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    Selfish Ape.Mateo Arias-Vélez - 2024 - Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 24 (48).
    The aim of this paper is to affirm that the Machiavellian Hypothesis of Social Thinking by Michael Tomasello is wrong. For that, I show critics to four fundamental points of this hypothesis. First, the claim that non-human primates cannot attributes false belief to other in cooperative contexts (ToM). Second, that they do not feel empathy to others out of their group. third, that they do not have fairness sense and finally, that they do not have joint intentionality. The paper concludes (...)
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    Possibility of Scientific Explanation from Models Based on Artificial Neural Networks.Alejandro E. Rodríguez-Sánchez - 2024 - Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 24 (48).
    In Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks are very accurate models in tasks such as classification and regression in the study of natural phenomena, but they are considered “black boxes” because they do not allow direct explanation of what they address. This paper reviews the possibility of scientific explanation from these models and concludes that other efforts are required to understand their inner workings. This poses challenges to access scientific explanation through their use, since the nature of Artificial Neural Networks makes (...)
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    Folk Economics and Economic Science.Luis Enrique Ortiz Gutiérrez - 2024 - Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 24 (48).
    The development of science has produced a gap between the knowledge accepted by scientific communities and popular beliefs. This subject has worried scientists, considering that many of these beliefs turn out to be untenable. In addition to the problems related to education and scientific dissemination, the study of folk beliefs raises intriguing questions for epistemology and cognitive sciences about the processes of formation and justification of knowledge. This theme also has important repercussions in terms of actions, based on the fact (...)
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    Local Holism and Semantic Change in the Kuhn’s Theory.Daniel Labrador-Montero - 2024 - Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 24 (48).
    This article aims to delve into the concept of taxonomic incommensurability as advocated by Thomas Kuhn from the 1980s onward. According to Kuhn, in this more local and moderate interpretation, the incommensurability between theories results from the semantic alteration of certain central terms, which he refers to as 'taxonomic categories'. He argues that these categories are holistically inter-defined, such that altering the meaning of any one term necessitates a redefinition of the others. To draw examples of such localized holism and (...)
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    Elements for an Epistemological Revision of Kolmogorov's Axiomatics.Alberto Landro & Mirta L. Gonzalez - 2024 - Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 24 (48).
    Although the literature on probability has traditionally considered certain assumptions about what were the aims and scope of the "Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung" in the development of probability theory, a detailed analysis of Kolmogorov's work in particular regarding its passage through the frequentist and propensionalist interpretations, leads to the conclusion that hypotheses usually raised in the literature about its axiomatics being based on a primitive concept of probability, independent of any interpretation about the nature of chance, are generally inaccurate and that (...)
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    Physical Entities and Spatiotemporal Junk.Wilfredo Quezada Pulido & Luis Pavez - 2024 - Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 24 (48).
    A classic challenge for any theory of physical causation based on conserved quantities and formulated within the framework of special relativity theory, has been to distinguish two regions, that of genuine causal relationships and that of those spurious or noncausal ones. In the causal processes theory defended by P. Dowe, this is done by introducing a criterion based on the possession of a conserved quantity, which would seem to efficiently demarcate between causal processes and causal pseudoprocesses. However, faced with criticism (...)
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