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The Doomsday Argument and Hempel's Problem
Hempel's problem Doomsday Argument contraposition
2008/4/21
In this paper, I present firstly a solution to Hempel's Problem. I recall secondly the solution to the Doomsday Argument described in my previous Une Solution pour l'Argument de l'Apocalypse (Canadian...
This paper analyzes the epistemological significance of the problem of induction. In the first section, the foundation of this problem is identified in the thesis of gnoseological dualism: we only kno...
The Fundamentalist Attack on Science: A Problem That Won't Just Disappear
Evolution Religion Society Education
2008/4/21
While “Intelligent Design” has garnered increasing support in America, its critics have been hesitant to address it publicly. In this paper I argue that it is important for defenders of evolution to t...
The Problem of Induction and Metaphysical Assumptions Concerning the Comprehensibility and Knowability of the Universe
Induction metaphysics physics explanation unity physicalism
2008/4/21
Even though evidence underdetermines theory, often in science one theory only is regarded as acceptable in the light of the evidence. This suggests there are additional unacknowledged assumptions whic...
The Problem of Inertia (in german)
Intertia force gravitation general relativity concepts of space
2008/4/21
It is well known that the concept of "force", if based on "interaction",
becomes problematic when applied to "inertia". I review some well
known historical arguments (Newton, Mach), move to some sl...
The Problem of Ontology for Spontaneous Collapse Theories
spontaneous localization theories dynamical reduction theories
2008/4/21
The question of how to interpret spontaneous collapse theories of quantum mechanics is an open one. One issue involves what link one should use to go from wave function talk to talk of ordinary macros...
This is a preliminary version of an article to appear in the forthcoming Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics.In it, I aim to review, in a way accessible to foundationally interested phy...
The Quantum Vacuum and the Cosmological Constant Problem
Quantum Field Theory Vacuum Cosmological Constant
2008/4/21
The cosmological constant problem arises at the
intersection between general relativity and quantum field theory, and is regarded as a fundamental problem in modern physics. In this paper we describe...
There Is No Special Problem About Scientific Representation
representation models idealization realism
2008/4/21
In recent years, philosophers of science have devoted considerable attention to questions about scientific models, and particularly to the issue of how models can represent the world. We propose that ...
What am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem
virtual machine mental state mind/body problem
2008/4/18
When your word processor or email program is running on your computer, this creates a "virtual machine” that manipulates windows, files, text, etc. What is this virtual machine, and what are the virtu...
Zeno's Paradoxes. A Cardinal Problem. 1. On Zenonian Plurality
Zeno's paradoxes cardinality continuum hypothesis
2008/4/15
In this paper the claim that Zeno's paradoxes have been solved is contested. Although "no one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him" (Whitehead), it will be our aim to show that, whatever it was ...
On the measurement problem for a two-level quantum system
measurement problem Born rule Berry's phase
2008/4/15
A geometric approach to quantum mechanics with unitary evolution and non-unitary collapse processes is developed. In this approach the Schroedinger evolution of a quantum system is a geodesic motion o...
How Bohm’s Theory Solves the Measurement Problem
Bohm Everett hidden variables many worlds
2008/4/14
I examine recent arguments based on functionalism that claim to show that Bohm’s theory fails solve the measurement problem, or if it does so, it is only because it reduces to a form of the many-world...
In this paper, I focus on the so-called "tacking by disjunction problem". Namely, the problem to the effect that, if a hypothesis H is confirmed by a statement E, H is confirmed by the disjunction E v...
God, Fine-Tuning, and the Problem of Old Evidence
fine-tuning argument argument from design
2008/4/14
The fundamental constants that are involved in the laws of physics which describe our universe are finely-tuned for life, in the sense that if some of the constants had slightly different values life ...