Intersubjective systems theory is the view that personal experience always emerges, maintains itself, and transforms in relational contexts. It is held for reasons of personal inclinations, philosophical belief, and clinical conviction. As a clinical sensibility, it primarily includes an emphasis on the emotional convictions or organizing principles that systematize experience, the personal eng...

A computer program capable of acting intelligently in the world must have a general representation of the world in terms of which its inputs are interpreted. Designing such a program requires commitments about what knowledge is and how it is obtained. Thus, some of the major traditional problems of philosophy arise in arti cial intelligence. More speci cally, we want a computer program that dec...

Abstract How burdens of proof are allocated in science has an important bearing on how new knowledge develops. Usually, the burden is theories to prove their worth relative a default, baseline that considered established and secure. However, case classical vs. quantum social matters not simple because long-standing default itself already failed pass crucial tests, which spurred search for solut...

Many accounts of the micro-macro link use the philosophical notion of emergence to argue that collective phenomena are collaboratively created by individuals yet are not reducible to explanation in terms of individuals. However, emergence has also been invoked by methodological individualists; they accept the existence of emergent social properties yet claim that such properties can be reduced ...

Abstract Questions about phenomenology’s role in non-philosophical disciplines gained renewed attention. While we claim that phenomenology makes indispensable, unique contributions to different domains of scientific practice such as concept formation, experimental design, and data collection, also contend when it comes explanation, phenomenological approaches face a dilemma. Either attempts exp...