Results for 'Cathy Devine'

87 found
Order:
  1. Expert Disagreement and the Duty to Vote.Devin Lane - forthcoming - Philosophers' Imprint.
    In this paper, I argue that widespread expert disagreement about sufficiently many issues central to a democratic decision-making procedure can nullify the duty to vote. I begin by drawing a distinction between different ways that we might conceive of the duty to vote, i.e. whether it is a duty to vote, no matter how one votes, or a duty to vote well. I then review some prominent arguments in favor of the existence of the duty to vote and suggest that (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  2. Murdoch's Ontological Argument.Cathy Mason & Matt Dougherty - 2023 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):769-784.
    Anselm’s ontological argument is an argument for the existence of God. This paper presents Iris Murdoch’s ontological argument for the existence of the Good. It discusses her interpretation of Anselm’s argument, her distinctive appropriation of it, as well as some of the merits of her version of the argument. In doing so, it also shows how the argument integrates some key Murdochian ideas: morality’s wide scope, the basicness of vision to morality, moral realism, and Platonism.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  3. The epistemic demands of friendship: friendship as inherently knowledge-involving.Cathy Mason - 2020 - Synthese 199 (1-2):2439-2455.
    Many recent philosophers have been tempted by epistemic partialism. They hold that epistemic norms and those of friendship constitutively conflict. In this paper, I suggest that underpinning this claim is the assumption that friendship is not an epistemically rich state, an assumption that even opponents of epistemic partiality have not questioned. I argue that there is good reason to question this assumption, and instead regard friendship as essentially involving knowledge of the other. If we accept this account of friendship, the (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  4. Why dispositionalism needs interpretivism: a reply to Poslajko.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2023 - Philosophia 51 (4):2139-2145.
    I have proposed wedding the theories of belief known as dispositionalism and interpretivism. Krzysztof Poslajko objects that dispositionalism does just fine on its own and, moreover, is better off without interpretivism’s metaphysical baggage. I argue that Poslajko is wrong: in order to secure a principled criterion for individuating beliefs, dispositionalism must either collapse into psychofunctionalism (or some other non-superficial theory) or accept interpretivism’s hand in marriage.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  5. Iris Murdoch and the Epistemic Significance of Love.Cathy Mason - 2021 - In Simon Cushing (ed.), New Philosophical Essays on Love and Loving. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 39-62.
    Murdoch makes some ambitious claims about love’s epistemic significance which can initially seem puzzling in the light of its heterogeneous and messy everyday manifestations. I provide an interpretation of Murdochian love such that Murdoch’s claims about its epistemic significance can be understood. I argue that Murdoch conceives of love as a virtue, and as belonging at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of the virtues, and that this makes sense of the epistemic role Murdochian love fulfills. Moreover, I suggest that there (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  6. Murdoch and Gilead: John Ames as a Model of Murdochian Virtue.Cathy Mason - 2024 - In Garry L. Hagberg (ed.), Narrative and Ethical Understanding. Palgrave. pp. 27-44.
    What’s so good about John Ames? The narrator of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead has been much admired, but it’s far from obvious why. His life is quiet and unassuming, and has for the most part been uneventful in the extreme. In this chapter I draw on Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy to explain the moral arc of the novel, and suggest that the novel in turn can shed light on Murdoch’s key ethical ideas. What is so notable about John Ames, I suggest, (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7. Epistemic Partialism and Taking Our Friends Seriously.Cathy Mason - 2024 - American Philosophical Quarterly 61 (3):233-243.
    Two doxastically significant demands of friendship have been discussed in recent literature, a demand to be epistemically partial and a demand to take our friends seriously. Though less discussed than epistemic partialism, I suggest that the demand to take our friends seriously is motivated by similar cases and considerations, and can avoid key objections to epistemic partialism that have been raised. I further suggest that it does justice to what we care about in friendship, and thus is to be preferred.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8. Interpretivism and norms.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (4):905-930.
