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The Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I introduce the Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion (BDA). BDA makes three main claims: (a) Emotions are psychological episodes whose paradigmatic instances are constituted by coordinated changes in appraisals, action tendencies, bodily responses, and subjective feelings; (b) appraisals—which are rapid, low‐level evaluations of ...
Constant Bonard
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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Information, Agency, and the Trinity
ReligionsTheology and science has, for traditional sciences, been a two way street. It should be no surprise then that foundational issues in semantic information theory and AI may provide insights into religious dogmas: in this case, the Christian doctrine of ...
George M. Coghill
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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A nonstandard approach to the logical omniscience problem
Artificial Intelligence, 1995 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Ronald Fagin +2 more
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Privacy‐preserving multi‐agent systems for human‐centred inclusive healthcare AI
AI Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT Healthcare environments present uniquely demanding constraints for the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). Clinical decisions of significant consequence are rarely the product of a single isolated computation; rather, safe and effective patient care relies on the continuous collaboration of distributed entities, including clinicians ...
Mufti Mahmud +14 more
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From Potential to Actual Knowledge: A New Framework in Probabilistic Epistemic Logic
Studies in Logic, Grammar and RhetoricIn this paper we address the issue of improbable knowledge within probabilistic epistemic logic. This problem occurs when an agent possesses knowledge of a certain proposition despite the evidential probability of that knowledge being exceedingly low ...
Wójcik Arkadiusz
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 331-342, September 2026.ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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“Internal” Problems of Normative Theories of Thinking and Reasoning
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2016 This paper provides moderate criticism of so-called normative theories of thinking and reasoning. The discussion focuses on the problems of idealization, adequacy, inconsistent yet non-trivial logics, logical omniscience etc.
Piotr Urbańczyk
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