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Author : Adhanom Andemicael
Institution :
Andemicael@worldnet.att.net
Title : Time in a Quantum and Relativistic
Universe
URL of paper : http://home.att.net/~Andemicael/intro.html
Keywords
: Time Consciousness Relativity Quantum Theory Einstein von Neumann Time
Travel
Abstract : Working entirely within the framework of modern physics, I
provide new insight into: the cause of temporal passage; the fundamental nature
of consciousness; the role played by an observer's mind in a quantum
measurement.
Format: HTML
Date : Tue Jul 22 13:41:41 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Kent Bach
Institution :
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/
Title : Accidental Truth and Would-be
Knowledge
URL of paper : http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/accidtruth.html
Format:
HTML Date : Sat Nov 22 16:37:37
HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : William Bechtel
Title : What Should a
Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?
URL of paper : http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/papers/bechtel.conn-phil-sci.ps
Format:
Postscript Date : Thu Mar 6
19:07:28 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Nick Bostrom
Institution : Dept.
Philosophy, London School of Economics
Title : Investigations into the
Doomsday argument
URL of paper : http://www.hedweb.com/nickb/welcom..htm
Keywords
: doomsday argument, science, future, anthropic, principle
Abstract :
Examines John Leslie's disturbing argument that humankind is likely to become
extinct sooner than we thought...
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Date : Wed Jun 17 23:37:38 HKT
1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Gary Dempsey
Institution :
gdempsey@cato.org
Title : Hayek's Evolutionary Epistemology, Artificial
Intelligence, and the Question of Free Will
URL of paper : http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/hayekee.html
Keywords
: Connectionism, complex adaptive system, long-term potentiation,
nonmonotonic
Abstract : This paper examines the evolutionary epistemology of
the Austrian economist Friedrich
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Date : Fri Apr 18 02:10:05 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Laszlo E. Szabo
Institution : Eotvos
University, Dept. of HPS, http://hps.elte.hu
Title : Complete Resolution
of the EPR-Bell Paradox
URL of paper : http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo/EPRind.html
Keywords
: Reichenbach, EPR-Bell, causality, common cause, relativity,
determinism
Abstract : The EPR-Bell paradox is that we observe correlations
between spatially separated events in the EPR-experiments, which do not admit
common-cause-type explanation; and it must therefore be inevitably concluded,
that, contrary to relativity theory, in the realm of quantum physics there
exists action at a distance, or at least superluminal causal propagation is
possible; that is, either relativity theory or Reichenbach's common cause
principle fails. This paradox will be completely resolved in this paper.
Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle does not fail in quantum mechanics.
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29 08:29:29 HKT 1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Laszlo E. Szabo
Institution : Eotvos
University, Budapest, Dept. of HPS, http://hps.elte.hu
Coauthor : Nuel
Belnap
Title : Branching Space-time analysis of the GHZ theorem
URL
of paper : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9510002
Keywords
: Branching space-time, GHZ theorem, common cause, causality
Abstract :
Greenberger, Horne, Shimony and Zeilinger gave a new version of the Bell theorem
without using inequalities. Mermin summarized it concisely; but Bohm and Hiley
criticized his proof from contextualists' point of view. Using the Branching
Space-time language, a proof will be given that is free of these difficulties.
At the same time we will also clarify the limits of the validity of the theorem
when it is taken as a proof that quantum mechanics is not compatible with a
deterministic world nor with a world that permits correlated space-related
events without a common cause.
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Date : Mon Jun 29 09:40:39 HKT
1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Laszlo E. Szabo
Institution : Eotvos
University, Budapest, Dept. of HPS, http://hps.elte.hu
Coauthor : Gabor
Hofer-Szabo and Miklos Redei
Title : On Reichenbach's common cause
principle and Reichenbach's notion of common cause
URL of paper : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9805066
Keywords
: Reichenbach, common cause, causality, quantum and classical
probability
Abstract : It is shown that, given any finite set of correlated
pairs of random events in a Boolean algebra, the algebra can be extended in such
a way that the extension contains events that can be regarded as common causes
of the correlations in the sense of Reichenbach's definition of common cause. It
is shown, further, that, given any quantum probability space and any set of
commuting events in it which are correlated with respect to a fixed quantum
state, the quantum probability space can be extended in such a way that the
extension contains common causes of all the selected correlations.