    This article reconsiders the relationship between interpretivism about belief and normative standards. Interpretivists have traditionally taken beliefs to be fixed in relation to norms of interpretation. However, recent work by philosophers and psychologists reveals that human belief attribution practices are governed by a rich diversity of normative standards. Interpretivists thus face a dilemma: either give up on the idea that belief is constitutively normative or countenance a context-sensitive disjunction of norms that constitute belief. Either way, interpretivists should embrace the intersubjective (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   16 citations  
  9. Iris Murdoch, privacy, and the limits of moral testimony.Cathy Mason - 2021 - European Journal of Philosophy 30 (3):1125-1134.
    Recent discussions of moral testimony have focused on the acceptability of forming beliefs on the basis of moral testimony, but there has been little acknowledgement of the limits to testimony's capacity to convey moral knowledge. In this paper I outline one such limit, drawing on Iris Murdoch's conception of private moral concepts. Such concepts, I suggest, plausibly play an important role in moral thought, and yet moral knowledge expressed in them cannot be testimonially acquired.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  10. Morgan’s Quaker gun and the species of belief.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2023 - Philosophical Perspectives 37 (1):119-144.
    In this article, I explore how researchers’ metaphysical commitments can be conducive—or unconducive—to progress in animal cognition research. The methodological dictum known as Morgan’s Canon exhorts comparative psychologists to countenance the least mentalistic fair interpretation of animal actions. This exhortation has frequently been misread as a blanket condemnation of mentalistic interpretations of animal behaviors that could be interpreted behavioristically. But Morgan meant to demand only that researchers refrain from accepting default interpretations of (apparent) actions until other fair interpretations have been (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  11. Beliefs as inner causes: the (lack of) evidence.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2018 - Philosophical Psychology 31 (6):850-877.
    Many psychologists studying lay belief attribution and behavior explanation cite Donald Davidson in support of their assumption that people construe beliefs as inner causes. But Davidson’s influential argument is unsound; there are no objective grounds for the intuition that the folk construe beliefs as inner causes that produce behavior. Indeed, recent experimental work by Ian Apperly, Bertram Malle, Henry Wellman, and Tania Lombrozo provides an empirical framework that accords well with Gilbert Ryle’s alternative thesis that the folk construe beliefs as (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  12. A social mark of the mental.Devin Sanchez Curry - manuscript
    Introductory but opinionated essay on what (and why) minds are.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  13. Aristotle on Epigenesis.Devin Henry - 2018
    It has become somewhat of a platitude to call Aristotle the first epigenesist insofar as he thought form and structure emerged gradually from an unorganized, amorphous embryo. But modern biology now recognizes two senses of “epigenesis”. The first is this more familiar idea about the gradual emergence of form and structure, which is traditionally opposed to the idea of preformationism. But modern biologists also use “epigenesis” to emphasize the context-dependency of the process itself. Used in this sense development is not (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  14. Interpretivism without judgement-dependence.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2021 - Philosophia 49 (2):611-615.
    In a recent article in this journal, Krzysztof Poslajko reconstructs—and endorses as probative—a dilemma for interpretivism first posed by Alex Byrne. On the first horn of the dilemma, the interpretivist takes attitudes to emerge in relation to an ideal interpreter (and thus loses any connection with actual folk psychological practices). On the second horn, the interpretivist takes attitudes to emerge in relation to individuals’ judgements (and thus denies the possibility of error). I show that this is a false dilemma. By (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  15. How scientific psychology shapes minds.Devin Sanchez Curry - forthcoming - In Tad Zawidzki (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping.
    The mind and brain sciences influence how human beings understand one another. Histories of the concepts of repression, implicit bias, ADHD, IQ, and personhood reveal that scientific psychology has played a role, not just in shaping people's thinking about minds, but also (and thereby) in shaping minds themselves. These case studies may thus be seen as supporting the contentious thesis that science aids in the social construction of minds. Three considerations are relevant to determining how seriously we should take that (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16. Belief in character studies.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2022 - American Philosophical Quarterly 59 (1):27-42.
