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Although our culture struggles to understand the origins and nature of good and evil behavior, the disciplines of psychology and psychoanalysis contribute to the discourse primarily indirectly. By examining early Judaism and Christianity, the authors seek

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A model of coherentist belief contraction is constructed. The outcome of belief contraction is required to be one of the coherent subsets of the original belief set, and a set of plausible properties is proposed for this set of coherent subsets. The contr

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This paper presents a propositional version of Kit Fine's (quantified) logic for essentialist statements, provides it with a semantics, and proves the former adequate (i.e. sound and complete) with respect to the latter.

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In my article I evaluate Searle's account of mental causation, in particular his account of the causal efficacy of unconscious intentional states. I argue that top-down causation and overdetermination are unsolved problems in Searle's philosophy of mind

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One of the principal difficulties in assessing Science as a Process (Hull 1988) is determining the relationship between the various elements of Hull's theory. In particular, it is hard to understand precisely how conceptual selection is related to Hull'

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The history and theoretical role of the concept of a replicator is discussed, starting with Dawkins' and Hull's classic treatments and working forward. I argue that the replicator concept is still a useful one for evolutionary theory, but it should be r

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The word deme was coined by the botanists J.S.L. Gilmour and J.W. Gregor in 1939, following the pattern of J.S. Huxley's cline. Its purpose was not only to rationalize the plethora of terms describing chromosomal and genetic variation, but also to reduce

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David Hull has demonstrated a marvelous ability to annoy everyone who cares about science (or should), by forcing us to confront deep truths about how science works. Credit, priority, precularities, and process weave together to make the very fabric of sc

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In this article, Carlos Pereda introduces the concept of colonial reason and explores how philosophical practices and modes of thought are entwined with colonial political structures of exploitation, exclusion, and oppression. Pereda argues that philosoph

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The article examines the concept of cognitive unconscious, which has become widespread in cognitive science. The author explores the origins of the concept, provides a detailed historical context for the emergence of the problem of the cognitive unconscio

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This paper proposes an original definition of samples as a kind of data within the relational framework of data. The distinction between scientific objects (e.g., samples, data, models) often needs to be clarified in the philosophy of science to understan

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An important question about moral progress is what causes it. One of the most popular proposed mechanisms is moral reasoning: moral progress often happens because lots of people reason their way to improved moral beliefs. Authors who defend moral reasonin

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Instances of the law of large numbers are used to model many different physical systems. In this paper, I argue for a particular interpretation, of those instances of that law, which appeals to typicality. As I argue, the content of that law, when used to