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Epistemicism and modality [PDF]
, 2016 What kind of semantics should someone who accepts the epistemicist theory of vagueness defended in Timothy Williamson’s Vagueness (1994) give a definiteness operator?
Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
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Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012 Behavioural neuroscience has presented philosophers with the task of clarifying the relationship between neural determinism and free will. If neural functions encode information and govern decision-making, are the constructs of will, agency and indeed ...
David eNussbaum, Khadija eIbrahim
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Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2019 Reber and Alcock have recently made a sharp attack on the entire psi literature, and in particular a recent overview by Cardena of the meta-analyses across various categories of psi. They claim the data is inherently flawed because of its disconnect with our current understanding of the world.
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Preserving a combat commander’s moral agency: The Vincennes Incident as a Chinese Room [PDF]
, 2016 We argue that a command and control system can undermine a commander’s moral agency if it causes him/her to process information in a purely syntactic manner, or if it precludes him/her from ascertaining the truth of that information. Our case is based on
Hew, Patrick Chisan
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Egalitarianism against the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
J. Rawls and R. Dworkin have each used veils of ignorance to justify equality (Rawls) or to compute what equality entails (Dworkin). J. Harsanyi has also derived a distributive ethic from a veil of ignorance argument, which, although not egalitarian, is ...
John E. Roemer
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“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost [PDF]
, 2014 The author of the paper analyzes John Milton’s great epic narrative through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics and his philosophical reflection, in particular the second chapter of the philosopher’s last book, Parcours de la ...
Grzegorzewska, Małgorzata
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Knowledge in the face of conspiracy conditionals [PDF]
, 2020 A plausible principle about the felicitous use of indicative conditionals says that there is something strange about asserting an indicative conditional when you know whether its antecedent is true.
Holguín, Ben
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Imagination as a Response to Naturalism: C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia in Light of the Anscombe Affair [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I suggest The Chronicles of Narnia were occasioned by Elizabeth Anscombe’s critique of chapter three of Miracles. Instead of a retreat from debate, The Chronicles show that the Supernatural is not something to be contemplated, but instead ...
Reichenbach, Allison P
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Is Gettier"s First Example Flawed? [PDF]
, 2003 The 'Gettier counterexamples' (Gettier 19631) to the\ud tripartite account of propositional knowledge are generally\ud taken to show that not every instance of justified true belief\ud constitutes knowledge. I argue that Gettier's famous first\ud example
Schmidt-Petri, Christoph
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