    In Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee reveals that American man of integrity Atticus Finch harbors deep-seated racist beliefs. Bob Ewell, Finch's nemesis in To Kill a Mockingbird, harbors the same beliefs. But the two men live out their shared racist beliefs in dramatically different fashions. This article argues that extant dispositionalist accounts of belief lack the tools to accommodate Finch and Ewell's divergent styles of believing. It then draws on literary and philosophical character studies to construct the required tools.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  17. The Ecology of Form.Devin Griffiths - 2021 - Critical Inquiry 48 (1):68-93.
    This article intervenes in recent formalist and ecocritical debates, drawing on the philosophy of Charles Darwin and Édouard Glissant to develop an ecopoetic theory of relational form. Gathering perspectives from ecocriticism and new materialism, literary criticism and comparative literature, the history and philosophy of science, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and Black studies, it reads form as an interdisciplinary object that is part of the world, rather than an imposed feature of human language or perception. In this way, it produces (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  18. Bridging the Gap Between Aristotle's Science and Ethics.Devin Henry & Karen Margrethe Nielsen (eds.) - 2015 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    This book consolidates emerging research on Aristotle's science and ethics in order to explore the extent to which the concepts, methods, and practices he developed for scientific inquiry and explanation are used to investigate moral phenomena. Each chapter shows, in a different way, that Aristotle's ethics is much more like a science than it is typically represented. The upshot of this is twofold. First, uncovering the links between Aristotle's science and ethics promises to open up new and innovative directions for (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  19. Responsibility and Comparative Pride – a Critical Discussion of Morgan-Knapp.Cathy Mason - 2020 - Philosophical Quarterly 70 (280):617-624.
    Taking pride in being better than others in some regard is not uncommon. In a recent paper, Christopher Morgan-Knapp argues that such pride is misguided: it ‘presents things as being some way they are not’. I argue that Morgan-Knapp's arguments do not succeed in showing that comparative pride is theoretically mistaken.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  20. On IQ and other sciencey descriptions of minds.Devin Sanchez Curry - forthcoming - Philosophers' Imprint.
    Philosophers of mind (from eliminative materialists to psychofunctionalists to interpretivists) generally assume that a normative ideal delimits which mental phenomena exist (though they disagree about how to characterize the ideal in question). This assumption is dubious. A comprehensive ontology of mind includes some mental phenomena that are neither (a) explanatorily fecund posits in any branch of cognitive science that aims to unveil the mechanistic structure of cognitive systems nor (b) ideal (nor even progressively closer to ideal) posits in any given (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  21. How beliefs are like colors.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2021 - Synthese 199 (3-4):7889-7918.
    Double dissociations between perceivable colors and physical properties of colored objects have led many philosophers to endorse relationalist accounts of color. I argue that there are analogous double dissociations between attitudes of belief—the beliefs that people attribute to each other in everyday life—and intrinsic cognitive states of belief—the beliefs that some cognitive scientists posit as cogs in cognitive systems—pitched at every level of psychological explanation. These dissociations provide good reason to refrain from conflating attitudes of belief with intrinsic cognitive states (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  22. Street smarts.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2021 - Synthese 199 (1-2):161-180.
    A pluralistic approach to folk psychology must countenance the evaluative, regulatory, predictive, and explanatory roles played by attributions of intelligence in social practices across cultures. Building off of the work of the psychologist Robert Sternberg and the philosophers Gilbert Ryle and Daniel Dennett, I argue that a relativistic interpretivism best accounts for the many varieties of intelligence that emerge from folk discourse. To be intelligent is to be comparatively good at solving intellectual problems that an interpreter deems worth solving.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  23. Aristotle on the Mechanisms of Inheritance.Devin Henry - 2006 - Journal of the History of Biology 39 (3):425-455.
    In this paper I address an important question in Aristotle’s biology, What are the causal mechanisms behind the transmission of biological form? Aristotle’s answer to this question, I argue, is found in Generation of Animals Book 4 in connection with his investigation into the phenomenon of inheritance. There we are told that an organism’s reproductive material contains a set of "movements" which are derived from the various "potentials" of its nature (the internal principle of change that initiates and controls development). (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  24. How sexist is Aristotle's developmantal biology?Devin Henry - 2007 - Phronesis 52 (3):251-69.
