- Participation and Objectivity
- The epistemic value of metaphysics
- Understanding Abstracting Structural Explanations
- Prolongments of “Ensaio”: Schrödinger Logics and Quasi-Set Theory
- On the discrepancies between quantum logic and classical logic
- The Safe, the Sensitive, and the Severely Tested: A Unified Account
- The Role of Creativity in Expertise and Skilled Action
- What is it Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years
- Form and Content: A Defence of Aesthetic Value in Science
- How to Explain the Direction of Time
- Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
- Measuring Information Deprivation: A Democratic Proposal
- Modern Science Key Trends: Disunity and Fractionation
- MOND and Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment
- Using Network Models in Person-Centered Care in Psychiatry: How Perspectivism Could Help To Draw Boundaries
- Statements and open problems on decidable sets X⊆N that refer to the current knowledge on X and contain constructive and informal notions
- Environmental Decision-Making under Uncertainty
- DEKI and the Mislocation of Justification: A Response to Millson and Risjord
- Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective
- Fiction in Science
- Probabilistic Forecasting: Why Model Imperfection Is a Poison Pill
- Modelling Nature. An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation
- Properties and the Born Rule in GRW Theory
- Of Rabbits and Men
- Ehrenfest and Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa on Why Boltzmannian and Gibbsian Calculations Agree
- Should Friends and Frenemies of Understanding be Friends? Discussing de Regt
- Quantum suicide and many worlds
- Taming Abundance: on the Relation between Boltzmannian and Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics
- Statistical Mechanics:A Tale of Two Theories
- Models and Theories
- Models and Denotation
- Unlocking Limits
- Scientific Modelling and Make-Believe
- Seven Myths about the Fiction View of Models
- Maps, Models, and Representation
- Boltzmannian Non-Equilibrium and Local Variables
- Of Stirps and Chromosomes: Generality Through Detail
- The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of Well-Being in Psychiatry
- The Untenable Status Quo: The Concept of Representation in the Neural and Psychological Sciences
- Being Precise about Precision and One-to-one Specificity
- An Armstrongian Defense of Dispositional Monist Accounts of Laws of Nature
- A reductive account of “before”: deriving temporal succession
- Temporal and Atemporal Asymmetries in Causation
- Implication as inclusion and the causal asymmetry
- What is it like to be a baby? Natural Kinds and infant consciousness
- The Cultural Evolution of Methods in Philosophy of Science: Model & Data
- On Geometric Mean Fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat
- The Epistemic Privilege of Measurement: Motivating a Functionalist Account
- On Theoretical Contingency of Quantum Mechanics
- On the unreasonable reliability of mathematical inference
- Release the Kraken? Well-Controlled and Dangerous Speculation in Geohistory
- A Pragmatic Approach to Scientific Change: Transfer, Alignment, Influence
- Culture, exploitation, and the epistemic approach to diversity
- Against Evidentiary Pluralism in Pharmaceutical Regulation
- Function in the Light of Frequency-Dependent Selection
- The Major Transitions in Evolution: a philosophy-of-science perspective
- Naturalness and the forward-looking justification of scientific principles
- A Material Defense of Inductive Inference
- Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness
- Exploring an Evolutionary Paradox: An Analysis of the “Spite Effect” and the “Nearly Neutral Effect” in Synergistic Models of Finite Populations
- Scientific Psychology for Folk Craft: The Case of IQ
- The Price Equation and the Causal Analysis of Evolutionary Change
- Scepticism, Evidential Holism, and the Logic of Demonic Deception
- On the very idea of biological individuality
- If the global phase is real
- Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer’s Late Shift Towards d Regulative Conception of the A Priori
- A Dynamical Perspective on the Arrow of Time
- Two Forms of Functional Reductionism in Physics
- An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems
- The open past in an indeterministic physics
- Causal History, Statistical Relevance, and Explanatory Power
- Multiscale Modeling in Neuroethology: The Significance of the Mesoscale
- Rethinking Hereditary Relations: The Reconstitutor as the Evolutionary Unit of Heredity
- Boolos’s Curious Inference in Isabelle/HOL
- Snyder and Shapiro’s critique of pseudo-singularity
- Securing the Objectivity of Relative Facts in the Quantum World
- Neutral Monism on Minds, Brains, and Machines
- Towards a Comparative Study of Animal Consciousness (forthcoming)
- Mysteries of Actual Causation: It’s Complicated
- The many theories of mind: eliminativism and pluralism in context
- A new EPR-Bohm experiment with reversible measurements
- The Linguistic Blind Spot of Value-Aligned Agency, Natural and Artificial
- Robustness and dark matter observation
- A Guide to the Bargmann Mass Superselection Rule: Why There Is–and Isn’t–Mass Superselection in Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- On the status of quantum tunnelling time
- The Bias Dynamics Model: Correcting for Meta-Biases in Therapeutic Prediction
- Peano’s Structuralism and the Birth of Formal Languages
- Newton’s Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity
- Hilbert-Style Axiomatic Completion: On von Neumann and Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics
- Argumentation, cognition, and the epistemic benefits of cognitive diversity
- Learning in the world: Van Musschenbroek’s lessons for the philosophy of experimentation
- CAN PREDICTIVE PROCESSING EXPLAIN SELF-DECEPTION?
