Research Articles, XVI, 4

Hassan AMIRIARA ABSTRACT: Some philosophers have attempted to show that the thesis according to which the one-way velocity of light cannot be empirically determined (a thesis referred to in this paper as the IOV) opens a possibility for defending some A-theoretic ontologies of time in the context of relativistic physics, for, as they suggest, it can make a crucial contribution …

Philip ATKINS ABSTRACT: Christina Dietz has recently argued that object recognition requires knowledgeable reidentification. I argue against her thesis and propose an alternative diagnosis of the case that she uses to motivate her thesis. Download PDF  

Wai Lok CHEUNG ABSTRACT: Pritchard explains the putative failure of knowledge in the fake barn case using epistemic safety. I bring out the notion of epistemic luck, and interact epistemic competence with it through epistemic situation. I propose that evidence supervenes on epistemic situation, such that, given an epistemic success, the measure of epistemic luck of the corresponding epistemic act …

Arnold CUSMARIU ABSTRACT: The characterization problem of mathematical logic yields Chisholm’s “particularist” criterion, while the decision problem yields his “methodist” criterion. These connections have not been on anyone’s radar screen. To answer the “so what?” requirement in philosophy since Plato, which the criterion-problem literature has failed to do, the article states the problem in argument form and shows that it …

Carmen SÁNCHEZ-OVCHAROV, Karim GHERAB-MARTÍN, J.A.F. CUESTA ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to carry out a critical analysis of the uses of the material conditionals employed to represent the counterfactual detections taking place inside Elitzur-Vaidman quantum bomb detectors in so-called quantum interaction free measurements (IFMs). We provide an exhaustive philosophical study of this classical approach focusing on its limitations. …