Determinables and determinates are in the first instance type-level properties that stand in a
distinctive specification relation: the 'determinable-determinate'relation (for …

Many philosophers take mind-independence to be criterial for realism about kinds. This is
problematic when it comes to psychological and social kinds, which are unavoidably mind …

Not all testing interventions that we might want to perform, or need to be performable in
principle, fail to cause off-path variables. This is a problem for Woodward's Orthodox …

Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is
transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the …

Code bloat, the excessive increase of code size, is an important is-sue in Genetic
Programming (GP). This paper proposes a theoreti-cal analysis of code bloat in the …

Heute geht man gewöhnlich von der mechanistischen Vorstellung aus, dass jedes Ereignis
das Ergebnis eines Kausalvorgangs, eines Prozesses sei. Dass Personen durch freies …

In a recent paper, Tuomas Tahko has argued for a hybrid view of the laws of nature,
according to which some physical laws are metaphysically necessary, while others are …

Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is
transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the …

In this paper, I assess the ontological commitments of frame-based methods of knowledge
representation. Frames decompose (individual and general) concepts into recursive …

The functionalist conception of mental properties, together with their multiple realizability, is
often taken to entail their irreducibility. It might seem that the only way to revise that …