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The purpose of this paper is to propose an extension to Lee Smolin's hypothesis that our own universe belongs to a population of universes which have evolved by natural selection. Smolin's hypothesis ...
The World as a Process: Simulations in the Natural and Social Sciences
Models idealizations
2008/4/21
Simulation techniques, especially those implemented on a computer, are frequently employed in natural as well as in social sciences with considerable success. There is mounting evidence that the "mode...
Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection
mechanisms natural selection evolution
2008/4/21
This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of mechanism, due to Glennan an...
Natural Selection as a Population-Level Causal Process
natural selection evolution, causation
2008/4/15
Recent discussions in the philosophy of biology have brought into question some fundamental assumptions regarding evolutionary processes, natural selection in particular. Some authors argue that natur...
Natural Nonlinear Quantum Units and Human Artificial Linear System of Units
SI Planck Compton topological
2008/4/15
Diving into the nonlinear massive range of nuclear
physics, the quark model already indicates that the
linearized massless length scales break down. Although we
are often confronted with nonlinear ...
Current approaches to mathematical cognition divide into two major camps. Cognitive studies try to render mathematical intuition—the faculty that gives us immediate and authoritative knowledge of math...
Is Emotion a Natural Kind?
Natural Kind Emotion
2008/4/15
In What Emotions Really Are: The problem of psychological categories I argued that it is unlikely that all the psychological states and processes that fall under the vernacular category of emoti...
How Do Natural Selection and Random Drift Interact?
Random Drift Interact Natural Selection
2008/4/14
One controversy about the existence of so called evolutionary forces such as natural selection and random genetic drift concerns the sense in which such "forces" can be said to interact. In this paper...
Gauge Gravity and the Unification of Natural Forces
the Unification of Natural Forces Gauge Gravity
2008/4/14
Physics seems to tell us that there are four fundamental force-fields in nature: the gravitational, the electromagnetic, the weak, and the strong force-field (or interactions). But it also seems to te...
In earlier work I have claimed that emotion and some emotions are not ‘natural kinds’. Here I clarify what I mean by ‘natural kind’, suggest a new and more accurate term and discuss the objection that...
Emergence in exact natural science
Intertheoretical relations Higher-level theories Singular asymptotic expansions
2008/4/11
The context of an operational description is given by the distinction between what we consider as relevant and what as irrelevant for a particular experiment or observation. A rigorous description of ...
In cognitive psychology, concepts are those data structures that are stored in long-term memory and are used by default in human beings’ higher cognitive processes (categorization, inductive and deduc...
Analyzing an aspect of the inaugural lectures of the Paris Museum of Natural History: An appropriate concept of representation.
social epistemology representation inaugural lecture
2008/4/10
This paper presents part of a scientific study focused on the social aspects of research and its impact on the process of constructing knowledge. For this, we use a corpus of hitherto unexploited text...
Adaptive speciation: The role of natural selection in mechanisms of geographic and non-geographic speciation
Speciation mechanisms Isolating mechanisms
2008/4/9
Recent discussion of mechanism has suggested new approaches to several issues in the philosophy of science, including theory structure, causal explanation, and reductionism. Here, I apply what I take ...
A Natural Mass Unit Hidden in the Planck Action Quantum
baryon quantum Compton Dirac topological
2008/4/9
0.138% above the neutron and 0.276% above the proton baryon mass a natural mass unit µ can be identified by extrapolating dimensionless Planck units h=c=1 to the System of Units (SI). Similar to...