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Van Frasssen, Everett, and the critique of the copenhagem view of measurement
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2010 Bas van Fraassen advocates a “Copenhagen variant” of the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics. However, he believes that the Copenhagen approach to measurement is not fully satisfactory, since it seems to rule out the possibility of providing a ...
Stefano Osnaghi
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Conceptual engineering: Conceptual innovation via conceptual refinement
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 344-355, July 2025.Abstract Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp (2020) have recently challenged the traditional conceptual engineering project. They defend a reorientation of this project that moves away from correcting conceptual shortcomings and emphasizes conceptual innovation instead. Central to their proposal is the role played by etiological functions. The present paper
Otávio Bueno
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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 agentive achievement of acceptance
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 3-24, July 2025.Abstract Is acceptance an act or a state? Jonathan Cohen is often seen as a proponent of the view that acceptance is a mental act. In contrast, Michael Bratman claims that acceptance is a mental state. This paper argues that the evidence supports a more subtle approach.
Samuel Boardman
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The Contextual Character of Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics [PDF]
, 2007 In this article we discuss the contextual character of quantum mechanics in the framework of modal interpretations. We investigate its historical origin and relate contemporary modal interpretations to those proposed by M. Born and W. Heisenberg.
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Some attitudes we usually do not have
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 300-324, July 2025.Abstract I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \psi \urcorner$ are about very different subject‐matters, we can assure ourselves that the strangeness is merely pragmatic because of the alethic ...
Daniel Drucker
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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007 Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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Realism and Theories of Truth [PDF]
, 2018 The topic of truth has long been thought to be connected to scientific realism and its opposition. In this essay, I discuss the various ways that truth might be related to realism.
Asay, Jamin
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The Return of Causal Powers? [PDF]
, 2021 Powers, capacities and dispositions (in what follows I will use these terms synonymously) have become prominent in recent debates in metaphysics, philosophy of science and other areas of philosophy.
Hüttemann, Andreas
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