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  1. Units of measurement and natural kinds: Some kripkean considerations.Jan Van Brakel - 1990 - Erkenntnis 33 (3):297-317.
    Kripke has argued that definitions of units of measurements provide examples of statements that are both contingent and a priori. In this paper I argue that definitions of units of measurement are intended to be stipulations of what Kripke calls "theoretical identities": a stipulation that two terms will have the same rigid designation. Hence such a definition is both a priori and necessary. The necessity arises because such definitions appeal to natural kind properties only, which on Kripke's account are necessary.
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  2. The chemistry of substances and the philosophy of mass terms.Jaap Van Brakel - 1986 - Synthese 69 (3):291-324.
  3. Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry.J. Van Brakel - 2000
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    Kant's legacy for the philosophy of chemistry.Jaap Van Brakel - 2006 - In Davis Baird, Eric R. Scerri & Lee C. McIntyre, Philosophy of chemistry: synthesis of a new discipline. Dordrecht: Springer.
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  5. The Plasticity of Categories: The Case of Colour.Jaap Van Brakel - 1993 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (1):103-135.
    Probably colour is the best worked-out example of allegedly neurophysiologically innate response categories determining percepts and percepts determining concepts, and hence biology fixing the basic categories implicit in the use of language. In this paper I argue against this view and I take C. L. Hardin's Color for Philosophers [1988] as my main target. I start by undermining the view that four unique hues stand apart from all other colour shades (Section 2) and the confidence that the solar spectrum is (...)
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    First Contacts and the Common Behavior of Human Beings.Jaap Van Brakel - 2005 - International Studies in Philosophy 37 (4):105-135.
    In this paper my aim is to shed light on the common behavior of human beings by looking at '' first contacts '': the situation where people with unshared histories first meet. The limits of the human life form are given by what is similar in the common behavior of human beings. But what is similar should not be understood as something that is biologically or psychologically or transcendentally shared by all human beings. What is similar is what human beings (...)
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    Heidegger on Zhuangzi and Uselessness: Illustrating Preconditions of Comparative Philosophy.Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (3-4):387-406.
    In this article, I look at those passages in the Zhuangzi usually associated with “uselessness.” I discuss in what way these passages may have been suggestive to Martin Heidegger to explain his ideas of the necessity of the other thinking and of the “waiting people” being entirely unusable to others. Then I make some brief comments concerning basic conditions of interpretation, using examples taken from the Zhuangzi passages discussed. These conditions include family resemblance across the board, a principle of agreement, (...)
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    Whatever seems right to me is right.J. van Brakel - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (6):973-973.
    It is argued that given the task Palmer sets himself, there are no constraints on his colour experiences whatsoever.
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    We.Jaap van Brakel - 1999 - Ethical Perspectives 6 (3):268-276.
    Williams's comments raise the questions I'll here address: what sort of wes are there?, what goes with the 'we of science and logic'?, and what goes with the 'parochial us'? The quotations from Williams suggest that there are two wes, the contrastive and inclusive we.
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    On the neglect of the philosophy of chemistry.J. van Brakel - 1999 - Foundations of Chemistry 1 (2):111-174.
    In this paper I present a historiography of the recent emergence of philosophy of chemistry. Special attention is given to the interest in this domain in Eastern Europe before the collapse of the USSR. It is shown that the initial neglect of the philosophy of chemistry is due to the unanimous view in philosophy and philosophy of science that only physics is a proper science (to put in Kant's words). More recently, due to the common though incorrect assumption that chemistry (...)
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  11. Philosophy of Chemistry. Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image.Jaap van Brakel - 2001 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (2):431-432.
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    Prehistory of the Philosophy of Chemistry.Jaap Van Brakel - 2012 - Philosophy of Chemistry 6:21 - 45.
    Throughout the history of philosophy, chemical concepts and theories have appeared in the work of philosophers, both as examples and as topics of discussion in their own right, and scientists themselves have often engaged with theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues that fall within what one would now recognize as philosophy of chemistry. This chapter offers a summary of the history of philosophy of chemistry since Kant, alongside a critical examination of why chemistry has been relegated to the sidelines so frequently (...)
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    Epistemische deugden en hun verantwoording.Jaap Van Brakel - 1998 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (2):243-268.
    In this paper I argue that all proposals for demarcation criteria distinguishing between scientific and non-scientific knowledge, have failed. Moreover, there is not a single set of epistemic virtues that characterizes 'good' knowledge, nor is there such a set that characterizes science. There are many different epistemic virtues and no universal rules about how they are to be applied in particular cases. Different virtues may dominate in different knowledge domains. In the 'same' domain there are neither universal nor domainspecific rules (...)
