Cristian Lopez
Cristian Lopez
Symmetry fundamentalism claims that symmetries should be taken metaphysically seriously as part of the fundamental ontology. The main aim of this paper is to bring some novel objections against this view. I make two points. The first places...
Neil Levy
Neil Levy
The novice/expert problem is the problem of knowing which apparent expert to trust. Following Alvin Goldman's lead, a number of philosophers have developed criteria that novices can use to distinguish more from less trustworthy experts. Whi...
How to Do Empirical Political Philosophy: A Case Study of Miller's Argument for Needs-Based Justice [0.03%]
经验政治哲学如何做——以米勒需求正义论证为例
Thomas Pölzler
Thomas Pölzler
In recent years an increasing number of political philosophers have begun to ground their arguments in empirical evidence. I investigate this novel approach by way of example. The object of my case study is David Miller's renewed empirical ...
Hein Duijf
Hein Duijf
This paper proposes a logical framework for studying the structure of moral responsibility for outcomes. The analysis incorporates two vital features: an agency condition and a negative condition of an alternative possibility. The logical l...
Are All Laws of Nature Created Equal? Meta-laws Versus More Necessary Laws [0.03%]
自然法则都是平等的吗？元律法与更必要的法则
Salim Hirèche,Niels Linnemann,Robert Michels
Salim Hirèche
Two approaches to elevating certain laws of nature over others have come to prominence recently. On the one hand, according to the meta-laws approach, there are meta-laws, laws which relate to laws as those laws relate to particular facts. ...
Michael Klenk,Ibo van de Poel
Michael Klenk
We examine whether Thomsonian constitutivism, a metaethical view that analyses value in terms of 'goodness-fixing kinds,' i.e. kinds that themselves set the standards for being a good instance of the respective kind, offers a satisfactory e...
Can the Normic de minimis Expected Utility Theory save the de minimis Principle? [0.03%]
范式最小值预期效用理论能拯救最小值原则吗？
Björn Lundgren,H Orri Stefánsson
Björn Lundgren
Recently, Martin Smith defended a view he called the "normic de minimis expected utility theory". The basic idea is to integrate a 'normic' version of the de minimis principle into an expected utility-based decision theoretical framework. A...
David H Glass
David H Glass
I propose a qualitative Bayesian account of explanatory goodness that is analogous to the Bayesian account of incremental confirmation. This is achieved by means of a complexity criterion according to which an explanation h is good if the r...
Leonhard Menges
Leonhard Menges
The Top-Down Argument for the ability to do otherwise aims at establishing that humans can do otherwise in the sense that is relevant for debates about free will. It consists of two premises: first, we always need to answer the question of ...
Tim Räz,Claus Beisbart
Tim Räz
Some machine learning models, in particular deep neural networks (DNNs), are not very well understood; nevertheless, they are frequently used in science. Does this lack of understanding pose a problem for using DNNs to understand empirical ...