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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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A reply to Reed on my 'Expressivist concerns for assisted dying on request'. [PDF]

J Med Ethics
VandenHombergh J.
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An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
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A conflict of visions in nutrition science: polarization, power, and the case of Ultra-Processed Foods. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Ullian K.
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Skepticism and Ontological Parsimony

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT External world skepticism is often thought to entail that we should suspend judgment about the existence of the external world. I challenge this orthodoxy by arguing that, when combined with a plausible principle of ontological parsimony, the skeptical challenge intensifies into an argument for outright disbelief in the external world.
James H. McIntyre
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A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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Impaired belief revision yet intact information seeking in positive schizotypy: A modified task of bias against disconfirmatory evidence. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Zhao W, Deng W, Cannon T.
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The Concept of Categoricity

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Abortion Ban Advocates and Rape Exception. [PDF]

J Bioeth Inq
Dominiak Ł.
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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