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Progressive Confirmation of Two Mental Systems
ProblemosFrom current cognitive science, some theories propose that the human mind includes two systems: a system leading quick intuitions and a system ruling slow logical reasoning. Given that the systems are in the mind, one might think that their existence is
Miguel López Astorga
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Epistemic versus objectively relevant possibilities
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract This paper compares two approaches to the semantics of modal expressions such as ‘might’. Both approaches define the conditions under which sentences of a language (not only modals) are acceptable relative to sets of possible worlds. Both approaches say that the sentence ‘Vivian might be in Vienna’ is acceptable relative to such a set if and ...
Christopher Gauker
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, 2016 This article endeavors to identify the strongest versions of the two primary arguments against epistemic scientific realism: the historical argument—generally dubbed “the pessimistic meta-induction”—and the argument from underdetermination.
Lyons, Timothy D.
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Anti‐Exceptionalism About Logic (Part II): Methodological Anti‐Exceptionalism About Logic
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1-2, January-February 2025.ABSTRACT According to anti‐exceptionalism about logic (AEL), logic is not as exceptional in terms of its subject matter and epistemology as has been conventionally thought. As such, AEL either outright rejects certain traditional properties of logic, such as its formality, apriority, or necessity, or rather proposes that while logic possesses these ...
Ben Martin, Ole Thomassen Hjortland
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Sequential effects in deduction: Cost of inference switch
Psicológica, 2010 El paradigma de cambio de tarea ha ayudado a los psicólogos a conocer los procesos involucrados en el cambio de una actividad a otra. La literatura aporta resultados consistentes sobre la reconfiguración necesaria para el cambio de tarea (desaparición ...
Antonio González-Hernández +4 more
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Getting back in shape: Persistence, shape, and relativity
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 75-96, January 2025.Abstract In this paper, we will introduce a novel argument (the “Region Argument”) that objects do not have frame‐independent shapes in special relativity. The Region Argument lacks vulnerabilities present in David Chalmers' argument for that conclusion based on length contraction.
Jack Himelright +1 more
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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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Naturalized knowledge‐first and the epistemology of groups
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 3, Page 856-873, November 2024.Abstract This paper commences by making a case for a naturalized approach to knowledge‐first epistemology. On this basis it then goes on to describe and defend a naturalized, functionalist account of group knowledge. It then contrasts this with Jennifer Lackey's (2021) account of the epistemological status of groups.
Alexander Bird
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A 4-valued logic of strong conditional [PDF]
, 2018 How to say no less, no more about conditional than what is needed? From a logical analysis of necessary and sufficient conditions (Section 1), we argue that a stronger account of conditional can be obtained in two steps: firstly, by reminding its ...
Schang, Fabien
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