Format:
HTML Date : Mon Jun 29 09:02:59
HKT 1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Bruce Edmonds
Title : The Possible
Irreducibility of Software Artificial Life
URL of paper : http://www.fmb.mmu.ac.uk/cpm/cpmrep14.html
Format:
HTML Date : Thu Mar 6 19:07:28
HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Chris Eliasmith
Coauthor : Paul
Thagard
Title : Particles, Waves, and Explanatory Coherence
URL of
paper : http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~celiasmi/index.html
Format:
HTML Date : Thu Mar 6 19:07:28
HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Mikael Eriksson
Institution :
m68me3g7@students.su.se
Title : Brief On A Criticism Of Time
URL of
paper : http://members.tripod.com/~mikael_eriksson/Brief_On_A_Criticism_Of_Time.html
Keywords
: Time, C-time, Paradox, McTaggart, Russell
Abstract : McTaggart has set his
mark in the philosophy of time maintaining that time is unreal. In the McTaggart
view of time this is a correct conclusion. But I maintain that the McTaggart
view is not essential to time. Further on I maintain that the Russell view of
time is unclear.
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Date : Thu Apr 2 00:12:40 HKT
1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Yali Friedman
Institution :
http://www.clearlight.com/~morph
Title : Philosophy of Time
URL of
paper : http://www.clearlight.com/~morph/time.htm
Keywords
: Science, philsophy, time, McTaggart
Abstract : A rebuttal of McTaggart's
claim that time cannot and does not exist.
Format: HTML
Date : Tue Sep 30 21:37:49 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Yali Friedman
Institution :
http://www.clearlight.com/~morph
Title : Science Doesn't Kill People ...
People Kill People
URL of paper : http://www.clearlight.com/~morph/value.htm
Keywords
: Science, philsophy, society, value, ethics
Abstract : An exploration of the
ethics of science. Is science responsible for the negative outcomes of
innovations, or is it society's fault?
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Date : Tue Sep 30 21:36:44 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Kris Hartung
Institution : Boise State
University
Title : Reichenbach and the Nature of Predictive
Knowledge
URL of paper : http://www.cyberhighway.net/~ataraxia/kris/thesis.html
Keywords
: predictive knowledge, induction, posits, Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific
Philosophy
Abstract : This essay provides an account and critique of Hans
Reichenbach's theory of predictive knowlege as presented in his book, "The Rise
of Scientific Philosophy."
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Date : Fri Apr 3 04:01:08 HKT
1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Christopher Hookway
Institution :
Sheffield University
Title : Naturalism and Normativity: Some Issues
Concerning Naturalised Epistemology
URL of paper : http://www.stir.ac.uk/philosophy/cnw/webpapers/hookway1.htm
Format:
HTML Date : Mon May 25 12:29:28
HKT 1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Frank Jackson
Title : Naturalism and
the Fate of the M-Worlds
URL of paper : http://plato.stanford.edu/price/preprints/Jackson26Sept96.rtf
Format:
Rich-Text-Format Date : Thu Mar
6 19:07:28 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Ralph Kenyon
Institution :
diogenes@vgernet.net
Title : Perception, Representation, and Reference:
Some Thoughts on an Essential Structure
URL of paper : http://www.vgernet.net/diogenes/mathesis.html
Keywords
: perception representation reference
Abstract : A new theory presents a
smallest 'essential' structure for reference, representation, and perception in
which the simplest kinds can occur. An analogical relation constructed between
the simple model based on the structure of a computer and a person in the world
provides an account of the simplest forms of, and an explanation for the derived
forms of each. The relation presented shows that they can all be explained
entirely within the cause-effect paradigm.
