James Ladyman and Lorenzo Lorenzetti on understanding effective realism through the lens of structural realism

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Francesca Bellazzi on what it means to say that a biochemical has a function.

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Robert Williams and Richard Pettigrew ask how we should measure the accuracy of probabilities.

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Ian Robertson, Julian Kiverstein, and Michael Kirchhoff on the literalist fallacy and realism about the free energy principle.

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David Oderberg, Jonathan Hill, Christopher Austin, Ingo Bojak, François Cinotti, and Jon Gibbins ask what mistakes mean for philosophy and biology.

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David Thorstad asks if bounded agents can have both accuracy and coherence.

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Analog computation, properly understood, is the best candidate for characterizing neural computation, argues Corey J Maley.

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Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen ask how we determine what to pay attention to.

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Mario Hubert on how an investigation of the initial-value problem challenges our view of electromagnetism.

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Michael te Vrugt asks if exchanging two indistinguishable particles changes anything.

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