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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0376.v2

Free Will, Temporal Asymmetry, and Computational Undecidability

Stuart Doyle

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: free will; undecidability; temporal asymmetry; compatibilism; predictability; dynamic systems

Online: 23 August 2022 (11:28:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0429.v1

Gentzen’s “Cut Rule” and Quantum Measurement in Terms of Hilbert Arithmetic. Metaphor and Understanding Modeled Formally

Vasil Penchev

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: cut-elimination; Hilbert arithmetic; metaphor; proposition; propositional logic; quantum meas-urement

Online: 28 July 2022 (06:27:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0084.v1

Philosophical Aspects of Emotion

Cecilea Mun

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: philosophy of emotion; science of emotion; meta-semantic pluralism; embodied cognition; mind; mind-body problem; perception; cognition; emotion; cultural evolution; dual-inheritance theory; evolutionary norm psychology

Online: 6 July 2022 (03:55:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0035.v2

Cartesian Dualism Does Not Commit the Masked Man Fallacy

Stuart Doyle

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Descartes; Dualism; Intensional Fallacy; Masked Man Fallacy; Cogito; Introspection; Doubt

Online: 4 July 2022 (03:40:56 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0136.v1

Physical Libertarianism: Redeeming the Illusion of Free Will Back into Reality

Ashkan Farhadi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Consciousness; awareness; free will; decision-making; attention; self-awareness

Online: 9 June 2022 (07:27:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0073.v1

Trilogy: A New Paradigm of Consciousness

Ashkan Farhadi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Consciousness; awareness; free will; attention; self-awareness

Online: 6 June 2022 (09:01:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0035.v1

Descartes’ Dualism Does Not Commit the Masked Man Fallacy

Stuart Doyle

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Descartes; Dualism; Intensional Fallacy; Masked Man Fallacy; Cogito; Introspection

Online: 2 June 2022 (15:28:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0376.v1

Free Will, Temporal Asymmetry, and Computational Undecidability

Stuart Doyle

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: free will; undecidability; temporal asymmetry; compatibilism; predictability; dynamic systems

Online: 27 May 2022 (09:14:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0245.v1

Just Rules for Innovative Pharmaceuticals

Thomas Pogge

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Disease; Diffusion; Health; Health Impact Fund; Impact Rewards; Incentives; Innovation; Monop-oly Rewards; Pandemic; Patents; Pharmaceuticals; Poverty; Vaccines

Online: 19 May 2022 (03:19:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0170.v1

Care Ethics and the Feminist Personalism of Edith Stein

Petr Urban

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Edith Stein; care ethics; personalism; feminism; empathy; emotions; caring; phenomenology

Online: 18 April 2022 (11:41:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0118.v3

Chivalry and Bushido, the Samurai Code

Shutaro Takeda

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Chivalry; Bushido; knighthood; samurai

Online: 30 November 2021 (12:01:50 CET)

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The Status of Knighthood Appointments, Knighthood and Bushido

Shutaro Takeda

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Knighthood; international law; Canon Law; order of knighthood; Ramon Lull; Leon Gautier; Bushido

Online: 23 August 2021 (10:59:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0473.v1

Information Technology and Democracy. Chances and Challenges

Waldemar Czajkowski

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: 1.globalization, 2. participative democracy, 3. deliberative democracy, 4. Collective decision-making, 5. human nature

Online: 19 April 2021 (12:14:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0098.v1

Causal Connection and Global Consciousness (Is Individuality an Evolutionary Accident?)

Alessandro De Angelis

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Consciousness; Mind; Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics; Causality; Evolution

Online: 4 September 2020 (11:11:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0303.v1

The Limits of Classical Extensional Mereology for the Formalization of > Whole-Parts Relations in Quantum Chemical Systems

Marina Paola Banchetti Robino

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: classical extensional mereology; summative mereology; mereology of quantum chemical systems; mereology of chemical wholes; behavioral mereology

Online: 13 August 2020 (11:28:55 CEST)

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This paper examines whether classical extensional mereology is adequate for formalizing the whole-parts relation in quantum chemical systems. Although other philosophers have argued that classical extensional and summative mereology does not adequately formalize whole-parts relation within organic wholes and social wholes, such critiques often assume that summative mereology is appropriate for formalizing the whole-parts relation in inorganic wholes such as atoms and molecules. However, my discussion of atoms and molecules as they are conceptualized in quantum chemistry will establish that standard mereology cannot adequately fulfill this task, since the properties and behavior of such wholes are context-dependent and cannot simply be reduced to the summative properties of their parts. To the extent that philosophers of chemistry have called for the development of an alternative mereology for quantum chemical systems, this paper ends by proposing behavioral mereology as a promising step in that direction. According to behavioral mereology, considerations of what constitutes a part of a whole is dependent upon the observable behavior displayed by these entities. Thus, relationality and context-dependence are stipulated from the outset and this makes behavioral mereology particularly well-suited as a mereology of quantum chemical wholes. The question of which mereology is appropriate for formalizing the whole-parts relation in quantum chemical systems is relevant to contemporary philosophy of chemistry, since this issue is related to the more general question of the reducibility of chemical wholes to their parts and of the reducibility of chemistry to physics, which have been of central importance within the philosophy of chemistry for several decades. More generally, this paper puts contemporary discussions of mereology within the philosophy of chemistry into a broader historical and philosophical context. In doing so, this paper also bridges the gap between formal mereology, conceived as a branch of formal ontology, and ‘applied’ mereology, conceived as a branch of philosophy of science.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0316.v1

