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An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

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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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Open
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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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Open
Submission deadline
20 May 2024

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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Open
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31 May 2024

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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Open
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30 September 2024

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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Open
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31 May 2024

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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Open
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30 June 2024

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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Open
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30 November 2024

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
Submission deadline
31 October 2024

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

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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