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The New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Defended

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joe Schmid and Troy Dana have recently advanced several criticisms of the New Hilbert's Hotel Argument formulated by us. In this paper, we respond by undercutting their proposed defeaters. First, we argue that they fail to refute the claim that Hilbert's Hotel entails a logical contradiction in the concrete world.
Eli Haitov, Andrew Loke
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

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Survival Impacts of Early Childhood Development Programmes: The Case of the Happy Child Programme in Brazil

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Planning Fallacy in Judgment and Decision Making

open access: yesAdvances in Psychological Science, 2014
Qiuqiang ZHENG   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

The “Communal College:” Cross‐Ethnic Voting Rules and Census Requirements for Dyadic Consociational Democracies

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral systems in deeply divided societies are pivotal for peace and stability among ethno‐national groups. Consociationalism and centripetalism are the most widespread approaches from which derive the major incentives for electoral systems in deeply divided, dyadic societies.
Ivan Pepić
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Accessibility to Social Infrastructure in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area: A Spatial Approach

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Accessibility to public services has been highlighted as a fundamental element for the development of social interactions in the city. Social infrastructure (SI) acquires special importance as services that contribute to the development of socialisation, interaction and social integration in the city.
Raymond Lagonigro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deciding What to Believe or Deciding What to Do? An Empirical Investigation of the Folk Conception of Critical Thinking

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the expression ‘critical thinking’ (CT) is understood and used by the general public in the United States, using the tools of experimental philosophy. Based on responses from 288 non‐philosopher participants, our findings suggest that CT is commonly associated with problem solving, decision making and logical ...
Céline Schöpfer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Research Programs on Self-Regulation in Education. [PDF]

open access: yesEduc Psychol Rev
Wortha F   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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