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    Grundprobleme der Modernen Naturphilosophie.Andreas Bartels - 2023 - Springer Spektrum.
    Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt zentrale naturphilosophische Probleme, die durch Theorien der modernen Naturwissenschaften aufgeworfen werden. Es fragt, welches Bild von Raum, Zeit, Materie, Leben und Bewusstsein sich aus ihnen ergibt, aber auch nach den Konsequenzen der aktuellen Umweltkrise für unser praktisches Verhältnis zur Natur. Der Autor Prof. em. Dr. Andreas Bartels hat Mathematik, Physik und Philosophie studiert und ist emeritierter Professor für Natur- und Wissenschaftsphilosophie an der Universität Bonn.
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  2. (3 other versions)Defending the structural concept of representation.Andreas Bartels - 2006 - Theoria 21 (55):7-19.
    The aim of this paper is to defend the structural concept of representation, as defined by homomorphisms, against its main objections, namely: logical objections, the objection from misrepresentation, theobjection from failing necessity, and the copy theory objection. The logical objections can be met by reserving the relation.
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  3. Animal minds and the possession of concepts.Albert Newen & Andreas Bartels - 2007 - Philosophical Psychology 20 (3):283 – 308.
    In the recent literature on concepts, two extreme positions concerning animal minds are predominant: the one that animals possess neither concepts nor beliefs, and the one that some animals possess concepts as well as beliefs. A characteristic feature of this controversy is the lack of consensus on the criteria for possessing a concept or having a belief. Addressing this deficit, we propose a new theory of concepts which takes recent case studies of complex animal behavior into account. The main aim (...)
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  4. Toward a theory of visual consciousness.Semir Zeki & Andreas Bartels - 1999 - Consciousness and Cognition 8 (2):225-59.
    The visual brain consists of several parallel, functionally specialized processing systems, each having several stages (nodes) which terminate their tasks at different times; consequently, simultaneously presented attributes are perceived at the same time if processed at the same node and at different times if processed by different nodes. Clinical evidence shows that these processing systems can act fairly autonomously. Damage restricted to one system compromises specifically the perception of the attribute that that system is specialized for; damage to a given (...)
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  5. Modern essentialism and the problem of individuation of spacetime points.Andreas Bartels - 1996 - Erkenntnis 45 (1):25--43.
    In this paper Modern Essentialism is used to solve a problem of individuation of spacetime points in General Relativity that has been raised by a New Leibnizian Argument against spacetime substantivalism, elaborated by Earman and Norton. An earlier essentialistic solution, proposed by Maudlin, is criticized as being against both the spirit of metrical essentialism and the fundamental principles of General Relativity. I argue for a modified essentialistic account of spacetime points that avoids those obstacles.
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    Conscious perception of flickering stimuli in binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression is not affected by tACS-induced SSR modulation.Georg Schauer, Carolina Yuri Ogawa, Naotsugu Tsuchiya & Andreas Bartels - 2020 - Consciousness and Cognition 82:102953.
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    Why metrical properties are not powers.Andreas Bartels - 2013 - Synthese 190 (12):2001-2013.
    What has the dispositional analysis of properties and laws (e.g. Molnar, Powers, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003; Mumford, Laws in nature, Routledge London, 2004; Bird, Nature’s metaphysics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2007) to offer to the scientific understanding of physical properties?—The article provides an answer to this question for the case of spacetime points and their metrical properties in General Relativity. The analysis shows that metrical properties are not ‘powers’, i.e. they cannot be understood as producing the effects of spacetime on (...)
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    Explaining the modal force of natural laws.Andreas Bartels - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 9 (1):6.
    In this paper, I will defend the thesis that fundamental natural laws are distinguished from accidental empirical generalizations neither by metaphysical necessity, 147–155, 2005, 2007) nor by contingent necessitation. The only sort of modal force that distinguishes natural laws, I will argue, arises from the peculiar physical property of mutual independence of elementary interactions exemplifying the laws. Mutual independence of elementary interactions means that their existence and their nature do not depend in any way on which other interactions presently occur. (...)
