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The Philosophy of Anti-Dumping as the Affirmation of Life

Michael Marder in Dump Philosophy claims that that there has been so much dumping with modern civilization that we now live in a dump, with those parts of our environment not contaminated by dumping ... earlier works largely explain the ethical and political orientation of Dump Philosophy. There is a focus on people interpreting their immediate situations, and a lack of interest in efforts to replace

Expressive Responding, Experimental Philosophy, and Philosophical Expertise

The Experimental Philosophy (“X-Phi”) movement applies the methodology of empirical sciences – most commonly empirical psychology – to traditional philosophical questions. In its radical, “negative ... : New York University Press. Hales , Steven D. 2012 . “ The Faculty of Intuition” . Analytic Philosophy 53 ( 2 ): 180 - 207 . Hamlin , A. , and C. Jennings . 2011 . “ Expressive political behaviour

Conceptual Spaces for Conceptual Engineering? Feminism as a Case Study

contributes to this research by explicating, in a principled manner, a series of other concepts important for feminist research and activism, to wit, feminist political identity terms. More specifically, we ... Philosophy, University of Leuven , Leuven , Belgium 2 IHPST, CNRS, Panthéon-Sorbonne University , Paris , France 3 Dipartimento du Culture, Politica e Società, University of Turin , Turin , Italy 4 Tuaillon

Making it abstract, making it contestable: politicization at the intersection of political and cognitive science

The notion of politicization has been often assimilated to that of partisanship, especially in political and social sciences. However, these accounts underestimate more fine-grained, and yet pivotal ... concepts; Social metacognition; Gender/sex 1 What does politicization mean? Contributions from political philosophy and political theory1 In the last few years, a significant and growing attention has been

Naive Introspection in the Philosophy of Perception

In this paper I critically examine uses of introspection in present-day philosophy of perception. First, I introduce a distinction between two different meanings of the term ‘introspection ... philosophy of perception but not adequately distinguished. I then lay out some concerns about the use of introspection to collect data about consciousness that were raised in over a hundred years ago, by some

Perceptual Similarity: Insights From Crossmodal Correspondences

Perceptual similarity is one of the most fiercely debated topics in the philosophy and psychology of perception. The documented history of the issue spans all the way from Plato – who regarded ... -dimensional space with associative strength on one axis, and cognitive penetrability on the other. 1 Introduction Perceptual similarity has been recognized as a crucial issue in Western philosophy since the

Belief, Introspection, and Constituted Kinds. Selected Papers from the Fifth Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference

and philosophy of mind. The aims of the network are to promote these areas of philosophy, and to encourage international collaboration. The current members of PLM are the Arché Research Centre

Correction to: Estimating the Reproducibility of Experimental Philosophy

, Reading, UK Department of Philosophy, Yale University , New Haven, CT , USA University at Buffalo , Buffalo, NY , USA Department of General Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Instituto de ... Investigación Científica, Universidad de Lima, Lima, Peru Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Experimental Philosophy and the Incentivisation Challenge: a Proposed Application of the Bayesian Truth Serum

evaluated against an objective baseline, a standard way of incentivising participants is by rewarding them monetarily as a function of their performance. However, the subject area of experimental philosophy ... amenities using stated choice studies (pp . 67 - 110 ). Springer, Dordrecht. Hassoun , N. ( 2016 ). Experimental or empirical political philosophy . In Sytsma J. & Buckwalter W. (Eds). A companion to

Do Political Attitudes Matter for Epistemic Decisions of Scientists?

political philosophy and represents the tendency to accept the epistemic authority in the normative field (e.g., Estlund 1992) . In the context of the scientific community, epistemic authoritarianism is ... and less sullied by their political views, than the epistemic attitudes of their students who have just started the scientific learning process. Indeed, much of the traditional philosophy of science

