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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
wiley   +1 more source

What physicalism could be

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The physicalist credo is that the world is physical. But some phenomena, such as minds, morals, and mathematics, appear to be nonphysical. While an uncompromising physicalism would reject these, a conciliatory physicalism need not if it can account for them in terms of an underlying physical basis.
Michael J. Raven
wiley   +1 more source

Morality and Moral Thinking

open access: yesKOREAN ELEMENTARY MORAL EDUCATION SOCIETY, 2009
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Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

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