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Phenomena and Patterns in Data Sets
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The Evidential Significance of Thought Experiment in Science
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Does artistic value pose a special problem for time travel theories?
Michael Dummett and Storrs McCall have claimed that time travel scenarios in which an artist copies an artwork from a reproduction of it that has been sent from the future introduce a causal loop of a new kind: one involving artistic value. They have suggested that this poses a hitherto unacknowledged challenge to time travel theories. I argue that their conclusion depends on some unstated essentialist assumptions about metaphysics of art and the status of representations. By relaxing these assumptions, I show that Dummett and McCall’s scenarios contain no causal loop involving artistic value, and thus pose no new problem for time travel theories.Philosophy of Knowledge and Cognitio
Competition Among Scientific Disciplines in Cold Nuclear Fusion Research
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Historicism and cross-culture comparison
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Het station en het museum: netwerken in techniek en cultuur
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Scientists' Aesthetic Preferences among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises
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Dirac and the Aesthetic Evaluation of Theories
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Scientific Realism and the Criteria for Theory-Choice
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