The growing acceptance and success of experimental economics has increased the interest of researchers in tackling philosophical and methodological challenges to which their work increasingly gives rise. I sketch some general issues that call for the combined expertise of experimental economists and philosophers of science, of experiment, and of inductive-statistical inference and modeling. 1. ...

We tend to put our notion of the soul, the self, the “I” in a different category than other objects we think about. This is not only a common attitude in the general population, but it is also reflected in many examples of philosophical discourse. Philosophers differ, however, in their opinions of how and why the self attains its special status. The two traditional extreme points of view, which...

Agrarian rural dwellers in Nigeria produce about 95% of locally grown food commodities. The low accessibility to and affordability of orthodox medicine by rural dwellers and their need to keep healthy to be economically productive, have led to their dependence on traditional medicine. This paper posits an increasing acceptance of traditional medicine country-wide and advanced reasons for this t...

Adaptation of a component-based system can be achieved in the coordination modelling language Paradigm through the special component McPal. McPal regulates the propagation of new behaviour and guides the changes in the components and in their coordination. Here we show how McPal may delegate part of its control to local adaptation managers, created on-the-fly, allowing for distribution of the a...

Abstract Benbaji and Statman’s contractarian ethics of war offers a powerful new philosophical defence orthodox conclusions against revisionist criticism. I present two-pronged argument in reply. First, contractarianism yields what call ‘decent theory,’ theory which between decent states is paradigmatic. argue, by contrast, that should treat wars indecent as paradigmatic, resulting Rawlsian alt...

Since the seminal work of David Kaplan @1977#, the orthodox view of complex ‘that’phrases ~e.g. ‘that man drinking a martini’—henceforth I shall refer to these as ‘that’ phrases! has been that they are devices of direct reference. According to this view, the propositional contribution of a ‘that’ phrase as it occurs in a context is an individual. This individual is picked out by the character o...

Shimony’s method of analysis does not distinguish adequately between a legitimate assumption of no faster-than-light action in one direction and the to-be-proved assertion of faster-than-light tranfer of information in the opposite direction. The virtue is noted of replacing the logical framework based counterfactual concepts by one based the concept of fixed past and open future. ∗This work is...

Some of the major problems in radiation protection are closely connected to issues that have a long, independent tradition in moral philosophy. This contribution focuses on two of these issues. One is the relationship between the protection of individuals and optimisation on the collective level, and the other is the relative valuation of future versus immediate damage. Some of the intellectual...

Using a hierarchical-systems analysis, this paper supports the orthodox view of the mind. We claim that the orthodox mind – bounded by brains or bodies – is organized into various system levels, each of which is emergent from the dynamics of level below it. We see the extended mind hypothesis as borrowing terms from a high-level system of the orthodox mind and applying it to interactions betwee...