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Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Abortion Ban Advocates and Rape Exception. [PDF]

J Bioeth Inq
Dominiak Ł.
europepmc   +1 more source

Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way.
David Builes, Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A reply to Reed on my 'Expressivist concerns for assisted dying on request'. [PDF]

J Med Ethics
VandenHombergh J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
wiley   +1 more source

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.
europepmc   +1 more source

The New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Defended

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joe Schmid and Troy Dana have recently advanced several criticisms of the New Hilbert's Hotel Argument formulated by us. In this paper, we respond by undercutting their proposed defeaters. First, we argue that they fail to refute the claim that Hilbert's Hotel entails a logical contradiction in the concrete world.
Eli Haitov, Andrew Loke
wiley   +1 more source

Existential Experience of Absurd: Its Mental Background in Modern Culture

The paper gives an analytical review of various implications and premises of absurd as existential experience in the light of literary and philosophical texts that contribute to the cultural style of the XXth century.
Rudanovskaya S.
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
wiley   +1 more source

A conflict of visions in nutrition science: polarization, power, and the case of Ultra-Processed Foods. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Ullian K.
europepmc   +1 more source