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A Paradox of Inferentialism [PDF]
, 2015 John McDowell articulated a radical criticism of normative inferentialism against Robert Brandom’s expressivist account of conceptual contents. One of his main concerns consists in vindicating a notion of intentionality that could not be reduced to the ...
Turbanti, Giacomo
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Agnosticism about artificial consciousness
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
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A noção de derrotabilidade para Herbert L. A. Hart
Revista Direito GVResumo O presente artigo investiga o conceito de derrotabilidade (defeasibility) para Herbert L. A. Hart, que tem sido identificado como o responsável por introduzir referida noção no âmbito da filosofia do direito.
Anizio Pires Gavião Filho +1 more
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On Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments for Persuasive Reasoning
Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2019 Analogical reasoning is a complex process based on a comparison between two pairs of concepts or states of affairs (aka. the source and the target) for characterizing certain features from one to another.
Teeradaj Racharak +3 more
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Thickness and Evaluation [PDF]
, 2017 This is a review essay devoted to Pekka Väyrynen’s The Lewd, the Rude and the Nasty. Väyrynen’s book, concerned with thick terms and thick concepts, argues for a pragmatic view on the evaluativeness associated with these terms and concepts.
Eklund, Matti
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Defeasible Logic: Agency, Intention and Obligation [PDF]
, 2004 We propose a computationally oriented non-monotonic multi-modal logic arising from the combination of agency, intention and obligation. We argue about the defeasible nature of these notions and then we show how to represent and reason with them in the ...
A. Rao +13 more
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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A Cut-Free Sequent Calculus for Defeasible Erotetic Inferences [PDF]
, 2018 In recent years, the effort to formalize erotetic inferences (i.e., inferences to and from questions) has become a central concern for those working in erotetic logic. However, few have sought to formulate a proof theory for
Millson, Jared
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Infinite ethics and the limits of impartiality
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Beneficence—the part of morality concerned with promoting people's well‐being—is widely thought to be both agent‐neutral and impartial: it prescribes a common aim to all, and does not favor some individuals over others. This paper explores a problem for agent‐neutral, impartial beneficence from the perspective of “individualistic ethics” in ...
Jacob M. Nebel
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Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning [PDF]
, 1995 L'A. propose une analyse logique de l'annulabilite des raisonnements legaux engageant le statut de la normativite et des categaries de probanda (ce qui doit etre prouve) et de non-refutanda (ce qui ne doit pas etre refute) dans une reflexion sur les regles et les exceptions, revelant la structure non-monotonique et dialogique des procedures legales qui
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