The Legal and the Epistemic in Times of Techno-Scientific Transformation: Inefficacies of JTB Account of Knowledge

Dimitris Kilakos, Stela Papaoikonomou

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: JTB account of knowledge; Gettier problems; contextualization of belief and knowledge; epistemic and non-epistemic dimensions of law

Online: 15 July 2020 (05:43:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0267.v1

Cultivating Quality Awareness in Corona Times

Guus Timmerman

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: quality of care; Covid-19; relational caring; care ethics; practical wisdom; mismatch; humanness: solicitude: habitability

Online: 21 June 2020 (11:49:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0074.v1

The Effects of Age, Gender, and Control Device in a Virtual-Reality Driving Simulation

Wen-Te Chang

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: VR; aging effect; gender difference; control device; wayfinding strategy

Online: 5 May 2020 (11:32:12 CEST)

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Preprint HYPOTHESIS | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0072.v1

Modelling Consciousness within Mental Monism: An Automata-Theoretic Approach

Peter Lloyd

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: consciousness; mental monism; idealism; automata; cellular automata

Online: 5 March 2020 (02:21:55 CET)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

From Allostatic Agents to Counterfactual Cognisers: Active Inference, Biological Regulation, and the Origins of Cognition

Andrew W. Corcoran, Giovanni Pezzulo, Jakob Hohwy

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; cognition; allostasis; homeostasis; free energy principle; active inference; environmental complexity thesis; adaptation; representation; interoception; biorhythms; life-mind continuity

Online: 29 February 2020 (12:33:12 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202001.0363.v2

Materialist Premises in Hobbes and Kropotkin for Antipodean Conclusions: The State of War and the Mutual Aid

Francesco Scotognella

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Materialist philosophy; State of nature; Hobbes; Kropotkin

Online: 19 February 2020 (11:50:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202001.0363.v1

Materialist Premises in Hobbes and Kropotkin for Antipodean Conclusions: The State of War and the Mutual Aid

Francesco Scotognella

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Materialist philosophy; State of nature; Hobbes; Kropotkin

Online: 30 January 2020 (11:38:32 CET)

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Let the Dice play God

Damiano Anselmi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Determinism; Uncertainty principle; Quantum mechanics; Chance

Online: 23 December 2019 (12:14:01 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0111.v1

The Predictive Brain: A Modular View of Brain and Cognitive Function?

Ines Hipolito, Michael D. Kirchhoff

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: predictive brain; modularity of the mind; cognitive function; functional segregation

Online: 10 November 2019 (13:40:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0083.v1

From Allostatic Agents to Counterfactual Cognisers: Active Inference, Biological Regulation, and The Origins of Cognition

Andrew W. Corcoran, Giovanni Pezzulo, Jakob Hohwy

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; cognition; allostasis; homeostasis; free energy principle; active inference; environmental complexity thesis

Online: 8 November 2019 (03:50:08 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0070.v2

New Non-Validated Practice: An Enhanced Definition of Innovative Practice for Medicine

Ignacio Mastroleo, Felicitas Holzer

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: right to try; innovation in medicine; innovative care; innovative practice; distinction between research and practice

Online: 29 October 2019 (17:04:12 CET)

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Rethinking the Individuality of Pregnancy: Eutherian Pregnancy as an Evolved Relational Novelty

Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Mihaela Pavlicev, Arantza Etxeberria

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: evo-devo; individuality; novelty; pregnancy; reproduction; transition

Online: 11 October 2019 (05:38:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0325.v1

Does Being Human Matter Morally? Five Correctives to the Speciesism Debate

Jeroen Hopster

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: speciesism; intuition; evolutionary debunking arguments; experimental philosophy; species-egalitarianism; conservation; singer; williams; kagan; jacquet

Online: 29 September 2019 (06:07:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0016.v1

Wittgenstein and Derrida on the Possibility of Meaning: Hierarchy or Non-Hierarchy, Simple or Non-simple Origin, Deferral or Non-Deferral

Neil B MacDonald

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Wittgenstein; Derrida; meaning; hierarchy; deferral; learnability; teachability; différance; origin; identity; difference

