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Virtuous Deferral

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Virtue epistemology has long struggled with the “Creditability Dilemma”: how can knowledge gained through deference be creditable to the knower if it primarily depends on others’ cognitive work? We propose a novel solution by developing a telic account of doxastic deference as a distinctive kind of social‐epistemic performance.
J. Adam Carter, Jesper Kallestrup
wiley   +1 more source

Planning for Mistakes

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should you decide what to do? Orthodox decision theory offers attractively simple advice: Do whatever has the most expected value. In what follows, I argue that this is not always good advice for agents like us. Agents like us are susceptible to error: Sometimes, we do not succeed at doing what is recommended by the advice we are trying to
Sam Carter
wiley   +1 more source

A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
wiley   +1 more source

Goal Orientation and Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability Among Chinese University Students. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Wang X, Wang N, Wu J, Wang G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Gatekeeper wetlands govern nutrient pathways in a continental basin. [PDF]

Commun Earth Environ
Dallosch MA, Creed IF.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Double‐Halfer Embarrassment: Response to Pust

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Michael Titelbaum introduced a variant of the Sleeping Beauty problem in which a coin is tossed on both Monday and Tuesday, with the Tuesday toss not affecting Beauty's condition. Titelbaum argues that double halfers are committed to the embarrassing position that Beauty's credence that today's coin toss lands heads is greater than 1/2.
Lennart B. Ackermans
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced organic carbon burial in rewetted wetlands precedes long-term stabilization. [PDF]

Commun Earth Environ
Mistry P, Creed IF, Trick CG, Lobb DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Wetlands set the pace of annual runoff in the northern Great Plains. [PDF]

Commun Earth Environ
Rahmani J, Creed IF, Badiou P, Ameli AA.
europepmc   +1 more source