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Deleuze’s Spinozist Gambler: Lessons on Games of Chance Aksoy, Ilgin; Shores, Corry Michael (2026-02-01) At the end of Deleuze’s lectures on Spinoza of 1980–1981, he asks his students to “imagine a Spinozist gambler.” Yet he ends the course offering few clues about how to picture this figure. Here we provide an interpretation...
Bulletin Hobbes XXXVI Ertan, Şebnem (2026-02-01)
Bootstrapping and Its Discontents in Consciousness Science Davoody Benı, Majıd (2026-01-01) This paper critically examines the methodological strategy of iterative bootstrapping within marker-based natural kind reasoning, with specific application to the science of consciousness. By drawing an explicit parallel t...
Against (theory-neutral) method (in consciousness science) Davoody Benı, Majıd (2026-01-01) This article challenges the assumption that the science of consciousness can proceed from a theory-neutral foundation. I argue that even ostensibly theory-neutral (or theory-light) programmes inevitably rely on substantive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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