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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 328-350, June 2026.
Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affect, Autonomy, Authenticity, and the Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: The Problem of Tyrannical Coherence

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 68-82, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT There are cases of psychiatric disorder where affective states produce severely self‐destructive behavior. Sufferers do not appear to be making autonomous decisions, and appear to be severely impaired in their decision‐making capacity. Suffers of these kinds of cases of these kinds of disorders fall into a “gray area” in the law.
Joe Gough
wiley   +1 more source

An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, Page 74-85, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
wiley   +1 more source

From Catastrophe to Escape: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Personal Debt in The Netherlands

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how individuals experience and respond to personal debt, arguing that debt is not merely a financial problem but a systemic issue that affects social relationships, moral worth, and health. Drawing on online forum posts, and grounded in Bourdieu's theory of capital, the paper introduces an expanded framework of ‘assets’ and
Joost Beuving   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A diachronic analysis of Sindhi multiscriptality

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2020
Abstract Recent debates in modern India on which script to use for the Sindhi language in the country present the situation as a binary choice between Perso-Arabic and Devanagari. However, such debates almost always fail to take into account the fact that the Sindhi language has, for most of its written history ...
Arvind Iyengar
openaire   +2 more sources

Corpora and diachronic analysis of English

2020
This chapter aims to provide a brief overview of the types of diachronic corpora available for English, and outlines the steps to carrying out a diachronic analysis. To illustrate the practices of a diachronic corpus-based analysis, it focuses on a study on the frequency of intensifiers throughout Early Modern English.
James M. Stratton
openaire   +2 more sources

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