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An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)El uso de las disposiciones ha sido puesto en entredicho en numerosas ocasiones en la literatura filosófica, especialmente respecto a cómo pueden ser justificadas las atribuciones disposicionales. Aun así, las disposiciones ... -
Deep disagreement and deep conflict. Two ways in which a dispute can be deep
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)Current discussions in the political arena tend to be very unproductive and difficult to resolve. Recent literature suggests that this is the case because most of our political discussions are instances of deep disagreement. ... -
Testimony and inferential justification
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)Reductionists about testimony think that testimony is never a basic source of justifica-tion. By contrast, anti-reductionists claim that, at least in some paradigmatic cases, testimony is a basic and independent source of ... -
Thought experiments in the Jefferson-Turing controversy: a Kuhnian perspective
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)n this article we propose an analysis of the controversy between Geoffrey Jefferson and Alan Turing in terms of a Kuhnian account of thought experiments. In this account, the main task is not to evaluate intuitions or ... -
Two dimensions of the biological function debate
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)This article adopts a minimal definition of biological usage to demonstrate that the debate over biological function encompasses two distinct dimensions: descriptive and prescriptive. In the descriptive dimension, biological ... -
Wright’s path analysis: causal inference in the early twentieth century
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)Despite being a milestone in the history of statistical causal inference, Sewall Wright’s 1918 invention of path analysis did not receive much immediate attention from the statistical and scientific community. Through a ...