Craig Patrick Ferrie
Craig Patrick Ferrie
Normative truth is particularly mysterious for proponents of Derek Parfit's 'non-realist cognitivism'. On this view, for an irreducibly normative proposition to be true, irreducibly normative properties "need not exist either as natural pro...
Oscar A Piedrahita,Sebastian Schmidt
Oscar A Piedrahita
In hinge epistemologies, epistemic justification for doxastic attitudes is possible only if a set of assumptions, called hinges, is taken for granted in our inquiries. While hinge epistemologists have focused on how hinges enable the justif...
Tommaso Soriani
Tommaso Soriani
According to Mark Johnston's Personite Problem, Perdurantism-the view that persons are maximal fusions of person-stages-should be rejected, as it fails to account for the moral status of non-maximal fusions that overlap a person (personites...
Risky choice framing effects, doing vs. allowing harm, and fairness in uncertain prospects [0.03%]
风险条件下的框架效应、造成伤害与允许伤害以及对不确定前景的公平性判断
Tomasz Żuradzki,Marta Maj,Paulina Szwed
Tomasz Żuradzki
In popular interpretations, risky choice framing effects are taken to reveal human irrationality. Even authors who argue that frames can sometimes highlight the reason-giving aspects of an outcome often treat the standard pattern of choices...
A somewhat incredible interpretation of 'that'-clauses: Russell, non-existent kings and false objectives [0.03%]
一种相当令人难以置信的解读："that"从句、罗素、不存在的君主和虚假目标
Giulia Felappi
Giulia Felappi
'The present King of France', Russell maintained in On Denoting, seems to force us into either of the following positions. Either we follow Meinong but then infringe the law of contradiction, or posit senses beyond references, but we seem n...
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 ...