Tom Schoonen
Tom Schoonen
Recently, interest has surged in similarity-based epistemologies of possibility. However, it has been pointed out that the notion of 'relevant similarity' is not properly developed in this literature. In this paper, I look at the research d...
David Schroeren
David Schroeren
It is common ground among proponents and detractors of wavefunction realism that the view 'privileges position', in the sense that it arbitrarily singles out one among a continuum infinity of wavefunction representations as characterizing t...
Causation comes in degrees [0.03%]
因果关系有程度之分
Huzeyfe Demirtas
Huzeyfe Demirtas
Which country, politician, or policy is more of a cause of the Covid-19 pandemic death toll? Which of the two factories causally contributed more to the pollution of the nearby river? A wide-ranging portion of our everyday thought and talk,...
Alkis Kotsonis
Alkis Kotsonis
My aim in this paper is to present and discuss a novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice. I highlight that epistemic vice such as excessive curiosity, gossip and excessive inquisitiveness do not obstruct the acquisition, transmi...
Nora Heinzelmann,Stephan Hartmann
Nora Heinzelmann
We argue that social deliberation may increase an agent's confidence and credence under certain circumstances. An agent considers a proposition H and assigns a probability to it. However, she is not fully confident that she herself is relia...
Kenneth Boyd
Kenneth Boyd
A perennial problem in social epistemology is the problem of expert testimony, specifically expert testimony regarding scientific issues: for example, while it is important for me to know information pertaining to anthropogenic climate chan...
Nicholas Emmerson
Nicholas Emmerson
Contemporary debate surrounding the nature of scientific progress has focused upon the precise role played by justification, with two realist accounts having dominated proceedings. Recently, however, a third realist account has been put for...
Francesco Berto
Francesco Berto
Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative 'if' is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples can be handled by better understanding the role played in our assessment of indicatives by a ...
Naïve validity [0.03%]
naive validity
Julien Murzi,Lorenzo Rossi
Julien Murzi
Beall and Murzi (J Philos 110(3):143-165, 2013) introduce an object-linguistic predicate for naïve validity, governed by intuitive principles that are inconsistent with the classical structural rules (over sufficiently expressive base theo...
Daniel Villiger
Daniel Villiger
According to Paul (Transformative experience, 1st edn, Oxford University Press, 2014), transformative experiences pose a challenge to decision theory since their value cannot be anticipated. Building on Pettigrew's (in: Lambert, Schwenkler ...