Tuomas E Tahko
Tuomas E Tahko
The practice of scientific modelling often resorts to hypothetical, false, idealised, targetless, partial, generalised, and other types of modelling that appear to have at least partially non-actual targets. In this paper, I will argue that...
Joseph Singleton,Richard Booth
Joseph Singleton
In this paper we present a modal logic framework to reason about the expertise of information sources. A source is considered an expert on a proposition φ if they are able to correctly refute φ in any possible world where φ i...
How to approximate fuzzy sets: mind-changes and the Ershov Hierarchy [0.03%]
如何逼近模糊集：观念变化与Ershov层次结构
Nikolay Bazhenov,Manat Mustafa,Sergei Ospichev et al.
Nikolay Bazhenov et al.
Computability theorists have introduced multiple hierarchies to measure the complexity of sets of natural numbers. The Kleene Hierarchy classifies sets according to the first-order complexity of their defining formulas. The Ershov Hierarchy...
How good is an explanation? [0.03%]
一个解释有多好？
David H Glass
David H Glass
How good is an explanation and when is one explanation better than another? In this paper, I address these questions by exploring probabilistic measures of explanatory power in order to defend a particular Bayesian account of explanatory go...
Categorial modal realism [0.03%]
范畴模态实在论
Tyler D P Brunet
Tyler D P Brunet
The current conception of the plurality of worlds is founded on a set theoretic understanding of possibilia. This paper provides an alternative category theoretic conception and argues that it is at least as serviceable for our understandin...
Taylor Matthews
Taylor Matthews
Recent develops in AI technology have led to increasingly sophisticated forms of video manipulation. One such form has been the advent of deepfakes. Deepfakes are AI-generated videos that typically depict people doing and saying things they...
Brian McLoone,Cassandra Grützner,Michael T Stuart
Brian McLoone
A counterpossible is a counterfactual whose antecedent is impossible. The vacuity thesis says all counterpossibles are true solely because their antecedents are impossible. Recently, some have rejected the vacuity thesis by citing purported...
Cristian López
Cristian López
In this paper I argue that the concept of time-reversal invariance in physics suffers from metaphysical underdetermination, that is, that the concept may be understood differently depending on one's metaphysics about time, laws, and a theor...
What is a related work? A typology of relationships in research literature [0.03%]
什么是相关工作？研究文献中关系的类型学
Shayan Doroudi
Shayan Doroudi
An important part of research is situating one's work in a body of existing literature, thereby connecting to existing ideas. Despite this, the various kinds of relationships that might exist among academic literature do not appear to have ...
Izabela Skoczeń
Izabela Skoczeń
Legal and moral luck goes against the basic principle of criminal law that responsibility ascriptions are based on the mental state of the perpetrator, rather than merely the outcome of her action. If outcome should not play a decisive role...