Race: What It Is and What to Be Expected of It
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This essay discusses race as a socially constructed concept.
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epistemology
Interpretation and Understanding
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This essay discusses how the interpretive social sciences have some fundamental epistemic aim (e.g. “understanding”) that differs from fundamental aims of the natural sciences. I later realize that according to these philososphical terms, ‘mech interp’ is actually ‘mech explaination’.
Non-Causal Explanation
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In this essay, I challenged the claim that “To explain an event is to provide information about its causal history”.
Problem of Induction
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In this essay, I discuss the question what does it take for an argument to be a good inductive argument.
metaphysics
Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Worlds
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This essay reviews Leibniz’s argument on the actual world being the best of all possible worlds.
Possible Worlds
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Is there good reason to believe possible worlds other than the actual one exist? In this essay, I will argue that although possible worlds are a useful tool for understanding modality, there is no good reason to believe that possible worlds other than the actual one exist as concrete entities.
philosophy of science
Interpretation and Understanding
Published:
This essay discusses how the interpretive social sciences have some fundamental epistemic aim (e.g. “understanding”) that differs from fundamental aims of the natural sciences. I later realize that according to these philososphical terms, ‘mech interp’ is actually ‘mech explaination’.
Non-Causal Explanation
Published:
In this essay, I challenged the claim that “To explain an event is to provide information about its causal history”.
philosophy of social science
Race: What It Is and What to Be Expected of It
Published:
This essay discusses race as a socially constructed concept.