Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Jaksland, Rasmus"
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An apology for conflicts between metaphysics and science in naturalized metaphysics
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)According to naturalized metaphysics, metaphysics should be informed by our current best science and not rely on a priori reasoning. Consequently, naturalized metaphysics tends to dismiss metaphysicians’ attempts to quarrel ... -
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics
Jaksland, Rasmus; Faye, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The last decade has seen an increasing number of references to quantum mechanics in the humanities and social sciences. This development has in particular been driven by Karen Barad’s agential realism: a theoretical framework ... -
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)According to the skeptical argument from disagreement, we are mandated to suspend judgement about a question if we discover that others disagree with us. Critics, however, have proposed that this skeptical argument fails ... -
Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Recent years have seen several studies of metaphysical disputes as disagreement phenomena employing the resources from the research on disagreement in social epistemology. This paper undertakes an analogous study of the ... -
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Distance, it is often argued, is the only coherent and empirically adequate world-making relation that can glue together the elements of the world. This paper offers entanglement as an alternative world-making relation. ... -
Holography without holography: How to turn inter-representational into intra-theoretical relations in AdS/CFT
Jaksland, Rasmus; Linnemann, Niels (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We show by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of quantum gravity how inter-representational relations—loosely speaking relations among different equivalent representations of one and the same physics—can ... -
Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines our pre-theoretic conception of non-supernaturalism; the thesis that all that exists is natural. It is argued that we intuitively take this thesis to be a substantive, non-dogmatic, empirically justified, ... -
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While much interdisciplinarity brings together proximate fields, broad interdisciplinarity sees integration between disciplines that are perceived to be non-neighboring. This paper argues that the heterogeneity among ... -
Old problems for neo-positivist naturalized metaphysics
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In her paper “Neo-positivist metaphysics” (Philosophical Studies, 160(1), 53–78, 2012), Alyssa Ney promises a naturalized metaphysics that is acceptable even by positivists’ – and specifically Carnap’s – standards. This ... -
The Prospects and Promises of Naturalized Metaphysics
Jaksland, Rasmus (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2022:154, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Summary Naturalized metaphysics questions the epistemic legitimacy of the traditional methods of metaphysics and proposes that a metaphysics motivated by science will do better. The veracity of these two core commitments ... -
Teaching scientific creativity through philosophy of science
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)There is a demand to nurture scientific creativity in science education. This paper proposes that the relevant conceptual infrastructure with which to teach scientific creativity is often already included in philosophy of ... -
The multiple realizability of general relativity in quantum gravity
Jaksland, Rasmus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Must a theory of quantum gravity have some truth to it if it can recover general relativity in some limit of the theory? This paper answers this question in the negative by indicating that general relativity is multiply ... -
A trilemma for naturalized metaphysics
Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Radical naturalized metaphysics wants to argue (1) that metaphysics without sufficient epistemic warrant should not be pursued, (2) that the traditional methods of metaphysics cannot provide epistemic warrant, (3) that ... -
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics
Jaksland, Rasmus; Faye, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics is often cast as positivist and sometimes explicitly claimed to be influenced by logical positivists due to some similarities in their thinking. While it is certainly the ...