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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulence. However, we have limited knowledge of the conditions for enhancing robust governance.
Jacob Torfing +9 more
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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.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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Reconciling Enkrasia and Higher-Order Defeat [PDF]
, 2019 Titelbaum Oxford studies in epistemology, 2015) has recently argued that the Enkratic Principle is incompatible with the view that rational belief is sensitive to higher-order defeat.
Skipper, Mattias
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In Quest of a Wittgensteinian Hinge Epistemology [PDF]
, 2019 Hinge epistemology is a family of theories about justification (and knowledge) which give centre-stage to Wittgenstein’s notion of a “hinge”. In the following, I will first put forward some basic methodological considerations regarding the relationship between merely exegetical work on, in particular, Wittgenstein’s texts, and more theoretically ...
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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Epistemic burdens and the incentives of surrogate decision-makers [PDF]
, 2019 We aim to establish the following claim: other factors held constant, the relative weights of the epistemic burdens of competing treatment options serve to determine the options that patient surrogates pursue. Simply put, surrogates confront an incentive,
Crutchfield, Parker, Scheall, Scott
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Radical Conventionalism and Hinge Epistemology
Roczniki FilozoficzneIn the paper I explore some hints one can find in an updated version of Ajdukiewicz’s radical conventionalism that may help to resolve some controversies within hinge epistemology, i.e. a family of positions that invoke Wittgenstein’s idea of groundless grounds of knowledge.
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Baby Logic – a Hinge Epistemology
ErkenntnisAbstractEpistemologists have begun paying attention to the phenomenon of core cognition from developmental psychology. Core cognition posits innate automatic cognitive modules that enable children to quickly grasp and learn certain concepts. A key element of core cognition is sometimes named core knowledge because it encodes the constraints, parameters,
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