- The Transcendental Deduction of Integrated Information Theory: Connecting the Axioms, Postulates, and Identity Through Categories
- Cognitive Artifacts and Their Virtues in Scientific Practice
- On the Limitations and Criticism of Experimental Philosophy
- Easy Alliances: The Methodology of Minimally Cognitive Behavior (MMCB) and Basal Cognition
- Chronic Pain, Enactivism, & the Challenges of Integration
- The Predictive Reframing of Machine Learning Applications: Good Predictions and Bad Measurements
- Humeanism and the Measurement Problem
- Comparativism with Mixed Relations
- On the mutual exclusivity of competing hypotheses
- Open-Ended Control vs. Closed-Ended Control: Limits of Mechanistic Explanation
- Social Robots and the Intentional Stance (Preprint)
- Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness (forthcoming)
- Consciousness and Complexity: Neurobiological Naturalism and Integrated Information Theory
- What is a Minimal Model of Cognition?
- Interactive Agential Dynamics
- Facing up to the Hard Problem as an Integrated Information Theorist
- Understanding Metaphorical Understanding (Literally)
- The Status of the Born Rule and the Role of Gleason’s Theorem and Its Generalizations: How the Leopard Got Its Spots and Other Just-So Stories
- The Local Validity of Special Relativity, Part 2: Matter Dynamics
- (Mis)Understanding Scientific Disagreement: Success versus Pursuit-Worthiness in Theory Choice
- The Local Validity of Special Relativity, Part 1: Geometry
- On the Common Logical Structure of Classical and Quantum Mechanics
- Empirical Study of PhilSci Archive Postings from Three Journals
- A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling: Modelling Mechanisms in Cancer Immunology
- Philosophy of Medicine: A Dedicated Journal for an Emerging Field (Editorial)
- Emergent Realities: Diffracting Barad within a quantum-realist ontology of matter and politics
- Concept Revision, Concept Application and the Role of Intuitions in Gettier Cases
- The Origins of Consciousness or the War of the Five Dimensions (Preprint)
- Mathematical formalism for nonlocal spontaneous collapse in quantum field theory
- The Value of Beauty in Theory Pursuit: Kuhn, Duhem, and Decision Theory
- Revaluing Laws of Nature in Secularized Science
- Un moved movers: a very simple and novel form of indeterminism
- Robustness and Replication: Models, Experiments, and Confirmation
- The Problem with Appealing to History in Defining Neural Representations
- How to Make Possibility Safe for Empiricists
- Darwinian-Selectionist Explanation, Radical Theory Change, and the Observable-Unobservable Dichotomy
- On Bell’s Everett (?) theory
- Trace-Free Gravitational Theory (aka Unimodular Gravity) for Philosophers
- The Hodgkin-Huxley Model, Explanatory Force and Explanatory Aims
- Would Disagreement Undermine Progress?
