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An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

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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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30 November 2024

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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Closed

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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Open
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31 October 2024

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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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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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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Closed

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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Open
Submission deadline
15 October 2024

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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Closed

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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Closed

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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Open
Submission deadline
30 June 2024

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