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60Introduction to the special issue “Causation, probability, and truth—the philosophy of Clark Glymour”Synthese 193 (4): 1007-1010. 2016.
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59Disjunctivism: An Answer to Two Pseudo Problems?Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 39 (95): 61-84. 2010.Ever since it was discovered that hallucinations and illusions are not all that compatible with our natural view of the relation between the perceiving subject and the perceived object, according to which we always perceive the object itself (or, as most epistemologists prefer to say, we perceive it directly), the philosophical position of Direct (or Naïve) Realism which is meant to be the epistemological equivalent of this view, has begun to falter. To express these problems more explicitly, th…Read more
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55A modeling approach for mechanisms featuring causal cyclesPhilosophy of Science 83 (5): 934-945. 2016.Mechanisms play an important role in many sciences when it comes to questions concerning explanation, prediction, and control. Answering such questions in a quantitative way requires a formal represention of mechanisms. Gebharter (2014) suggests to represent mechanisms by means of one or more causal arrows of an acyclic causal net. In this paper we show how this approach can be extended in such a way that it can also be fruitfully applied to mechanisms featuring causal feedback.
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43Philosophy of Science Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities: IntroductionJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 48 (3): 317-326. 2017.This introduction provides a detailed summary of all papers of the special issue on the second conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science: GWP.2016.
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39Conference Report: Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2011 (review)Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 26 (1): 104-109. 2012.The SOPhiA conferences are intended to give young predoctoral philosophers the possibility to actively attend a professional conference, to tackle current, as well as classical, philosophical problems, and to discuss their own approaches with promising students from many dierent countries as well as with wellestablished experts. We are firmly convinced that this is a natural and necessary step for promoting the next generation of analytic philosophers and thus, strengthening analytic philosophy …Read more
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34Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenienceSynthese. forthcoming.Mental causation is notoriously threatened by the causal exclusion argument. A prominent strategy to save mental causation from causal exclusion consists in subscribing to an interventionist account of causation. This move has, however, recently been challenged by several authors. In this paper, we do two things: We (i) develop what we consider to be the strongest version of the interventionist causal exclusion argument currently on the market and (ii) propose a new way how it can in principle b…Read more
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34Erratum to: Solving the Flagpole ProblemJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 46 (2): 425-425. 2015.
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32A causal Bayesian network model of disease progression mechanisms in chronic myeloid leukemiaJournal of Theoretical Biology 433 94-105. 2017.Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a cancer of the hematopoietic system initiated by a single genetic mutation which results in the oncogenic fusion protein Bcr-Abl. Untreated, patients pass through different phases of the disease beginning with the rather asymptomatic chronic phase and ultimately culminating into blast crisis, an acute leukemia resembling phase with a very high mortality. Although many processes underlying the chronic phase are well understood, the exact mechanisms of disease pr…Read more
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30The Second International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2016), 8–11 March 2016In Alexander Christian, Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla & Alexander Gebharter (eds.), Selected Papers of the Triennial Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science GWP.2016, Düsseldorf, March 8–11, 2016, . pp. 289-291. 2017.
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24Free Will, Control, and the Possibility to do Otherwise from a Causal Modeler’s PerspectiveErkenntnis 87 (4): 1889-1906. 2020.Strong notions of free will are closely connected to the possibility to do otherwise as well as to an agent’s ability to causally influence her environment via her decisions controlling her actions. In this paper we employ techniques from the causal modeling literature to investigate whether a notion of free will subscribing to one or both of these requirements is compatible with naturalistic views of the world such as non-reductive physicalism to the background of determinism and indeterminism.…Read more
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21Introduction to the special issue “Logical perspectives on science and cognition”Synthese 197 (4): 1381-1390. 2020.
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14The Second International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science , 8–11 March 2016Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 48 (2): 289-291. 2017.
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3Conference Report: Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2011Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 1 (26): 104-109. 2012.
Alexander Gebharter
Marche Polytechnic University
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Marche Polytechnic UniversityAssistant Professor
Ancona, Marche, Italy
Areas of Specialization
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General Philosophy of Science |
Epistemology, Misc |
Formal Epistemology, Misc |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Causation |
Causal Modeling |
Causal Reasoning, Misc |
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Causal Reasoning |
Causal Modeling |
Causal Reasoning, Misc |