SYNTHESE
2010
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2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
: 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...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...