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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in public decision‐making; yet existing governance tools often lack clear definitions of harm and benefit, practical methods for weighing competing values, and guidance for resolving value conflicts.
Karl de Fine Licht, Anna Folland
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The Demise of the Incommensurability Thesis [PDF]
, 2016 The paper briefly reviews the main formulations of the incommensurability thesis by Feyerabend and Kuhn, as well as the main criticisms leveled against it.
Sankey, Howard
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On modelling vagueness - and not modelling incommensurability
, 2009 This paper defines and analyses the concept of a ‘ranking problem’. In a ranking problem, a set of objects, each of which possesses some common property P to some degree, are ranked by P-ness.
Sugden, R. +2 more
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Object and Event Concepts: A Cognitive Mechanism of Incommensurability [PDF]
, 2002 In this paper I examine a cognitive mechanism of incommensurability. Using the frame model of concept representation to capture structural relations within concepts, I reveal an ontological difference between object and event concepts: the former are ...
Chen, Xiang
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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The intelligibility objection against underdetermination
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2012 One of the objections against the thesis of underdetermination of theories by observations is that it is unintelligible. Any two empirically equivalent theories — so the argument goes—are in principle intertranslatable, hence cannot count as rivals in ...
Rogério Passos Severo
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Changing Laws and Shifting Concepts: On the Nature and Impact of Incommensurability [PDF]
, 2001 Carrier M. Changing Laws and Shifting Concepts: On the Nature and Impact of Incommensurability. In: Hoyningen-Huene P, ed. Incommensurability and Related Matters. Boston studies in the philosophy of science. Vol 216.
Carrier, Martin, Hoyningen-Huene, P.
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision‐making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea
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