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Are there norms of rationality for perception? Evaluating experience‐forming processes under Bayesian norms

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
According to the rationality of perception thesis, perceptual processes and experiences can be rationally appraised. This thesis raises the questions of whether there can be norms of rationality for perception, and what they could be. Here, to answer these questions, we consider Bayesian norms as possible candidates.
Alice Andrea Chinaia, Matteo Colombo
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Reopening the Dutch Book

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTProbabilism is the thesis that the degrees of belief of rational agents behave like Kolmogorovian probabilities. There are quite different lines of argument for probabilism in the literature, including Dutch book arguments, arguments based on representation theorems, and epistemic utility arguments. This paper focusses on the Dutch book line of
Nicholas J. J. Smith
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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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The Abductivist Interpretation of Frege's Conception of Logic

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frege is an abductivist about logic. For him, an acceptable logic must be sufficient—that is, it must be able to explain the relevant data, such as the fact that arithmetical laws are logical truths. Thus, Frege's logicism is an abductive project aimed at establishing the acceptability of his logic, Begriffsschrift.
Junyeol Kim
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Shackle versus Savage: non-probabilistic alternatives to subjective probability theory in the 1950s [PDF]

G.L.S Shackle’s rejection of the probability tradition stemming from Knight's definition of uncertainty was a crucial episode in the development of modern decision theory.
Carlo Zappia, Marcello Basili
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Attunement and Reason

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I present a theory of attunement, the agent's readiness to attend to a target. I focus on attunement to reasons for action, and in particular, on sensitivity to moral reasons. After noting that many claims regarding moral perception are better construed as claims regarding moral attention, I separate perceptual from attentional ...
Wayne Wu
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Ambiguity and uncertainty in Ellsberg and Shackle [PDF]

This paper argues that Ellsberg’s and Shackle’s frameworks for discussing the limits of the (subjective) probabilistic approach to decision theory are not as different as they may appear.
Carlo Zappia, Marcello Basili
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Is There a Real Difference Between Undercutting and Rebutting?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Defeaters in epistemology are the things that make justified beliefs lose their justification. Philosophers distinguish between different kinds of defeaters, and one such distinction is commonly made between rebutting and undercutting defeaters.
Dan Baras
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What does it mean to be a post‐Newtonian? Schelling on competing scientific models

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract While Schelling's position has often been portrayed as highly critical of Newton, his discussion of Newton's theories has never been thoroughly studied. The goal of this paper is to analyze in more detail the relationship between Schelling and Newton, with an eye toward the fundamental question that guides Schelling: how can conflicts between ...
Raphaël Authier
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