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Logic and formal semantics for epistemology

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Game Theoretical Semantics as the Basis of a General Logic (With Jaakko Hintikka)

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Game theoretical semantics as the basis of a general logic march15 2010

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Some Comments on Susana Badiola’s “Necessity and the A priori: a Traditional Link Revisited”

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Comments on Susana Badiola’s paper for NMWT 2010

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The individuality of artifacts and organisms.

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Symons – the individuality of organisms and artifacts

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The Individuality of Organisms and Artifacts

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In recent decades, advances in molecular biology have made the artificial selection of biological functions a familiar part of contemporary civilization:...

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A Computational Modeling Strategy for Levels

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Rather than taking the ontological fundamentality of an ideal microphysics as a starting point, this paper sketches an approach to the problem of...

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A Sketch of the History and Methodology of Ontology in the Analytic Tradition

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Part 1: Introduction The analytic tradition is sometimes criticized as being narrowly focused on language, logic or conceptual analysis to the detriment...

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Computational Models of Emergent Properties

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1. Introduction Computational modeling plays an increasingly important explanatory role in cases where we investigate systems or problems that exceed...

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Detecting emergence in the interplay of networks

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Abstract We present a formal framework for the identification and interpretation of emergent properties in environments where agents participate in...

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A Computational Modeling Strategy for Levels

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Rather than taking the ontological fundamentality of an ideal microphysics as a starting point, this paper sketches an approach to the problem of...

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Intuition and Philosophical Methodology

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Intuition serves a variety of roles in contemporary philosophy. This paper provides a historical discussion of the revival of intuition in the 1970s,...

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Functionalism and Fallibility

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Functionalism in the philosophy of mind rests on the claim that mental states are multiply realizable; mental states can be realized by or instantiated...

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Embodied Computation and The Autonomy of Psychology

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Abstract How do we characterize the computational challenges facing a control system as it controls the behavior of an agent? Part of the answer to...

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Limiting Skepticism

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For an agent to have some knowledge of some proposition, he or she must be able to eliminate all relevant possibilities of error. Furthermore, since...

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Teleology in Biology: Haddox on some basic Principles of the Living World

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While Jack Haddox’s mature philosophical work emphasizes humanistic themes and existential concerns, his earliest major project in philosophy; his...

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Review of Giandomenico Sica (ed.) What is Category Theory?

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Giandomenico Sica’s volume is a collection of eleven papers on category theory by philosophers, mathematicians, and mathematical physicists. In...

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