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The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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Radical Scepticism, Epistemic Luck, and Epistemic Value [PDF]
, 2008 It is argued that it is beneficial to view the debate regarding radical scepticism through the lens of epistemic value. In particular, it is claimed that we should regard radical scepticism as aiming to deprive us of an epistemic standing that is of special value to us, and that this methodological constraint on our dealings with radical scepticism ...
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Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Self‐conceptions provide a framework through which we can make sense of ourselves, interpret and navigate the world, plan our lives, and relate to others. Relational influences can greatly shape them, for instance, when others react to us or offer advice. What if this ‘other’ is not a human being, but an AI?
Muriel Leuenberger
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
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Epistemic injustice in the therapeutic relationship in psychiatry. [PDF]
Theor Med Bioeth, 2023 Sakakibara E.
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophical accounts of long‐term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about ...
Mario I. Juarez‐Garcia
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Access denied: epistemic obstruction and the distribution of knowledge. [PDF]
Synthese, 2023 Battaly H.
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Defeaters in current epistemology: introduction to the special issue [PDF]
, 2017 Moretti, Luca, Piazza, Tommaso
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