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    Précis of Knowing What Things Are: An Inquiry Based-Approach.André J. Abath - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (2):2024-0125.
    This book symposium comprises a précis of André J. Abath’s book Knowing What Things Are: An Inquiry-Based Approach (Springer, 2022) together with five critical commentaries on different aspects of the book-written by Veronica Campos, Guilherme Araújo Cardoso, Giulia Felappi, Ernesto Perini-Santos and Leonardo de Mello Ribeiro-, and the author’s replies.
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    Erotetic Knowledge and Deal-Breaker Propositions.Veronica Campos - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (2):2024-0120.
    This paper critically engages with André Abath’s Knowing What Things Are: An Inquiry-Based Approach (2022), which develops an erotetic account of knowledge about what things are. According to Abath, to know what X is, one must know propositions that serve as appropriate answers to the question “What is X?” within a given inquiry context. While this view successfully accommodates variations in epistemic demands across contexts, I argue that it overlooks the role of deal-breaker propositions - false claims that fundamentally undermine (...)
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    Knowing What Truth Is: Some Brief Remarks on the Erotetic Account.Guilherme Cardoso - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (2):2024-0124.
    This submission is addressed to the symposium on Prof. André Abath’s book “Knowing What Things Are: An Erotetic-Based Account” (2022).
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    Properly Answering the Question What is Knowledge of What Things Are? On André Abath’s Erotetic View.Giulia Felappi - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (2):2024-0121.
    While philosophers are and have always been interested in, if not obsessed by, questions of the kind What is x?, somehow ironically, the question What is knowledge of what x is? did not receive much attention. Thankfully, to properly answer this question, André Abath suggested his erotetic view, according to which S knows what x is in context c if and only if S knows a proposition (or propositions) that properly answer (that is, provide a proper answer to) the question (...)
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    A Question Will Never Walk Alone.Ernesto Perini-Santos - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (2):2024-0122.
    In Knowing What Things Are, Abath shifts the focus of epistemology from propositional knowledge to the capacity to answer questions, emphasizing knowledge as an outcome of human activity. He highlights the role of interrogatives in epistemic evaluation. However, his emphasis on Socratic questions ("What is X?") overlooks the interconnectedness of different types of questions within an inquiry. This paper examines two Socratic questions: "What is a gene?" and "What is a marriage?" In the case of "What is a gene?" advances (...)
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    The Thing That Should (Not) Be: On André J. Abath’s Ways of Knowing.Leonardo de Mello Ribeiro - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (2):2024-0123.
    In "Knowing What Things Are", A. Abath’s account of knowledge has two main features. Firstly, it is inquiry-based or erotetic: knowledge is to be understood in terms of answers to questions of the form “What is x?” Secondly, it is contextualist: answers to questions of the form “what is x?” are dependent on contextual factors, as they should be evaluated as true and satisfactory given the specific purposes (or goals) of an inquiry. Here I focus on the contextualist component of (...)
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    How to Redo Things with Words: Deniability and the Determinants of Illocutionary Force.Leonard Clapp - 2025 - Manuscrito 48 (1):2024-0060.
    When one speaks duplicitously one performs a (risky) speech act and at the same time intends that one have deniability regarding that speech act. What is it for a speaker who performs an illocutionary act to have deniability regarding that act? I first review an answer to this question proposed by Alexander Dinges and Julia Zakkou. According to them, deniability is “an epistemic notion. A speaker has deniability if she can make it epistemically irrational for her audience to reason in (...)
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    (1 other version)Special Issue on Scientific Process Ontology and Metaphysics - a Thematic Introduction.Francesco Maria Ferrari - 2025 - Manuscrito 47 (1).
    Foreword The reasons that encouraged me to propose a Special Issue for Manuscrito on processual thought in the philosophical-scientific perimeter are primarily rooted in the naturalist spirit intrinsic to process models. The appeal these models have had on my academic and research journey stems largely from their emphasis on the dynamism and relationality of entities, their mutual interdependence, and their contingency, which simultaneously allows for avoiding both reductionist and/or foundationalist approaches and those uncomfortable dualistic fragmentations or “bifurcations” of nature, as (...)
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    (1 other version)Embryonic Development as Emergent Processes.Andrew M. Winters - 2025 - Manuscrito 47 (1).
    This paper argues that embryonic development is best understood through the lens of process philosophy rather than traditional substance metaphysics. Drawing on both contemporary developmental biology and process thought, I demonstrate how key phenomena in embryogenesis-including morphogenesis, cellular differentiation, and organismal integration-align naturally with process-philosophical principles. Through critical engagement with major figures in developmental biology and philosophy of biology, including Turing's mathematical theory of morphogenesis and autopoietic approaches to biological organization, I show how persistent difficulties in developmental biology stem from (...)
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