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Scientific Unity in Street’s Darwinian Dilemma
Street’s Darwinian dilemma claims that anti-realist theories are more parsimonious explanations of moral evaluative attitudes. Anti-realists claim we...
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The selfish machine? On the power and limitation of natural selection to understand the development of advanced AI
Some philosophers and machine learning experts have speculated that superintelligent Artificial Intelligences (AIs), if and when they arrive on the...
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On Technique and Spaces: A Question of Limits
In this chapter, we explore the concept of the human condition in the philosophy of technique. In this analysis, we examine the perspectives of José...
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Empty spaces: empire versus life
The article analyzes the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war in terms of a colonial seizure undertaken by a fading but aggressive Russian empire. This...
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Explanation
A principal aim of medical research is to provide understanding of medical issues. Medical explanation has two dimensions, biomedical and...
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Wild, Uncomfortable and Reckless: A Darwinian Debate About Sailing
Why embark for an uncomfortable trip? What is the point of crossing an ocean for the sake of crossing it? Many sailors, myself included, have...
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Finding or Creating a Living Organism? Past and Future Thought Experiments in Astrobiology Applied to Artificial Intelligence
This is a digest of how various researchers in biology and astrobiology have explored questions of what defines living organisms—definitions based on...
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Organisms: Between a Kantian Approach and a Liberal Approach
The concept of “organism” has been central to modern biology, with its definition and philosophical implications evolving since the nineteenth...
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On Darwin’s Philosophy and Its Epistemic Significance
From the Baconian image of science, to Darwin's epistemological practice: the Copernican significance of the Darwinian lesson, the epistemic role of...
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Learning to Live and Let Live Together
Individuals in today’s world, in what might be termed “advanced modernity,” are caught up in a strange paradox. Never has life seemed so sacred. On...
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Lakatosian and Euclidean populations: a pluralist approach to conceptual change in mathematics
Lakatos’ (Lakatos,
1976 ) model of mathematical conceptual change has been criticized for neglecting the diversity of dynamics exhibited by...
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Emerson and Paz: Evolutionary Existentialism
There is a kind of evolutionary existentialism that appears in the work of Emerson and Octavio Paz which emerges from a dialectic between the ideas...
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A Formal Treatment of Contrasting Socio-Scientific Epistemologies
The topic of Islamic worldview versus liberalism is discussed against the background of a rigorous theory and development of the episteme of unity of...
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Introduction
Modern thought, in philosophy and science, has challenged traditional theism. In philosophy, Descartes’ turn away from Aristotelian metaphysics...
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Human Social Evolution via Four Coevolutionary Paths
Social evolutionary theories have been roundly discredited since their original racist and sexist formulations during the nineteenth century. Given...
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How to Read Ameghino’s Filogenia?
The studies on the history of the science made in Latin America are usually disinterested in epistemological questions. The analysis of the...
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How to Read Ameghino’s Filogenia?
The studies on the history of the science made in Latin America are usually disinterested in epistemological questions. The analysis of the...
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Evidence-gathering without navel-gazing
What explains evidence-gathering? Some say desire for knowledge, or desire for true belief, or desire for belief that has some other feature. These...
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Gestures in the Film, Gestures of the Film
This chapter investigates the two levels at which gestures appear in cinema: gestures depicted within the diegesis, and those enacted by the film as...