Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Bangu, Sorin"
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The Appearance of Skepticism: Possibility, Conceivability and Infinite Ascent
Bangu, Sorin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The paper articulates a novel strategy against external world skepticism. It shows that a modal assumption of the skeptical argument cannot be justified. -
Discontinuities and singularities, data and phenomena: for Referentialism
Bangu, Sorin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper rebuts a currently popular criticism against a certain take on the referential role of discontinuities and singularities in the physics of first-order phase transitions. It also elaborates on a proposal I made ... -
Hard and Blind: On Wittgenstein's Genealogical View of Logical Necessity
Bangu, Sorin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)My main aim is to sketch a certain reading (‘genealogical') of later Wittgenstein's views on logical necessity. Along the way, I engage with the inferentialism currently debated in the literature on the epistemology of ... -
Mind the gap: noncausal explanations of dual properties
Bangu, Sorin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)I identify and characterize a type of noncausal explanation in physics. I first introduce a distinction, between the physical properties of a system, and the representational properties of the mathematical expressions of ...