Schizophrenic Thought Insertion and Self-Experience

In contemporary philosophy of mind and psychiatry, schizophrenic thought insertion is often used as a validating or invalidating counterexample in various theories about how we experience ourselves ... -experience across psychopathological and non-psychopathological cases alike. 1 Introduction The question of whether we experience the self has attracted a lot of attention in philosophy and psychology. By

Editorial: Computationalism Meets the Philosophy of Information

of statistical thermodynamics to that of information theory. Philosophers have not only taken note of these treatments but have also sought to develop a novel - branch of philosophy to make use of ... them. The emergence of the philosophy of information has seen a flurry of publications which seek to relate it to traditional philosophical problems – see, for example, Floridi (2016) . Interest in

Mindshaping and Non-Gricean Approaches to Language Evolution

see how non-linguistic creatures could have such a sophisticated understanding of mentality. Some philosophers like Bar-On (The Journal of Philosophy 110 (6): 293-330, 2013a; Mind and Language 28 (3 ... the heading of mindreading and in the case of self, under the heading metacognition. Joelle Proust, probably the philosopher who has contributed more to the philosophy of metacognition than anyone else

Interpersonal and Collective Affective Niche Construction: Empirical and Normative Perspectives on Social Media

user of the affective scaffolding as disposable resources, abstracting away from embedded subjectivity in particular techno-political arrangements. We propose that the social motivation hypothesis, an ... provide them with more social rewards. We believe that our we-mode approach offers a more robust criterion for the political evaluation of interpersonal affective niches than Slaby’s political philosophy of

Modes of Bonding and Morphogenesis. Deleuze, Ruyer, and the Rearticulation of Life and Nonlife

; Vitalism; Binding activity Introduction I would like to take up some threads of Gilles Deleuze’s engagement with biology, as an example of a precise relationship between philosophy and the sciences ... all of his works, namely, the need to situate the discourse of philosophy on the terrains of scientific research. Ruyer has theorised this need in terms of a “philosophy-science” or a “philosophy united

Justice before Expediency: Robust Intuitive Concern for Rights Protection in Criminalization Decisions

Political Philosophy 21 ( 1 ): 44 - 66 . Tversky , A. , and D. Kahneman . 1981 . The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice . Science 21 : 1 - 30 . Wylie , J. , and A. Gantman . 2023 . Doesn't ... & Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University , Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków , Poland 1 Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada , Granada , Spain The notion that a false positive (false conviction

Signs of Life and Death: The Semiotic Self-Destruction of the Biosphere

gratification. There is very brief mention by Sebeok of the semiotics of political economy. Indeed, the semiotics of money appear not to have advanced much beyond Georg Simmel’s classic The Philosophy of Money ... theory since the early 1970s, inspiring Jean Baudrillard’s deliberations on the postmodern ‘autonomy of the signifier’ and the ‘political economy of the sign’ (Baudrillard, [1972] 1981, [1976] 1993

Beauty: Synthesis of Intellect and Senses Commentary on the Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics

commentary embraces the challenge Kull presents (that beauty is a semiotic problem). Offering an alternate view on beauty, as a matter, and product, of cognition, I suggest reflecting on the philosophy of ... reflecting on the philosophy of Alexander von Baumgarten, who coined the term “aesthetics”, offers rich insight that could extend and enrich the definition of beauty Kull presents. Beauty; Umwelt; Semiotic

Vice Explanations for Conspiracism, Fundamentalism, and Extremism

like economic, social, and political circumstances. Yet, most would agree that such vices do play at least some important explanatory role.3 However, intuition and alleged common sense can be misleading ... conclude, then, that situationism gives us good reason to prefer explanations of conspiracism, fundamentalism, and extremism in various social, economic, and political situational terms over vice

Hate: toward a Four-Types Model

Drawing on insights found in both philosophy and psychology, this paper offers an analysis of hate and distinguishes between its main types. I argue that hate is a sentiment, i.e., a form to regard ... the other as evil which on certain occasions can be acutely felt. On the basis of this definition, I develop a typology which, unlike the main typologies in philosophy and psychology, does not explain