Ethno-racial categorisations for biomedical studies: the fair selection of research participants and population stratification [0.03%]
生物医学研究中的族裔 racial 分类：公平选择受试者和人群分层问题
Tomasz Żuradzki,Joanna Karolina Malinowska
Tomasz Żuradzki
We argue that there are neither scientific nor social reasons to require gathering ethno-racial data, as defined in the US legal regulations if researchers have no prior hypotheses as to how to connect this type of categorisation of human p...
Partners in crime? Radical scepticism and malevolent global conspiracy theories [0.03%]
同犯？激进的怀疑论与恶意的全球阴谋论
Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Although academic work on conspiracy theory has taken off in the last two decades, both in other disciplines as well as in epistemology, the similarities between global sceptical scenarios and global conspiracy theories have not been the fo...
Salient semantics [0.03%]
显著的语义学
Kevin Reuter
Kevin Reuter
Semantic features are components of concepts. In philosophy, there is a predominant focus on those features that are necessary (and jointly sufficient) for the application of a concept. Consequently, the method of cases has been the paradig...
Mandevillian vices [0.03%]
曼德维利恶习
Mandi Astola,Steven Bland,Mark Alfano
Mandi Astola
Bernard Mandeville argued that traits that have traditionally been seen as detrimental or reprehensible, such as greed, ambition, vanity, and the willingness to deceive, can produce significant social goods. He went so far as to suggest tha...
Philip Goff
Philip Goff
Our best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidenc...
Elliot Murphy,Emma Holmes,Karl Friston
Elliot Murphy
Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy principle (FEP). While conceptual advances alongside ...
Tue Trinh
Tue Trinh
I argue that there is tension in Wittgenstein's position on trivialities (i.e. tautologies and contradictions) in the Tractatus, as it contains the following claims: (A) sentences are pictures; (B) trivialties are not pictures; (C) triviali...
How to lose your memory without losing your money: shifty epistemology and Dutch strategies [0.03%]
如何在不失钱的情况下失忆：阴险的认识论和荷兰策略
Darren Bradley
Darren Bradley
An objection to shifty epistemologies such as subject-sensitive invariantism is that it predicts that agents are susceptible to guaranteed losses. Bob Beddor (Analysis, 81, 193-198, 2021) argues that these guaranteed losses are not a sympto...
Bad social norms rather than bad believers: examining the role of social norms in bad beliefs [0.03%]
不良的社会规范而非不良信徒：探究社会规范在不良信仰中的作用
Basil Müller
Basil Müller
People with bad beliefs - roughly beliefs that conflict with those of the relevant experts and are maintained regardless of counter-evidence - are often cast as bad believers. Such beliefs are seen to be the result of, e.g., motivated or bi...
Damiano Costa,Alessandro Giordani
Damiano Costa
The Aristotelian view of universals, according to which each universal generically depends for its existence on its instantiations, has recently come under attack by a series of ground-theoretic arguments. The last such arguments, presented...