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Editors in Chief: Tim Lewens and Robert Rupert
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    Volume 76, Number 1
    March 2025

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    Why Confirm Laws?

    • Barry Ward
    pp. 1–20
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    On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument

    • Oliver Pooley and
    • James Read
    pp. 21–43
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    The Conceptual Format Debate and the Challenge from (Global) Supramodality

    • Fabrizio Calzavarini
    pp. 45–74
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    On Explaining the Success of Induction

    • Tom F. Sterkenburg
    pp. 75–93
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    Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints

    • Grace E. Field
    pp. 95–122
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    Mere Recurrence and Cumulative Culture at the Margins

    • Andrew Buskell and
    • Claudio Tennie
    pp. 123–145
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    Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations

    • Patricia Rich
    pp. 147–172
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    Restricted Auditory Aspatialism

    • Douglas C. Wadle
    pp. 173–207
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    Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?

    • Richard Dawid
    pp. 209–222
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    Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions

    • Daniel A. Herrmann and
    • Brian Skyrms
    pp. 223–241
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    Representation without Informative Signalling

    • Gerardo Viera
    pp. 243–267
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    Volume 76, Number 1
    March 2025

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