Browsing Theoria by Title
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The mud of experience and kinds of awareness
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The Must and the Heptahedron: Remarks on Remarks
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The Nature of Causality in Quantum Phenomena
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2000)The correlations between distant systems in typical quantum situations, such as Einstein-Podolosky-Rosen experiments, strongly suggest that the quantum realm involves curious types of non-local influences. In this paper, ... -
The nature of the physical and the meaning of physicalism
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2023)I provide an account of the physical appropriate to the task of the physicalist while remaining faithful to the usage of “physical” natural to physicists. Physicalism is the thesis that everything in the world is physical, ... -
The nature of theoretical concepts and the role of models in an advanced science
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The nonconceptual in concept acquisition
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The Normative Issue in Naturalistic Philosophy of Science
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The normative role of logic for reasoning
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2023)This paper advocates for the normative role of logic in reasoning. I offer a response, an-chored in an externalist perspective, to two fronts of attack against the normativity thesis, namely Har-man’s sceptical challenge ... -
The parallelogram law in the works of d'Alembert and Kant
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The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
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The perverse normative power of self-exceptions
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The philosopher’s paradox: How to make a coherent decision in the Newcomb Problem
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)We offer a novel argument for one-boxing in Newcomb’s Problem. The intentional states of a rational person are psychologically coherent across time, and rational decisions are made against this backdrop. We compare this ... -
The philosophy behind Quantum Gravity
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2006)This paper investigates some of the philosophical and conceptual issues raised by the search for a quantum theory of gravity. It is critically discussed wheter such a theory is necessary in the first place, and how much ... -
The Philosophy of Strict Finitism
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The possibility of coherentism and the stringency of ceteris paribus conditions
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)Schupbach (2008) puts forward a "possibility result" for Bayesian Coherentism, showing that there exist plausible sets of ceteris paribus conditions that imply that coherence is truth-conducive. Against this result, Schubert ... -
The Rationalist Reply to Fodor's Analyticity and Circularity Challenge
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The Reflexivity of Explicit Performatives
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2009)The aim of this contribution is to propose a natural implementation of the reflexive-referential theory advanced by Perry 2001 that aims at accounting for the reflexive character of explicit performative utterances. This ... -
The Rehabilitation of Deductive Reasoning.
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2020)El artículo tiene como propósito rehabilitar el razonamiento deductivo. Como paradigma de razonamiento fiable, el razonamiento deductivo debería poder aplicarse en todo contexto de confirmación. En particular, debería ... -
The relation between classical and quantum electrodynamics
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2011)Quantum electrodynamics presents intrinsic limitations in the description of physical processes that make it impossible to recover from it the type of description we have in classical electrodynamics. Hence one cannot ... -
The relevance of history to philosophy of science
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