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The flawed logic of theory-free natural kind reasoning Davoody Benı, Majıd (2026-01-01) This paper critiques the theory-neutral Natural Kind Reasoning (NKR) in consciousness science. It demonstrates a methodological incompatibility arising from McKilliam's (2024) proposal: deploying Inference to the Best Expl...
Tables turned on table talk Davoody Benı, Majıd (2025-12-01) Eliminative structural realism is in line with mereological nihilism. This contrasts with reconciliatory, noneliminativist versions of structural realism, such as rainforest realism, which aim to accommodate quotidian onto...
Methodological innovations and challenges in Filippo Casati’s Heidegger and the contradiction of Being Shores, Corry Michael (2025-11-01)
From life affirmation to a politics of healing: Between Nietzsche and Anzaldúa İbrahimhakkıoğlu, Fulden (2025-04-01)
Developmental Bioelectricity as an Explanatory Framework for Cognition and Meaning Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Davoody Benı, Majıd; Shumilina, Vera (2025-01-01) We critically examine the intersection of developmental bioelectricity within the context of the Peircean philosophy of science. We address the criticism of Peirce’s objective idealism and synechism, contest the conflation...
Two Nodes of Pluralistic Realism on Truth: Pluralistic Kantianism and Heideggerian Ontology Aktok, Özgür; Baç, Mutlu Murat (2025-01-01) One captivating characteristic of the contemporary literature on the ontological status of truth and truthmaking relations is a striking polarization between metaphysical realism and its anti-realist rivals. The former esp...
Flocking Together: Free Energy, Bayesian Inference, and the Social Nature of Science Davoody Benı, Majıd (2025-01-01) This paper advances a naturalistic defence of Alexander Bird’s account of science as a form of social knowing, as well as his theory of scientific inference articulated through superobjective Bayesianism, by grounding them...
Beyond Bayesian Accuracy: Skill, Abduction, and the Free Energy Principle in Normative Rationality: Original Research Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Davoody Benı, Majıd (2025-01-01) This paper challenges traditional accuracy-centric accounts of rationality by synthesising the Free Energy Principle (FEP) with Charles Peirce’s pragmatist epistemology. Whereas the FEP frames cognition as a biological imp...
Free will is real—I could not have believed otherwise Davoody Benı, Majıd (2025-01-01) This paper seeks to advance the compatibilist theory of free will, particularly building upon contributions by Christian List (and also Daniel Dennett) regarding the agential capacity to act otherwise. Emphasizing the impo...
Review of "The Covenant with Moses and the Kingdom of God: Thomas Hobbes and the Theology of the Old Covenant in Early Modern England" Grıffıth, James Edmond Carr (2024-12-01)
Review of James J. Hamilton, "Hobbes’s Creativity" Ertan, Şebnem (2024-12-01)
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...
INCREASING THE PROBABILITY OF GOOD ART: DESCARTES, AESTHETIC JUDGMENT, AND GENEROSITY Grıffıth, James Edmond Carr (2024-01-01) Descartes’ first book, 1618’s Compendium of Music, focuses on biomechanical reactions in the human body but also claims that the purpose of art is to arouse emotions. By the end of the 1630s, however, he had given up on pr...
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 ...
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DES AMIS DE HOBBES HOBBES SCHOLARS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION Zarka, Yves Charles; Lessay, Franck; Corbera, Roger CAsTELLANos; Pang, Liang; Lisboa, Wladimir BARRETo; Grıffıth, James Edmond Carr; De Stier, Maria Lukac; Santi, Raffaella; Schotte, Dietrich; Chen, Canpu; Pasaoglu, Sebnem E. R. T. A. N.; Sales, Maria Clara F. E. R. N. A. N. D. E. S.; Vacura, Miroslav; Mineur, Didier; Molas, Josep M. O. N. S. E. R. R. A. T. (2024-01-01) In the academic year 2023-2024, research on Hobbes has been pursued through seminars, colloquia and publications, to which this Bulletin bears witness. Hobbes' thought has been approached in two ways: on the one hand, the ...

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