Practices and normativity: Philosophy of Science, Agency and Epistemic Normativity
The present work aims to present the notion of eidetic agency as a novel account for the understanding of an epistemic normativity based on practices. The eidetic agency (Fonseca, 2020) and (Fonseca, 2023) is a modality of material agency that, scaffolded and extensively, delegates epistemic agency to formal artifacts that become evident in the ...
Miguel Fonseca Martínez
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From the immune self to moral agency. Comments [PDF]
Author comments on the changes in the philosophy of immunology that have occurred since the publication of his book The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?, as well as on the dangers, misunderstandings and expectations in this area. Finally, he presents his
Alfred I. Tauber
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Genetics and Human Agency: The Philosophy of Behavior Genetics Introduction to the Special Issue [PDF]
Eric Turkheimer
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A numerical scheme is presented to design a lattice support for metallic components additively built via laser powder bed fusion. Results show that thermal‐induced distortion can be respectively reduced by 69%, 58%, and 50% in comparison to a uniform lattice, a fully solid support, and a truss‐based lattice support.
Jiazheng Hu+2 more
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Interrogating artificial agency. [PDF]
Can artificial systems act? In the literature we find two camps: sceptics and believers. But the issue of whether artificial systems can act and, if so, how, has not been systematically discussed. This is a foundational question for the philosophy of AI.
Wong HY.
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Reality and the Method of Explaining Human Action in the Framework of the Islamic Philosophy A Fundamental Theory in the Humanities [PDF]
This article reviews the Reality and the Method of Explaining Human Action in the Framework of the Islamic Philosophy: A Fundamental Theory in the Humanities book. To reach the Islamic civilization, the necessity for producing Islamic social science and
Seyed Saeed Zahed
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The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice [PDF]
Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) is a freedom-centered and agency-oriented framework to the assessment of individual and social states. Indeed, it regards agency as having intrinsic, instrumental, and constructive importance.
Pablo Garcés
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Oedipus Philosophus: A Thought Experiment
This article has a four-fold purpose: (I) to point out the interface and overlap of Classics and Philosophy; (ii) to encourage the take-up of A level Philosophy as a fitting companion for Classics courses, linguistic and non-linguistic; (iii) to ...
Jerome Moran
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Adolescents’ Perception and Knowledge of Agency: A Phenomenological Study [PDF]
Human being is complicated, and at the same time, is basically active. Human agency means human beings are capable of controlling their life via thinking, motivation and self-action.
ZAHRA MAHGHANI+2 more
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Comentário a “a Brief discussion of the empirical plausibility of the reflective epistemic agency”
Commented Article: FREITAS, A. M. B. de; SANTOS, F. R. L. A brief discussion of the empirical plausibility of the Reflective Epistemic Agency. Trans/Form/Ação: Unesp journal of philosophy, v. 44, Special issue in honor of Ernest Sosa, p. 173-184, 2021.
Gregory Gaboardi
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