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Date : Sun Mar 8 07:15:35 HKT
1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Colin McGinn
Title : The Problem of
Philosophy
URL of paper : http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/consciousness/papers/ProblemOfPhilosophy.html
Format:
HTML Date : Thu Mar 6 19:07:28
HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Huw Price
Title : Time symmetry in
microphysics
URL of paper : http://plato.stanford.edu/price/preprints/PSA96.html
Abstract
: From Philosophy of Science
Format: HTML
Date : Wed May 14 18:44:43 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Huw Price
Title : A neglected route to
realism about Quantum Mechanics
URL of paper : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9406028
Abstract
: reprinted in Grim, P., Mar, G. & Williams, P. (eds.) The Philosopher's
Annual, Vol. XVII, Ridgeview, 1996, 181-215.
Format: Other
Date : Wed May 14 18:48:03 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Huw Price
Title : The role of history
in microphysics
URL of paper : http://plato.stanford.edu/price/preprints/history.html
Abstract
: in Sankey, H. (ed.), Causation and Laws of Nature, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1998.
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Wed May 14 18:44:00 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Huw Price
Title : The View from
Nowhen
URL of paper : http://plato.stanford.edu/price/TAAPch1.html
Keywords
: time
Abstract : Ch 1 of the book Time's Arrow & Archimedes'
Point
Format: HTML Date
: Sun Nov 2 18:18:05 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Karel Pstruzina
Title : A New Way of
Science, A New Type of Rationality
URL of paper : ftp://ftp.vse.cz/pub/VSE/logos/Phil_of_Science/pst-96-1.txt
Format:
ASCII Date : Thu Mar 6 19:07:28
HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Gunn Quznetsov
Institution :
gunn@chat.ru
Title : INFORMATION, TIME, SPACE
URL of paper : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/2914/Hindu.html
Keywords
: true false Relativity space time information
Abstract : If you have got any
set of the objects, which able to get, to keep or to give any information, then
"the time" and "the space" are inevitable on this set. And it is all the same:
or this set is in our world or this set is in any other worlds, in which the
spatial-temporal structure does not exist initially. Since, the spatial-temporal
structure arises from the logic properties of the information.
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Date : Tue Mar 17 09:55:37 HKT
1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Brent Robbins
Institution :
bdeanrob@sgi.net
Title : Phenomenology, Psychology, Science, and History
URL of paper : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/2967/janusheadsciencepaper.html
Keywords
: Heidegger Kuhn Giorgi Hoeller Existential-Phenomenology History Science
Psychology Ontology Being Mythology
Abstract : Thomas Kuhn's ontic
investigation of science can be enriched in light of Heidegger's provisional
ontological inquiry in Being and Time, as well as his "later" writings. Based on
this investigation, the argument will be put forth that, to be truly
phenomenological, psychology must arise from an understanding of human beings as
radically social and historical. In turn, Hoeller's critique of Giorgi's
conception of phenomenological psychology as a competing "paradigm" will be
addressed.
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Date : Fri Jul 3 15:00:27 HKT 1998
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Philip Thonemann
Institution :
thonemann@easynet.co.uk
Title : Chance And Degree Of Belief
URL of
paper : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~thonemann/probability.html
Keywords
: Probability Chance Belief
Abstract : The word 'probability' is ambiguously
used to refer to two distinct ideas: (i) Chances, which are conjectured to be a
property of Physical systems - a property, or propensity, independent of the
state of human knowledge. (ii) Degrees of belief or betting
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Date : Thu Mar 27 06:23:12 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
epistemology
philosophy of science
Author : Philip Thonemann
Institution :
thonemann@easynet.co.uk
Coauthor : None
Title : The Metamethodology Of
Science
URL of paper : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~thonemann/index.html
Keywords
: science history sociology metamethodology methodology strong programme
historiography
Abstract : Discusses relationship between Philosophy of
Science, History, Sociology, and Physics. Argues that Descriptive Methodology
should proceed without using history as evidence. Supports the Strong Programme
in the Sociology of Knowledge.
