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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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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]

, 2017
Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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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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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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Axiom System and Completeness Expression for Quantum Mechanics [PDF]

, 2007
The standard axiomatization of quantum mechanics (QM) is not fully explicit about the role of the time-parameter. Especially, the time reference within the probability algorithm (the Born Rule, BR) is unclear.
Held, Carsten
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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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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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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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Explicación, adecuación empírica y verdad [PDF]

, 2001
En The Scientific Image, Van Fraassen elabora una teoría de la explicación con el propósito de poner de manifiesto que las virtudes de las teorías científicas que trascienden la adecuación empírica son de naturaleza pragmática.
Spehrs, Adriana
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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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