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A Contextualist Defence of the Material Account of Indicative Conditionals [PDF]

The material account of indicative conditionals faces a legion of counterexamples that are the bread and butter in any entry about the subject. For this reason, the material account is widely unpopular among conditional experts.
Silva, Matheus
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Pushing the bounds of rationality: Argumentation and extended cognition [PDF]

, 2016
One of the central tasks of a theory of argumentation is to supply a theory of appraisal: a set of standards and norms according to which argumentation, and the reasoning involved in it, is properly evaluated.
Godden, David
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A Contextual Accuracy Dominance Argument for Probabilism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A central motivation for Probabilism—the principle of rationality that requires one to have credences that satisfy the axioms of probability—is the accuracy dominance argument: one should not have accuracy dominated credences, and one avoids accuracy dominance just in case one satisfies Probabilism.
Mikayla Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

Biological Individuality and Fallacies of Composition

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the philosophy of biology, there is widespread acceptance of pluralism about biological individuality, according to which there are (at least) two theoretically important but distinct properties with a claim to the label “biological individuality”: evolutionary individuality and physiological individuality.
Alexander Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

From Computational Indeterminacy to the Causal Relevance of Mental Content

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A central claim in contemporary cognitive science is that the neural mechanisms that bring about cognitive capacities and behavior are computations. It is also widely assumed that computations are not sensitive to the content, or the semantic properties of representations.
Jens Harbecke, Oron Shagrir
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The study of radicalization encompasses a broad spectrum of perspectives, with scholars from diverse disciplines – ranging from psychology, sociology, political science, criminology, to economics – contributing to its multifaceted comprehension. Despite this substantial body of empirical research, the knowledge is fragmented across disciplines,
Anna Knorr, Nikita Podolin, Gabriele Di Cicco, Małgorzata Kossowska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing Susan Stebbing as a Forerunner of Informal Logic

Informal Logic
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943), Great Britain’s first female professor of philosophy, was an educator, a logician, and a pioneer of public philosophy with a fondness for argumentation and evidential reasoning. Stebbing, whose revival has only recently begun,
Maheshi Gunawardane
doaj   +1 more source

Aspek logis dalam pernyataan-pernyataan politik

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2005
Each political formula in the form of a statement (argument) always has a direct interconnected political purpose relative to an important group. This importance factor becomes basic consideration in the formulation of a political statement in such a ...
Y. P. Hayon
doaj   +1 more source

Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report.
Eleanor Brooks, Kathrin Lauber
wiley   +1 more source

Trust, Crisis, and Delegation: A Comparative Analysis of Public Health Authorities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In times of crisis, maintaining citizens' trust in government is crucial for policy legitimacy. Yet, research on how institutional design shapes trust under crisis conditions remains limited. This study addresses this gap by examining how the delegation of authority and the degree of institutional independence of public health agencies relate ...
Jana Gómez Díaz
wiley   +1 more source