In this paper, I argue that various disputes in ontology have important ramifications and so are worth taking seriously. I employ a criterion according to which whether a dispute matters depends on how integrated it is with the rest of our theoretical projects. Disputes that arise from previous tensions in our theorizing and have additional implications for other issues matter, while insular di...

Mathematical concepts play at least three roles in the application of mathematics: an inferential role, a representational role, and an expressive role. In this paper, I argue that, despite what has often been alleged, platonists do not fully accommodate these features of the application of mathematics. At best, platonism provides partial ways of handling the issues. I then sketch an alternativ...

Political constitutionalism emerged on the Chinese academic scene in mid-2000s as a countermovement to rights-based, court-centered, and textual mainstream constitutional scholarship. On surface, it has launched biting sophisticated critique of institutional Westernization reasserted sense particularity. However, contrary its intellectual self-representation genuinely phenomenon, movement’s for...

A case for a pluralistic approach to cognitive science is sketched. It is argued that cognitive scientists should take seriously the possibility that a single, unified framework for all of cognition is an unrealistic expectation for its diverse interdisciplinary goals and subject matter. A pluralistic approach instead seeks ways of integrating the multiple perspectives that have provided explan...

One of the greatest challenges for evolutionary biology is explaining the widespread occurrence of sexual reproduction, and the associated process of genetic recombination (Williams, 1975; Maynard Smith, 1978; Bell, 1982; Stearns, 1987; Michod & Levin, 1988; Hurst & Peck, 1996). Asexual females can potentially produce twice as many daughters as sexual females, so that the ratio of asexual to se...