The form of good [0.03%]
至善的形式
Poppy Mankowitz
Poppy Mankowitz
Some philosophers hold that sentences with the word good have a uniform form. On this view, many of the apparent syntactic and semantic differences between (say) That is a good knife, Xavier is good with children and It is good to have pets...
Being social, being socially constructed, and being fundamental relative to social reality [0.03%]
社会的、由社会建构的以及相对于社会现实而言基础性的
Emilie Pagano
Emilie Pagano
Although the properties of being social and of being socially constructed are indispensable to our understanding of social reality, social metaphysicians are unclear about how they're related. In this paper, I argue that whereas everything ...
Katherine Puddifoot,Lisa Bortolotti
Katherine Puddifoot
Findings from the cognitive sciences suggest that the cognitive mechanisms responsible for some memory errors are adaptive, bringing benefits to the organism. In this paper we argue that the same cognitive mechanisms also bring a suite of s...
Martin Smith
Martin Smith
The paper is concerned with a special class of inferences, in which we draw conclusions about individual people based on evidence about the groups to which they belong. One thing that is notable about these inferences is that they are often...
Conceptual inflation, communication and understanding, and collective attention [0.03%]
概念膨胀、交流与理解以及集体注意力
Eve Kitsik
Eve Kitsik
Some sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers, among others, have expressed worries about the inflation of concepts related to negative experiences, harm, or injustice (for example, the concepts of racism, sexual harassment, and human ...
Julio De Rizzo
Julio De Rizzo
Two influential objections to deflationism about truth question its ability to explain the role of true beliefs in successful actions; and to account for general compositional principles linking truth to complex sentences governed by truth-...
Don't mind the gap: how non-naturalists should explain normative facts [0.03%]
不必介怀缺口：非自然主义者应当如何解释规范事实
Singa Behrens
Singa Behrens
In this paper, I present and defend a novel way for non-naturalists to account for the sui generis status of normative facts, which is consistent with the claim that contingent normative facts obtain in virtue of non-normative facts. Accord...
Bradford Saad
Bradford Saad
Dualism holds that experiences somehow arise from physical states, despite being neither identical with nor grounded in such states. This paper motivates a stringent set of constraints on constructing a dualist theory of experience. To meet...
Silvia Milano,Carina Prunkl
Silvia Milano
It is well-established that algorithms can be instruments of injustice. It is less frequently discussed, however, how current modes of AI deployment often make the very discovery of injustice difficult, if not impossible. In this article, w...
Gabriel De Marco,Taylor W Cyr
Gabriel De Marco
In this paper, we identify a class of responses to cases of manipulation that we label manipulator-focused views. The key insight of such views is that being subject to the will of another agent significantly affects our freedom and moral r...