- The Trade-off between Impartiality and Freedom in the 21st Century Cures Act
- Science, Trust and Justice: More lessons from the Pandemic
- ‘Isn’t Everyone a Little OCD?’ The Epistemic Harms of Wrongful Depathologization
- The Epiphenomena Argument for Symmetry-to-Reality Inference
- Minimal Metaphysics vs. Maximal Semantics: A response to Paul Roth and Fons DeWulf
- A Dilemma for Solomonoff Prediction
- A Normative Comparison of Threshold Views Through Computer Simulations
- Modest Scientific Realism and Belief in Astronomical Entities
- A Metaphysical Foundation for Mathematical Philosophy
- The Π-Theorem as a Guide to Quantity Symmetries and the Argument Against Absolutism
- Reflexivity and fragility
- Pandemic modeling, good and bad
- A No-Go Theorem for psi-Ontic Models
- Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics
- Precautionary Principles
- DRUG FACTS, VALUES, AND THE MORNING-AFTER PILL
- Should Animal Welfare Be Defined in Terms of Consciousness?
- T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity
- What Are Mathematical Cultures?
- Mathemtics and Metaphilosophy
- On a new scientific philosophy for God
- Book review of Eric Scerri’s The Periodic table, Its Story and Its Significance, OUP, 2007
- How was Nicholson’s highly inconsistent atomic theory able to yield explanatory as well as predictive success?
- Forum: Philosophy of Classification
- Mario Bunge and Gustavo Romero on Gravitational Waves and Reality of Space: Towards Neo-Bungean Space(time) Structuralism
- Quantum Information in Relativity: The Challenge of QFT Measurements
- Measurement Invariance, Selection Invariance, and Fair Selection Revisited
- Is retrocausal quantum mechanics consistent with special relativity?
- A Further Look at the Bayes Blind Spot
- Extraordinarily corrupt or statistically commonplace? Reproducibility crises may stem from a lack of understanding of outcome probabilities.
- Towards a Comparative Study of Animal Consciousness (Preprint)
- Information and Meaning in the Evolution of Compositional Signals
- Putnam’s Indispensability Argument
- Disagreement and Values in Science
- Causal Pluralism and Public Health
- How Analogy Helped Create the New Science of Thermodynamics
- Deep Learning Opacity in Scientific Discovery
- The Pragmatic QFT Measurement Problem and the need for a Heisenberg-like Cut in QFT
- Existence of superluminal signaling in collapse theories of quantum mechanics
- Logical foundations of physics. Resolution of classical and quantum paradoxes in the finitistic paraconsistent logic NAFL
- Informational Virtues, Causal Inference, and Inference to the Best Explanation
- Goal Attributions in Biology: objective fact, anthropomorphic bias, or valuable heuristic?
- Confidence Levels or Degrees of Sentience? (Preprint)
- Are Dynamic Shifts Dynamical Symmetries?
- Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account.
- Naturalizing Natural Salience
- Contextual causal dependence and causal contrastivism
- A Virtue Epistemology of Scientific Explanation and Understanding
- Scurvy and the ontology of natural kinds
- On dispensability and indispensability
- Mathematical Explanation and Understanding: A Noetic Account
- Austinian Model Evaluation
- Against “Possibilist” Interpretations of Climate Models
- Model Organisms
- Data Journeys in the Sciences
- Scientific Understanding in the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
- Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness (Preprint)
- On the rational resolution of (deep) disagreements
- Nature abhors redundancies: A no-go result for density matrix realism
- Knowledge from a Human Point of View
- Philosophical Issues raised by Quantum Theory and its Interpretations
- Unity of Science
- Explaining the Autonomy of the Special Sciences
- Higher Level Constructive Neutral Evolution
- Temporal Becoming in a Relativistic Universe: Causal Diamonds and Gödel’s Philosophy of Time
- On the Stability of Racial Capitalism
- Causal bias in measures of inequality of opportunity
- On the Evolutionary Origins of the Bifocal Stance (Preprint)
- Can you remember silence? Life in the aftermath of trauma
- Péter on Church’s Thesis, Constructivity and Computers
- Kalmár’s Argument Against the Plausibility of Church’s Thesis
- Spacetime Emergence: Collapsing the Distinction Between Content and Context?
- A Bibliometric Analysis of the Cognitive Turn in Psychology
- Quantum gravity in a laboratory?
