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New Work on Networks
The discussions on topological explanations are gaining a significant momentum in the philosophy and in science, as the number of both scientific and philosophical papers on this topic are growing every year...
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Non-Assertoric Speech Acts
Language has a variety of uses. When we make an assertion, we state that something is the case. However, assertion is but one of many ways to use language, many of which have not often been given the attenti...
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Non-Standard Approaches to Emergence
Although emergentism initially intended to resolve the conflict between physicalism and dualism, interestingly, an avatar of this conflict inexorably remains within emergentism itself. Far from occupying the...
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Reasons and Explanation
In recent years, research on reasons has been an important driving force towards unifying debates in different philosophical disciplines, such as ethics, epistemology, philosophy of action and philosophy of ...
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Reference and Remembering
Episodic memory enables us to consciously ‘relive’ experienced events from our past. You might remember making coffee this morning and sensorily recall what it was like to hear the kettle reach a boil or to ...
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Reflective Equilibrium: Conception, Formalization, Application
John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice has been highly influential not only due to its conception of justice, but also due to the systematic way in which Rawls justifies his theory using the method of reflective e...
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Research Integrity, Norms of Good Practices, and Misconduct across Scientific Fields: a Philosophical Perspective
This topical collection is devoted to investigations related to Research Integrity, Scientific Misconduct and Deviance, and Norms of Good Practices across Scientific Fields. Submissions that directly tackle ...
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Scepticism, Value and Action
Humans strive for knowledge because it is valuable. However, scepticism contends that knowledge is impossible because at least one of the necessary conditions of knowledge cannot be satisfied. Scepticism com...
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Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science
The topical collection on Social and Cognitive Diversity in Science maps the questions that have guided social epistemological approaches to diversity in science. Both social and cognitive diversity of diffe...
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Strategic Justice, Conventions, and Game Theory: Themes in the Philosophy of Peter Vanderschraaf
This topical collection brings together game theorists, philosophers, economists, and political scientists to discuss themes from Vanderschraaf’s work on conventions. The collection bridges a gap among disjo...
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Teleology for the 21st Century
Teleology used to be one of the central topics in metaphysics from antiquity until well into the 19th century, but it is rarely discussed today. This lacuna is unfortunate, because the nature of goal-directe...
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Temporal Reasoning and Tensed Truths
This topical collection is dedicated to the formal representation of arguments involving temporal reasoning and tensed truths; in particular, arguments with a clear significance to everyday life. In a broad ...
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The Legacy of the Value-Free Ideal of Science
Until the end of the 20thcentury, the value-free ideal (VFI) of science, according to which non-epistemic values should not have any influence on the epistemic phase of scientific inquiry (where hypotheses a...
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The normativity of mental health conditions
Determining whether we classify, diagnose, and treat different mental conditions as mental disorders on virtue of their pathological nature or simply because they are socially deviant has been a central issu...
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The Philosophy of Effort
We make efforts to lift heavy weights, to solve problems, to concentrate, to stop smoking, to climb mountains, to convince others, to stay calm, to understand obscure texts, to conceal our vices, to resist t...
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The Philosophy of Experiments
Empirical constraints are pivotal in the development and assessment of scientific theories, with experimentation being the quintessential arbiter of science. Despite their fundamental role, experiments only ...
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The Philosophy of Words
Words are ubiquitous within our lives. Given this, it is unsurprising that a huge and diverse range of philosophical issues arise when we think about words. Within metaphysics, there has been a resurgence of...
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Wittgenstein and moral deep disagreements
Suppose we engage in a discussion about the morality of abortion. During our conversation we offer arguments and evidence to support our claims about the topic. Unfortunately, our argumentative exchanges are...
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Works of Art and Technical Artifacts: Towards a Unified Account?
There are ongoing debates on both the metaphysics of works of art (e.g., Levinson, 2011; Matheson & Caplan, 2011; Davies, 2012; Rohrbaugh, 2012; Glenn, 2016; Irvin, 2022) and the metaphysics of technical art...
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