Olivier Lemeire
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 980437 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Olivier Lemeire |
| PRENOMES | Olivier |
| SOBRENOME | Lemeire |
| ASSINATURA | LEMEIRE O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2810-3066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Generics are not existentially quantified
According to the standard view, generics such as “ravens are black” express quite strong generalizations, even if they do allow for some exceptions. Nickel, however, defends a semantic theory for generics that radically departs from this standard view, claiming that they express existentially quantified generalizations. We argue against this existential view and in favor of a more standard view according to which generics express universally quan…
Using peer review to evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research
In light of growing calls to demonstrate the societal relevance of academic work, this paper explores whether peer review can reliably evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research. It also estimates how relevant published journal articles and books from five humanities fields are to society. By modeling two evaluation tasks involving 38 early-career researchers and 885 humanities abstracts in English from Web of Science, we estimate how…
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy
Scientists may sometimes generalize from their samples to broader populations when they have not yet sufficiently supported this generalization. Do such hasty generalizations also occur in experimental philosophy? To check, we analyzed 171 experimental philosophy studies published between 2017 and 2023. We found that most studies tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification. There was also no evidence that stu…
Why use generic language in science
“Philosophers care about the truth”
Some generic generalizations have both a descriptive and a normative reading. The generic sentence “Philosophers care about the truth”, for instance, can be read as describing what philosophers in fact care about, but can also be read as prescribing philosophers to care about the truth. On Leslie's account, this generic sentence has two readings due to the polysemy of the kind term “philosopher”. In this article, I first argue against this polyse…
The public relevance of philosophy
Falsifying generic stereotypes
No purely epistemic theory can account for the naturalness of kinds
The causal structure of natural kinds
Beyond the realism debate
Philosophy and the Biology of Male Homosexuality
This paper is a review of how biological as well as other scientific theories, concepts and findings have been used to answer philosophical questions regarding the nature of male homosexuality. We argue that while these sciences are certainly relevant for present philosophical debates, few of the different philosophical issues surrounding male homosexuality can be settled by science alone. In the first section, we introduce a number of various es…
No purely epistemic theory can account for the naturalness of kinds
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy
Scientists may sometimes generalize from their samples to broader populations when they have not yet sufficiently supported this generalization. Do such hasty generalizations also occur in experimental philosophy? To check, we analyzed 171 experimental philosophy studies published between 2017 and 2023. We found that most studies tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification. There was also no evidence that stu…
The causal structure of natural kinds
Beyond the realism debate
Philosophy and the Biology of Male Homosexuality
This paper is a review of how biological as well as other scientific theories, concepts and findings have been used to answer philosophical questions regarding the nature of male homosexuality. We argue that while these sciences are certainly relevant for present philosophical debates, few of the different philosophical issues surrounding male homosexuality can be settled by science alone. In the first section, we introduce a number of various es…
Beyond the realism debate
Falsifying generic stereotypes
No purely epistemic theory can account for the naturalness of kinds
The causal structure of natural kinds
The public relevance of philosophy
“Philosophers care about the truth”
Some generic generalizations have both a descriptive and a normative reading. The generic sentence “Philosophers care about the truth”, for instance, can be read as describing what philosophers in fact care about, but can also be read as prescribing philosophers to care about the truth. On Leslie's account, this generic sentence has two readings due to the polysemy of the kind term “philosopher”. In this article, I first argue against this polyse…
Hasty Generalizations Are Pervasive in Experimental Philosophy
Scientists may sometimes generalize from their samples to broader populations when they have not yet sufficiently supported this generalization. Do such hasty generalizations also occur in experimental philosophy? To check, we analyzed 171 experimental philosophy studies published between 2017 and 2023. We found that most studies tested only Western populations but generalized beyond them without justification. There was also no evidence that stu…
Why use generic language in science
Generics are not existentially quantified
According to the standard view, generics such as “ravens are black” express quite strong generalizations, even if they do allow for some exceptions. Nickel, however, defends a semantic theory for generics that radically departs from this standard view, claiming that they express existentially quantified generalizations. We argue against this existential view and in favor of a more standard view according to which generics express universally quan…
Using peer review to evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research
In light of growing calls to demonstrate the societal relevance of academic work, this paper explores whether peer review can reliably evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research. It also estimates how relevant published journal articles and books from five humanities fields are to society. By modeling two evaluation tasks involving 38 early-career researchers and 885 humanities abstracts in English from Web of Science, we estimate how…
Philosophy (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Metaphysics (5 obras) · Philosophy of science (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 obras) · Philosophy of language (4 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 obras) · Linguistics (3 obras)