Tag: Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Ability and epistemic position are treated as the same kind of modality
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in EpistemologyAnalysis arguing that an agent’s position to know reduces to ability to know through compossibility, subsuming epistemic modality under agentive modality.
Instructions can provide reasons by conveying practical information
Explore how instructions convey information about rational conclusions and establish reasons for action, bridging the philosophical gap between declarative and imperative sentences in decision-making.
Argument presented for the law of non-contradiction
Novel argument for the principle of non-contradiction using extra-logical premises valid across classical and paraconsistent logical frameworks.
Mental imagery varies from absent to unusually vivid
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in PsychologyAnalysis of visual imagery spectrum including phantasia, aphantasia, and hyperphantasia; neurological characteristics, memory associations, and functional outcomes across populations.
Wittgenstein is presented as a methodological naturalist
Explore Wittgensteinian methodological naturalism as a metaphilosophical constraint on philosophy independent of metaphysical commitments, distinguishing it from ontological positions.
Montague’s shift toward formal natural language analysis
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in LinguisticsExplore Richard Montague’s intellectual shift from skepticism toward pioneering formal semantics for natural language in the late 1960s, reshaping linguistic analysis.
