Merel Semeijn
Merel Semeijn
On Walton's account of make-believe, unknown facts concerning the existence and nature of props can influence fictional truth. Inspired by Lewis's and Walton's discussions of import of fictional truth, I explore the shape and tenability of ...
Eduardo N Giovannini,Georg Schiemer
Eduardo N Giovannini
The article offers a novel reconstruction of Hilbert's early metatheory of formal axiomatics. His foundational work from the turn of the last century is often regarded as a central contribution to a "model-theoretic" viewpoint in modern log...
Neo-Russellian Abstractionism [0.03%]
新罗素抽象主义
Bahram Assadian
Bahram Assadian
A central thesis of neo-Fregean abstractionism is that numerical expressions of the form 'the number of Fs', introduced by Hume's Principle, should be read as genuine singular terms whose semantic function is to refer to particular objects....
Giacomo Melis,Kirsten H Blakey
Giacomo Melis
Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective responses to evidence has been explored i...
Aneta Zuber
Aneta Zuber
Appealing to the functions of concepts in conceptual engineering projects has been hailed as a promising avenue to explain defects of concepts, the possibility of amelioration, and the continuity of topic post engineering. Some of the most ...
Jeremy Pober
Jeremy Pober
I propose and articulate a novel theory of desire, called the Revised Reward Theory. As the name suggests, the theory is based-and expands-on Arpaly and Schroeder's (2014) Reward Theory of Desire. The initial Reward Theory identifies desire...
Ethan Landes
Ethan Landes
Conceptual engineering is a philosophical method that aims to design and spread conceptual and linguistic devices to cause meaningful changes in the world. So far, however, conceptual engineers have struggled to successfully spread the conc...
Conspiracy Beliefs and Monothematic Delusions: A Case for De-pathologizing [0.03%]
阴谋信念与单一主题妄想：关于取消病态化的案例分析
Anna Ichino,Ema Sullivan-Bissett
Anna Ichino
Monothematic delusions and beliefs in conspiracy theories share some important features: they both typically have bizarre contents and are resistant to counterevidence. Yet conspiracy beliefs are generally taken to be a normal range phenome...
Lisa Bortolotti,Kengo Miyazono
Lisa Bortolotti
In this paper we address the ethics of adopting delusional beliefs and we apply consequentialist and deontological considerations to the epistemic evaluation of delusions. Delusions are characterised by their epistemic shortcomings and they...
Connexive Exclusion [0.03%]
连接性排中律
Yaroslav Shramko,Heinrich Wansing
Yaroslav Shramko
We present a logic which deals with connexive exclusion. Exclusion (also called "co-implication") is considered to be a propositional connective dual to the connective of implication. Similarly to implication, exclusion turns out to be non-...