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SYNTHESE
2010
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Hierarchies and levels of reality
Alexander Rueger, Patrick McGivern
SYNTHESE
2010
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Which empathy? Limitations in the mirrored "understanding" of emotion
The recent discovery of so-called “mirror-neurons” in monkeys and a corresponding mirroring “system” in humans has provoked wide endorsement of the claim that humans under...
Remy Debes
SYNTHESE
2010
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Actual causation: a stone soup essay
We argue that current discussions of criteria for actual causation are ill-posed in several respects. (1) The methodology of current discussions is by induction from intuitions ab...
Clark Glymour, David Danks, Bruce Glymour, Frederi...
SYNTHESE
2010
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Darwinian 'blind' hypothesis formation revisited
Maria E. Kronfeldner
SYNTHESE
2010
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Proofs, pictures, and Euclid
Though pictures are often used to present mathematical arguments, they are not typically thought to be an acceptable means for presenting mathematical arguments rigorously. With re...
John Mumma
SYNTHESE
2010
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Four semantic layers of common nouns
Beihai Zhou, Yi Mao
SYNTHESE
2010
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Darwin's solution to the species problem
: Biologists and philosophers that debate the existence of the species category are split into two main camps. Some believe that the species category does not exist and that the te...
Marc Ereshefsky
SYNTHESE
2010
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Bolzano a priori knowledge, and the Classical Model of Science
This paper is aimed at understanding one central aspect of Bolzano’s views on deductive knowledge: what it means for a proposition and for a term to be known a priori. I argue t...
Sandra Lapointe
SYNTHESE
2010
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Frege's Begriffsschrift as a lingua characteristica
In this paper I suggest an answer to the question of what Frege means when he says that his logical system, the Begriffsschrift, is like the language Leibniz sketched, a lingua ch...
Tapio Korte