Disciplines / Research questions
Philosophy
10 research topics · 35 questions
How strongly does pessimistic meta-induction challenge scientific realism?3 questions
Adjudicating the comparative epistemic force of the pessimistic inductions over antirealists and pessimists versus the no-miracles argument
Completing (or defeating) Doppelt's reconstructed scientific realism: the new pessimistic meta-induction over superseded standards and the operationalization of epistemic-virtue standards
The incompatibility-based pessimistic induction against selective scientific realism: open questions on the delimitation, scope, and probabilistic grounding of selective realist commitment
Moral luck challenges the conditions of responsibility attribution3 questions
Balancing fairness against significance in blame and punishment: the unfinished research program of the significance-based vindication of moral luck
Outcome-driven blame as hindsight bias or a distinct quality-of-will proxy: completing and testing Levy's evolutionary dissolution of resultant moral luck
Completing the control-based theory of blameworthiness after moral luck: the control condition, the epistemic condition, excuses, and the simplicity comparison
The Split Brain Counterexample of Personal Identity and the Psychological Continuity Standard4 questions
Individuating minds in split-brain subjects: an integration criterion, its grounding in the mind-consciousness-brain dependency, and the metaphysics and ethics of two-mind persons
Can a Refined Aristotelian Hylomorphic Theory of Personal Identity Accommodate Both Ordinary and Extraordinary Cases?
How to count persons with two person-level cerebral hemispheres: adjudicating the Multiple Person View and its rivals
Two Minds, How Many Persons? Settling the Effection/Transduction Premise and the Personhood of the Split-Brain Subject's Minds R and L
How prevalent is underdetermination of theories in actual historical cases of science?3 questions
Establishing the generality of the problem of unconceived alternatives: historical prevalence, community-level vulnerability, and criteria for genuine failures of conception
Does transient underdetermination, in its measure-theoretic form, actually obtain in science? The untested empirical supposition behind Hoyningen-Huene's refutation of the Miracle Argument
Measuring the prevalence and subfield distribution of residual theoretical underdetermination across the sciences
Authorship and Intent Requirements for AI-Generated Works4 questions
Liability and responsibility attribution for preter-intentional generative AI: giving Redaelli's preter-intentionality determinate ethical and legal content
Art-status and authorship of AI-generated images: a general account and the conditions for model-as-author status
The 'strong view' of machine artistic agency: can creative machines, or human–machine systems, be genuine artistic agents?
The artist's-role condition for machine-produced art: what must the artist do for an automated artifact to be admissible as an artwork?
Is the no-miracles argument circular?4 questions
Non-circular grounds for the explanationist (No Miracles) defense of scientific realism
Naturalistic vindication of the no-miracles argument for scientific realism: predictive novelty, unification, and the strict-parity dilemma
Non-circular foundations for the No-Miracles Argument: individuating inference to the best explanation, warranting its time-stable reliability, and package-level alternatives to reliabilism
Can a Non-Question-Begging Reliabilism Underwrite the Abductive (No-Miracles) Argument for Scientific Realism?
Can machine testimony under the Neo-Kantian framework generate knowledge?4 questions
Can Machine Outputs Be Testimony? Machine Testimony, Knowledge, and the Extension of the Kantian Non-Reductionist Account to Artificial Testifiers
Judgment-form attribution to AI systems: Kantian categories, machine-specific forms of judgment, and criteria for functional implementation of concepts
Unresolved issues in Humphreys' network epistemology: knowledge, testimony, and trust in fully automated networked science
The Stability and Scope of Kant's Anti-Reductionist Theory of Testimony
Can the hard problem of consciousness and the explanatory gap be reduced to conceptual problems?4 questions
The scientific status of the hard problem's explanatory demand: can consciousness science deliver a control explanation of phenomenal consciousness, and do alternative accounts of scientific explanation reinstate the hard problem?
Why the intuition of mind–brain dualism persists: the undecided empirical explanation of the explanatory-gap intuition
Closing the restricted hard problem of consciousness: co-reference of phenomenal and physical concepts
Adjudicating the definitional dispute over 'phenomenal consciousness' between illusionism and anti-illusionism
Compatibility of the causal exclusion problem with non-reductive physicalism4 questions
Can interventionist causal theory empirically ground non-reductive mental-to-physical causation? The unresolved issues for (M*)–(IV*) interventionism: principle (†), epiphenomenalist underdetermination, and the adequacy of modified interventionism
The soundness of the causal exclusion argument reformulated in terms of physical sufficiency
The open core of the strengthened exclusion argument: can role functionalism vindicate mental causation against Parthood, Nonredundancy, and the core/total realizer demarcation?
The open core of the causal exclusion problem: do intimate vertical relations between mental and physical events actually hold, and is non-reductive physicalism consistent with hardline horizontalism?