- Refining a Workshop Intervention for Scientists on Inference and Scientific Methodology
- Variation semantics: when counterfactuals in explanations of algorithmic decisions are true
- A no-go result for Bohmian mechanics
- The Punctuated Equilibrium of Scientific Change: A Bayesian Network Model
- A Discrete Analog of General Covariance — Part 2: Despite what you’ve heard, a perfectly Lorentzian lattice theory
- Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building
- THE MIND’S EYE: DE-MYSTIFYING CONSCIOUSNESS
- A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding.
- A critique of Weisberg’s view on the periodic table and some speculations on the nature of classifications
- The Gulf Between Chemistry and Philosophy of Chemistry, Then and Now
- Causation, Electronic Configurations and the Periodic Table
- A Discrete Analog of General Covariance — Part 1: Could the world be fundamentally set on a lattice?
- Structural Inequality in Collaboration Networks
- Diversity and homophily in social networks
- When it pays to punish in the evolution of honesty and cooperation
- Exploratory Modeling and Indeterminacy in the Search for Life
- Epistemology and Anomaly Detection in Astrobiology
- Tracing Thick and Thin Concepts Through Corpora
- How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases
- Editors’ introduction
- Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries
- Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes: A response to Woodward on causal and explanatory asymmetries
- On the unity between observational and experimental causal discovery
- Computational causal discovery: Advantages and assumptions
- Bi-directionality and time in causal relationships
- Sifting the Signal from the Noise
- Explanatory asymmetry in non-causal explanation
- There are no intermediate stages: An organizational view on development
- Discussion: What Is a Replication?
- What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?
- When Did Locality Become ‘Local Realism’? A Historical and Critical Analysis (1963-1978)
- Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter
- The Sentience Shift in Animal Research (Preprint)
- Probability and symmetric logic
- A Two-Dimensionalist Solution to the Access Problem
- Replication Is for Meta-Analysis
- Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism and the problem of logical constraints
- A no-go result for wave function realism
- Standard Formalization
- More than Zombies: Considering the Animal Subject in De-Extinction (Preprint)
- What Kind of Explanations Do We Get from Agent-Based Models of Scientific Inquiry?
- The Aesthetic Connotation of Techniques Associated with Tao
- Physical Economics
- Anti-Exceptionalism and the Justification of Basic Logical Principles
- Goals shape means. A pluralist response to the problem of formal representation in ontic structural realism.
- Integrating the History and Philosophy of Science and restoring the centrality of the Periodic Table into a college general chemistry course.
- Reassessing the Notion of a Kuhnian Revolution What Happened in Twentieth-Century Chemistry
- Hasok Chang on the Nature of Acids
- The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games
- Idealisations and the No-Miracle Argument
- Reconstructing the Last Common Ancestor: Epistemological and Empirical Challenges
- Is aging a disease? The theoretical definition of aging in the light of the philosophy of medicine
- Causal Complexity and Causal Ontology of Health-Related Quality of Life Model
- Micro-level model explanation and counterfactual constraint
- The Inaccessibility of the Past is not Statistical
- The Material Theory of Induction
- The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence
- Dystopian or Utopian? Two Images of Alan Turing
- Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?
- Epistemic Advantage on the Margin: A Network Standpoint Epistemology
- Reframing the Environment in Data-Intensive Health Sciences
- Scientists are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination
- What is future-proof science?
- Objective description in physics
- A simple proof that the global phase is real
- Reassessing the strength of a class of Wigner’s friend no-go theorems
- Mechanistic Inquiry and Scientific Pursuit: The Case of Visual Processing
- Homeostasis, homeorhesis, and the “logic of life”: Envisaging plasticity and stability in molecular research on trauma and its effects
- Cultural Theory’s Contributions to Climate Science: Reply to Hansson
- Philosophy of Developmental Biology
- Nonclassical probability, convex hulls, and Dutch Books
- On Automorphism Criteria for Comparing Amounts of Mathematical Structure
- Inductive Risk, Understanding, and Opaque Machine Learning Models
- The Lorentz transformation in a fishbowl: a comment on Cheng and Read’s “Why not a sound postulate?”
- Finding or Creating a Living Organism? Past and Future Thought Experiments in Astrobiology Applied to Artificial Intelligence
- Betting Blind: Coping with Uncertainty through Redundancy
- Fine-tuning and Humean Laws: Fine-tuning as argument for a non-governing account of laws rather than for God or multiverse
- Mutual Entailment Between Causation and Responsibility
- Life and Death in the Tails of the Wave Function
- The Introduction of Topology into Analytic Philosophy: Two Movements and a Coda
- Justifying the use of purely formal analogies in physics
- Black Boxes and Theory Deserts: Deep Networks and Epistemic Opacity in the Cognitive Sciences
- When is Similarity-biased Social Learning Adaptively Advantageous?
