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Minds,models and mechanisms:a new perspective on intentional psychology
intentional psychology mechanistic model phenomenological model prediction explanation
2016/5/30
In this article, I argue that intentional psychology (i.e. the interpretation of human behaviour in terms of intentional states and propositional attitudes) plays an essential role in the sciences of ...
Defending Underdetermination or Why the Historical Perspective Makes a Difference
underdetermination
2011/9/8
The old antagonism between the Quinean and the Duhemian view on underdetermination is reexamined. In this respect, two theses will be defended. First, it is argued that the main differences between Qu...
“A Reexamination of Biological Information from the Perspective of Practice”
Biology Information Signal
2009/9/17
Much of the debate surrounding the concept of information in biology centers on the question of whether or not biological systems ‘really’ carry information. The criterion for determining if a system ...
Reichenbach and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity in Perspective
Reichenbach neo-Kantianism conventionalism simultaneity
2009/9/16
We take another look at Reichenbach’s 1920 conversion to conventionalism, with a special eye to the background of his ‘conventionality of distant simultaneity’ thesis. We argue that elements of Reiche...
Reichenbach and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity in Perspective
Reichenbach, neo-Kantianism, conventionalism, simultaneity
2011/9/7
We take another look at Reichenbach’s 1920 conversion to conventionalism, with a special eye to the background of his ‘conventionality of distant simultaneity’ thesis. We argue that elements of Reiche...
A New Perspective concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions
concerning Experiments Semantic Intuitions
2009/4/21
In two fascinating articles, Machery, Mallon, Nichols, and Stich (2004; forthcoming) use experimental methods to raise a specter of doubt about reliance on intuitions in developing theories of referen...
This paper is part of a study that explores learning difficulties in mathematics from the children’s point of view. An interview with a group of ten to eleven year old students is analysed with respec...
The distinction between presentism and eternalism is usually sought in some formula like ‘Only presently existing things exist’ or ‘Past, present, and future events are equally real’. I argue that amb...
Reichenbach's Epsilon Definition of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective
Reichenbach simultaneity convention
2008/4/22
I examine the development of Reichenbach's ideas concerning the conventionality of simultaneity in connection with his ``epsilon''-definition of simultaneity. It does not appear that he ever considere...
Spacetime, Structural Realism, and the Substantival/Relational Debate: An Ontological Investigation from the Perspective of Structural Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
spacetime structural realism substantivalism relationism
2008/4/21
This essay explores structural realist interpretation of spacetime with special emphasis on the close interrelationship between, on the one hand, ontological debates in spacetime structural realism an...
The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution
evolution Perspective
2008/4/21
Developmental systems theory is an attempt to sum up the ideas of a research tradition in developmental psychobiology that goes back at least to Daniel Lehrman’s work in the 1950s. It yields a represe...
Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective
Causation Interventionist Theories
2008/4/15
Interventionist Theories of Causation in Psychological Perspective
General covariance from the perspective of Noether's theorems
general covariance Noether's theorems
2008/4/14
Analysis of Emmy Noether’s 1918 theorems provides an illuminating method for testing the consequences of “coordinate generality”, and for exploring what else must be added to this requirement in order...
This chapter describes a perspective on emotion, according to which emotions are: 1. Designed to function in a social context: an emotion is often an act of relationship reconfiguration brought about ...
Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective
decision-making rationality irrationality economics neuroscience
2008/4/11
This article introduces and discusses from a philosophical point of view the nascent field of neuroeconomics, which is the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic sig...