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, 2018 Blameworthiness of an agent or a coalition of agents is often defined in terms of the principle of alternative possibilities: for the coalition to be responsible for an outcome, the outcome must take place and the coalition should have had a strategy to ...
Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia
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Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has recently been argued that purported evidential and zetetic norms issue contradictory verdicts and that such contradictions best be resolved in favor of zetetic norms. The paper argues that this line of argument proves unsuccessful. First, natural formulations of what one ought to do if inquiring into a given matter resemble anankastic ...
Julien Dutant +2 more
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A note on Mcgee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens
Principia: An International Journal of EpistemologyIn this article I will review McGee's famous counterexample to Modus Ponens and I will argue that it is not a real counterexample. I will claim that the problem lies in an infelicitous assertion of the second premise.
Mariela Rubin
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Recapture, Transparency, Negation and a Logic for the Catuskoti [PDF]
, 2019 The recent literature on Nāgārjuna’s catuṣkoṭi centres around Jay Garfield’s (2009) and Graham Priest’s (2010) interpretation. It is an open discussion to what extent their interpretation is an adequate model of the logic for the catuskoti, and the Mūla ...
Kreutz, Adrian
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Norms and Significance in Ignorance. Reply to Duncan Pritchard
Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This is a reply to Duncan Pritchard's response to my critique of his normative account of ignorance. Pritchard suggests that I take a Normative Condition on board in my own account of ignorance. Pritchard's suggestion has drastic revisionary and deflationary implications for how we use words like “ignorance” and “ignorant”.
Rik Peels
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, 2017 The article investigates an evidence-based semantics for epistemic logics in which pieces of evidence are interpreted as equivalence relations on the epistemic worlds. It is shown that the properties of knowledge obtained from potentially infinitely many
Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia
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On the Practical Necessity of the Categories
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Kant tells us that we cannot know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of sensibility. Can we know whether all finite rational beings must share the same forms of understanding? Recent discussion of this issue has focused on whether Kant thinks this can be decided from the theoretical point of view.
Anil Gomes, Andrew Stephenson
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, 2009 The present article introduces ptarithmetic (short for "polynomial time arithmetic") -- a formal number theory similar to the well known Peano arithmetic, but based on the recently born computability logic (see http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~giorgi/cl.html ...
Japaridze, Giorgi
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Sillogismi sfocati: il modus ponens
, 2021 Classical logic is usually associated with the name of Aristotle and is strictly binary (a statement is either false or true). Fuzzy logic, initiated by L. A. Zadeh (1921-2017), makes use of all the gradations of gray, intermediate between white = false and black = true, and has proved extremely successful in building intelligent machines and ...
ANDREA SGARRO, Laura Franzoi
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a growing number of philosophers come to defend normative nihilism. Even if their arguments do not induce in many a belief in normative nihilism, there may be grounds on which to be less than certain about the falsity of normative nihilism.
Lewis Williams
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