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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 249-261, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
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When Communication Enables Catastrophe: Nuclear Risk and the Short Lifetimes of Technological Civilizations

open access: yesRisk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The Fermi paradox may partly reflect technological self‐destruction acting as a Great Filter during post‐industrial development. Because the empirical record consists of a single civilization observed over an eighty‐year nuclear age, the exercise reported here is best understood as a structured, historically anchored scenario analysis rather ...
Vincenzo Alfano
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the biopsychosocial model of disability on the medicolegal assessment of personal injury. [PDF]

open access: yesArch Public Health
Lutte I   +5 more
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