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Do We Need a Metaphysics of Gender?

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaphysicians of gender are united by the assumption that, to explain gendered phenomena like gender‐based oppression, we must provide an account of what gender is, metaphysically. I argue that we should reject this assumption. I construct an account of linguistic practice involving gender terms that makes no metaphysical claims about what ...
James Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

How Seriously Should We Take AI Welfare? Constraints From the Epistemology of Consciousness

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some philosophers argue that near‐term artificial intelligence (AI) systems might soon be welfare subjects. We should take AI welfare seriously, they urge, because AI systems might soon have properties indicated by our best scientific theories of consciousness, and consciousness suffices for welfare subjectivity.
Preston Lennon
wiley   +1 more source

How Requests Create Reasons

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Beauty and the mind: cognitive science of the sublime. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Lucchiari C, Vanutelli ME, Echarri F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Attention and Evidence

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In traditional models, agents have ample reason to gather cost‐free evidence. Rational agents expect evidence gathering to weakly improve the quality of their decisions and the accuracy of their credences. These results are linked to more general principles of reflection and the value of knowledge taken to characterize genuine learning ...
David Thorstad
wiley   +1 more source

Attunement and Reason

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I present a theory of attunement, the agent's readiness to attend to a target. I focus on attunement to reasons for action, and in particular, on sensitivity to moral reasons. After noting that many claims regarding moral perception are better construed as claims regarding moral attention, I separate perceptual from attentional ...
Wayne Wu
wiley   +1 more source

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