    The aim of this paper is to evaluate the level of gender bias in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals while exercising due care in the analysis of its arguments. I argue that while the GA theory is clearly sexist, the traditional interpretation fails to diagnose the problem correctly. The traditional interpretation focuses on three main sources of evidence: (1) Aristotle’s claim that the female is, as it were, a “disabled” (πεπηρωμένον) male; (2) the claim at GA IV.3, 767b6-8 that females are (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  25. Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group.Pierre Pica, Cathy Lemer, Véronique Izard & Stanislas Dehaene - 2004 - Science 306 (5695):499-503.
    Is calculation possible without language? Or is the human ability for arithmetic dependent on the language faculty? To clarify the relation between language and arithmetic, we studied numerical cognition in speakers of Mundurukú, an Amazonian language with a very small lexicon of number words. Although the Mundurukú lack words for numbers beyond 5, they are able to compare and add large approximate numbers that are far beyond their naming range. However, they fail in exact arithmetic with numbers larger than 4 (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   182 citations  
  26. Cabbage à la Descartes.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2016 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 3:609-637.
    This article offers an interpretation of Descartes’s method of doubt. It wields an examination of Descartes’s pedagogy—as exemplified by The Search for Truth as well as the Meditations—to make the case for the sincerity (as opposed to artificiality) of the doubts engendered by the First Meditation. Descartes was vigilant about balancing the need to use his method of doubt to achieve absolute certainty with the need to compensate for the various foibles of his scholastic and unschooled readers. Nevertheless, Descartes endeavored (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  27. Aristotle’s Pluralistic Realism.Devin Henry - 2011 - The Monist 94 (2):197-220.
    In this paper I explore Aristotle’s views on natural kinds and the compatibility of pluralism and realism, a topic that has generated considerable interest among contemporary philosophers. I argue that, when it came to zoology, Aristotle denied that there is only one way of organizing the diversity of the living world into natural kinds that will yield a single, unified system of classification. Instead, living things can be grouped and regrouped into various cross-cutting kinds on the basis of objective similarities (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  28. The Failure of Evolution in Antiquity.Devin Henry - forthcoming - In Georgia Irby (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Ancient Science, Medicine and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell.
    The intellectual history of evolutionary theory really does not begin in earnest until the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century. Prior to that, the idea that species might have evolved over time was not a serious possibility for most naturalists and philosophers. There is certainly no substantive debate in antiquity about evolution in the modern sense. There were really only two competing explanations for how living things came to have the parts they do: design or blind chance. Ancient Greek Atomism, for example, (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  29. Embryological models in ancient philosophy.Devin Henry - 2005 - Phronesis 50 (1):1 - 42.
    Historically embryogenesis has been among the most philosophically intriguing phenomena. In this paper I focus on one aspect of biological development that was particularly perplexing to the ancients: self-organisation. For many ancients, the fact that an organism determines the important features of its own development required a special model for understanding how this was possible. This was especially true for Aristotle, Alexander, and Simplicius, who all looked to contemporary technology to supply that model. However, they did not all agree on (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   13 citations  
  30. g as bridge model.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2021 - Philosophy of Science 88 (5):1067-1078.
    Psychometric g—a statistical factor capturing intercorrelations between scores on different IQ tests—is of theoretical interest despite being a low-fidelity model of both folk psychological intelligence and its cognitive/neural underpinnings. Psychometric g idealizes away from those aspects of cognitive/neural mechanisms that are not explanatory of the relevant variety of folk psychological intelligence, and it idealizes away from those varieties of folk psychological intelligence that are not generated by the relevant cognitive/neural substrate. In this manner, g constitutes a high-fidelity bridge model of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  31. Organismal Natures.Devin Henry - 2008 - Apeiron (3):47-74.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  32. Mourning and the Recognition of Value.Cathy Mason & Matt Dougherty - 2022 - In Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode (ed.), The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief. Lexington Books.