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Date : Sat Apr 12 22:25:16 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Philip Thonemann
Institution :
thonemann@easynet.co.uk
Coauthor : None
Title : Conjectural Realism And
Anti-realism
URL of paper : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~thonemann/index.html
Keywords
: conjectural realism antirealism Van Fraassen positivisim
Abstract :
Conjectural Realism satisfactorily accounts for Physics. It can jump classic
hurles like the Duhem-Quine problem. The anti-realist arguments of Laudan and
Van Fraassen fail, because of their implicit reliance on the existence of an
observation/theory li
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Date : Sat Apr 12 22:37:29 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Philip Thonemann
Institution :
thonemann@easynet.co.uk
Coauthor : None
Title : Quarantining
Scepticism
URL of paper : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~thonemann/index.html
Keywords
: Scepticism doubt Epistemology methodology science
Abstract : To describe
the methodology of science successfully we need to quarantine sceptical
inductive doubt. We need to use justification, reason, and support, conditional
on an inductive presupposition. By doing this, we regain contact with the
attitudes of ac
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Date : Sat Apr 12 22:29:19 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
epistemology
philosophy of science
Author : Philip Thonemann
Institution :
thonemann@easynet.co.uk
Title : Demarcation
URL of paper : http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~thonemann/index.html
Keywords
: demarcation philosophy science Physics rationality Popper
Abstract : I
argue that the extent of rationality of investigators in an activity can be
assessed, as long as inductive doubt is quarantined. Since some of the methods,
such as theory choice, and the assessment, are not reducible to algorithms, the
assessment is a
Format: HTML
Date : Sat Apr 12 23:02:29 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : H. Earl Willis
Institution :
earl@flex.net
Title : The Theory Contropy (Genral and Special
Cases)
URL of paper : http://www.flex.net/~earl
Keywords :
metaphysics; causality; Evolution; positive-sum interactions
Abstract :
(Abstract at home page)
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Date : Wed Dec 10 01:50:29 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Craig Wonsiewicz
Title : States of
Existence -- AI [Plain Text]
URL of paper : http://www.pitt.edu/~cjmst30/dennett.txt
Format:
ASCII Date : Thu Mar 6 19:07:28
HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Petri Ylikoski
Institution :
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pylikosk
Title : The Invisible Hand and
Science
URL of paper : http://www.helsinki.fi/~pylikosk/invisible.html
Keywords
: philosophy of science, naturalism, David Hull, sociology of scientific
knowledge, invisible hand, explanation
Format: HTML
Date : Thu Jun 12 15:50:48 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Robert Young
Title : Persons,
Organisms... and Primary Qualities
URL of paper : http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/papers/paper40.html
Keywords
: biological explanation, final causes, purposive explanation, primary
qualities
Format: HTML Date
: Sat Mar 8 17:56:48 HKT 1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Robert Young
Title : Darwin's Metaphor
and the Philosophy of Science
URL of paper : http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/papers/paper8.html
Keywords
: natural selection, metaphor, anthropomorphism, teleology
Format: HTML
Date : Sat Mar 8 17:57:16 HKT
1997
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Nick Bostrom Email : n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Institution : Dept.
Philosophy, London School of Economics
Homepage : http://www.hedweb.com/nickb
Title :
The Doomsday Argument: a Literature Review
URL of paper : http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/lit/index.html
Keywords
: probability theory, prediction, anthropic principle, reasoning, chance,
indexical
Abstract : A concise survey to bring you up to speed.
Format:
HTML Date : 1999/02/12
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
epistemology
Author : Soshichi Uchii Email : suchii@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Institution
: Kyoto University, Japan
Homepage : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/SUhome.html
Title
: Darwin on the Evolution of Morality
URL of paper : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/D.onM.html
Keywords
: Darwin, evolution, morality
Abstract : Darwin's account of the evolution of
morality is examined and defended; what is essential in his theory is
"reductionism".
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Date : 1999/03/03
Subject
Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Soshichi Uchii Email : suchii@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Institution
: Kyoto University, Japan
Homepage : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/SUhome.html
Title
: Sherlock Holmes and Probabilistic Induction
URL of paper : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/holmes_1.html
Keywords
: Holmes, probability, induction
Abstract : Sherlock Holmes was a good
logician; he knew symbolic logic and the inverse method of probability. I argue
for this on the textual evidence.
