Human beings make sense of the external world through experience and co
gnition.'Common sense'recognition would suggest that knowledge, then, is fundamentally …

Two related slogans for structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics are that “mathematics
is the general study of structures” and that, in pursuing such study, we can “abstract away …

We introduce the working concept of “affective arrangement.” This concept is the centerpiece
of a perspective on situated affectivity that emphasizes relationality, dynamics, and …

I suggest that the common unease with taking quantum mechanics as a fundamental
description of nature (the “measurement problem”) could derive from the use of an incorrect …

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" Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical
problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems; the same …

An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in
which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long …

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology
are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's …

Scientific inquiry has led to immense explanatory and technological successes, partly as a
result of the pervasiveness of scientific theories. Relativity theory, evolutionary theory, and …

Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) is the most recent among the interpretations of
quantum mechanics which are most discussed today. It was introduced in 1996, with …