Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Philosophy and Theoretical Science

External reference: https://openalex.org/T10258

  1. Feminist logic may favor bilateralist strong negation
    Feminist critique of inferentialism showing how formal logic systems embed political hierarchies and proposing paraconsistent alternatives that address these concerns.
  2. Reconstructing Propositions: Symbols, Facts, and the Empirical Framework
    Reconstructing propositions through Ayer and Ryle's eliminativist project, this paper develops an anti-representationalist framework grounding propositions in linguistic practices rather than.
  3. Understanding is proposed as an alternative basis for access internalism
    Philosophical examination proposing objectual understanding as an alternative to knowledge-theoretic formulations of access internalism in epistemology.
  4. A Functional Theory of Qualia
    Jennings proposes qualia emerges from recursive self-monitoring architecture creating electrochemical differentials in biological tissue, with implications for AI consciousness assessment.
  5. Ability and epistemic position are treated as the same kind of modality
    Analysis arguing that an agent's position to know reduces to ability to know through compossibility, subsuming epistemic modality under agentive modality.
  6. Commentary argues for deeper reasons to reject temporal neutrality
    Commentary on Scheffler's treatment of Parfit's temporal neutrality argument, proposing that fundamental grounds beyond relationships justify rejecting temporal neutrality.
  7. Instructions can provide reasons by conveying practical information
    Explore how instructions convey information about rational conclusions and establish reasons for action, bridging the philosophical gap between declarative and imperative sentences in decision-making.
  8. Arbitrary reference conflicts with weak discernibility
    Philosophical analysis establishing logical incompatibility between arbitrary reference theory and the metaphysical possibility of weakly discernible entities.
  9. Reinachian internalism is defended against externalism
    Philosophical analysis defending Reinach's internalism about speech acts, arguing that speech-act performance does not require addressee uptake for its existence.
  10. Argument presented for the law of non-contradiction
    Novel argument for the principle of non-contradiction using extra-logical premises valid across classical and paraconsistent logical frameworks.
  11. Logic’s neutrality is framed as theory closure
    Interprets logic's neutrality through theory closure within a metalinguistic framework distinguishing validity from truth, connecting theory construction with logical structure.
  12. Mental imagery varies from absent to unusually vivid
    Analysis of visual imagery spectrum including phantasia, aphantasia, and hyperphantasia; neurological characteristics, memory associations, and functional outcomes across populations.
  13. Wittgenstein is presented as a methodological naturalist
    Explore Wittgensteinian methodological naturalism as a metaphilosophical constraint on philosophy independent of metaphysical commitments, distinguishing it from ontological positions.
  14. Montague’s shift toward formal natural language analysis
    Explore Richard Montague's intellectual shift from skepticism toward pioneering formal semantics for natural language in the late 1960s, reshaping linguistic analysis.