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The Foundation Stone of Psychology and Philosophy--A Critical Review of 'On Certainty' by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969) (1951). (review revised 2019) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A critical review of Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty' which he wrote in 1950-51 and was first published in 1969. Most of the review is spent presenting a modern framework for philosophy (the descriptive psychology of higher order thought) and positioning ...
Starks, Michael
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How objective are biological functions? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
John Searle has argued that functions owe their existence to the value that we put into life and survival. In this paper, I will provide a critique of Searle’s argument concerning the ontology of functions.
Weber, Marcel
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Discovery and Evaluation of Cadmium‐Adapted Daphnia pulex Genotypes in a Region of Historical Mining Reveals Adaptation Protects the Germline From Cadmium‐Induced Mutations

open access: yesMolecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 9, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Exposure to chemical pollutants can alter the rate and genome‐wide distribution of germline mutations. However, studies measuring the effects of chemical exposure on mutation rates and spectra have not considered the ecological and evolutionary backgrounds of the studied genotypes, which could influence the rates and patterns of germline ...
Nathan Keith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fair Version of the Chinese Room

open access: yesProblemos, 2019
By the Chinese room thought experiment, John Searle (1980) advocates the thesis that it is impossible for computers to think in the same way that human beings do.
Hasan Çağatay
doaj   +1 more source

On the Nature of Social and Institutional Reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
What is the nature of the social reality? How do the major social institutions like money or law exist? What are the limits of individualistically-oriented social theories?These and related problems are intensely discussed in philosophy, in legal theory ...
Ikäheimo, Heikki   +2 more
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Rules for Thee, Not for Me: Mass Attitudes on Judge Shopping

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective The goal of this project is to understand if the practice of judge shopping—strategically filing federal lawsuits to increase the likelihood of a favorable judge—raises concerns about fair judicial procedures. We examine how this practice reflects a broader loyalty‐fairness trade‐off in public evaluations of legal institutions, and ...
Miles T. Armaly, Elizabeth A. Lane
wiley   +1 more source

Searle on the Intentional Content of Visual Experiences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
I argue that, holding that the specification of Intentional content of the visual experience should be in the form of a proposition, John Searle gives up the first-person Intentionality and therefore bypasses the first ...
Jafarov, Anar
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En defensa del relativismo. Notas críticas desde una posición construccionista [PDF]

open access: yesAposta, 2014
Este texto tiene su origen en la lectura de una breve recensión, escrita por el profesor John Searle (2011), acerca del libro de Paul Boghossian, El miedo al conocimiento (Madrid, Alianza, 2009).
Baltasar Fernández-Ramírez
doaj  

Constitutive and Regulative Rules: a Dispute and a Resolution

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2017
This paper examines the distinction between constitutive and regulative rules by way of the philosophical dispute between John Searle and Joseph Raz.
Adriana Placani
doaj   +1 more source

O experimento de pensamento do quarto chinês: a crítica de John Searle à inteligência artificial forte

open access: yesArgumentos, 2010
Será que um dia serão desenvolvidos computadores digitais capazes de pensar de modo similar ao nosso? Ou será que, independentemente da tecnologia, os computadores digitais estarão sempre limitados a manipularem dados sem compreendê-los? Neste trabalho,
Maxwell Morais de Lima Filho
doaj   +2 more sources

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