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"Space is blue and birds fly through it" [PDF]
, 2017 Quantum mechanics is not about 'quantum states': it is about values of physical variables. I give a short fresh presentation and update on the $relational$ perspective on the theory, and a comment on its philosophical implications.Comment: Presented to ...
Rovelli, Carlo
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Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 447-459, February 2025.Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical consensus, the system makes it so. I label this phenomenon system‐dependent truth. This paper advances a theory of performative truthmaking, wherein the agencies
Elliott Hauser
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Psychoneural reduction revised: The case of suicidality in bipolar disorder
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2025.Multidimensional frameworks fare better than reductionist, level‐based ones at comprehensively accounting for psychiatric phenomena. To demonstrate this, suicidality in bipolar disorder is used as a case study. In bipolar disorder, suicidality is traceable to the complex interplay of biological, psychosocial, environmental and experiential factors, and
Sidney Carls‐Diamante, Nina Atanasova
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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2017 This article is an overview of the philosophy of informatics with a special regard to some Polish philosophers. It juxtaposes the informationistic worldview with the long-prevailing mechanical conceptualization of nature before introducing the ...
Paweł Polak
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Why Quantum Theory is Possibly Wrong [PDF]
, 2010 Quantum theory is a tremendously successful physical theory, but nevertheless suffers from two serious problems: the measurement problem and the problem of interpretational underdetermination.
B.D. Espagnat +7 more
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Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 49-72, January 2025.Abstract Martin Heidegger's 1933 Freiburg University Rector's Address is normally considered in terms of the horrors of its association with National Socialism. This study re‐frames the debate about the Address by situating it in the context of the tradition of philosophical reflection upon the political and historical significance of the modern ...
Lee Ward
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Reanalyzing Chisholm Paradox. Structural Insights [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper I focus on the conditions that have to be met for Chisholm’s Paradox (CP) to occur. My claim is that identity and structure are notions closely related to each other. I propose a discussion in which the minimal framework
Bianca, Savu
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Some comments on "The Mathematical Universe"
, 2009 I discuss some problems related to extreme mathematical realism, focusing on a recently proposed "shut-up-and-calculate" approach to physics (arXiv:0704.0646, arXiv:0709.4024).
A. Einstein +24 more
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A proposal for a minimalist ontology [PDF]
, 2017 This paper seeks to answer the following question: What is a minimal set of entities that form an ontology of the natural world, given our well-established physical theories?
Esfeld, Michael
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