BackBrowsing (2015) Volumen 30. Número 1 by Title
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Aliseda (2014):La lógica como herramienta de la razón. Razonamiento ampliativo en la creatividad, la cognición y la inferencia
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Can probabilistic coherence be a measure of understanding?
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)Coherence is a measure of how much our beliefs hang together. Understanding is achieved when we see that something is not just a brute, isolated fact. This suggests that it might be possible to develop a coherence theory ... -
Carlos París (1925-2014). In memoriam
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Causality and unification: how causality unifies statistical regularities
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)Two key ideas of scientific explanation - explanations as causal information and explanation as unification - have frequently been set into mutual opposition. This paper proposes a "dialectical solution" to this conflict, ... -
Guest Editors’ Introduction
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Inconsistency as a touchstone for coherence measures
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)The debate on probabilistic measures of coherence has focused on evaluating sets of consistent propositions. In this paper we draw attention to the largely neglected question of whether such measures concur with intuitions ... -
Pensamientos de se y mente consciente
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)En este artículo, desarrollo una versión modificada de la teoría de la conciencia en términos de pensamientos de orden superior. Argumento que un estado mental es consciente cuando va acompañado por un pensamiento de se ... -
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 ... -
Unification: not just a thing of beauty
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2015)We often hear that simplicity, explanatory power and unification, though aesthetically pleasing or beautiful qualities, are at best pragmatic considerations in matters of choosing between rival hypotheses. This paper aims ...