Majıd Davoody Benı

E-mail

mbeni@metu.edu.tr

Department

Department of Philosophy

ORCID

0000-0002-8719-0825

Scopus Author ID

56771225500

Web of Science Researcher ID

AAB-1832-2021

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...
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...
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...
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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