Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10026-z
Damiano Cantone, Andrea Colombo
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Pub Date : 2025-11-11DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10008-1
Seyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar
{"title":"Art and Individuation: a Processual Framework for Aesthetic Form and Perception","authors":"Seyed Kiarash Sadat Rafiei, Mahsa Asadi Anar","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10008-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10008-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145485619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10010-7
Ian Verstegen
Neuroscientific approaches to aesthetics have been almost uniformly disappointing. They are either shallow, unconvincing, or merely addenda to our knowledge of traditional psychology. Because the nature of the endeavor is to go beyond phenomenology, their weakness is evidenced in their tacit epistemology. They either presume some naïve realism with neural “tuning” or else a kind of parallelism where the nature of interaction is never explained. Most damningly such approaches can never explain the profundity of art. Just as a neuroscience requires a reification function, where holistic brain processes can genetically cause our perceptions, so too in neuroaesthetics we need a reification function. The benefit for art is that, as Arnheim outlined already in 1949, percept formation already explains expression and symbolism. Using examples, I will show how a neuroaesthetics has to go “all in” if it wishes to provide important insights into art.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10019-y
Riccardo Meucci
Antonio Meucci, a largely overlooked pioneer in telecommunications, played a foundational role in the development of long-distance voice transmission. Yet his contributions have often been marginalized in dominant techno-historical narratives, particularly when compared to Alexander Graham Bell. This paper reexamines Meucci’s invention of the telettrofono through both historical and technological lenses, tracing the continuity between his early electromechanical devices and the architectures embedded in today’s smartphones. By situating Meucci’s work within the broader contexts of the historical record, cultural memory, and historiography of sound technologies, we highlight how competing narratives of innovation emerge and persist. Drawing on both classical accounts of telephone history and contemporary analyses of media and communication, we argue that Meucci’s legacy is not only technical but also symbolic of the ways recognition and omission shape our understanding of innovation. The trajectory from the telettrofono to the smartphone thus illustrates both the resilience of core scientific principles and the evolving cultural frameworks through which inventors are remembered—or forgotten.
安东尼奥·梅奇（Antonio Meucci）是一位在很大程度上被忽视的电信先驱，他在远距离语音传输的发展中发挥了基础性作用。然而，在主流科技历史叙事中，他的贡献往往被边缘化，尤其是与亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔（Alexander Graham Bell）相比时。本文从历史和技术的角度重新审视了Meucci的teletrofano发明，追溯了他早期的机电设备与当今智能手机中嵌入的架构之间的连续性。通过将Meucci的作品置于更广泛的历史记录、文化记忆和声音技术的史学背景中，我们强调了创新的竞争叙事是如何出现并持续下去的。通过对电话历史的经典描述和对媒体和传播的当代分析，我们认为Meucci的遗产不仅是技术上的，而且是对认识和遗漏塑造我们对创新理解方式的象征。因此，从遥控电话到智能手机的发展轨迹既说明了核心科学原理的弹性，也说明了不断发展的文化框架，通过这些框架，发明家被记住或被遗忘。
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Pub Date : 2025-11-04DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10013-4
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Majid D. Beni
This paper challenges traditional accuracy-centric accounts of rationality by synthesising the Free Energy Principle (FEP) with Charles Peirce’s pragmatist epistemology. Whereas the FEP frames cognition as a biological imperative to minimise surprise through predictive models, we argue that its normative force emerges when integrated with Peircean abduction and skill-based metrics. By reinterpreting rationality through skill scores—Peirce’s 1884 method for evaluating rare-event predictions—we demonstrate that survival-driven inference prioritises context-sensitive skill over abstract accuracy. The FEP’s variational free-energy minimisation aligns with abduction’s dynamic conjecture-making, revealing rationality as a pragmatic negotiation between organismic survival and environmental complexity. Critically, we show that Bayesian accuracy measures (e.g., Kullback–Leibler divergence) fail to capture the adequacy conditions for skillful forecasting, whereas Peirce’s skill score satisfies constraints such as error weighting and directionality. This fusion of FEP and pragmatism advances a naturalistic-normative framework in which rationality is grounded in adaptive, enactive inference rather than idealised coherence, bridging computational neuroscience and theoretical biology with philosophical accounts of inquiry.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10017-0
Milan M. Cirkovic
{"title":"A Deflationary View of Capacities and Anthropic Thinking","authors":"Milan M. Cirkovic","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10017-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10017-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145427742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10016-1
Hippokratis Kiaris
