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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 271-297, June 2026.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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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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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 385-412, June 2026.Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Deconstructing van Fraassen's observable/unobservable dichotomy [PDF]
, 2012 Van Fraassen bases his alternative to scientific realism, constructive empiricism, on a dichotomy between the observable and the unobservable. This paper argues that the implications of the dichotomy regarding microscopy can not be made to stand, and ...
Mario, Bacelar Valente
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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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Skepticism and Ontological Parsimony
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, Page 86-98, June 2026.ABSTRACT External world skepticism is often thought to entail that we should suspend judgment about the existence of the external world. I challenge this orthodoxy by arguing that, when combined with a plausible principle of ontological parsimony, the skeptical challenge intensifies into an argument for outright disbelief in the external world.
James H. McIntyre
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Philosophy of PhysicsIn 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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British Journal of Psychology, Volume 117, Issue 2, Page 479-502, May 2026.Abstract Explainable AI (XAI) methods provide explanations of AI models, but our understanding of how they compare with human explanations remains limited. Here, we examined human participants' attention strategies when classifying images and when explaining how they classified the images through eye‐tracking and compared their attention strategies ...
Ruoxi Qi +4 more
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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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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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