Format: HTML
Date : 1999/03/03
Subject
Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Soshichi Uchii Email : suchii@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Institution
: Kyoto University, Japan
Homepage : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/SUhome.html
Title
: Theory Reduction: the case of the kinetic theory of gases
URL of
paper : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/reduction1.html
Keywords
: reduction, kinetic theory, irreversibility, probability
Abstract : Kinetic
theory is a good material for examining the nature of theory reduction.
Maxwell's and Boltzmann's theories are examined, and it is concluded that their
theories failed as a reduction, although their program of reduction was indeed
fruitful.
Format: HTML Date
: 1999/03/03
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : John Hubbard Email : mindless@mindless.com
Homepage : http://members.aol.com/analander/
Title
: Parsimony and the Mind
URL of paper : http://members.aol.com/analander/essays/simple.html
Keywords
: parsimony dualism razor science
Abstract : Explores the consequences of
using the principle of parsimony to solve the mind- body problem.
Format:
HTML Date : 1999/03/23
Subject Heading :
consciousness
other topics in philosophy of mind
philosophy of science
Author : Carlos Muñoz Email : cmunoz11@serbal.pntic.mec.es
Homepage
: http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/~cmunoz11/index.html
Title
: Por una Lógica de la Esperanza
URL of paper : http://serbal.pntic.mec.es/~cmunoz11/index.html
Format:
HTML Date : 1999/04/05
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
philosophy of logic / mathematics
Author : Alex Byrne Email : abyrne@mit.edu
Institution : MIT
Homepage
: http://web.mit.edu/abyrne/www/home.html
Coauthor
: Ned Hall
Title : Chalmers on Consciousness and Quantum
Mechanics
URL of paper : http://web.mit.edu/abyrne/www/Conc&QM.html
Abstract
: in Philosophy of Science
Format: HTML
Date : 1999/04/13
Subject
Heading :
consciousness
philosophy of science
Author : Filip Buekens Email : f.a.i.buekens
Institution : Tilburg
University
Homepage : http://cwis.kub.nl/~fsw_2/fww/home/buekens/
Title
: Observing in the space of reasons
URL of paper : http://cwis.kub.nl/~fsw_2/fww/home/buekens/
Format:
Microsoft Word Date :
1999/04/22
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Filip Buekens Email : f.a.i.buekens
Institution : Tilburg
University
Homepage : http://cwis.kub.nl/~fsw_2/fww/home/buekens/
Title
: Supervenience and mental causation
URL of paper : http://cwis.kub.nl/~fsw_2/fww/home/buekens/
Keywords
: Mental Causation
Abstract : This paper gives an outline of a proof that the
mental is causally efficacious.
Format: Microsoft Word
Date : 1999/04/22
Subject
Heading :
philosophy of science
Author : Thomas Metzinger Email : tmetzinger@ucsd.edu
Institution :
UCSD/Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Homepage : http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gm1001/metz.htm
Title
: Faster than thought: Holism, homogeneity, and temporal coding
URL of
paper : http://www.imprint.co.uk/online/Metz1.html
Keywords
: consciousness binding-problem unitiy of consciousness grain-problem holism
Abstract : This paper investigates two kinds of higher-order phenomenal
properties: the holistic character of phenomenal content instantiated on
different levels and the homogeneity of simple phenomenal properties (i.e. their
"ultra- smoothness", "density" or "grainlessness"). It attempts to open up a new
perspective onto these well- known problems, by first approaching them from the
first-person perspective and introducing the phenomenological concept of a
„phenomenal holon“. The second part then operates them from the external
perspective of science, examining theoretical models from brain research with
regard to their utility for philosophical questions, by focussing on the role of
sychronization processes in the formation of representational objects in the
brain, i.e. on the binding of properties through mechanisms of temporal coding.
In the final speculative part of this paper the importance of a generalizable
solution to the binding problem and the superposition problem is pointed out.
The overriding aim is to emphasize the significance of a widely neglected
problem for any theory of phenomenal content: the problem of the integration of
mental content.
