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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-02-02 at 14:36

Je demande pour un ami... Existe-t-il des solutions de stockage de données personnelles aussi pratiques que le cloud (genre Google photo ou Google Drive), mais qui demandent juste d'avoir un PC avec disque dur, et donc sans être dépendant d'entreprises commerciales ? Par exemple une application permettant d'archiver des photos d'un téléphone à un ordinateur connecté sur le même réseau wifi ?

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-01-24 at 11:02

This is the analog of user-meaning vs conventional-meaning in philosophy of language. I believe that most accounts of representation presented so far suffer from not making clearly this distinction and either mixing aspects of the two levels or neglecting one of the two. I criticise in particular user-centred accounts and fictionalist accounts on this ground. If we analyse the two levels separately, we get a finer account. 3/3

https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/26040

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-01-24 at 10:59

By analogy, we can ask what a city map (a sheet of paper) represents for someone in a concrete case, or what a map published by an editor represents in general. In the first case, the map is a concrete object standing for another object (the city) and user intentions determine how the two relate. In the second case, the map is a kind of object with many copies, and norms of use determine how it relates to potential targets of representation. These two levels are interdependent. 2/3

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-01-24 at 10:58

Philosophers have been debating for some time about what makes a scientific model a representation of something (is the model structure decisive, or only user intentions?) and what a model is exactly (an abstract entity, a fictional system?). In this article, I argue that in order to respond, we must first acknowledge that there are two levels at which these questions can be asked: the conctete (user) level and the abstract (communal) level, and the responses are different in each case. 1/3

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-01-24 at 10:58

My article "Two senses of representation in science" is now published! It's open access. Short summary below. 🧵

https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/26040

https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/issue/view/2115

[#]philsci #philosophyofscience

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-01-22 at 19:41

Un sketch de circonstance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2025-01-15 at 12:29

The infamous Stanford prison experiment was flawed – so why is it still so influential today? https://theconversation.com/the-infamous-stanford-prison-experiment-was-flawed-so-why-is-it-still-so-influential-today-246881

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-11-26 at 08:14

After the journalist school, French far-right taking control of the major children's magazines of the country? https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/113547964459631772

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-11-02 at 09:15

What's missing in the multiverse debate.

A short version of my Noûs article on fine tuning and the multiverse has been published on IAI, check it out!

(Not my title)

https://iai.tv/articles/the-multiverse-is-metaphysics-not-science-auid-2988?_auid=2020

[#]philosophy #philosophyofscience #cosmology

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-10-28 at 12:51

New blog post: my review of Giere's account of scientific theories

https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-of-gieres-account-of-scientific.html

[#]philosophyofscience

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-10-10 at 16:49

My review of Van Fraassen's presentation of the semantic conception of theories in two chapters of "Laws and Symmetries" (1989).

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that this focus on theories being "structures, not statements" promoted by the semantic conception is either unsubstantial or a big interpretive mistake! Explanations in the post.

https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-of-van-fraassens-semantic.html

[#]philosophyofscience

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-10-08 at 19:01

New post on my "pragmatic conception of theories" blog.

Review of Suppe: The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism

https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-of-suppe-semantic-conception-of.html

[#]philosophyofscience

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-10-03 at 15:17

With new research projects come new blogs!

https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/

A blog dedicated to pragmatic conceptions of scientific theories, with one informal book review so far (The architectonic of Science by Balzer, Moulines and Sneed, 1987).

[#]philosophyofscience

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-10-03 at 09:32

What is "physical" anyway? Some quick thoughts about the philosophy of mind (not my area of expertise, I might be reinventing the wheel here!)

https://physicsandthemind.blogspot.com/2024/10/what-is-physical-anyway.html

[#]philosophyofmind #philosophy

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-09-10 at 21:27

Cambridge Element on Teleology (free download until September 24)

[#]philosophy

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/teleology/87D92768A124CBE24AC03AE4410269BA

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-09-03 at 13:55

AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-09-01 at 14:22

Happy to start a new project at Lancog, Universidad de Lisboa

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-08-11 at 08:20

Fasinating talk!

How Is Science Even Possible? | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-science-even-possible-20240620/

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Written by Quentin Ruyant on 2024-08-07 at 10:24

If you follow https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy on bluesky, people like me will be able to follow you from Mastodon !

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