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Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 564-580, May 2025.ABSTRACT Many of those memorialized around us in statues are wrongdoers, and so we are often called to consider whether we should take down those statues. Some of those statutes are memorialized for reasons now taken to be wrong; others are memorialized not for but rather despite their wrongdoing. How should we consider those latter cases? One tempting
Craig K. Agule
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 1137-1151, May 2025.Abstract Advocates of longtermism point out that interventions which focus on improving the prospects of people in the very far future will, in expectation, bring about an astronomical amount of good (or agent‐neutral value). As such, longtermists claim we have compelling moral reason to engage in long‐term interventions.
Emma Curran
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyI propose an approach to liar and Curry paradoxes inspired by the work of Roger Swyneshed in his treatise on insolubles (1330-1335). The keystone of the account is the idea that liar sentences and their ilk are false (and only false) and that the so ...
Alexander Sandgren
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A new probabilistic explanation of the Modus Ponens–Modus Tollens asymmetry [PDF]
, 2019 A consistent finding in research on conditional reasoning is that individuals are more likely to endorse the valid modus ponens (MP) inference than the equally valid modus tollens (MT) inference. This pattern holds for both abstract task and probabilistic task.
Eva, Benjamin +2 more
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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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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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Anuario de Investigaciones, 2010 En este trabajo se estudió la dificultad para evaluar la validez de los argumentos condicionales Modus Ponens (MP), Modus Tollens (MT), Negación del Antecedente (NA) y Afirmación del Consecuente (AC) de contenido simbólico cuando se introducen negaciones
Jimena Picón Janeiro +5 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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Retórica, a Ciência da Educação
Educação em Foco, 2016 O autor examina o problema da cientificidade da Pedagogia (Educação), que é o mesmo de qualquer ciência: o da validade da indução, cuja solução é admitir a eficácia das regras do modus tollens.
Tarso B. Mazzotti
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JOM Forum: Theory Testing Is Theory Generation
Journal of Operations Management, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 356-365, April 2026.
Mikko Ketokivi +6 more
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