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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 224-237, September 2026.
ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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Axiomatizing Rumsfeld Ignorance

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2023
In a recent paper, Kit Fine presents some striking results concerning the logical properties of (first-order) ignorance, second-order ignorance and Rumsfeld ignorance. However, Rumsfeld ignorance is definable in terms of ignorance, which makes some existing results and the axiomatization problem trivial.
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Balance and Baselines: An Impossibility Theorem and an Axiomatisation of Additive Aggregation

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT A feature in many multicriteria problems is a preference for ‘balance’, understood as achieving a desired distribution (e.g., equality or target proportions) of resources across stakeholders or conceptual categories. This paper presents a normative exploration of the implications of balance preferences when baselines are uncertain or contested.
Alec Morton, Lars Peter Østerdal
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The Usefulness of Evenness

Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 8, August 2026.
Is the concept of evenness useful in ecology? I argue that it is, because it can shed light on the mechanisms that structure ecological communities. The two graphs above illustrate how in synthetic communities evenness is related to community biomass (left) and to the immigration rate (right).
Ryan A. Chisholm
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“Mathematics is the Logic of the Infinite”: Zermelo’s Project of Infinitary Logic

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021
In this paper I discuss Ernst Zermelo’s ideas concerning the possibility of developing a system of infinitary logic that, in his opinion, should be suitable for mathematical inferences. The presentation of Zermelo’s ideas is accompanied with some remarks
Pogonowski Jerzy
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Pairwise Imitation and Tournament Graphs

International Economic Review, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 937-955, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates strategic dynamics under the behavioral rule of pairwise interact and imitate (PII), which requires minimal information and emphasizes outperforming opponents in pairwise interactions. We characterize PII using weak tournament graphs and, for a broad class of dynamics, establish a one‐shot stability result for ...
Sung‐Ha Hwang, Philip R. Neary, Jonathan Newton, Ryoji Sawa   +3 more
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Derivations as algebras

Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 114, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract Differential categories provide the categorical foundations for the algebraic approaches to differentiation. They have been successful in formalizing various important concepts related to differentiation, such as, in particular, derivations. In this paper, we show that the differential modality of a differential category lifts to a monad on ...
Jean‐Simon Pacaud Lemay, Chiara Sava
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Quantum Axiomatics

, 2009
We present an axiomatic and operational theory of quantum mechanics. The theory is founded on the axiomatic and operational approach started in Geneva mainly by Constantin Piron and his students and collaborators and developed further in Brussels by myself and different students and collaborators.
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What if the expected is not the most likely outcome? Four examples giving pause for thought and reconsideration

Economica, Volume 93, Issue 371, Page 839-862, July 2026.
Abstract The foundational nature of expectations‐based theories and the prominence of symmetric unimodal stochastic assumptions in economic research render the expected outcome the go to locational focus throughout its many realms. When symmetric unimodality prevails, expected and most likely outcomes are identical; however, when it does not, they are ...
Gordon Anderson
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Beyond Substitution—An Antipositionalist's Guide to Subtraction—

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 120-133, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Existing accounts of relations do not properly account for variably polyadic relations: they fail to capture the relationship between completions of the same relation by different numbers of relata. This paper develops a fully general account of such relations by adding an operation of subtraction to the antipositionalist theory of relations ...
Jon Erling Litland
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