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Deduction without Dogmas:The Case of Moral Analogical Argumentation

Informal Logic, 2014
a recent paper, Fábio Perin Shecaira (2013) proposes a defence of Waller’s deductivist schema for moral analogical argumentation. This defence has several flaws, the most important of them being that many good analogical arguments would be deemed bad or ...
Lilian Bermejo-Luque
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Emerging infectious diseases: coping with uncertainty [PDF]

, 2009
The world’s scientific community must be in a state of constant readiness to address the threat posed by newly emerging infectious diseases. Whether the disease in question is SARS in humans or BSE in animals, scientists must be able to put into action ...
Cummings, L
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Michael Smith and the daleks: reason, morality, and contingency [PDF]

, 1999
Smith has defended the rationalist's conceptual claim that moral requirements are categorical requirements of reason, arguing that no status short of this would make sense of our taking these requirements as seriously as we do.
Gibbard, Harman, James Lenman, Johnston, Nussbaum, Stevenson, Wright   +6 more
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Resource-driven Substructural Defeasible Logic

, 2018
Linear Logic and Defeasible Logic have been adopted to formalise different features relevant to agents: consumption of resources, and reasoning with exceptions.
DQ Pham, F Olivieri, F Olivieri, G Governatori, G Governatori, J Rao, JY Girard, M Gaboardi, M Tanabe, P Küngas, U Engberg   +10 more
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Casting Light Upon The Great Endarkenment [PDF]

, 2019
While the Enlightenment promoted thinking for oneself independent of religious authority, the ‘Endarkenment’ (Millgram 2015) concerns deference to a new authority: the specialist, a hyperspecializer.
Brady F., Buzaglo M., Hawking S., Hung E. H.‐C., Kitcher P., Kuhn T. S., Lewis D, Lewis D, Lumsden D., Millgram Elijah, Millgram Elijah, Millgram Elijah, Millikan R. G., Nguyen C. T., Orwell G., O’Rourke M., Sapir E., Schnapp L. M., Whorf B., Wilson M, Wilson M   +20 more
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Legal formalism: a comparison between Jori and Schauer

Derecho PUCP, 2017
This essay examines and juxtaposes Mario Jori’s and Frederick Schauer’s ideas on legal formalism. Although developed independently of each other, these ideas show remarkable similarities: both focus on the notion of norm or rule as a tool for clarifying ...
Anna Pintore
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Defeating Luzzi's dilemma: on knowledge from falsehood, Gettierized belief, and defeasibility [PDF]

Manuscrito
Branden Fitelson (2010) proposes a strengthened version of knowledge from falsehood, according to which one may not have known that p had one not falsely believed that q. However, Federico Luzzi (2019) challenges Fitelson’s proposal.
EDUARDO ALVES
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Rules, Principles and Defeasibility [PDF]

, 2014
La distinción entre reglas y principios presupone un criterio que no sólo permite identificarlos como tales, sino también subrayar sus diferencias. En este ensayo la noción de derrotabilidad cumplirá el papel de tal criterio.
Bäcker, Carsten
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley   +1 more source

A ponderação de regras e alguns problemas da teoria dos princípios de Robert Alexy

Revista Direito GV
Resumo Este artigo versa sobre a distinção entre regras e princípios e analisa alguns aspectos da difundida tese da distinção qualitativa sustentada por Ronald Dworkin e Robert Alexy.
Bruno Sacramento Santos Silva
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