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Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract The present paper presents a new (formal) theory of presence according to which, roughly, to be present at a place is to have a delegate located at that place. One crucial feature of the theory is that something can be present at a place without thereby being located there.
Claudio Calosi
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Reparations after species extinctions: An account of reparative interspecies justice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Anna Wienhues, Alfonso Donoso
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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The distance backbone of directed networks. [PDF]
Complex Netw Appl XI (2023), 2023 Costa FX, Correia RB, Rocha LM.
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.Abstract There is a metaphysical difference between person A killing person B and A merely letting B die. There is also a metaphysical difference between A saving B and A merely letting B live. This paper argues that the metaphysical difference between saving and letting live gives rise to a moral difference. It then puts that moral difference to work:
Thomas Byrne
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Extending Full Transitive Closure to Rank Removable Edges in GN Algorithm
, 2016 R. Gayathri +2 more
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A transitive closure and magic functions machine [PDF]
, 1990 Jerome Robinson, Simon Lavington
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