Scientific disciplines traditionally are defined by their subject matter. In turn, they engage specific methodologies and scientific approaches that are familiar to those that are engaged in their study. Biological sciences however constitute an exception. They engage methodologies that have been developed for the natural sciences, but their subject matter is more relevant to humanities, especially history. The distinctive point that creates this discordance is the integration of notions such as randomness and stochasticity. In traditional natural sciences, limiting them signifies progress by improved methodologies and theories. In biological sciences they are increasingly appreciated as integral components of its subject matter. Relevant to this is also their predictive power. In the former, rendering predictions was constantly seen as validation of the theory by deduction. In biology, the focus on prediction is reduced, and what persists is the retrospective validation of past event and the appreciation of the impact of stochasticity, historicity, and subjectivity. These differences are reflected to the inability, and indeed the abandonment of rendering predictions as a goal for biology, and more recently as well as in other times in history, to the politically – and culturally inflicted - re-evaluation of what both the goals and the method of biomedical research should be.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10003-6
Thijs M.K. Latten, Martin Sand, Pieter E. Vermaas
Although quantum reality is often discussed as notoriously difficult to comprehend, quantum mechanics is applied with increasing success in the development of quantum technologies. In this paper, we collect and organise views on the influence of quantum technology on quantum mechanics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. We distinguish three types of influence: quantum technology helps in (1) understanding , (2) developing , and (3) evaluating quantum mechanics and its foundations. We outline several illustrations of these types by introducing examples. By mapping the influence of research and engineering practices in quantum technology on quantum mechanics and its foundations, this paper illuminates the interaction between the two areas. This paper suggests both how technological practices can aid in long-standing theoretical debates on understanding quantum mechanics, and how investigating the relation between quantum technology and quantum mechanics can inform understanding in the philosophy of science on the interaction between science and technology in general.
{"title":"From Practice To Theory: Three Types of Influence of Quantum Technology on Quantum Mechanics and its Foundations","authors":"Thijs M.K. Latten, Martin Sand, Pieter E. Vermaas","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10003-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10003-6","url":null,"abstract":"Although quantum reality is often discussed as notoriously difficult to comprehend, quantum mechanics is applied with increasing success in the development of quantum technologies. In this paper, we collect and organise views on the influence of quantum technology on quantum mechanics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. We distinguish three types of influence: quantum technology helps in (1) <jats:italic>understanding</jats:italic> , (2) <jats:italic>developing</jats:italic> , and (3) <jats:italic>evaluating</jats:italic> quantum mechanics and its foundations. We outline several illustrations of these types by introducing examples. By mapping the influence of research and engineering practices in quantum technology on quantum mechanics and its foundations, this paper illuminates the interaction between the two areas. This paper suggests both how technological practices can aid in long-standing theoretical debates on understanding quantum mechanics, and how investigating the relation between quantum technology and quantum mechanics can inform understanding in the philosophy of science on the interaction between science and technology in general.","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145396862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10020-5
Andrzej Magruk
{"title":"Balancing Uncertainty, Knowledge, Futures and Social Constructs in Management of IoT Anticipatory Systems","authors":"Andrzej Magruk","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10020-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10020-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145382295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-09983-2
Boris Kožnjak
The article demonstrates the historically and philosophically overlooked common phenomenological roots of Goethe’s Farbenlehre and Plato’s theory of color mixture in the Timaeus, as well as the shared epistemological background to Goethe’s and Plato’s abhorrence of the experimental study of natural phenomena, including light and colors, as the ‘torture of nature’, which is the basis of their equally shared ‘Orphic attitude’ toward nature and natural sciences. In addition to its historical context, the article also discusses Plato’s and Goethe’s shared ‘Orphic epistemology’ of experiment within the framework of modern philosophy of scientific experimentation.
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