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Modus Ponens and the Logic of Decision [PDF]

If modus ponens is valid, then you should take up ...
Charlow, Nate
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Higher-Order Defeat Without Epistemic Dilemmas [PDF]

, 2018
Many epistemologists have endorsed a version of the view that rational belief is sensitive to higher-order defeat. That is to say, even a fully rational belief state can be defeated by misleading higher-order evidence, which indicates that the belief ...
Skipper, Mattias
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Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Costs of the Capacity Charge through Real-Time Adjustment of the Demand Pattern

Energies
This work presents a production management platform developed to minimize the costs of the capacity charge, part of the electricity bill associated with the cost of maintaining grid capacity during periods of high, fluctuating loads.
Marcin Sawczuk, Adam Stawowy, Olga Okrzesik, Damian Kurek, Mariola Sawczuk   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Symmetry lost: A modal ontological argument for atheism?

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract The modal ontological argument for God's existence faces a symmetry problem: a seemingly equally plausible reverse modal ontological argument can be given for God's nonexistence. Here, we argue that there are significant asymmetries between the modal ontological argument and its reverse that render the latter more compelling than the former ...
Peter Fritz, Tien‐Chun Lo, Joseph C. Schmid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Keep on Talking! The Resilience of Multilateral Communications in EU Foreign Policy

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Helene Sjursen, Federica Bicchi, Marianna Lovato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times: The Role of Multi‐Level Governance, Hybrid Governance, and Negotiated Societal Intelligence

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, Tina Bentzen, Tiziana Caponio, Susana Coroado, Scott Douglas, Steven Nõmmik, Tiina Randma‐Liiv, Chiara Russo, Eva Sørensen, Koen Verhoest   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reparative justice, historical injustice, and the nonidentity problem

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Felix Lambrecht
wiley   +1 more source

A New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Against Past‐Eternalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a new formulation of the “Hilbert's Hotel Argument” (HHA) which is superior to existing formulations because it (1) demonstrates that HH is logically impossible in the concrete world, (2) takes into account the need to consider the assumptions of HHA, and (3) offers a reply to an important objection concerning the validity of
Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Eli Haitov
wiley   +1 more source