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Correlations and How to Interpret Them

Information, 2019
Correlations between observed data are at the heart of all empirical research that strives for establishing lawful regularities. However, there are numerous ways to assess these correlations, and there are numerous ways to make sense of them.
Harald Atmanspacher, Mike Martin
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(WP 2011-02) The Change in Sraffa\u27s Philosophical Thinking [PDF]

, 2011
The availability of Piero Sraffa’s unpublished manuscripts and correspondence at Trinity College Library, Cambridge, has made it possible to begin to set out a more complete account of Sraffa’s philosophical thinking than previously could be done with ...
Davis, John
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Fodor's Causal Argument and Unwarranted Supervenience Assumption; Examining Egan's Argument [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
In this essay, I examine Fodor's argument in favor of psychological individualism and Egan's response. According to Fodor's causal argument, every scientific theory individualizes states or identities according to their causal powers.
Abbas Mahdavi
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Are there some things it is morally wrong to make-believe? An examination of imaginative resistance as a measure of the morality of pretence [PDF]

, 2015
This paper discusses the morality of make-believing deviant moral truths within the context of fictional narratives (e.g. make-believing that the killing of innocent people is a morally good thing to do).
Young, G
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Sobreveniencia. Un Caso de Ingeniería Conceptual

Logos, 2010
The paper analyses the main trends in the discussions about the notion of supervenience in the last decades, putting the emphasis in some crucial problems. The starting point will be the various concepts of supervenience proposed by Jaegwon Kim.
Manuel Liz
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Truthmaking and the Mysteries of Emergence [PDF]

, 2018
The concept of truthmaking, the idea that when a statement is true, there is typically something about the world in virtue of which it is true, has garnered much interest in recent metaphysics.
Morris, Kevin
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Physicalism, conceptual analysis, and acts of faith [PDF]

, 2008
Frank Jackson and the author each take the other to hold a position in philosophy of mind that it is extremely difficult to sustain. This chapter tries to say something about how that can be.
Hornsby, Jennifer
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Diagnosing ideal world objections

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1018-1036, November 2025.
Caleb Perl
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Emergence, Function and Realization [PDF]

, 2019
“Realization” and “emergence” are two concepts that are sometimes used to describe same or similar phenomena in philosophy of mind and the special sciences, where such phenomena involve the synchronic dependence of some higher-level states of affairs on ...
Baysan, Umut
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Supervenience, Reduction, and Translation [PDF]

Philosophy of Science, 2019
This article considers the following question: What is the relationship between supervenience and reduction? I investigate this formally: first, by introducing a recent argument by Christian List to the effect that one can have supervenience without reduction; then, by considering how the notion of Nagelian reduction can be related to the formal ...
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