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Collective Plural Identity

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue against a near‐universally accepted extensionality principle concerning the necessary and sufficient conditions for plural identity, that is, the relation of identity that holds between pluralities of things. The extensionality principle says that pluralities xx and yy are identical iff they are same‐membered (i.e., iff any z that is ...
Simon Thunder
wiley   +1 more source

Attention and the Relevance Problem

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relevance problem is the problem of how cognitive systems can be sensitive to what is relevant despite relevance being holistic, open‐ended, and context‐sensitive. The problem has typically been applied to higher‐order cognitive processes.
Jelle Bruineberg
wiley   +1 more source

Fittingness and Bioethics

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
wiley   +1 more source

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