Joe Jones,Alexandra Trofimov,Michael Wilde et al.
Joe Jones et al.
This paper defends Evidential Pluralism, a philosophical account of causal enquiry, against the concern that it is particularly prone to bias and motivated reasoning. Evidential Pluralism scrutinises mechanistic studies alongside the compar...
Daniel Villiger
Daniel Villiger
AI has become a common assistant for making choices, from minor to major ones. It can inform our beliefs relevant to a decision by both helping us to find existing information and generating new information. But in what ways and to what ext...
Technological Understanding: On the cognitive skill involved in the design and use of technological artefacts [0.03%]
技术理解力——设计和使用人工制品的认知技能
Eline de Jong,Sebastian De Haro
Eline de Jong
Although several accounts of scientific understanding exist, the concept of understanding in relation to technology remains underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a philosophical account of technological understanding: th...
Lorenzo Manuali
Lorenzo Manuali
In this paper, I propose an account of behavioral addiction in terms of what I call addictive motivational scaffolds (AMSs). Taking inspiration from recent work concerning psychiatric externalism and addiction, I propose and describe the co...
Eleanor Holton,Richard Holton
Eleanor Holton
We contend that the experience of effort should be understood as the experience arising from resisting an affective behaviour-guiding signal such as hunger, pain, fatigue, or anxiety. We argue that this provides a more satisfactory account ...
Jodie Louise Russell
Jodie Louise Russell
Recent work on the phenomenon of self-illness ambiguity has sought to not only understand how tensions arise between one's experience of self and one's disorder experiences, but also how best to resolve said ambiguities to relieve the suffe...
Fairness and randomness in decision-making: the case of decision thresholds [0.03%]
决策中的公平与随机性——以决策阈值为例
Kate Vredenburgh
Kate Vredenburgh
This paper defends the role of lotteries in fair decision-making. It does so by targeting the use of decision thresholds to convert algorithmic predictions and classifications into decisions. Using an account of fairness from John Broome, t...
Shifty morals [0.03%]
道德滑坡
Aleksander Domosławski
Aleksander Domosławski
Epistemicism explains ignorance due to vagueness through semantic plasticity: the propensity of intensions of vague terms to shift across close linguistic communities. In the case of moral vagueness, e.g. when it's vague whether it's permis...
Lorenzo Lorenzetti
Lorenzo Lorenzetti
Functional reductionism characterises inter-theoretic reduction as the recovery of the upper-level behaviour described by the reduced theory in terms of the lower-level reducing theory. For instance, finding a statistical mechanical realise...
Discounting past experience and the utility of memory: an empirical study [0.03%]
忽视过去的经验和记忆的效用：一项实证研究
Jack Shardlow,Ruth Lee,Patrick A O&#x;Connor et al.
Jack Shardlow et al.
It has been argued that adult humans are absolutely time biased towards the future, at least as far as purely hedonic experiences (pain/pleasure) are concerned. What this means is that they assign zero value to them once they are in the pas...