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  9. fMRI and its interpretations: an illustration on directional selectivity in area V5/MT.Andreas Bartels - unknown
    fMRI is a tool to study brain function noninvasively that can reliably identify sites of neural involvement for a given task. However, to what extent can fMRI signals be related to measures obtained in electrophysiology? Can the blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal be interpreted as spatially pooled spiking activity? Here we combine knowledge from neurovascular coupling, functional imaging and neurophysiology to discuss whether fMRI has succeeded in demonstrating one of the most established functional properties in the visual brain, namely directional selectivity in the (...)
     
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    Perception of temporal asymmetries in dynamic facial expressions.Maren Reinl & Andreas Bartels - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
  11. Chains of meaning: A model for concept formation in contemporary physics theories.Andreas Bartels - 1995 - Synthese 105 (3):347 - 379.
    The rationality of scientific concept formation in theory transitions, challenged by the thesis of semantic incommensurability, can be restored by theChains of Meaning approach to concept formation. According to this approach, concepts of different, succeeding theories may be identified with respect to referential meaning, in spite of grave diversity of the mathematical structures characterizing them in their respective theories. The criterion of referential identity for concepts is that they meet a relation ofsemantic embedding, i.e. that the embedding concept can be (...)
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  12. Objects or events?: Towards an ontology for quantum field theory.Andreas Bartels - 1999 - Philosophy of Science 66 (3):184.
    The recent work of Paul Teller and Sunny Auyang in the philosophy of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) has stimulated the search for the fundamental entities in this theory. In QFT, the classical notion of a particle collapses. The theory does not only exclude classical, i.e., spatiotemporally identifiable particles, but it makes particles of the same type conceptually indistinguishable. Teller and Auyang have proposed competing ersatz-ontologies to account for the 'loss of particles': field quanta vs. field events. Both ontologies, however, suffer (...)
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    Vom geometrischen zum dynamischen Ansatz: Relativitätstheorien und die Natur von Raum und Zeit.Andreas Bartels - 2023 - In Helmut Fink & Meinard Kuhlmann (eds.), Unbestimmt und relativ?: Das Weltbild der modernen Physik. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 51-64.
    Wer sich den Relativitätstheorien mit einem philosophischen Blick nähert, stellt fest, dass die mehr als einhundert Jahre seit ihrer Entdeckung eine schwer überschaubare Vielzahl von Interpretationen hervorgebracht haben, die noch immer die Frage aufwerfen, was diese Theorien über die Natur von Raum und Zeit aussagen. Wer hat Recht, der Einstein des Jahres 1916, der in seinem Aufsatz Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie behauptet, die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie nehme „Raum und Zeit den letzten Rest physikalischer Gegenständlichkeit“ (Einstein 1916, S. 776), Tim Maudlin (...)
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  14. (1 other version)The Idea which we call Power. Naturgesetze und Dispositionen.Andreas Bartels - 2000 - Philosophia Naturalis 37:255-268.
     
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    Holism in the philosophy of physics: an introduction.Andreas Bartels, Holger Lyre & Michael Esfeld - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35 (4):597-599.
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    Bedeutungsketten. Ein Modell der Begriffsbildung in gegenwärtigen physikalischen Theorien.Andreas Bartels - 1997 - In Georg Meggle & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Analyomen 2, Volume I: Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. De Gruyter. pp. 342-349.
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  17. Binocular rivalry: A time dependence of eye and stimulus contributions.Andreas Bartels - unknown
    Nikos K. Logothetis University of Manchester, Manchester, UK In binocular rivalry, the visual percept alternates stochastically between two dichoptically presented stimuli. It is established that both processes related to the eye of origin and binocular, stimulus-related processes account for these fluctuations in conscious perception. Here we studied how their relative contributions vary over time. We applied brief disruptions to rivalry displays, concurrent with an optional eye swap, at varying time intervals after one stimulus became visible (dominant). We found that early (...)
     
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    Cognition.Andreas Bartels - 2019 - In Ludger Kühnhardt & Tilman Mayer (eds.), The Bonn Handbook of Globality: Volume 2. Springer Verlag. pp. 1207-1215.
