Rico Hauswald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 188195 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rico Hauswald |
| NOMBRES | Rico |
| APELLIDO | Hauswald |
| FIRMA | HAUSWALD R |
| AFILIACIONES | Technische Universität Dresden |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Heterodox conspiracy theories and evidence-based theories of error
Heterodox ideas face an uphill battle. This is not least the case for heterodox conspiracy theories. As an empirical observation, this is hardly controversial. What is controversial is whether and to what extent this should be the case. Some authors have gone so far as to argue that heterodox conspiracy theories should be generally dismissed, and that it is precisely their heterodox status that justifies such dismissal. Most particularists are li…
Trust and Opacity in Artificial Intelligence
This introduction to the topical collection on trust and opacity in artificial intelligence briefly examines the significance of these notions and highlights key points of controversy surrounding them in contemporary philosophical debates. It then identifies four thematic domains within which the contributions in this collection can be situated: (i) foundational and conceptual prerequisites, (ii) ethical challenges, (iii) epistemological concerns…
Artificial Epistemic Authorities
New Waves in the Philosophy of Epistemic Authority and Expert Testimony
Wissensproduktion und Wissenstransfer unter erschwerten Bedingungen
Die Corona-Krise hat zugleich eine Krise der Wissens- und Informationsgesellschaft ausgelöst und tiefgreifende Auswirkungen auf die Generierung und Vermittlung von Wissen mit sich gebracht. Von Beginn der Pandemie an mussten Politik und Öffentlichkeit unter erheblichen Unsicherheiten agieren, während sich die wissenschaftliche Forschung mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert sah, schnellstmöglich belastbare Erkenntnisse bereitzustellen. Vor diesem …
That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory!”
Drawing on the relevant alternatives framework and Mary Kate McGowan’s work on conversational scorekeeping, I argue that usage of the term ‘conspiracy theory’ in ordinary language and public discourse typically entails the performance of what I call a dismissive conversational exercitive, a kind of speech act that functions to exclude certain propositions from (or prevent their inclusion in) the set of alternatives considered relevant in a given …
Non-Tethered Understanding and Scientific Pluralism
I examine situations in which we say that different subjects have ‘different’, ‘competing’, or ‘conflicting understandings’ of a phenomenon. In order to make sense of such situations, we should turn our attention to an often neglected ambiguity in the word ‘understanding’. Whereas the notion of understanding that is typically discussed in philosophy is, to use Elgin’s terms, tethered to the facts, there is another notion of understanding that is …
The epistemic effects of close entanglements between research fields and activist movements
The Weaknesses of Weak Preemptionism
According to preemptionism, a layperson should treat the fact that an epistemic authority believes p as a reason to believe p that replaces her other reasons relevant to believing p and is not simply added to them. Many authors have found the unqualified version of preemptionism, as defended by Linda Zagzebski, too strong. At the same time, a number of them have recently advocated weakened or qualified preemptionist accounts. In this paper, I cri…
Institution Types and Institution Tokens
The distinction between institution types and institution tokens plays an important role in Francesco Guala’s philosophy of institutions. In this commentary, I argue that this distinction faces a number of difficulties that are not sufficiently addressed in Understanding Institutions. In particular, I critically discuss Guala’s comparison between the taxonomy of organisms and the taxonomy of institutions, consider the semantics of institution ter…
Vagueness in Psychiatry
In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious. Philosophers and linguists call concepts that lack sharp boundaries, and thus admit of borderline cases, 'vague'. A…
The Ontology of Interactive Kinds
This paper defends the notions of an interactive kind and a looping effect as features of social and human scientific classifications and aims to give a realist interpretation of them. I argue that interactive kinds can best be modeled as a special case of changing causal property cluster kinds. In order to do so, I develop a typology of looping effects according to the sort of entities that are affected, the main types of which are individual-lo…
Soziale Pluralitäten
Eine soziale Pluralität liegt vor, wann immer wir mehrere Menschen als irgendwie zusammengehörig betrachten und auf sie als Vielheit Bezug nehmen. Das kann beispielsweise der Fall sein, weil diese Menschen bestimmte Gemeinsamkeiten aufweisen oder weil sie eine Gemeinschaft bilden. Einzelne Formen sozialer Pluralitäten werden in vielen philosophischen und wissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen untersucht, etwa im Rahmen der wissenschaftsphilosophische…
Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht vielmehr nichts?
Die Frage ›Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht vielmehr nichts?‹ gehört zu den ebenso traditionsreichen wie umstrittenen Problemen der Philosophie. Bereits mehrmals in die Mottenkiste der Philosophiegeschichte verbannt, erlebt sie doch zuverlässig ihre Re
The Ontology of Interactive Kinds
This paper defends the notions of an interactive kind and a looping effect as features of social and human scientific classifications and aims to give a realist interpretation of them. I argue that interactive kinds can best be modeled as a special case of changing causal property cluster kinds. In order to do so, I develop a typology of looping effects according to the sort of entities that are affected, the main types of which are individual-lo…
Institution Types and Institution Tokens
The distinction between institution types and institution tokens plays an important role in Francesco Guala’s philosophy of institutions. In this commentary, I argue that this distinction faces a number of difficulties that are not sufficiently addressed in Understanding Institutions. In particular, I critically discuss Guala’s comparison between the taxonomy of organisms and the taxonomy of institutions, consider the semantics of institution ter…
Artificial Epistemic Authorities
New Waves in the Philosophy of Epistemic Authority and Expert Testimony
The Weaknesses of Weak Preemptionism
According to preemptionism, a layperson should treat the fact that an epistemic authority believes p as a reason to believe p that replaces her other reasons relevant to believing p and is not simply added to them. Many authors have found the unqualified version of preemptionism, as defended by Linda Zagzebski, too strong. At the same time, a number of them have recently advocated weakened or qualified preemptionist accounts. In this paper, I cri…
Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht vielmehr nichts?
