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"Rule-Following I: The Basic Issues". [PDF]

Philos Compass
Abstract ‘Rule‐following’ is a name for a cluster of phenomena where we seem both guided and “normatively” constrained by something general in performing particular actions. Understanding the phenomenon is important because of its connection to meaning, representation, and content.
Reiland I.
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Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1093-1125, December 2025.
Abstract Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision‐making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes. This paper shows, first, that under realistic levels of ‘background uncertainty’ about sources of value independent
Christian Tarsney
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Sequences suffice for pointfree uniform completions

Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 112, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract Completions of metric spaces are usually constructed using Cauchy sequences. However, this does not work for general uniform spaces, where Cauchy filters or nets must be used instead. The situation in pointfree topology is more straightforward: the correct completion of uniform locales can indeed be obtained as a quotient of a locale of Cauchy 
Graham Manuell
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Weak compactness cardinals for strong logics and subtlety properties of the class of ordinals

Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 112, Issue 1, July 2025.
Abstract Motivated by recent work of Boney, Dimopoulos, Gitman, and Magidor, we characterize the existence of weak compactness cardinals for all abstract logics through combinatorial properties of the class of ordinals. This analysis is then used to show that, in contrast to the existence of strong compactness cardinals, the existence of weak ...
Philipp Lücke
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Arithmetical pluralism and the objectivity of syntax

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 372-391, June 2025.
Abstract Arithmetical pluralism is the view that there is not one true arithmetic but rather many apparently conflicting arithmetical theories, each true in its own language. While pluralism has recently attracted considerable interest, it has also faced significant criticism.
Lavinia Picollo, Daniel Waxman
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Similarity accounts of counterfactuals: A reality check1

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 887-915, May 2025.
Abstract To an unusual extent, philosophers agree that counterfactuals have truth conditions involving the most similar possible worlds where their antecedents are true, in the style of the celebrated and path‐breaking Stalnaker/Lewis accounts. Roughly, these accounts say that the counterfactual if A were the case, C would be the case is true if and ...
Alan Hájek
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To infinity and beyond: A general framework for scaling economic theories

Theoretical Economics, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 511-542, May 2025.
Many economic models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a real role in the analysis. We provide a principled framework for scaling results from such models by removing these finiteness assumptions. Our sufficient conditions are on the theorem statement only, and not on its proof. This results in short proofs,
Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Scott Duke Kominers, Ran I. Shorrer   +2 more
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Infinite inference and mathematical conventionalism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 3, Page 897-912, November 2024.
Abstract We argue that (1) a purported example of an infinite inference we humans can actually perform admits a faithful, finitary description, and (2) infinite inference contravenes any view which does not grant our minds uncomputable powers. These arguments block the strategy, dating back to Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language, of using infinitary ...
Douglas Blue
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Wittgenstein on mathematics

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 461-483, October 2024.
Abstract The mature Wittgenstein's groundbreaking analyses of sense and the logical must—and the powerful new method that made them possible—were the result of a multi‐year process of writing, re‐arranging, re‐writing and one large‐scale revision that eventually produced the Philosophical Investigations and RFM I.
Penelope Maddy
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