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Towards a general description of physical invariance in category theory
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Abstract
Invariance is one of the most important notions in applications of
mathematics. It is one of the key concepts in modern physics, is a compu-
tational...
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Pattern-oriented analysis of communication flow: the study ofcicada barbara lusitanica
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This paper provides a general perspective concerning
the study of flux of information in complex social
systems. The recognition of communicative...
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Understanding the complexity of information processing tasks in vision
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The basic presupposition of cognitive science is that mental life is more complicated (or complex) that it appears; there is more to the memory, attention,...
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No mere formality
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Philosophers have always tended to harbour some uncertainty about the goals, methods and achievements of the philosophical enterprise. This is as...
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Wheres the Bridge? Epistemic logic and Epistemology
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1. INTRODUCTION
Epistemic logic begins with the recognition that our everyday
talk about knowing and believing has some systematic features
that we...
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Epistemic Logic
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Epistemic logic gets its start with the recognition that expressions like ‘knows that’ or ‘believes that’ have systematic properties that...
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Applications de la logique; quelques remarques sur l’influence réciproque des recherches expérimentales et théoriques sur l’identification’
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Logique et Science
Ces dernieres annees la logique n’a joue qu’un role relativement marginel en philosophie des sciences. Selon la sagesse...
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The results are in: On the scope and import of Hintikka’s philosophy
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Jaakko Hintikka is more like a scientist or a mathematician than most philosophers in that his greatest contributions derive less from his views than...
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Systems of visual identification in neuroscience: Lessons from epistemic logic
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1. Introduction. While most work in neuroscience is conducted at the cellular
and subcellular level,1 brain research that catches the eye of philosophers
is...
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Logic, epistemology and the unity of science: An encyclopedic project in the spirit of Diderot and Neurath
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1. Unity: An Unfashionable Notion
The idea that the unity of science can b achieved by means of logical analysis, an idea widely associated with the...
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Information, representation, and the dynamic systems approach to language: Commentary on Shanker and King: The emergence of a new paradigm in ape language research
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Emergence and reflexive downward causation
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Absract
This paper responds to Jaegwon Kim’s powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties. Kim argues that...
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Explanation, representation and the dynamical hypothesis
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Abstract. This paper challenges arguments that systematic patterns of intelligent behavior license
the claim that representations must play a role...
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What can neuroscience explain?
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Horgan’s perceptive discussion of Freudian psychology, Prozac and evolutionary
biology cannot mitigate the problems that seriously weaken his book...
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