Miloud Belkoniene
Miloud Belkoniene
It is natural to regard understanding as having a rational dimension, in the sense that understanding seems to require having justification for holding certain beliefs about the world. Some philosophers however argue that justification is n...
Internal constraints for phenomenal externalists: a structure matching theory [0.03%]
现象学外部论的内在限制：一种结构匹配理论
Bryce Dalbey,Bradford Saad
Bryce Dalbey
We motivate five constraints on theorizing about sensory experience. We then propose a novel form of naturalistic intentionalism that succeeds where other theories fail by satisfying all of these constraints. On the proposed theory, which w...
Apprehending anxiety: an introduction to the Topical Collection on worry and wellbeing [0.03%]
焦虑情绪：关于担忧与健康主题收集的介绍性文章
Juliette Vazard,Charlie Kurth
Juliette Vazard
The aim of this collection is to show how work in the analytic philosophical tradition can shed light on the nature, value, and experience of anxiety. Contrary to widespread assumptions, anxiety is not best understood as a mental disorder, ...
Editorial
Synthese. 2022;200(4):327. DOI:10.1007/s11229-022-03794-9 2022
Lilith Newton
Lilith Newton
In this paper, I provide an account of epistemic anxiety as an emotional response to epistemic risk: the risk of believing in error. The motivation for this account is threefold. First, it makes epistemic anxiety a species of anxiety, thus ...
Affectivism about intuitions [0.03%]
直觉的情感主义
Slawa Loev
Slawa Loev
This article provides an account of intuitions: Affectivism. Affectivism states that intuitions are emotional experiences. The article proceeds as follows: first, the features that intuitions are typically taken to have are introduced. Then...
Tanja Rechnitzer
Tanja Rechnitzer
Reflective equilibrium (RE)-the idea that we have to justify our judgments and principles through a process of mutual adjustment-is taken to be a central method in philosophy. Nonetheless, conceptions of RE often stay sketchy, and there is ...
Ami Harbin
Ami Harbin
In this article, I consider how fear in contexts of crisis shapes and is shaped by agents' relationships. I survey a number of approaches to understanding fearing at the intersection of empirical psychology and philosophy, highlighting the ...
Explaining costly religious practices: credibility enhancing displays and signaling theories [0.03%]
解释昂贵的宗教行为：增强可信度的展示和信号理论
Carl Brusse,Toby Handfield,Kevin J S Zollman
Carl Brusse
This paper examines and contrasts two closely related evolutionary explanations in human behaviour: signalling theory, and the theory of Credibility Enhancing Displays (CREDs). Both have been proposed to explain costly, dangerous, or otherw...
Indeterminacy and impotence [0.03%]
不确定性与无能感
Benjamin Hale
Benjamin Hale
Recent work in applied ethics has advanced a raft of arguments regarding individual responsibilities to address collective challenges like climate change or the welfare and environmental impacts of meat production. Frequently, such argument...
Suspicious conspiracy theories [0.03%]
可疑的阴谋论
M R X Dentith
M R X Dentith
Conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists have been accused of a great many sins, but are the conspiracy theories conspiracy theorists believe epistemically problematic? Well, according to some recent work (such as Cassam Quassim, Keith ...