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  14. Arguments against quotation-mark-names.J. Van Brakel - 1986 - Logique Et Analyse 29 (15):275.
     
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    Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Chemistry.Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 20 (1):11-57.
    In this paper I assess the relation between philosophy of chemistry and philosophy of science, focusing on those themes in the philosophy of chemistry that may bring about major revisions or extensions of current philosophy of science. Three themes can claim to make a unique contribution to philosophy of science: first, the variety of materials in the world; second, extending the world by making new stuff; and, third, specific features of the relations between chemistry and physics.
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    Le Culte De Kali, La Mère.W. R. van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (1):158-158.
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    Telematic Life Forms.Jaap Van Brakel - 1999 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 4 (3):208-219.
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    Chemical Engineering Science.Jaap Van Brakel - 2012 - Philosophy of Chemistry 6:531 - 545.
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  19. Chemistry as the science of the transformation of substances.J. Van Brakel - 1997 - Synthese 111 (3):253-282.
  20. (1 other version)C.S. Peirce, Categories to Constantinople. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Peirce, Leuven 1997.Jaap van Brakel & Michael van Heerden - 2000 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (1):177-177.
     
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    Ceteris paribus laws.J. van Brakel - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (3):584-585.
  22. Natural Kinds and Theories of Reference.J. Van Brakel - 1992 - Dialectica 46 (3):243.
     
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  23. On the inventors of XYZ.Jaap van Brakel - 2004 - Foundations of Chemistry 7 (1):57-84.
    In this paper I try to make as much sense aspossible of, first, the extensive philosophicalliterature concerned with the status of `Wateris H2O' and, second, the implications ofPutnam's invention of Twin Earth, anotherpossible world stipulated to be just like Earth, except that water is XYZ, notH2O.
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    Pragmatic identity of meaning and metaphor.J. van Brakel & J. P. M. Geurts - 1988 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2 (2):205 – 226.
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    Measurement and Meaningfulness.Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - Acta IMEKO 3 (1).
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    Universities and appropriate development.Jaap Van Brakel - 1978 - SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 1.
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  27. The ignis fatuus of semantic universalia: The case of colour.J. van Brakel - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (2):770-783.
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    Consciousness is not a natural kind.J. van Brakel - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2):269-270.
    Blocks distinction between “phenomenal feel” consciousness and “thought/cognition” consciousness is a cultural construction. Consciousness (and its “subspecies”) is not a natural kind. Some crosscultural data are presented to support this.
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  29. Eliminativisme gereduceerd tot pragmatisme.Jaap Van Brakel - 1993 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 85 (1):113-127.
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    The nature of chemical substances.Jaap Van Brakel - 2000 - In Nalini Bhushan & Stuart M. Rosenfeld, Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. Oxford University Press.
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    Interdiscourse or supervenience relations: The primacy of the manifest image.Jaap van Brakel - 1996 - Synthese 106 (2):253-97.
    Amidst the progress being made in the various (sub-)disciplines of the behavioural and brain sciences a somewhat neglected subject is the problem of how everything fits into one world and, derivatively, how the relation between different levels of discourse should be understood and to what extent different levels, domains, approaches, or disciplines are autonomous or dependent. In this paper I critically review the most recent proposals to specify the nature of interdiscourse relations, focusing on the concept of supervenience. Ideally supervenience (...)
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    Meaning, prototypes and the future of cognitive science.Jaap van Brakel - 1991 - Minds and Machines 1 (3):233-57.
    In this paper I evaluate the soundness of the prototype paradigm, in particular its basic assumption that there are pan-human psychological essences or core meanings that refer to basic-level natural kinds, explaining why, on the whole, human communication and learning are successful. Instead I argue that there are no particular pan-human basic elements for thought, meaning and cognition, neither prototypes, nor otherwise. To illuminate my view I draw on examples from anthropology. More generally I argue that the prototype paradigm exemplifies (...)
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    Emotions as the fabric of forms of life: a cross-cultural perspective.Jaap Van Brakel - 1994 - In W. M. Wentworth & J. Ryan, Social perspectives on emotion.
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  34. Natural kinds and manifest forms of life.J. Van Brakel - 1992 - Dialectica.
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    A Theory of Interpretation for Comparative and Chinese Philosophy.Lin Ma & Jaap van Brakel - 2016 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15 (4):575-589.
