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Hybrid Deference, Hybrid Chance

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If you learn about one kind of chance and nothing else, then you should defer to those chances. But what if you learn about more than one kind of chance? In such “hybrid” cases, familiar chance‐credence principles, like the Principal Principle, go silent when they should intuitively speak.
Alexander Meehan
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Lady Parts and Baby Parts: What Is a Fetus?

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A common‐sense view of mammalian pregnancy treats the fetus as (a) an organism and (b) co‐extensive with the approximately baby‐shaped entity developing in the uterus. In this paper, I draw on metabolic accounts of the organism to show that (a) and (b) cannot both be correct: either the fetus is not an organism, or it is considerably more ...
Alexandria Boyle
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The Nature, Structure, and Perception of Illumination

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illumination is a defining characteristic of natural environments, yet its nature and spatial structure remain poorly understood. I argue first that illumination is not simply light: it is an emergent, ecologically significant kind. Illumination has features not possessed by light, and contains self‐organizing structures that persist through ...
Will Davies
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The Necessary Uniformity of Physical Probability

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to contemporary consensus, physical probabilities may be “non‐uniform”: they need not correspond to a uniform measure over the space of physically possible worlds. Against consensus, I argue that only uniform probabilities connect robustly to long‐run frequencies.
Ezra Rubenstein
wiley   +1 more source

An Empirical Stalemate: Why Science Fails to Settle a Central Philosophical Debate About Perception

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Empirical arguments in the philosophy of perception have become increasingly influential. In this paper, we evaluate the prospects for one such argument—the Argument from Structure—in light of the a priori constraint that we must give a unified account of visual experience.
Peter Fisher Epstein, Umrao Sethi
wiley   +1 more source

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