Die Frage ›Warum ist überhaupt etwas und nicht vielmehr nichts?‹ gehört zu den ebenso traditionsreichen wie umstrittenen Problemen der Philosophie. Bereits mehrmals in die Mottenkiste der Philosophiegeschichte verbannt, erlebt sie doch zuverlässig ihre Re
Soziale Pluralitäten
Eine soziale Pluralität liegt vor, wann immer wir mehrere Menschen als irgendwie zusammengehörig betrachten und auf sie als Vielheit Bezug nehmen. Das kann beispielsweise der Fall sein, weil diese Menschen bestimmte Gemeinsamkeiten aufweisen oder weil sie eine Gemeinschaft bilden. Einzelne Formen sozialer Pluralitäten werden in vielen philosophischen und wissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen untersucht, etwa im Rahmen der wissenschaftsphilosophische…
The Ontology of Interactive Kinds
This paper defends the notions of an interactive kind and a looping effect as features of social and human scientific classifications and aims to give a realist interpretation of them. I argue that interactive kinds can best be modeled as a special case of changing causal property cluster kinds. In order to do so, I develop a typology of looping effects according to the sort of entities that are affected, the main types of which are individual-lo…
Vagueness in Psychiatry
In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear cases abound, it is often indeterminate whether a particular condition does or does not qualify as a mental disorder. For example, definitions of subthreshold disorders and of the prodromal stages of diseases are notoriously contentious. Philosophers and linguists call concepts that lack sharp boundaries, and thus admit of borderline cases, 'vague'. A…
Institution Types and Institution Tokens
The distinction between institution types and institution tokens plays an important role in Francesco Guala’s philosophy of institutions. In this commentary, I argue that this distinction faces a number of difficulties that are not sufficiently addressed in Understanding Institutions. In particular, I critically discuss Guala’s comparison between the taxonomy of organisms and the taxonomy of institutions, consider the semantics of institution ter…
The Weaknesses of Weak Preemptionism
According to preemptionism, a layperson should treat the fact that an epistemic authority believes p as a reason to believe p that replaces her other reasons relevant to believing p and is not simply added to them. Many authors have found the unqualified version of preemptionism, as defended by Linda Zagzebski, too strong. At the same time, a number of them have recently advocated weakened or qualified preemptionist accounts. In this paper, I cri…
Non-Tethered Understanding and Scientific Pluralism
I examine situations in which we say that different subjects have ‘different’, ‘competing’, or ‘conflicting understandings’ of a phenomenon. In order to make sense of such situations, we should turn our attention to an often neglected ambiguity in the word ‘understanding’. Whereas the notion of understanding that is typically discussed in philosophy is, to use Elgin’s terms, tethered to the facts, there is another notion of understanding that is …
The epistemic effects of close entanglements between research fields and activist movements
Wissensproduktion und Wissenstransfer unter erschwerten Bedingungen
Die Corona-Krise hat zugleich eine Krise der Wissens- und Informationsgesellschaft ausgelöst und tiefgreifende Auswirkungen auf die Generierung und Vermittlung von Wissen mit sich gebracht. Von Beginn der Pandemie an mussten Politik und Öffentlichkeit unter erheblichen Unsicherheiten agieren, während sich die wissenschaftliche Forschung mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert sah, schnellstmöglich belastbare Erkenntnisse bereitzustellen. Vor diesem …
That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory!”
Drawing on the relevant alternatives framework and Mary Kate McGowan’s work on conversational scorekeeping, I argue that usage of the term ‘conspiracy theory’ in ordinary language and public discourse typically entails the performance of what I call a dismissive conversational exercitive, a kind of speech act that functions to exclude certain propositions from (or prevent their inclusion in) the set of alternatives considered relevant in a given …
Heterodox conspiracy theories and evidence-based theories of error
Heterodox ideas face an uphill battle. This is not least the case for heterodox conspiracy theories. As an empirical observation, this is hardly controversial. What is controversial is whether and to what extent this should be the case. Some authors have gone so far as to argue that heterodox conspiracy theories should be generally dismissed, and that it is precisely their heterodox status that justifies such dismissal. Most particularists are li…
Trust and Opacity in Artificial Intelligence
This introduction to the topical collection on trust and opacity in artificial intelligence briefly examines the significance of these notions and highlights key points of controversy surrounding them in contemporary philosophical debates. It then identifies four thematic domains within which the contributions in this collection can be situated: (i) foundational and conceptual prerequisites, (ii) ethical challenges, (iii) epistemological concerns…
Artificial Epistemic Authorities
New Waves in the Philosophy of Epistemic Authority and Expert Testimony
Philosophy (14 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (7 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Philosophy of science (3 obras)