    If mourning is a proof of value, how could it be appropriate to move on when one has truly loved and valued someone? Assuming that it is appropriate to value others extremely highly – perhaps even infinitely – how could it ever make sense for one’s grief to abate? Do loss and proper mourning thus present us with a choice between living well and loving well? This paper aims to vindicate the pressing nature of these questions while arguing that we (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  33. Is Forgiveness Openness to Reconciliation?Cathy Mason & Matt Dougherty - 2025 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 68 (2):215-223.
    In a recent paper, Strabbing (2020) argues that forgiveness is openness to reconciliation relative to a relationship level. In this paper, we argue that the openness-to-reconciliation account of forgiveness does not constitute an improvement on the forswearing-resentment account. We argue that it does not fit well with our ordinary practices of forgiving and cannot allow for plausible cases of forgiveness without reconciliation. We also argue that the features Strabbing identifies as distinct advantages of her account are features of the forswearing-resentment (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  34. Optimality and Teleology in Aristotle's Natural Science.Devin Henry - manuscript
    In this paper I examine the role of optimality reasoning in Aristotle’s natural science. By “optimality reasoning” I mean reasoning that appeals to some conception of “what is best” in order to explain why things are the way they are. We are first introduced to this pattern of reasoning in the famous passage at Phaedo 97b8-98a2, where (Plato’s) Socrates invokes “what is best” as a cause (aitia) of things in nature. This passage can be seen as the intellectual ancestor of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  35. On the basis of friendship - a reply to Phelan.Cathy Mason - 2023 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (6):1006-1015.
    What is common to all instances of friendship? Given their seemingly heterogeneous character, Phelan (2019. “Rethinking Friendship.” Inquiry) suggests that friendships are relationships that result from collaborative norm-manipulation. In this paper, I suggest that this proposal fails to account for all friendships without relying on the notion of some kind of care.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  36. Iris Murdoch and the Epistemic Significance of Love.Cathy Mason - 2021 - In Simon Cushing (ed.), New Philosophical Essays on Love and Loving. Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  37.  70
    Browning, Gary. Iris Murdoch and the Political. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024, vi + 221 pp. [REVIEW]Cathy Mason - forthcoming - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38. The Impact and Residue of Cartesian Dualism: The Relevance of Cartesian Skepticism.Cathy Dobson - manuscript
    A concise review of skeptician in the Carterian model with a discussion of the reframing of the Cartesian paradigm by John McDowell in the 20th century.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  39.  40
    CODES_ The Universal Framework That Changes Everything.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Abstract -/- This paper introduces CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems), a unifying theoretical framework that reconciles general relativity and quantum mechanics through structured resonance. By redefining fundamental assumptions about dark matter, dark energy, and singularities, CODES proposes a falsifiable, predictive model that aligns with observed cosmological structures while offering testable insights into emergent phenomena. -/- Key Contributions -/- • Resolution of General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics Paradox -/- CODES introduces structured intelligence fields that reconcile relativistic and quantum-scale physics by (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40. Cartesian critters can't remember.Devin Sanchez Curry - 2018 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 69:72-85.
