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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?

open access: yesNoûs, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Symmetry lost: A modal ontological argument for atheism?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract The modal ontological argument for God's existence faces a symmetry problem: a seemingly equally plausible reverse modal ontological argument can be given for God's nonexistence. Here, we argue that there are significant asymmetries between the modal ontological argument and its reverse that render the latter more compelling than the former ...
Peter Fritz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social movements and the synecdoche problem

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

Ability and knowledge: from epistemic transition systems to labelled stit models. [PDF]

open access: yesAuton Agent Multi Agent Syst
Kuncová A   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Epistemic authenticity

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but ...
Laura Frances Callahan, Michael C. Rea
wiley   +1 more source

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