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A Failed Twist to an Old Problem: A Reply to John N. Williams [PDF]
, 2016 John N. Williams argued that Peter Klein's defeasibility theory of knowledge excludes the possibility of one knowing that one has a posteriori knowledge.
Borges, Rodrigo
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Computing Strong and Weak Permissions in Defeasible Logic [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper we propose an extension of Defeasible Logic to represent and compute three concepts of defeasible permission. In particular, we discuss different types of explicit permissive norms that work as exceptions to opposite obligations.
Governatori, Guido +3 more
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Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
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Handling Defeasibilities in Action Domains
, 2002 Representing defeasibility is an important issue in common sense reasoning. In reasoning about action and change, this issue becomes more difficult because domain and action related defeasible information may conflict with general inertia rules ...
Zhang, Yan
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Making sense of the world often requires one to come up with new ideas, including ideas one had previously been unable to think of. How and when should this be done? I propose and defend a norm of rationality linking wondering, belief, and abilities to conceive: one must not both wonder a question and reject all answers to it that one can ...
Michael Deigan
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Skeptical Theism, Free Will Skepticism and Atheism: Pondering the Scope of Moral Paralysis
Cuestiones Teológicas, 2019 In this paper, I aim to show that Skeptical Theism (ST) implies the rejection of Free Will Skepticism (FWS). This is so because ST holds the so-called evidential argument from evil against theism. This argument presupposes free will (as a hidden premise),
Rafael Miranda-Rojas
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The Role of Deontic Logic in the Specification of Information Systems [PDF]
, 1998 In this paper we discuss the role that deontic logic plays in the specification of information systems, either because constraints on the systems directly concern norms or, and even more importantly, system constraints are considered ideal but violable ...
A Anderson +27 more
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Progress, Objectivism, and Philosophy of History: the Problem of Progress in Critical Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I evaluate Rahel Jaeggi's theory of progress as outlined in her recent book Fortschritt und Regression. The central question of this paper will be whether Jaeggi's theory of progress in terms of an “accumulating problem‐solving process” can answer the critique of progress put forward by Amy Allen in The End of Progress.
Wouter Wiersma
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a novel, productive approach to political ethics in the European Parliament (EP), assuming some of its members (MEPs) are elected undemocratically in member states severely affected by democratic backsliding. It explores the normative foundations of how other MEPs should deal with undemocratically elected MEPs here and now ...
Attila Mráz
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