    Descartes held the following view of declarative memory: to remember is to reconstruct an idea that you intellectually recognize as a reconstruction. Descartes countenanced two overarching varieties of declarative memory. To have an intellectual memory is to intellectually reconstruct a universal idea that you recognize as a reconstruction, and to have a sensory memory is to neurophysiologically reconstruct a particular idea that you recognize as a reconstruction. Sensory remembering is thus a capacity of neither ghosts nor machines, but only of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  41. Moral Articulation. [REVIEW]Cathy Mason - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  42.  38
    Resolving Free Will and Determinism Through Chiral Dynamics of Emergent Systems (CODES).Devin Bostick - manuscript
    The tension between free will and determinism has long been a cornerstone of philosophical debate. This paper proposes that the Chiral Dynamics of Emergent Systems (CODES) provides a novel framework to resolve this dichotomy. By conceptualizing reality as a chiral equilibrium of order and chaos, where emergent systems adapt and evolve within constraints, CODES reveals that free will and determinism are not opposites but complementary facets of the same dynamic system. The theory posits that human decision-making operates as a localized (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  43.  38
    The Geometry of Life: A Flower’s Growth through the Lens of CODES.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Nature’s most elegant designs, from the spiral of a sunflower to the branching veins of a leaf, reflect the dynamic interplay of chaos and order. Flowers, in their delicate symmetry and adaptive patterns, provide a vivid canvas to explore CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems). By examining a flower’s growth and structure, we can uncover the fundamental geometric principles that emerge from the interaction of environmental variables, genetic programming, and stochastic processes. Through this lens, we can predict the geometry of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  44.  37
    A New Framework for Cosmic Structure and Expansion.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Current cosmological models treat expansion as a one-way process driven by dark energy, an undefined force accelerating the separation of galaxies. However, these models fail to provide a fundamental explanation for dark energy’s nature, origin, or behavior. This paper introduces CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems) as a new framework for understanding the large-scale dynamics of the universe. It proposes that matter and energy exist in a non-hierarchical oscillatory balance, where cosmic expansion is not an infinite, linear process but an (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  45.  36
    The Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems (CODES): A Unified Framework for Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, and Relativity.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    This paper introduces CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems), a unifying theoretical framework that reconciles general relativity and quantum mechanics through structured resonance. By redefining fundamental assumptions about dark matter, dark energy, and singularities, CODES proposes a falsifiable, predictive model that aligns with observed cosmological structures while offering testable insights into emergent phenomena. Key Contributions • Resolution of General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics Paradox CODES introduces structured intelligence fields that reconcile relativistic and quantum-scale physics by incorporating oscillatory chiral dynamics. • (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  46. Aristotle’s Generation of Animals.Devin Henry - 2008 - In Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    A general article discussing philosophical issues arising in connection with Aristotle's "Generation of Animals" (Chapter from Blackwell's Companion to Aristotle).
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  47.  23
    Sunk Cost Fallacy, Ego, and Uncertainty: A Chiral Framework of Emergent Systems.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    This paper presents a novel theoretical framework connecting the sunk cost fallacy, ego, and uncertainty as a dynamic interplay within emergent systems. Drawing from the principles of Chiral Dynamics of Emergent Systems (CODES), the theory posits that the sunk cost fallacy is a manifestation of ego’s response to uncertainty, creating a self-reinforcing loop. This framework resolves traditional gaps in behavioral economics, psychology, and philosophy, offering a robust lens to analyze decision-making and consciousness. The paper includes examples, mathematical approximations, and philosophical (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  48.  23
    Free Speech and the Paradox of Order and Chaos: Applying the Chiral Dynamics of Emergent Systems (CODES).Devin Bostick - manuscript
    This paper explores the paradox of free speech through the lens of the Chiral Dynamics of Emergent Systems (CODES), a theory that frames all phenomena as existing in a dynamic equilibrium between chaos and order. Free speech, as a concept, sits at the intersection of these forces: too much order (censorship) stifles its purpose, while too much chaos (unchecked speech) undermines its societal utility. By applying CODES, we provide a systemic and mathematical framework to understand how free speech operates as (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  49.  36
    CODES and the Unification of Physics.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    The Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems (CODES) introduces a revolutionary perspective on the interplay between chaos and order, proposing that reality operates through a chiral balance of emergent systems constrained by adaptive equilibrium. This paper applies CODES to the most fundamental challenge in physics: the reconciliation of quantum mechanics and general relativity. By framing these domains as emergent systems connected through chirality, CODES resolves long-standing paradoxes, provides a pathway for unification, and offers insights into the nature of consciousness, entropy, and (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  50.  28
    Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems (CODES): Resolving Consciousness, Paradox, and the Foundations of Reality.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    This paper introduces the Chirality of Dynamics Emergent Systems (CODES), a unifying theory that reframes consciousness as an emergent property of dynamic systems achieving equilibrium between chaos and order. By grounding consciousness in adaptive, chiral processes, CODES provides a universal framework to resolve paradoxes such as free will vs. determinism, Gödel’s incompleteness, and Zeno’s paradoxes. The theory integrates principles of complex dynamics, evolutionary systems, and information theory, extending its applicability across neuroscience, philosophy, and quantum mechanics. Empirical pathways and practical applications (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
1 — 50 / 87