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Date : 1999/05/16
Subject Heading :
consciousness
foundations of cognitive science
philosophy of science
Author : Thomas Metzinger Email : tmetzinger@ucsd.edu
Institution :
UCSD/Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Homepage : http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gm1001/metz.htm
Title
: The problem of consciousness
URL of paper : http://www.imprint.co.uk/metzinger/
Keywords
: Science of Consciousness qualia presence transparency perspectivalness
epistemic asymmetry
Abstract : A comprehensive introduction into the problem
of consciousness
Format: HTML
Date : 1999/05/16
Subject
Heading :
consciousness
foundations of cognitive science
philosophy of science
Author : Richard Ryals Email : island@sundial.net
Institution : UHK
almuni
Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/2382
Title
: Nature's Theory
URL of paper : http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/2382
Keywords
: physics, theory, nature, science
Abstract : This paper is about Nature's
Grand Unified Theory
Format: HTML
Date : 1999/05/20
Subject
Heading :
philosophy of science
metaphysics
other topics in philosophy
Author : Maxim Lebedev Email : lebedev@philosophy.ru
Institution :
Univ. of Iowa; Peoples' Friendship Univ. of Russia
Homepage : http://www.philosophy.ru/lebedev
Title
: Truthfulness of linguistic meanings and semantics of transition from
description to explanation
URL of paper : http://www.philosophy.ru/lebedev/texts/expl.html
Keywords
: truth, justification, meaning, description, explanation, semantics,
reference
Abstract : In this paper I will try to present an exposition of my
account of descriptiveness as a constituent of meaning. Comparing some related
distinctions — similar but not identical — I will try to show their role in the
enlargement of descriptiveness leading to explanation, and thus to the
increasing of knowledge. Questions arising here allow to frame a semantic theory
which would take in consideration not only the relationship of reference but
also the conceptual web of the speaker — and thus would be a pragmatic theory as
well as semantic in the proper sense of term.
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Date : 1999/05/25
Subject
Heading :
philosophy of language
philosophy of science
epistemology
Author : Teed Rockwell Email : 74164.3703@compuserve.com
Institution
: The Union Insitute
Homepage : http://www.california.com/`mcmf
Title
: Beyond Eliminative Materialism: Some Unnoticed Implications of Churchland's
Pragmatic Pluralism
URL of paper : http://www.california.com/~mcmf/causeweb.html
Keywords
: CHurchland, Eliminative Materialism, Scientific Reduction, Folk
Psychology
Abstract : Paul Churchland's epistemology contains a tension
between two positions, which I will call pragmatic pluralism and eliminative
materialism. Pragmatic pluralism became predominant as Churchland's epistemology
became more neurocomputationally inspired, which saved him from the skepticism
implicit in certain passages of the theory of reduction he outlined in
Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind. However, once he replaces
eliminativism with a neurologically inspired pragmatic pluralism, Churchland 1)
cannot claim that folk psychology might be a false theory, in a
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Date : 1999/05/26
Subject
Heading :
other topics in philosophy of mind
philosophy of science
Author : Gunn Quznetsov Email : quznets@yahoo.com
Institution : TOO
SET-SFT
Homepage : http://physics.da.ru/
Title : Which
Physics Laws are Deduced from the Logic Properties of the Information?
URL of paper : http://physics.da.ru/
Keywords : time,
space, relativity, quants, probability, information
Abstract : The particles
and fields are not the basic entities of Universe but the logic events and the
logic probabilities are the basic entities. Universe - i.e. the time, the space
and whole their contents - is the by-product of the deduction from the logic
events.
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1999/06/08
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
metaphysics
Author : Chris Lang Email : clang@netmeg.net
Title : predictive
deduction: expanding the arsenal of science
URL of paper : http://home.earthlink.net/~imaginationworks/pd.htm
Keywords
: predictive deduction science chaos inference logic intuition decision social
evolution
Abstract : Of the three kinds of inferential reasoning --
induction, deduction and abduction -- only deductive inference (the kind
underlying intutition) is theoretically reliable for confirming predictions used
in practical decision making. The logical proof that predictive deduction is
possible advances epistemology, logic, and philosophy of science, but, more
importantly, this document translates the method into a step-by-step analytic
tool that we can apply to prediction and decision-making without relying on
intuition.
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: 1999/06/09
Subject Heading :
other topics in philosophy of mind
philosophy of science
epistemology
metaphysics
Author : Bostrom Nick Email : n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Institution : Dept.
