SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-06DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04443-5
Martin Fischer, Matteo Zicchetti
{"title":"Definite totalities and determinate truth in conceptual structuralism","authors":"Martin Fischer, Matteo Zicchetti","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04443-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04443-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"11 8","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139380605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-06DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04432-8
Harold Kincaid
{"title":"A naturalist approach to social ontology","authors":"Harold Kincaid","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04432-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04432-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"7 5","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139380911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-05DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04436-4
Tomasz Puczyłowski
{"title":"Why a Gricean-style defense of the vacuous truth of counterpossibles won’t work, but a defense based on heuristics just might","authors":"Tomasz Puczyłowski","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04436-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04436-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"3 4","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139383699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-05DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04427-5
Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo
{"title":"Broken wills and ill beliefs: Szaszianism, expressivism, and the doubly value-laden nature of mental disorder","authors":"Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04427-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04427-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"30 9","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139381890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04446-2
Philippe Stamenkovic
{"title":"Straightening the ‘value-laden turn’: minimising the influence of extra-scientific values in science","authors":"Philippe Stamenkovic","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04446-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04446-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"4 3","pages":"1-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139387365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04470-2
Julian Bacharach
{"title":"Tensed truth, temporal particularity, and the fixity of the past","authors":"Julian Bacharach","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04470-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04470-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"29 12","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139385357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04444-4
Arjun Devanesan
{"title":"Pregnancy, a test case for immunology","authors":"Arjun Devanesan","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04444-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04444-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"73 10","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139387241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04442-6
Alexander Bochman
{"title":"Causal reasoning from almost first principles","authors":"Alexander Bochman","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04442-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04442-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"57 10","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139385819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04433-7
Yael Kedar
{"title":"Propter quid demonstrations: Roger Bacon on geometrical causes in natural philosophy","authors":"Yael Kedar","doi":"10.1007/s11229-023-04433-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04433-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"106 47","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139391054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SynthesePub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04621-z
Philip Goff
{"title":"Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?","authors":"Philip Goff","doi":"10.1007/s11229-024-04621-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11229-024-04621-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidence for the multiverse hypothesis. This paper will focus on a much-discussed objection to the inference from the fine-tuning to the multiverse: the charge that this line of reasoning commits the inverse gambler's fallacy. Despite the existence of a literature going back decades, this philosophical debate has made little contact with scientific discussion of fine-tuning and the multiverse, which mainly revolves around a specific form of the multiverse hypothesis rooted in eternal inflation combined with string theory. Because of this, potentially important implications from science to philosophy, and vice versa, have been left underexplored. In this paper, I will take a first step at joining up these two discussions, by arguing that attention to the eternal inflation + string theory conception of the multiverse supports the inverse gambler's fallacy charge. It does this by supporting the idea that our universe is contingently fine-tuned, thus addressing the concern that proponents of the inverse gambler's fallacy charge have assumed this without argument.</p>","PeriodicalId":49452,"journal":{"name":"Synthese","volume":"204 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11189337/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141444074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}