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Title: Hodgkin and Huxley’s Use of Singular Compositional Abduction Abstract: One of the most significant achievements of Twentieth-Century physiology was Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’s development of theory of the […]
Title: An Understanding-First view of Explanation Abstract: Jaegwon Kim wrote once that “the idea of explaining something is inseparable from the idea of making it intelligible; to seek an explanation […]
Title: True Believers: The Incredulity Hypothesis and the Enduring Legacy of the Obedience Experiments Abstract: Stanley Milgram’s “obedience experiments” are among the most famous studies in social psychology, and perhaps, […]
Title: What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell Us about Reality? Abstract: Quantum mechanics is admittedly the most difficult subject to understand. Physicists and philosophers, let alone students and laymen, are still […]
Title: On Causal Locality in a Deflationary Account of Quantum Theory Abstract: Quantum theory can be reformulated in terms of old-fashioned configuration spaces and ‘indivisible’ stochastic laws, without a fundamental […]
Title: The Physics of Memory Abstract: Much of the mystery of time arises from the asymmetry of past versus future: not only asymmetries themselves, such as the apparent ‘openness’ of […]
Title: A Historical Case Study in Philosophical Conversation: J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) & Julian Huxley’s (1887-1975) Social Values in a Scientific Worldview Abstract: Rhetoric about the meaning of empirical work in […]
Title: Probabilism Under Scrutiny: Grappling with the Weight of Evidence Abstract: Probabilism, the philosophical view that the role of probability is to capture degrees of belief, support, confirmation, or plausibility […]
Title: Peirce Disappears: C.S. Peirce and Early Logical Empiricism Abstract: Scholars of the history of philosophy of science read and hear a lot about Duhem, Mach, Poincaré, and the members […]
Title: A Commitment Account of Norm Externalisation Abstract: It has been argued that moral norms fundamentally differ in character from conventional norms. One of the distinctive features of moral norms […]