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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

Modality and Irony in Political Discourse

ACROSS
The central figures in political communication are the participants and the strategies of persuasion and manipulation used as tools that influence perceptions, and behaviours.
Valentina CIUMACENCO
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifiers for a Modal Future

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
wiley   +1 more source

A Contextual Accuracy Dominance Argument for Probabilism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A central motivation for Probabilism—the principle of rationality that requires one to have credences that satisfy the axioms of probability—is the accuracy dominance argument: one should not have accuracy dominated credences, and one avoids accuracy dominance just in case one satisfies Probabilism.
Mikayla Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

A Deontic Argumentation Framework Based on Deontic Defeasible Logic

, 2018
Deontic Defeasible Logic (DDL) is a simple and computationally efficient approach for the representation of normative reasoning. Traditionally defeasible logics are defined proof theoretically based on the proof conditions for the logic. In this paper we present an argumentation system that corresponds to a variant of DDL.
Governatori, Guido, Rotolo, Antonino, Riveret, Régis   +2 more
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Dilemmas of dating: The case of aprioristic sexual lookism

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rossella De Bernardi
wiley   +1 more source

Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each
Jonathan Parry
wiley   +1 more source

A Paraconsistentist Approach to Chisholm's Paradox

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2009
The Logics of Deontic (In)Consistency (LDI’s) can be considered as the deontic counterpart of the paraconsistent logics known as Logics of Formal (In)Consistency.
Marcelo Esteban Coniglio, Newton Marques Peron   +1 more
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Deontic Logic, Mental odels, and Wason Selection Task

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2014
A problem related to theWason selection task is that only some thematic versions of it are executed correctly. Fodor raises the thesis that the versions that are adequately solved are those that refer to deontic situations.
Miguel López Astorga
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