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- What does it mean to be a Naturalist in the Human and Social Sciences? A Comment on Daniel Andler’s “Is Naturalism the Unsurpassable Philosophy for the Sciences of Man in the Twenty-First Century?””Publication . Zilhão, AntónioIn his paper "Is Naturalism the Unsurpassable Philosophy for the Sciences of Man in the 21st Century?", Daniel Andler put forth a position in the sciences of Man he called 'liberalized naturalism'. Andler's brand of naturalism faces a few difficulties though. The purpose of this essay is to highlight these and to suggest a way of overcoming them.
- INCONTINENCE, HONOURING SUNK COSTS AND RATIONALITYPublication . Zilhão, AntónioHonoring sunk costs is a typical example of a widespread form of irrational behavior. How to make sense of it? In this essay, I suggest that, at least under some circumstances, behaviors of honoring sunk costs admit being interpreted as a rational form of incontinent behavior.
- Climate Theatre and Ecodramaturgy in the AnthropocenePublication . Corrêa, Graça P.; Gerner, AlexanderEcodramaturgy and Climate Theatre in the Anthropocene consists in a special assembly of articles allowing researchers and practitioners from different disciplines—literature, journalism, theatre, dance, film, performance art, biology, philosophy, technology and sound studies—to offer varied perspectives in their shared concern about the currently experienced global ecological change
- Pilot Wave Theory in the Twenty-First CenturyPublication . Castro, Paulo; W. M. Bush, John; Croca, José R.This book is the result of the International Conference on Advances in Pilot Wave Theory, hosted by the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL), Portugal, held from 26 to 30 July 2021 (International Conference on Advances in Pilot Wave Theory—Concurrently Hosting Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs HQA-2021 n.d.; Advances in Pilot Wave Theory & HQA2021—YouTube n.d.). The conference concurrently hosted the Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs meeting (HQA-2021) owing to the common interests of these seemingly disparate fields. The meeting took place online due to the COVID Pandemic lockdown and attracted participants from distant points of the globe, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Australia, and Israel.
- The Wave-Memory Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsPublication . Castro, PauloPresent quantum mechanics has been a source of puzzlement since its inception in 1927. The theory has been undoubtedly successful predicting results in a large number of experimental situations. However, its heavy epistemological legacy, coming from the initial ideas of Niels Bohr about complementarity and about the possibility for physical description, has turned quantum mechanics in a kind of ontological black box. This work is an attempt to overcome such epistemological opacity, proposing an interpretation that will present Bohrian quantum mechanics formalism and the pilot-wave framework as two complementary and mutually non-exclusive theoretical descriptions of quantum phenomena. The two theories will, hopefully, become the foundations of a new and more complete approach to quantum reality. One that will, simultaneously, serve as a highly efficient predictive formalism and also as an intelligible description about quantum phenomena in four-dimensional spacetime. I will start from the pilot-wave framework, proposing that quantum waves are memory carrying structures that encode probabilistic distributions of the fundamental behaviors of corpuscles. This nomological information, as I will call it, will have a necessitarian weight upon all corpuscles behaviors, in the sense that the only behaviors allowed in Nature are the ones that can be encoded or have been encoded in the quantum wave carriers. Such a picture of quantum physics will imply that corpuscles exchange nomological information with the carrier waves, by means of the guidage or pilot-wave effect. Secondly, I will suggest that the actual Bohrian quantum mechanics formalism, the one used in the Copenhagen School interpretation, describes not the actual states and properties of quantum corpuscular entities, but the nomological information about those states and properties. As such Bohrian quantum mechanics is a description about not the actual physical observable dynamics, but about the dynamics of the nomological information encoded in the carrier quantum waves. The adoption and consistent interplay of both theoretical descriptions, pilot-wave mode and Bohrian mode, will serve epistemological completeness in the study of quantum phenomena.
- Gestures, Diagrams, and the Craft of Musical CompositionPublication . Aguiar, Vinícius deBased on recent developments in the mathematical theory of music, philosophy of mathematics, and gesture studies, this paper builds a pragmaticist (Peirce) philosophical framework within which musical composition can be analyzed without reducing it to “abstract formulas” or “inspiration”. At least two widespread types of artifacts that mediate the compositional process rely on gestural techniques, namely, musical instruments and notations. Notwithstanding, the creative dialectics between gestures and sounds, mediated by artifacts, became the target of in-depth investigation in musicology only in recent decades (Mazzola). And the creative potentialities of musical notations still nowadays tend to be tackled by considering only the strategies of visualization that they afford (Krämer), leaving aside the manu-facture and manu-tension of the diagrammatic (Alunni) — already identified, however, in the philosophy of science and mathematics (Châtelet). We will show how a diachronic perspective on those gestural techniques can reveal an interesting role of the body in the opening up of musical “programs” to dissonances and noises. Far from being the outcome of “intellectual” decisions, new musical continents have been (re-)searched and cultivated through specific modalities of gestures, that we will try to uncover and systematize.
- The Mind Technology Problem - Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century ArtifactsPublication . Clowes, Robert; Gärtner, Klaus; Hipólito, Inês
- On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Film and Philosophy:Publication . Corrêa, Graça P.As early as 1949, Simone Weil used the term uprootedness to denote a condition where human beings lack living connections to their environment and community, and thereby are bereft of ties with their past and a sense of belonging in the world. In the past two decades this condition has been extremely aggravated, with large segments of the rural population relocating to crowded unsustainable urban areas, and mass movements of international migrants, refugees and asylum seekers fleeing away from their homelands, well after the violence of the colonial period. Drawing on concepts and perspectives from philosophers Achile Mbembe, Bruno Latour, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski, whilst applying them to film aesthetics, this paper argues that current human uprootnedess—of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people—reveals a necropolitics in action that may be viewed ecocritically. Uprootedness has many causes, with two of the most forceful being ecological and political, for it not only indicates the loss of one’s home or oikos—at the origin of ecology—but is also the result of treating people and land as commodities, to be profited from, disposed of, and exploited. However, as noted by the philosophers above, there is no sense in lumping into one undifferentiated “anthropos” the human agents responsible for shaping the planet and triggering this condition. Hence, they propose to designate our period of geohistory as the “capitalocene,” in order to ascribe responsibility to those to whom it actually belongs. Accordingly, this paper probes into contemporary films—recent documentaries such as Kalyanee Mam’s A River Changes Course (2013), Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea (2016), among others, but also Godfrey Reggio’s more “abstract” Powaqqatsi (1988)—because these works reveal an ecocentric empathy and aesthetics of affect within an ecocritical and necropolitical understanding of contemporary human uprootedness.
- Amplifying the concept of diagram with techniques of compositionPublication . de Aguiar, Vinicius
- Peano’s Geometry: From Empirical Foundations to Abstract DevelopmentPublication . Bertran San-Millán, JoanIn Principii di Geometria (1889b) and ‘Sui fondamenti della Geometria’ (1894) Peano offers axiomatic presentations of projective geometry. There seems to be a tension in Peano's construction of geometry in these two works: on the one hand, Peano insists that the basic components of geometry must be founded on intuition, and, on the other, he advocates the axiomatic method and an abstract understanding of the axioms. By studying Peano’s empiricist remarks and his conception of the notion of mathematical proof, and by discussing his critique of Segre’s foundation of hyperspace geometry, I will argue that the tension can be dissolved if these two seemingly contradictory positions are understood as compatible stages of a single process of construction rather than conflicting options.