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ABSTRACT Counterpart theories are powerful thanks to their flexibility: counterpart relations are not symmetrical or transitive, and one can apply more than one counterpart relation to one object. This is used to analyze metaphysical puzzles, but it also gives rise to an objection: this flexibility forces one to deny that the phenomena analyzed using ...
Florian Gatignon
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The evidential role of economic models in legal proceedings. [PDF]
Peruzzi E.
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“Justifying Military Conscription”
ABSTRACT I argue that wartime military conscription can be justified only if potential conscripts have duties to enlist, or duties to participate in an enlistment lottery, that conscription forces them to discharge. I explore whether our interpersonal duties to rescue can ground a duty to enlist.
Helen Frowe
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Sesame Immunotherapy: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. [PDF]
Zielińska J +4 more
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Consent, Trust, and Sexual Ethics
ABSTRACT No one describes a passionate night using the language of consent. Partners in long‐term relationships rarely think of intimacy in terms of permission. If consent is absent precisely when things go well, why does it dominate sexual ethics? Critics have pressed this challenge but have failed to explain why consent is irrelevant rather than ...
Elise Woodard
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The method matters: free water imaging in Parkinson's disease is not a binary verdict. [PDF]
Martinez-Nunez AE +3 more
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ABSTRACT The authors both accept the non‐consequentialist principle that prohibits an agent from killing one to save five. The authors argue about whether that principle similarly prohibits an agent from letting herself kill one in order to save five: Byrne insists it does; Sridharan insists it doesn't.
Vishnu Sridharan, Thomas Byrne
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Distinguishing prolonged grief and mental well-being after homicidal loss: a longitudinal factor analytic study in the context of a criminal trial. [PDF]
Nijborg LCJ +4 more
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Gnosticism and Inexact Knowledge
Abstract Gnostic consequentialism holds that a belief is rational just in case it is sufficiently likely to constitute knowledge. I show that this view makes implausible dynamic predictions when combined with the most influential models of the “inexact knowledge” we have in cases involving imprecise measurement or repeated chance processes.
Bernhard Salow
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