    Why should interpretation of conceptual schemes and practices across traditions work at all? In this paper we present the following necessary conditions of possibility for interpretation in comparative and Chinese philosophy: the interpreter must presuppose that there are mutually recognizable human practices; the interpreter must presuppose that “the other” is, on the whole, sincere, consistent, and right; the interpreter must be committed to certain epistemic virtues. Some of these necessary conditions are consistent with the fact that interpretation is not thwarted (...)
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  36. Interculturele communicatie en multiculturalisme, Enige filosofische voorbemerkingen.Jaap van Brakel - 1998 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (3):621-623.
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    De wijsheid van Spinoza en de schoonheid der Tachtigers.R. Van Brakell Buys - 1959 - Brill.
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  38. Het ideeëndrama van Friedrich Hebbel.W. R. Van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (12):525-526.
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    Is Our Universe a Mere Fluke? The Cosmological Argument and Spinning the Universes.Jaap Van Brakel - 1988 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:75-82.
    Recent discussions about the anthropic principle and the argument from design can perhaps be summarized as follows : The world is very unusual, so it must have been made by an intelligent creator. The world is very unusual, but unusual things do occur by chance. Both and , in their ordinary interpretations, have been labelled probabilistic fallacies. In my paper I will discuss in particular the following two aspects: The contemporary relevance of Cicero's discussions on chance. The fact that any (...)
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    A multiculture of veridicalities.J. van Brakel - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4):481-482.
    Edelman's target article purports to be about veridical representations. I argue that it would be a mistake to think it has much to do with veridicality as normally understood.
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  41. (Hard ernst) 126–132 corrigendum.J. van Brakel, Erik J. Olsson, Believing More & U. Kriegel - 2002 - Erkenntnis 57 (1):457-458.
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    The ethnocentricity of colour.J. van Brakel - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):53-54.
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    Extension of Family Resemblance Concepts as a Necessary Condition of Interpretation across Traditions.Jaap van Brakel & Lin Ma - 2015 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14 (4):475-497.
    In this paper we extend Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblance to translation, interpretation, and comparison across traditions. There is no need for universals. This holds for everyday concepts such as green and qing 青, philosophical concepts such as emotion and qing 情, as well as philosophical categories such as form of life and dao 道. These notions as well as all other concepts from whatever tradition are family resemblance concepts. We introduce the notion of quasi-universal, which connects family resemblance concepts (...)
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    Revisiting W ittgenstein on Family Resemblance and Colour(s).Lin Ma & Jaap van Brakel - 2016 - Philosophical Investigations 39 (3):254-280.
    We argue that all general concepts are family resemblance concepts. These include concepts introduced by ostension, such as colour(s). Concepts of colour and of each of the specific colours are family resemblance concepts because similarities concerning an open‐ended range of colour or of appearance features crop up and disappear. After discussing the notion of “same colour” and Wittgenstein's use of the phrase “our colours”, we suggest family resemblance concepts in one tradition can often be extended to family resemblance concepts in (...)
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  45. On the Conditions of Possibility for Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.Lin Ma & Jaap Van Brakel - 2013 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12 (3):297-312.
    In this essay, we present a theory of intercultural philosophical dialogue and comparative philosophy, drawing on both hermeneutics and analytic philosophy. We advocate the approach of “de-essentialization” across the board. It is true that similarities and differences are always to be observed across languages and traditions, but there exist no immutable cores or essences. “De-essentialization” applies to all “levels” of concepts: everyday notions such as green and qing 青, philosophical concepts such as emotion(s) and qing 情, and philosophical categories such (...)
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    Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.Lin Ma & Jaap van Brakel - 2016 - Albany: Albany.
    Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large. This innovative book explores the preconditions necessary for intercultural and comparative philosophy. Philosophical practices that involve at least two different traditions with no common heritage and whose languages have very different grammatical structure, such as Indo-Germanic languages and classical Chinese, are a particular focus. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel look at the necessary and not-so-necessary conditions of possibility of interpretation, comparison, and other (...)
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    De wetenschappen: filosofische kanttekeningen.J. van Brakel - 1998 - Assen: Van Gorcum.
  48. I {an de aarde 10 miljard mensen voeden?Door Manus van Brakel - forthcoming - Idee.
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  49. Putnams pragmatisch realisme Le réalisme pragmatique de Putnam.J. van Brakel - 1988 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 80 (2):103-114.
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    Colour is a culturalist category.J. van Brakel - 2005 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4):507-508.
    Extrapolation of Steels & Belpaeme's (S&B) results show that colour is a culturalist category. Populations will only share the category of colour if it is built into the system. If “left to themselves” different populations may or may not stumble on the colour category. Populations that do not share a colour category may still be able to communicate in a wide variety of environments.
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