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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism. Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite.
Adrian Stencel, Javier Suárez
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QUAL ONTOLOGIA PARA O EMPIRISMO CONSTRUTIVO?

Princípios, 2014
Existe um discurso ontológico inerente ao empirismo construtivo de van Fraassen? Parece que sim, apesar dessa vertente filosófica, referência para o empirismo contemporâneo, se propor como tese epistemológica. Trata-se, aliás, de uma questão muito atual,
Alessio Gava
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The bayesian and the abductivist

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.
Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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Temporal dimension of new-Zeno paradoxes [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
The paper investigates some properties of new-Zeno paradoxes. New-Zeno paradoxes are thought experiments whose conditions are set up in terms of Zeno sequences of numbers, i.e.
E. V. Borisov
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Sleeping Beauty and the demands of non‐ideal rationality

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1072-1092, December 2025.
Abstract If an agent can't live up to the demands of ideal rationality, fallback norms come into play that take into account the agent's limitations. A familiar human limitation is our tendency to lose information. How should we compensate for this tendency?
Wolfgang Schwarz
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Structuralism as a Stance

Philosophy of Physics
In this paper, I argue that ontic structural realism is best understood not as a thesis or doctrine concerning how the world fundamentally is, but rather as a “stance” in the sense of van Fraassen (2002).
Kerry McKenzie
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What physicalism could be

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 577-593, December 2025.
Abstract The physicalist credo is that the world is physical. But some phenomena, such as minds, morals, and mathematics, appear to be nonphysical. While an uncompromising physicalism would reject these, a conciliatory physicalism need not if it can account for them in terms of an underlying physical basis.
Michael J. Raven
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Observation in Constructive Empiricism: Arbitrary or Incoherent?

Crítica, 2018
EI empirismo constructivo se halla inapropiadamente motivado por la doctrina empirista general. Sin embargo, sostenemos que es posible encontrar una motivacion para dicho empirismo en la peculiar mezcla entre la teoría de la decisión y algunos hechos ...
Alberto Cordero
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Reflection, introspection, and book

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1136-1158, November 2025.
Abstract The much‐debated Reflection principle states that a coherent agent's credences must match their estimates for their future credences. Defenders claim that there are Dutch‐book arguments in its favor, putting it on the same normative footing as probabilistic coherence.
Kevin J. S. Zollman, Kevin Dorst
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