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The Metametaphysics of Social Ontology

This topical collection aims at discussing which way(s) should social ontology go: What should be social ontology's goals? Social ontology's methods? How should social critique and social ontology be articul...
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Alethic Pluralism and Its Critics

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Crispin Wright's Truth & Objectivity, we have put together this Collection of articles by some of the prominent proponents and opponents of alethic pluralism. It is ...
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Approaching Probabilistic Truths

Karl Popper defended in the 1960s the idea that scientific progress consists in the approach towards truth. After the failure of his attempt to define the comparative notion of “closeness to the truth” in 197...
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Approximation Methods in the Sciences

Approximation methods, such as perturbative expansions, Hartree-Fock methods, and numerical integration techniques, play a central role in the practice of many areas of mathematized science. Yet, where philo...
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Beyond Inferentialism

While inferentialist theories of meaning never achieved the same popularity as truth-conditional semantic theories, it is safe to say that inferentialism has attained the status of an alternative yet well-es...
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31 May 2024

Conceptual spaces: A mathematical framework for concept engineering

The theory of conceptual spaces, introduced by Peter Gärdenfors in “Conceptual spaces: the geometry of thought” (2000), has become one of the key mathematical frameworks for modeling human cognition that has...
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20 May 2024

Consciousness and Its Epistemic Roles

In the era of specialisation or even hyper-specialisation, it is often, though not always the case, that epistemology and philosophy of mind neglect each other; famous exceptions in the late 20thcentury incl...
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Digital Studies of Digital Science

This special issue grew from a conference in 2021 called Digital Studies of Digital Science, or DS², which brought together scholars working on two separate and crucial trends in contemporary philosophy of s...
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Epistemic Vices: From the Individual to the Collective

A central theme of contemporary vice epistemology concerns the individual and the collective levels of epistemic life. A main message of social epistemology is that our epistemic agency is scaffolded by soci...
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Essences, Dispositions, and Laws in Kant

The theme of the topical collection is ‘Essences, Dispositions, and Laws in Kant’. Essences, dispositions, and laws play a central role in Kant’s pre-Critical and Critical philosophy, especially in, but not ...
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31 May 2024

Establishing the Philosophy of Supersymmetry

This topical collection will bring together recent, cutting-edge work conceptual, epistemic and experimental issues related to supersymmetry. Topics covered will include theory development and assessment in ...
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Ethics of belief in science, social world, and philosophy

The origins of the contemporary ethics of belief debate can be traced back to the classic opposition between ideas of the British mathematician and philosopher William Clifford and the American philosopher a...
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30 September 2024

Evidential Diversity in the Social Sciences

This topical collection examines the philosophical foundations and implications of evidential diversity in the social sciences. It assesses the application of Evidential Pluralism in the context of the socia...
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Folk Psychology: Pluralistic Approaches

Folk psychology refers to the way that ordinary people come to understand and navigate the social world around them. Contemporary philosophical discussions of folk psychology have focused on how people predi...
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Hyperintensional Formal Epistemology

Over the last decade or so, a great deal of work has been done on hyperintensional theories of content. Influential approaches include Kit Fine’s truthmaker semantics, Hannes Leitgeb’s HYPE framework, and tw...
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Imagination and its Limits

Imagination is at the center of contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. The ontological status of mental imagery, the epistemological status of imagined scenarios in terms of counterfactual and modal...
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Indeterminacy and Underdetermination

From Aristotle’s puzzle about the indeterminacy of future contingents to Duhem and Quine’s observations about the underdetermination of theory by evidence, the concepts of indeterminacy and underdeterminatio...
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Instrumentalism about epistemic rationality: For and against

Traditionally, epistemic rationality has been distinguished from practical rationality. In the view of many thinkers, epistemic rationality is a matter of ordering one’s belief system in ways that promote ha...
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Minimal (Anti-) Metaphysics

The metaphysics of science debate is often characterized as dividing philosophers who endorse positions of “maximal” metaphysics and “maximal” anti-metaphysics: philosophers who believe and philosophers who ...
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31 May 2024

Neuroscience and Its Philosophy

The Synthese Topical Collection on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy aims to publish some of the best work on the philosophy of neuroscience, broadly construed.
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New Directions in the Extended Mind

The extended mind has sparked a heated debate. Originally, discussion focused on the tenability of the extended mind thesis itself, which was variously attacked or defended on the basis of thought experiment...
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30 June 2024

New Foundations of Dispositionalism

Causal powers are making a resurgence in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. Once the bane of Humean philosophy (and neo-Humean metaphysics), powers, dispositions, capacities, potencies and s...
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