- Revisiting the Intentionality All-Stars (Preprint)
- Projects and Methods of Experimental Philosophy
- The Naturalistic Case for Free Will
- All in the Family: The History and Philosophy of Experimental Philosophy
- A Bayesian analysis of self-undermining arguments in physics
- A human-right approach to scientific progress. The deontic framework
- Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A Full Derivation
- Statistical Significance and its Critics: Practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?
- Inherency and agency in the origin and evolution of biological functions
- Participatory Interactive Objectivity in Psychiatry
- The Realist and Selectionist Explanations for the Success of Science
- Brutalist Fundamentalism: Radical and Moderate
- Naturalism, Functionalism and Chance: Not a Best Fit for the Humean
- Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification
- Towards a Taxonomy for the Opacity of AI Systems
- The fate of causal structure under time reversal
- Pioneers of the ice age models: a brief history from Agassiz to Milankovitch
- On the reality of the global phase
- From locality to factorizability: a novel escape from Bell’s theorem
- Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness (Preprint)
- Connecting ethics and epistemology of AI
- An ineffective antidote for hawkmoths
- Revisiting Friedman’s ‘On the methodology of positive economics'(‘F53’)
- On the Epistemic Effects of Envy in Academia
- Where Does General Relativity Break Down?
- A Conjecture on the Origin of Superselection Rules – with a Comment on “The Global Phase Is Real”
- Intuitive and Reflective Responses in Philosophy
- Two Approaches to Reduction: A Case Study from Statistical Mechanics
- Has the Side-Effect Effect been cancelled? (No, not yet.)
- The ‘lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions
- Quantum spatial superpositions and the possibility of superluminal signaling
- Debt-free intelligence: Ecological information in minds and machines
- The Scaffolded Evolution of Human Communication (Preprint)
- The Structuralist Approach to Underdetermination
- On the indispensability of theoretical terms and entities
- The Discourse of Universalism, Moral Relativism & Utilitarianism
- Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms.
- What if there are only particles in Bohmian mechanics?
- Is Forensic Science in Crisis?
- The Global Phase Is Real
- Intelligent Behaviour
- Invariance, Intrinsicality, and Perspicuity
- History as a Tool for Natural Science: How Ernst Mach Applied Historical Methods to Physics
- Philosophical Reasoning about Science: A Quantitative, Digital Study
- Causal Modeling and the Efficacy of Action
- Reopening the Hole Argument
- Quantum Relativity without Relativism
- Does Science need Intersubjectivity? The Problem of Confirmation in Orthodox Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
- A LOGICAL MODELING OF SEVERE IGNORANCE
- Computer Verification for Historians of Philosophy
- Does Loudness Represent Sound Intensity?
- Information is Physical: Cross-Perspective Links in Relational Quantum Mechanics
- Can there be a process without time? Processualism within timeless physics
- Renormalization Group Methods: What Explanation?
- Calibrating the Universe: the Beginning and End of the Hubble Wars
- A methodological shift in favor of (some) paraconsistency in the sciences
- Patrick Matthew’s unique synthesis of ideas by Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
- Putting Patterns in Perspective
- Models of Life and the Life of Models under the Free Energy Principle: A cognitive realist perspective
- Coordinates, Structure, and Classical Mechanics: A review of Jill North’s Physics, Structure, and Reality
- The latest frontier in analogue gravity: New roles for analogue experiments
- Inference to the Best Explanation – An Overview
- Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology
- Instrumentalizing and Naturalizing Social Ontology: Replies to Lohse and Little
- Is Social Ontology Prior to Social Scientific Methodology?
