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21The influence of philosophical training on the evaluation of philosophical cases: a controlled longitudinal studySynthese 202 (4): 1-92. 2023.According to the expertise defense, practitioners of the method of cases need not worry about findings that ordinary people’s philosophical intuitions depend on epistemically irrelevant factors. This is because, honed by years of training, the intuitions of professional philosophers likely surpass those of the folk. To investigate this, we conducted a controlled longitudinal study of a broad range of intuitions in undergraduate students of philosophy (n = 226), whose case judgments we sampled af…Read more
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16Without more theory, psychology will be a headless riderBehavioral and Brain Sciences 45. 2022.We argue that Yarkoni's proposed solutions to the generalizability crisis are half-measures because he does not recognize that the crisis arises from investigators' underappreciation of the roles of theory in experimental research. Rather than embracing qualitative analysis, the research community should make an effort to develop better theories and work toward consistently incorporating theoretical results into experimental practice.
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13Double trouble? The communication dimension of the reproducibility crisis in experimental psychology and neuroscienceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 10 (3): 1-22. 2020.Most discussions of the reproducibility crisis focus on its epistemic aspect: the fact that the scientific community fails to follow some norms of scientific investigation, which leads to high rates of irreproducibility via a high rate of false positive findings. The purpose of this paper is to argue that there is a heretofore underappreciated and understudied dimension to the reproducibility crisis in experimental psychology and neuroscience that may prove to be at least as important as the epi…Read more
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556Replicability or reproducibility? On the replication crisis in computational neuroscience and sharing only relevant detailJournal of Computational Neuroscience 3 (45): 163-172. 2018.Replicability and reproducibility of computational models has been somewhat understudied by “the replication movement.” In this paper, we draw on methodological studies into the replicability of psychological experiments and on the mechanistic account of explanation to analyze the functions of model replications and model reproductions in computational neuroscience. We contend that model replicability, or independent researchers' ability to obtain the same output using original code and data, an…Read more
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2Poetic justice: A commentary on Joseph B. McCaffrey's "The brain’s heterogeneous landscape"Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 6 (2-3): 79-84. 2015.The paper is a commentary on McCaffrey (2015). I begin by arguing that the two views on brain pluripotency that McCaffrey intends to reconcile, namely those of Price and Friston (2005) and Klein (2012), are not really in conflict. The alleged disagreement between them stems from two interpretative failures: first on the part of Klein, who has misrepresented the views of Price and Friston, and second on the part of McCaffrey, who has misconstrued Klein’s position. I then take issue with McCaffrey…Read more
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1712Watered Down Essences and Elusive Speech Communities: Two Objections against Putnam's Twin Earth ArgumentHybris. Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny 38 22-41. 2017.The paper presents two objections against Putnam’s Twin Earth argument, which was intended to secure semantic externalism. I first claim that Putnam’s reasoning rests on two assumptions and then try to show why these assumptions are contentious. The first objection is that, given what we know about science, it is unlikely that there are any natural-kind terms whose extension is codetermined by a small set of microstructures required by Putnam’s indexical account of extension determination. The s…Read more
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288Book Review: Jeff Buechner, Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism: A New Reading of Representation and Reality (review)Journal of Cognitive Science 15 (3): 391-402. 2014.
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249Długa droga donikąd. O Sydneya Shoemakera funkcjonalistycznej teorii tożsamości osobowejEthos(misc.) 101 (1): 137-152. 2013.
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On Reduction and Interfield Integration in NeuroscienceIn Marcin Miłkowski & Konrad Talmont-Kamiński (eds.), Regarding Mind, Naturally, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 167-181. 2013.
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22Dwa funkcjonalizmy Hilary'ego Putnama, czyli kawałek historii z morałemDiametros 29 31-49. 2011.
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Hilary Putnam's two functionalisms. A piece of history with a moralDiametros 31-49. 2011.The paper reconstructs the evolution of Hilary Putnam’s early, i.e. functionalist, views in the philosophy of mind. It distinguishes between the following two alternatives: weak functionalism, which asserts that traditional ontological questions about the mind are, in fact, pseudo-problems; and strong functionalism, the claim that the nature of mind can be discovered empirically if one acknowledges that mental states are defined relationally, without direct recourse to the properties of the brai…Read more