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Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of Science
logical empiricism pragmatism social epistemology science and society well-ordered science science and values empirismo lógico pragmatismo epistemología social ciencia y sociedad ciencia bien ordenada ciencia y valores
2016/6/14
This three-part essay begins with a diagnosis of the career of general philosophy of science in the tradition begun by Hempel’s reform of logical positivism. Since 1950, Anglophone philosophy of scien...
CIFOL:Case-intensional first order logic.(I) Toward a theory of sorts
modal logic extension/intension intensional predication and quantification sortal tracing substance
2016/5/27
This is Part I of a two-part essay introducing case-intensional first-order logic (CIFOL), an easy-to-use, uniform, powerful, and useful combination of first order logic with modal logic resulting fro...
Impact of Quantitative Information and a Nudge on Attitudes toward Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colon cancer Screening Ethics Health information
2014/11/17
Research in behavioral economics suggests that individuals facing complex decisions benefit from being given a “nudge” towards one option, especially in situations where making any choice, as opposed ...
Toward An Intellectual Biography: James Doull’s Work From 1980 To 2001
Toward Intellectual Biography
2009/12/7
When I accepted the invitation to participate in this panel, it was with the thought that
what I might usefully provide was an account of James’s intellectual life as I knew it, a uniqueperspective, ...
The ecological problem is an aesthetic crisis. The world is becoming increasingly
less beautiful because of technology. Leavening Heidegger with a measure of largely
forgotten medieval aesthetics, I...
From Similarity to Homomorphism: Toward a Pragmatic Account of Representation in Art and Science, 1880-1914
Representative practices art and science iconicity homomorphism
2009/11/18
The years 1880-1914 were a time of intense experimentation in the visual arts. Representative conventions became variable, and artists deliberately departed from a concept of depiction considered as p...
Collaboration, toward an integrative philosophy of scientific practice
collaboration stem cell biology experiment social epistemology
2009/9/16
Philosophical understanding of experimental scientific practice is impeded by disciplinary differences, notably that between philosophy and sociology of science. Severing the two limits the stock of p...
From Similarity to Homomorphism: Toward a Pragmatic Account of Representation in Art and Science, 1880-1914
Representative practices art science iconicity
2009/9/11
The years 1880-1914 were a time of intense experimentation in the visual arts. Representative conventions became variable, and artists deliberately departed from a concept of depiction considered as p...
What's the matter with women's bodies? Why have women, and female bodies, been viewed as bearers of the divine, but not as embodiments of the divine? Traditional Christianity's view that women are sec...
Toward a Mechanistic Interpretation of Probability
probability causal structure determinism sensitive dependence frequency
2009/6/19
I sketch a new objective interpretation of probability, called "mechanistic probability", and more specifically what I call "far-flung frequency (FFF) mechanistic probability". FFF mechanistic probabi...
Survey of the general public's attitudes toward advance directives in Japan: How to respect patients' preferences
patients' preferences Japan
2008/11/12
Background
Japanese people have become increasingly interested in the expression and enhancement of their individual autonomy in medical decisions made regarding medical treatment at and toward the e...
Disclosure of cancer diagnosis and prognosis: a survey of the general public's attitudes toward doctors and family holding discretionary powers
discretionary powers doctors family
2008/11/10
Background
This study aimed to ask a sample of the general population about their preferences regarding doctors holding discretionary powers in relation to disclosing cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
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Toward a Poeticognosis: Re-reading Plato's The Republic via Wallace Stevens'
aesthetics philosophy poetry postmodernism
2008/11/6
This article is a language-based re-reading of Plato's exile of the poets via Wallace Stevens' poem-manifesto, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven." I examine how philosophy and poetry use language dif...
Explanations are like salted peanuts. Why you can't cut the route toward further reduction.
explanation ideal text Batterman reduction
2008/4/22
This paper is a defense of an elaborated ideal explanatory text conception against criticism as put forward by Bob Batterman. It is argued that Batterman's critique of "philosophical" accounts of scie...
The Quantum Mechanical Path Integral: Toward a Realistic Interpretation
path integral path integration branching spacetime
2008/4/21
In this paper, I explore the feasibility of a realistic interpretation of the quantum mechanical path integral - that is, an interpretation according to which the particle actually follows the paths t...