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The Armenian of hikmet-i cedide: philosophy in the late Ottoman Empire Karademir, Aret (2024-10-01) This essay challenges the ethnocentrism of the dominant literature on hikmet-i cedide, or the new philosophy, in the late Ottoman Empire. Hikmet-i cedide was “new” in the sense that it did not confine itself to theological...
Measure for Measure: Operationalising Cognitive Realism Davoody Benı, Majıd (2024-09-01) This paper develops a measure of realism from within the framework of cognitive structural realism (CSR). It argues that in the context of CSR, realism can be operationalised in terms of balance between accuracy and genera...
Carving teleology at its joints Davoody Benı, Majıd; Friston, Karl (2024-07-01) This paper addresses the conceptualisation and measurement of goal-directedness. Drawing inspiration from Ernst Mayr’s demarcation between multiple meanings of teleology, we propose a refined approach that delineates diffe...
Structural Realism About the Free Energy Principle, the Best of Both Worlds Davoody Benı, Majıd (2024-03-26) There are realist and antirealist interpretations of the free energy principle (FEP). This paper aims to chart out a structural realist interpretation of FEP. To do so, it draws on Worrall's (Dialectica 43(1-2): 99-124, 19...
Constraining the Compression: Thermodynamic Depth and Composition Davoody Benı, Majıd (2024-02-22) This paper examines Bird's account of restricted compositionality in terms of compression of information. Additionally, this paper proposes an alternative perspective (to Bird's) that links compositionality to the Free Ene...
Paths of Purposiveness Davoody Benı, Majıd (2024-01-01) This article aims to challenge the prevailing dichotomous approaches to goal-directedness across diverse scientific disciplines. To that effect, it focuses on establishing the interconnectedness of diverse notions of purpo...
Logics of Alterity in Derrida's and Deleuze's Philosophies of Justice Shores, Corry Michael (2024-01-01) Jacques Derrida's and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of justice share many similar features. For both, justice involves an overturning of law by extralegal means, made possible by an "undecidability" in the judgment-making ...
Book Review: Martinich, A. P. Hobbes’s Political Philosophy: Interpretation, and Interpretations Ertan, Şebnem (2023-12-01)
The Conundrum of Being a Minority: Choosing a Collective Identity in the Era of Neoliberal Globalism Karademir, Aret (2023-12-01) This paper argues that by portraying minority concerns primarily as cultural concerns and by discussing minority existence independently of capitalism, neoliberalism, feminism, environmentalism, globalization, and the dist...
Unveiling the philosophical foundations: On Cantor’s transfinite infinites and the metaphorical accounts of infinity Birgül, Osman Gazi (2023-11-01) This paper consists of two parts and has two aims. The first is to elaborate on the historical-philosophical background of Cantor’s notions of infinity in the context of Spinoza’s influence on him. To achieve this aim, in ...
Reinvigorating the Nineteenth Century Scientific Method: A Peirce-pective on Science Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Davoody Benı, Majıd (2023-10-01) This paper proposes to recover the topic of the philosophy of scientific method from its late nineteenth-century roots. The subject matter of scientific method sprouted from key inferential ingredients identified by Charle...
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam. By Evren Savcı. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 232 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN: 9781478011361. İbrahimhakkıoğlu, Fulden (2023-09-01)
Jc Beall’s current and potential impact on the continental philosophy of non-classical logics Shores, Corry Michael (2023-05-01) The continental philosophy of non-classical logics is a relatively new field that seeks to determine whether any aspects of certain continental philosophers’ thinking can be characterized in terms of non-classical lo...
The Introduction of Modern Western Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire: Armenian Thinkers Karademir, Aret (2023-01-01) The literature on the introduction of modern Western philosophy in the late Ottoman Empire is predominantly ethnocentric. This is because it reduces the Ottoman version of modern Western philosophy to the philosophical dis...
Editorial: Distributed and embodied cognition in scientific contexts Davoody Benı, Majıd; Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Farina, Mirko (2023-01-01)
Power, Energy, and the Society of Individuality in J. S. Mill's "On Liberty" Grıffıth, James Edmond Carr (2023-01-01) I begin, haltingly, and the individual begins, for John Stuart Mill, with an impulse. My impulse, in terms of Mill, is to ask after power and energy in hisOn Liberty. There, impulses are desires and those of the “Strong” v...
Casting inference to the best explanation's lot with active inference Davoody Benı, Majıd (2023-01-01) This paper draws on the resources of computational neuroscience (an account of active inference under the free energy principle) to address Bas van Fraassen's bad lot objection to the inference to the best explanation (IBE...
Pyrrho and Vagueness: A Fregean Analysis Güremen, Refik (2023-01-01) Pyrrho of Elis advises us not to trust our sensations and opinions, but instead to be without opinions about individual things. He suggests that such a state is to be achieved by saying, concerning each individual thing, t...
In defence of Churchland-style eliminative materialism: Objections and replies Tümkaya, Serdal (2023-01-01) The Churchlands are notorious for their theory of eliminative materialism (EM). This theory has become associated with scientism and a possible death of philosophy. In this article, I will closely examine the most common a...
Transparency in AI Toy, Tolgahan (2023-01-01) In contemporary artificial intelligence, the challenge is making intricate connectionist systems—comprising millions of parameters—more comprehensible, defensible, and rationally grounded. Two prevailing methodologies addr...

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