This paper provides a critical re-examination of a funerary altar (CIL ii 497) from Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). It explores the strengths and weaknesses of all previous editions of the text from its first publication ...

I would like to congratulate James Woodward for another landmark accomplishment, after publishing his Making things happen: A theory of causal explanation (Woodward, 2003). Making things happen gives an elegant interventionist ...

The argument from inductive risk is considered to be one of the strongest challenges for val-ue-free science. A great part of its appeal lies in the idea that even an ideal epistemic agent-the “perfect sci-entist” or ...

Can philosophical theories of perception defer to perceptual science when fixing their ontological commitments regarding the objects of perception? Or in other words, can perceptual science inform us about the nature of ...

This paper discusses some procedures developed in recent work in machine learning for inferring causal direction from observational data. The role of independence and invariance assumptions is emphasized. Several familiar ...

Una de las cosas más importantes a las que la revolución darwiniana afectó es el pensamiento teleológico pre-vio. En particular, la atribución de funciones a diversas entidades del mundo natural con pretensiones explicativas. ...

Editors' introduction to 'James Woodward: Causal and explanatory asymmetries'.; Introducción de los editores a...

A threefold inscription scratched on a tile found in the surroundings of Reggio Calabria, dating back to late 2nd century BCe, evidences for insults addressed to slaves employed in a local pottery. Both context and abusive ...