Frank Cabrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 4570019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Cabrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Cabrera |
| SIGNATURE | CABRERA F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
William Herschel's defense of speculative inquiry
Although William Herschel (1738-1822) is most well-known as an astronomer and instrument-maker, he also had interests in speculative philosophy (e.g., metaphysics), as several papers he read at the Bath Philosophical Society reveal. These papers, arguably, are the context in which Herschel engaged most directly in philosophical argumentation and are thus worthy of greater scholarly attention. In this article, I focus on Herschel's paper entitled …
Fake News and Epistemic Vice
The topic of fake news has received increased attention from philosophers since the term became a favorite of politicians. Notably missing from the conversation, however, is a discussion of fake news and conspiracy theory media as a market. This paper will take as its starting point the account of noxious markets put forward by Debra Satz and will argue that there is a pro tanto moral reason to restrict the market for fake news. Specifically, we …
A Rawlsian Solution to the New Demarcation Problem
In the last two decades, a robust consensus has emerged among philosophers of science, whereby political, ethical, or social values must play some role in scientific inquiry, and that the ‘value-free ideal’ is thus a misguided conception of science. However, the question of how to distinguish, in a principled way, which values may legitimately influence science remains. This question, which has been dubbed the ‘new demarcation problem,’ has until…
Online Misinformation and “Phantom Patterns”
In this article, we examine how the availability of massive quantities of data, that is, the “Big Data” phenomenon, contributes to the creation, spread, and harms of online misinformation. Specifically, we argue that a factor in the problem of online misinformation is the evolved human instinct to recognize patterns . While the pattern‐recognition instinct is a crucial evolutionary adaptation, we argue that in the age of Big Data, these capacitie…
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem
The Fate of Explanatory Reasoning in the Age of Big Data
Evidence and explanation in Cicero's On Divination
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation
In this article, I consider an important challenge to the popular theory of scientific inference commonly known as ‘inference to the best explanation’ (IBE), one that has received scant attention.1 The problem is that there exists a wide array of rival models of explanation, thus leaving IBE objectionably indeterminate. First, I briefly introduce IBE. Then, I motivate the problem and offer three potential solutions, the most plausible of which is…
Can there be a Bayesian explanationism? On the prospects of a productive partnership
Can there be a Bayesian explanationism? On the prospects of a productive partnership
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation
In this article, I consider an important challenge to the popular theory of scientific inference commonly known as ‘inference to the best explanation’ (IBE), one that has received scant attention.1 The problem is that there exists a wide array of rival models of explanation, thus leaving IBE objectionably indeterminate. First, I briefly introduce IBE. Then, I motivate the problem and offer three potential solutions, the most plausible of which is…
Evidence and explanation in Cicero's On Divination
Can there be a Bayesian explanationism? On the prospects of a productive partnership
Evidence and explanation in Cicero's On Divination
Does IBE Require a ‘Model’ of Explanation
In this article, I consider an important challenge to the popular theory of scientific inference commonly known as ‘inference to the best explanation’ (IBE), one that has received scant attention.1 The problem is that there exists a wide array of rival models of explanation, thus leaving IBE objectionably indeterminate. First, I briefly introduce IBE. Then, I motivate the problem and offer three potential solutions, the most plausible of which is…
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem
The Fate of Explanatory Reasoning in the Age of Big Data
Fake News and Epistemic Vice
The topic of fake news has received increased attention from philosophers since the term became a favorite of politicians. Notably missing from the conversation, however, is a discussion of fake news and conspiracy theory media as a market. This paper will take as its starting point the account of noxious markets put forward by Debra Satz and will argue that there is a pro tanto moral reason to restrict the market for fake news. Specifically, we …
A Rawlsian Solution to the New Demarcation Problem
In the last two decades, a robust consensus has emerged among philosophers of science, whereby political, ethical, or social values must play some role in scientific inquiry, and that the ‘value-free ideal’ is thus a misguided conception of science. However, the question of how to distinguish, in a principled way, which values may legitimately influence science remains. This question, which has been dubbed the ‘new demarcation problem,’ has until…
Online Misinformation and “Phantom Patterns”
In this article, we examine how the availability of massive quantities of data, that is, the “Big Data” phenomenon, contributes to the creation, spread, and harms of online misinformation. Specifically, we argue that a factor in the problem of online misinformation is the evolved human instinct to recognize patterns . While the pattern‐recognition instinct is a crucial evolutionary adaptation, we argue that in the age of Big Data, these capacitie…
William Herschel's defense of speculative inquiry
Although William Herschel (1738-1822) is most well-known as an astronomer and instrument-maker, he also had interests in speculative philosophy (e.g., metaphysics), as several papers he read at the Bath Philosophical Society reveal. These papers, arguably, are the context in which Herschel engaged most directly in philosophical argumentation and are thus worthy of greater scholarly attention. In this article, I focus on Herschel's paper entitled …
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Inference (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Political science (3 works)