- Predictive Success and Non-Individualist Models in Social Science
- Special-Science Counterfactuals
- The Predictive Turn in Neuroscience
- On No-Miracles and the Base-Rate Fallacy
- On the ontology of vernal orange slime
- A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball
- Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms
- Ordinary Meaning and Consilience of Evidence
- What we talk about when we talk about mathematics
- We Should Redefine Scientific Expertise: An Extended Virtue Account
- Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
- Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare (Preprint)
- The cognitive approach to the process of interpersonal understanding
- The Chemical Bond is a Real Pattern
- Mendel in and after his time
- On systems of coordinate transformations and wave mechanics
- Alex Broadbent’s Philosophy of Medicine
- Ivan Moscati’s Measuring Utility
- Jonathan Birch’s The Philosophy of Social Evolution
- Eric Winsberg’s Philosophy and Climate Science
- Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann’s The Fight against Doubt
- K. Brad Wray’s Resisting Scientific Realism
- Maria Kronfeldner’s What’s Left of Human Nature?
- Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall’s The Misinformation Age
- John Wright’s An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism
- Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell’s The Evolution of Moral Progress
- Bueno et al.’s Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices
- Walter Ott and Linda Patton’s Laws of Nature
- Eternalism and the Problem of Hyperplanes
- TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONSTITUTION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: A QBIST APPROACH
- The scientific method from a philosophical perspective
- Limits to Evidential Pluralism: Multi-Method Large-N Qualitative Analysis and the Primacy of Mechanistic Studies
- Foregrounding and Backgrounding: A New Interpretation of “Levels” in Science
- Inference to the Best Explanation as Supporting the Expansion of Mathematicians’ Ontological Commitments
- The Importance of End-of-Life Welfare (Preprint)
- Could All Life Be Sentient?
- The Physics and Metaphysics of Pure Shape Dynamics
- Strong Determinism
- Verifiability as a Complement to AI Explainability: A Conceptual Proposal
- Model Pluralism (Preprint)
- What Represents Space-time? And What Follows for Substantivalism vs. Relationalism and Gravitational Energy?
- On Two Slights to Noether’s First Theorem: Mental Causation and General Relativity
- Brains as computers: metaphor, analogy, theory or fact?
- Science, Responsibility, and the Philosophical Imagination
- Arithmetic logical Irreversibility and the Turing’s Halt Problem
- Geometric cognition: a hub-and-spoke model of geometric concepts
- Theorems and open problems that concern decidable sets X⊆N and cannot be formulated in the formal language of classical mathematics as they refer to the current knowledge on X
- Mathematical proofs and metareasoning
- Reasoning by Analogy in Mathematical Practice
- Modelling the Psychological Structure of Reasoning
- Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics
- EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE AND DATA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES
- Lambda and the limits of effective field theory
- Incommensurability and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Taking Kuhn Seriously
- Infinite Frequency Principles of Direct Inference
- Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling
- Alan Love and William Wimsatt’s Beyond the Meme
- Richard Corry’s Power and Influence
- Derek Bolton and Carl Gillet’s The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease
- Nicholas Shea’s Representation in Cognitive Science
- Herring et al.’s The Past, Present, and Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
- David Livingstone Smith’s How Biology Shapes Philosophy
- Kareem Khalifa’s Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge
- Justin Garson’s What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter
- Elly Vintiadis and Constantinos Mekios’s Brute Facts
- Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo’s The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind
- Lisa M. Osbeck’s Values in Psychological Science
- Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers
- The Arithmetic Mean of What? A Cautionary Tale About the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness
- From the open society to the closed society: reconsidering Popper on natural and social science
- Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central
- Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
- Science, Assertion, and the Common Ground
- The History of the Concept of Pain: How the Experts Came to be Out of Touch with the Folk
- The Public Relevance of Philosophy
- Pathological Complexity and the Evolution of Sex Differences (Preprint)
- Bubbles and Chambers: Post-Truth and Belief Formation in Digital Social-Epistemic Environments
- Steven Pinker Defends a Damagingly Irrational Conception of Reason
- What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology
- Scientific Polysemy, Semantic Detoxification, and Sophisticated Operationalism
- TAMING VAGUENESS. THE PHILOSOPHY OF NETWORK SCIENCE
- Explainable machine learning practices: opening another black box for reliable medical AI
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear of Death, and the Consolations of Science
- Wigner’s Friend Depends on Self-Contradictory Quantum Amplification
- The formation of absolutely possible experiences and their correlative domain
- Relativistic Implications for Physical Copies of Conscious States