history-and-philosophy-of-science

One of the most recurring and persistent questions we ask ourselves is: what is the cause (or more generally) the reason, the motive, the explanation, behind X (let X be an event, a state of affairs, ...

This essay proposes a three-layer architecture of mind in which phenomenal consciousness (qualia) is neither the foundation of mentality nor its inevitable accompaniment, but rather an emergent mechanism triggered by a specific computational condition: the irresolvable collision of multiple simultaneous contexts within a system operating under bounded resources. The intermediate layer — here call…

_Epistemology and Philosophy of Science_ 63 (3):100–140. 2026This monograph articulates the Tautology Praxis—a hierarchical, dual-track evaluative architecture asserting the absolute supremacy of logical structure over empirical science. We establish four foundational tenets of this epistemological system: First, logic is the foundation of all knowledge, including science; science cannot exist wi…

A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis develops a diagnostic account of the structural limits of natural language as a medium for conveying meaning. Against the assumption that misunderstanding can be overcome through clearer definitions, fuller explanation, or additional information, the book argues that linguistic effectiveness declines as conceptual complexity increases. It introduces the Effecti…

_Philosophical Psychology_. forthcomingRecent large language models (LLMs), such as GPT or Claude, can produce texts that look remarkably like human-authored stories. Scholarly and popular discussions often uncritically assume that these texts count as genuine stories or narratives. However, this paper steps back from this assumption to ask more fundamental, conceptual questions: When current LLM…

_Zenodo_. 2025The Wittenberg Framework (Part 0) provides the conceptual architecture and program overview of a non-metric, axis-based method for structuring and comparing qualitative orientations in governance, ethics, and culturally diverse decision environments. It introduces the intellectual foundations of the Framework, outlines its methodological commitments, and situates the series within a…

In The Skeptical Roots of Critique: Hume's Attack on Theology and the Origin of Kant's Antinomy. New York, US: OUP Usa. pp. 19-35. 2025Michael Forster has proposed that the _Dreams of a Spirit-Seer_ represent Kant’s engagement with a Pyrrhonian skepticism about metaphysics, and correspond to the first awakening from dogmatic slumber which Kant attributes to the Antinomy. This chapter supports For…

_Lomonosov Philosophy Journal_ 50 (2):37-54. 2026The article formulates the dilemma of Cartesian confinement. Proponents of the extended cognition hypothesis convincingly demonstrate the limitations of restricting the scope of cognition to internal, mental, and intracranial processes. Conversely, intracranialists demonstrate that operating within an extended cognition paradigm poses the risk of c…

This paper derives the human person from a single primitive structural problem: how recursively self-present identity can remain itself through real transformation. Consciousness, suffering, meaning, love, dignity, morality, shame, grief, and self-destruction are not independent psychological phenomena layered onto human existence. They are structurally linked consequences of the same persistence…

The hard problem of consciousness has not been resolved because it has been posed incorrectly. Every major theory — Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Predictive Processing, Higher-Order Theories, Functionalism — attempts to explain why processing gives rise to experience while presupposing, without deriving, the continuing subject for whom processing occurs. This generates a…

Mary’s room is usually understood as one of the most influential arguments against physicalism: a scientist who has never seen colors allegedly knows all physical facts about color perception, yet upon encountering color for the first time she seems to learn something new. However, the force of this argument depends on two terms that remain insufficiently clarified in the original setup: “physica…

Most parents use sticker charts and reward apps. Kant predicted exactly where that leads, and modern psychology just proved him right.

In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debate When the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the great social question of his time. In the 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), Pope Leo XIII anal…

This paper serves as the systematic culmination and resolution of the inquiries established across The Psychological Reflection of Consciousness: Identity, Thought, and the Dissolution of the "I"; The Cage Called Freedom: The Illusion of Democracy, Authority, and Conditioned Participation; Beyond Anthropocentrism and Psychological Time: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Existence, Flow, and Interco…

Modern civilization frequently interprets its crises as political instability, technological misuse, economic inequality, social conflict, or relational breakdown. Yet beneath these visible manifestations may exist a deeper continuity operating across all dimensions of human life: psychological conditioning. This article presents a macro–micro phenomenological inquiry into how the same underlying…

_Journal of General Philosophy of Science_. forthcomingThere is widespread consensus that a view of nothing but powers or dispositional fundamental properties struggles to accommodate physical symmetries. An option is to expand the fundamental ontology admitting extra modal elements constraining the behaviour of physical systems. Another is to eliminate symmetries altogether deeming them as dispe…

This document proposes a stratified ontology that articulates, under a single conceptual grammar, what fundamental physics, autopoietic biology, and contemporary cognitive science say about reality at their different scales. The initial motivation arises from a gap in the contemporary metaphysical landscape: ontic structural realism illuminates physics but struggles to account for the living; pro…

Published on May 25, 2026 4:22 PM GMT Cross-posted from my website . Three categories of futures, depending on how AI goes: ASI timelines are long. ASI timelines are short, and we're on track to solving AI alignment. ASI timelines are short, and we're not on track to solving AI alignment. If we want to make a good future for all sentient beings, each of these futures has different implications fo…

This essay argues that artificial intelligence systems cannot yet be treated as moral subjects, and that the decisive criterion for moral subjecthood is the capacity for irreversible loss — that is, the capacity for a being to lose something of its own in a way that matters to it. Drawing on this criterion, the essay distinguishes between functional agency and moral presence, critiques the widesp…

In this paper, I use the thought experiment of a completely (= absolutely) static, non-changing world in order to answer the following research question: "What is present even when absolutely nothing changes?" The thought experiment shows that, among other things, stuff, force, space, and time do not belong to those properties of Being that are bound to change. These properties are not to be unde…