Bert Baumgaertner,Florian Justwan
Bert Baumgaertner
Some common explanations of issue polarization and echo chambers rely on social or cognitive mechanisms of exclusion. Accordingly, suggested interventions like "be more open-minded" target these mechanisms: avoid epistemic bubbles and don't...
Conceptualising morally permissible risk imposition without quantified individual risks [0.03%]
无需量化个体风险的道德上可接受的风险施加之构想问题
Susanne Burri
Susanne Burri
We frequently engage in activities that impose a risk of serious harm on innocent others in order to realise trivial benefits for ourselves or third parties. Many moral theories tie the evidence-relative permissibility of engaging in such a...
Jamie Carlin Watson
Jamie Carlin Watson
The world is abuzz with experts who can help us in domains where we understand too little to help ourselves. But sometimes experts in one domain carry their privileged status into domains outside their specialization, where they give advice...
Thomas Pölzler,Ivar R Hannikainen
Thomas Pölzler
According to the so-called Classical Theory, concepts are mentally represented by individually necessary and jointly sufficient application conditions. One of the principal empirical objections against this view stems from evidence that peo...
Jonathan Fuller
Jonathan Fuller
Medical interventions that cure or prevent medical conditions are central to medicine; and thus, understanding them is central to our understanding of medicine. My purpose in this paper is to explore the conceptual foundations of medicine b...
The varying rationality of weakness of the will: an empirical investigation and its challenges for a unified theory of rationality [0.03%]
意志力薄弱的渐变理性：一项实证研究及其对统一合理性理论的挑战
Michael Messerli,Julian Fink,Kevin Reuter
Michael Messerli
Weakness of the will remains a perplexing issue. Though philosophers have made substantial progress in homing in on what counts as a weak will, there is little agreement on whether weakness of the will is irrational, and if so, why. In this...
Do your own research! [0.03%]
自己动手查资料！
Neil Levy
Neil Levy
Philosophical tradition and conspiracy theorists converge in suggesting that ordinary people ought to do their own research, rather than accept the word of others. In this paper, I argue that it's no accident that conspiracy theorists value...
Distributing epistemic and practical risks: a comparative study of communicating earthquake damages [0.03%]
地震灾害沟通中的认识风险与实践风险分配——一项比较研究
Li-An Yu
Li-An Yu
This paper argues that the value of openness to epistemic plurality and the value of social responsiveness are essential for epistemic agents such as scientists who are expected to carry out non-epistemic missions. My chief philosophical cl...
Daniel Steel,Karoline Paier
Daniel Steel
Pro-diversity beliefs hold that greater diversity leads to better results in academia, business, politics and a variety of other contexts. This paper explores the possibility that pro-diversity beliefs can generate unfair expectations that ...
Nick Tasker
Nick Tasker
Words are ubiquitous and familiar, and the concept of a word features both in common-sense ways of understanding the world, and in more theoretical discourse. Nonetheless, it has been repeatedly argued that there is no such thing as words. ...