    The concept of cognition has undergone considerable extension, first, by intensive empirical study of representational systems and their role for the possession and application of cognitive capacities and second, by the turn to practical knowledge. By these two developments, the field of research on cognition has been opening with respect to which all eager attempts of demarcation between the humanities and the sciences seem to be outdated. This brings about institutional changes in the scientific landscape as can be seen in (...)
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    Erfahrung ohne Begriffe.Andreas Bartels - 2010 - In Joachim Bromand & Guido Kreis (eds.), Was Sich Nicht Sagen Lässt: Das Nicht-Begriffliche in Wissenschaft, Kunst Und Religion. Berlin: Akademie Verlag/De Gruyter. pp. 219-234.
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    Hypotheticity and Realism – Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism.Andreas Bartels - 2009 - In Michael Heidelberger & Gregor Schiemann (eds.), The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science. De Gruyter. pp. 295-312.
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  21. Incommensurability and its roots in nature.Andreas Bartels - 2001 - Philosophia Naturalis 38 (1):25-36.
     
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    (1 other version)Intertheoretische Begriffsrelationen und Referenzannahmen in der Physik.Andreas Bartels - 1994 - In Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =. New York: W. de Gruyter. pp. 286-298.
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  23. Janichs Anti-Naturalismus: Zwei Gegenargumente.Andreas Bartels - 1998 - Ethik Und Sozialwissenschaften 9:182-184.
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    (1 other version)Kausalität ohne vorhersagbarkeit — eine these Des empirismus im konflikt mit der allgemeinen relativitätstheorie.Andreas Bartels - 1987 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1-2):50-60.
    Empiricists mostly prefer an epistemic notion of causality intending thereby to avoid metaphysical entanglements. General relativity however provides examples for causality without predictability, i. e. world models in which for geometrical reasons there exist no spacelike hypersurfaces containing traces of all future events. Yet local determinism for every single event remains valid in these cases. Therefore the problem arises how to account for a causal structure that implies local but not global predictability. This problem, it is argued, cannot be solved (...)
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    Nature, Science and Life in a Silent Universe: Bernulf Kanitscheider.Andreas Bartels & Manfred Stöckler - 2018 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 49 (3):243-259.
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    Quantum Field Theory: A Case for Event Ontologies?Andreas Bartels - 2000 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 76:327-342.
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    Roberto Torretti, philosophy of physics, cambridge university press, cambridge, 2000.Andreas Bartels - 2001 - Erkenntnis 55 (1):127-132.
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    The Standard Model of Cosmology as a Tool for Interpretation and Discovery.Andreas Bartels - 2013 - In Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann & Jörn Henning Wolf (eds.), Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 23-28.
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    Wissenschaft.Andreas Bartels - 2021 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Science is the systematic form of man's search for knowledge. It aims to explain observed facts and to discover new facts. Theories and models are a means of accomplishing this aim. The book draws on examples from a range of natural sciences and humanities to illustrate how theoretical assumptions and notions facilitate explanations and discoveries, thus demonstrating the difference between science and everyday knowledge.
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    Weshalb implizite definitionen nicht genug sind. Bedeutungstheorien und Das verständnis physikalischer begriffe.Andreas Bartels - 1990 - Erkenntnis 32 (2):269 - 281.
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  31. Zur Vereinbarkeit von Kripkes Theorie der notwendigen Identität mit der Leib-Seele-Identitätsthese.Andreas Bartels - 1985 - Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 19 (47):39-49.
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    Andreas Bartels, Bedeutung und Begriffsgeschichte. [REVIEW]Andreas Bartels - 1997 - Erkenntnis 46 (2):269-271.
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    Explaining Referential Stability of Physics Concepts: The Semantic Embedding Approach. [REVIEW]Andreas Bartels - 2010 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 41 (2):267 - 281.
    The paper discusses three different ways of explaining the referential stability of concepts of physics. In order to be successful, an approach to referential stability has to provide resources to understand what constitutes the difference between the birth of a new concept with a history of its own, and an innovative step occurring within the lifetime of a persisting concept with stable reference. According to Theodore Arabatzis' 'biographical' approach (Representing Electrons 2006), the historical continuity of representations of the electron manifests (...)
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    The Structure of Time. [REVIEW]Andreas Bartels - 1982 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 15:223-227.