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The Role of Justification in the Ordinary Concept of Scientific Progress
concept of progress aim of science justification scientific knowledge scientific progress true belief
2016/6/15
Alexander Bird and Darrell Rowbottom have argued for two competing accounts of the concept of scientific progress. For Bird, progress consists in the accumulation of scientific knowledge. For Rowbotto...
Variables, Generality and Existence: considerations on the notion of a concept-script
Stuff Things Matter Objects Non-singular quantification Non-singular reference Count Nouns Mass Nouns and Non-count Nouns
2015/8/5
A defense of the Frege / Russell idea of logic as a 'concept=script' or 'ideal language', and a discussion of the relationship of this project to the formalisation of mass nouns or non-count nouns
Inductive concept learning is the task of learning
to assign cases to a discrete set of classes. In
real-world applications of concept learning, there
are many different types of cost involved. The...
The Contemporary Relevance of an Augustinian Theory of Child Development
1 Book I of Augustine's Confessions(1) contains a remarkable account of child
development. The maturation from infancy to lat...
The Epistemic Goal of a Concept: Accounting for the Rationality of Semantic Change and Variation
concepts conceptual change gene concept epistemic goals semantic variation
2009/6/24
The discussion presents a framework of concepts that is intended to account for the rationality of semantic change and variation, suggesting that each scientific concept consists of three components o...
When monophyly is not enough: Exclusivity as the key to defining a phylogenetic species concept
genealogical exclusivity monophyly phylogenetic species concept
2009/4/22
A natural starting place for developing a phylogenetic species concept is to examine monophyletic groups of organisms. Proponents of "the" Phylogenetic Species Concept fall into one of two camps. The ...
What concept of disease should politicians use? Norman Daniels and the unjustifiable appeal of naturalistic analyses of health
Norman Daniels Christopher Boorse normal functioning bio-statistical theory of health
2009/4/8
Norman Daniels argues that health is important for justice because it affects the distribution of opportunities. He claims that a just society should guarantee fair opportunities by promoting and rest...
Two Monsters in Search of a Concept
Monster horror Aristotle Alfred Hitchcock Nol Carroll Cynthia Freeland
2008/11/6
What is a monster? At least three concepts have been proposed: Aristotle thinks a monster to be a "mistake of purpose" in nature; Nol Carroll thinks a monster to be a scientifically impossible being t...
There has been little serious work to integrate the constructionist approach and the cognitive approach in the domain of race, although many researchers have paid lip service to this project. We belie...
Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism
activity causation explanation invariance interaction
2008/4/21
Stuart Glennan, and the team of Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden and Carl Craver have recently provided two accounts of the concept of a mechanism. The main difference between these two versions rests o...
The aim of this paper is not only to deal with the concept of infinity, but also to develop some considerations about the epistemological status of cosmology. These problems are connected because from...
The Implicit Definition of the Set-Concept
set-concept semantic deflationism implicit definition
2008/4/21
Once Hilbert asserted that the axioms of a theory `dene' the primitive concepts
of its language `implicitly'. Thus when someone inquires about the meaning of
the set-concept, the standard response ...
The Role a Concept Plays in Science - The Case of Homology
concepts conceptual change homology
2008/4/21
The present paper gives a philosophical analysis of the conceptual variation in the homology concept. It is argued that different homology concepts are used in evolutionary and comparative biology, in...
The proposal that the concept of innateness expresses a ‘folk biological’ theory of the ‘inner natures’ of organisms was tested by examining the response of biologically naive subjects to a series of ...
Complex Systems from the Perspective of Category Theory: I. Functioning of the Adjunction Concept
Complex Systems Information Structures Localization Systems
2008/4/10
We develop a category theoretical framework for the comprehension of the information structure associated with a complex system, in terms of families of partial or local information carriers. The fram...