Philosophy; London School of Economics
Homepage : http://www.analytic.org/
Title :
Causation, Indexical facts and the self-sampling
URL of paper : http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/cau/causation.doc
Keywords
: causation, indexical facts, anthropic reasoning, anthropic principle,
probability
Abstract : The self-sampling assumption, stating that observers
should in some sense regard themselves as random samples from the set of all
observers, is a central assumption behind the Doomsday argument and much
so-called anthropic reasoning. This paper shows that some surprising and
counterintuitive consequences follow from this assumption. And the appearance is
that these consequences imply an anomalous sort of backwards causation. If that
were really the case, it would cast serious doubt on the self-sampling
assumption. However, a closer analysis suggests that no problematic causation is
involved. The self-sampling assumption seems to survive the test.
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1999/06/15
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
epistemology
other topics in philosophy
Author : Nick Bostrom Email : n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Institution : Dept.
Philosophy; London School of Economics
Homepage : http://www.analytic.org/
Title : The
Doomsday Argument is Alive and Kicking
URL of paper : http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/ali/alive.html
Keywords
: doomsday argument, risk, anthropic
principle,probability,chance,extinction,future
Abstract : How can we be
justified in believing that the sun will rise tomorrow? This paper, in dialogue
form, attempts a solution to the problem of induction.
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Date : 1999/06/15
Subject
Heading :
philosophy of science
epistemology
philosophy of logic / mathematics
other topics in philosophy
Author : Nick Bostrom Email : n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Institution : Dept.
Philosophy; London School of Economics
Homepage : http://www.analytic.org/
Title :
Predictions from Philosophy?
URL of paper : http://www.hedweb.com/nickb/predict.htm
Keywords
: meta philosophy, methodology,prediction,artificial intelligence,forecasting,
progress
Abstract : The purpose of this paper, boldly stated, is to propose a
new type of philosophy, a philosophy whose aim is prediction. The pace of
technological progress is increasing very rapidly: it looks as if we are
witnessing an exponential growth, the growth-rate being proportional to the size
already obtained, with scientific knowledge doubling every 10 to 20 years since
the second world war, and with computer processor speed doubling every 18 months
or so. It is argued that this technological development makes urgent many
empirical questions which a philosopher could be well-suited to help answering.
I try to cover a broad range of interesting problems and approaches, which means
that I won't go at all deeply into any of them; I only try to say enough to show
what some of the problems are, how one can begin to work with them, and why
philosophy is relevant. My hope is that this will whet your appetite to deal
with these questions, or at least increase general awareness that they worthy
tasks for first-class intellects, including ones which might belong to
philosophers.
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Date : 1999/06/15
Subject Heading :
other topics in philosophy of mind
philosophy of science
epistemology
ethics
political philosophy
other topics in philosophy
Author : Nick Bostrom Email : n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Institution : Dept.
Philosophy; London School of Economics
Homepage : http://www.analytic.org/
Title :
Observer-relative chances in anthropic reasoning?
URL of paper : http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/rel/relative.html
Keywords
: chance, probability, observer,relative,reference class,frequency
Abstract :
John Leslie presents a thought experiment to show that chances are sometimes
observer-relative in a paradoxical way. The pivotal assumption in his argument –
a version of the weak anthropic principle – is the same as the one used to get
the disturbing Doomsday argument off the ground. I show that Leslie’s argument
rides on an ambiguity and is fallacious. I then describe other situations were
chances are observer-relative in a non-paradoxical but interesting
way.
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1999/06/15
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
epistemology
philosophy of logic / mathematics
other topics in philosophy
Author : Soshichi Uchii Email : suchii@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Institution
: Kyoto University
Homepage : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/SUhome.html
Title
: The Responsibility of the Scientist
URL of paper : http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/resp.sci.E.html
Keywords
: responsibility, scientist, atomic bomb
Abstract : The problem of the
responsibility of the scientist has one of the major sources in the Franck
Report. The basic idea of this report is analyzed, and traced through subsequent
documents.
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Date : 1999/06/23
Subject Heading :
philosophy of science
Total : 56 papers