Online: 2 August 2019 (05:30:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0110.v1

Approximate and Situated Causality in Deep Learning

Jordi Vallverdú

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: causality; deep learning; machine learning; counterfactual; explainable AI; blended cognition; mechanisms; system

Online: 8 July 2019 (08:10:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0050.v1

Avicenna’s Ideas and Arguments about Mind and Brain Interaction

Mohammad Jamali, Mehdi Golshani, Yousef Jamali

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: mind brain interaction, Avicenna, consciousness, cognition, incorporeity of mind, mind matter interaction

Online: 6 June 2019 (12:58:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0070.v1

Seizing Opportunity at the Limits of Medicine: An Enhanced Definition of Innovative Practice

Ignacio Mastroleo, Felicitas Holzer

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: right to try; innovation in medicine; innovative care; innovative practice; distinction between research and practice

Online: 7 May 2019 (05:02:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201903.0074.v1

Gulliver and the Rabbis: Counterfactual Truth in Science and the Talmud

Menachem Fisch

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: thought experiments, framework assumptions, Jonathan Swift, Newtonian Physics, Tamudic law of lost property, Talmudic laws of Damages, profanation of God's Name

Online: 6 March 2019 (11:01:18 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0054.v2

A Review and Introduction to New Aspects of Digital and Computational Approaches to Human and AI Ethics

Hector Zenil

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: philosophy of information; organised complexity; Kolmogorov complexity; logical depth; ethics of information; computational ethics; infoethics; machine ethics; computational complexity

Online: 20 December 2018 (05:34:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0076.v1

Levinas, Simmel, and the Ethical Significance of Money

Christopher Buckman

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Levinas; Simmel; money; ethics; totality

Online: 6 December 2018 (06:35:01 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0042.v1

Information in Science and Buddhist Philosophy: Towards a Non-Materialistic Worldview

Carlos Gershenson

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: information theory; epistemology; Buddhism; worldviews; causality

Online: 4 December 2018 (03:13:08 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0635.v1

The Power of Carl Schmitt: Fascism, Dualism and Justice

Richard A. Cohen

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: justice, fascism, Nazi, Gnosticism, power, ethics, will

Online: 30 November 2018 (15:49:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0213.v1

The Correspondence Principle in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Damiano Anselmi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Quantum field theory, Quantum gravity, Causality, Unitarity, Fakeons, Quantization, Correspondence principle, Philosophy, Philosophy of science

Online: 8 November 2018 (11:52:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0054.v1

Digital and Computational Aspects of Human and AI Ethical Frameworks

Hector Zenil

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: philosophy of information; organised complexity; Kolmogorov complexity; logical depth; ethics of information; computational ethics; in- foethics; machine ethics; computational complexity

Online: 2 November 2018 (11:16:09 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0628.v1

Philosophia Naturalis Renovata: Natural Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

Bruce MacLennan

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: natural philosophy; philosophy of science; Jungian psychology; depth psychology; analytical psychology; phenomenological psychology; evolutionary psychology; active imagination; Aristotle’s four causes; aesthetics in science; philosophy as a way of life

Online: 26 October 2018 (11:30:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0560.v1

The Coming Emptiness: On the Meaning of the Emptiness of the Universe in Natural Philosophy

Gregor Schiemann

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: natural philosophy; cosmology; emptiness; vacuum; void; dark energy; space flight; exoplanet; big freeze; big crunch; everyday lifeworld

Online: 24 October 2018 (09:27:57 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0497.v1

On the Nature of Irrationality

Edgar Cambaza

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: irrationality; human senses; human mind; material continuity; existence

Online: 22 October 2018 (12:57:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0403.v1

Richard Avenarius’ “Kritik Der Reinen Erfahrung” (Critique of Pure Experience): An English Summary

Arturo Tozzi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: philosophy; epistemology; empirio-criticism; neuroscience; brain

Online: 20 September 2018 (08:04:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0143.v1

Induction and Epistemological Naturalism

Lars-Göran Johansson

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: induction; naturalism; evidence and justification; epistemic norms; induction and concept formation; induction and discovery of laws

Online: 8 June 2018 (16:24:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0147.v1

The Aspect of Subjectivity in Scientific Thinking—Where Did It Actually Come From?

Sven Hroar Klempe

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: history of psychology; humanism; reformation; metaphysics; empirical psychology

Online: 29 September 2017 (03:41:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0005.v1

What We Talk About When We Talk About Logic as Normative for Reasoning?

Ines Skelac

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: logical laws; normativity of logic; reasoning; thinking

Online: 2 January 2017 (11:12:15 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0131.v1

Comparing the Incomparable: ‘Speaking Out’ and the Use of Drawings in Notebooks by Physicists

Harmen Hollestelle

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: physicists, experimental set-up, drawings, spirituality, interaction

Online: 28 December 2016 (10:24:28 CET)

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