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Does weak discernibility determine metaphysics?
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2017)
Dos entidades son débilmente discernibles cuando entre ellas se mantiene una relación irreflexiva y simétrica. En la actualidad no se discute que la discernibilidad débil se da en la mecánica cuántica. Las consecuencias ...
Stop beating the donkey! A fresh interpretation of conditional donkey sentences
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We propose a new approach to conditional donkey sentences that allows us to face successfully the often called proportion problem. The main ingredients of the proposal are van Benthem's generalized quantifier approach to ...
Praxis matemática: reflexiones sobre la cognición que la hace posible
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Mathematics is a unique body of knowledge. Among others, it is abstract, exact, efficient, symbolizable, and it provides astonishing applications to the real world. In the domain of philosophy of mathematics the study of ...
Indispensability, causation and explanation
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When considering mathematical realism, some scientific realists reject it, and express sympathy for the opposite view, mathematical nominalism; moreover, many justify this option by invoking the causal inertness of ...
Putnam’s indispensability argument revisited, reassessed, revived
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Es esencial para el realismo de Putnam en filosofía de la matemática el poder mantener la objetividad de la matemática sin comprometerse con la existencia de objetos matemáticos. La versión de Putnam del argumento de la ...
Non-conceptualism, observational concepts, and the given
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In “Study of Concepts”, Peacocke puts forward an argument for non-conceptualism derived from the possession conditions of observational concepts. In this paper, I raise two objections to this argument. First, I argue that ...
Mathematical explanation and indispensability
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This paper discusses Baker’s Enhanced Indispensability Argument (EIA) for mathematical realism on the basis of the indispensable role mathematics plays in scientific explanations of physical facts, along with various ...
The indispensability argument and the nature of mathematical objects
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Two conceptions of the nature of mathematical objects are contrasted: the conception of mathematical objects as preconceived objects (Yablo 2010), and heavy duty platonism (Knowles 2015). It is argued that some theses ...
Manuel Vargas. 2013. Building Better Beings: a Theory of Moral Responsibility
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Guest Editors’ Introduction
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