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Against Proxy Optimization

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I discuss conditions under which maximizing a proxy utility function is harmful and suggest this poses problems for applying decision theory.
Sven Neth
wiley   +1 more source

External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT External‐world skepticism challenges, among other things, the epistemic credentials of beliefs about other people. Some external‐world skeptics deny that I know my loved ones exist; some claim that my belief that my loved ones exist is epistemically impermissible. However, abandoning this belief would be highly unattractive.
James Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Icons

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
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

Imposing Mind Onto World

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We impose our minds onto the world. We create artifacts that reflect our intentions to make them. We make social constructions that mirror our collective agreements. We impress value by our valuing. Discomfort with this power to mold the world in our image has led many to reject such mirroring of mind by world, but this would do away with much
Christopher Frugé
wiley   +1 more source

Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary epistemologists typically read Descartes’ dream argument as an argument for external world skepticism. This paper argues that Descartes’ own development of the issues suggests otherwise and enquires into the reasons for this divergence.
Mario Schärli
wiley   +1 more source

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