J Brian Pitts
J Brian Pitts
The conservation of energy and momentum have been viewed as undermining Cartesian mental causation since the 1690s. Modern discussions of the topic tend to use mid-nineteenth century physics, neglecting both locality and Noether's theorem a...
Matthew H Slater,Joanna K Huxster,Emily R Scholfield
Matthew H Slater
Despite decades of concerted efforts to communicate to the public on important scientific issues pertaining to the environment and public health, gaps between public acceptance and the scientific consensus on these issues remain stubborn. O...
Bivs, Space and 'In' [0.03%]
布维斯、空间和“在里面”
Clare Mac Cumhaill
Clare Mac Cumhaill
I present a novel anti-sceptical BIV argument by focusing on conditions on the production and use of the locative preposition 'in'. I distinguish two uses of 'in'-material and descriptive phenomenological-and I explain in what respect movem...
It Takes a Village to Trust Science: Towards a (Thoroughly) Social Approach to Public Trust in Science [0.03%]
建立科学信任离不开社会各方的努力——迈向一种彻底的社会学方法来研究公众信任科学的问题
Gabriele Contessa
Gabriele Contessa
In this paper, I distinguish three general approaches to public trust in science, which I call the individual approach, the semi-social approach, and the social approach, and critically examine their proposed solutions to what I call the pr...
Susana Monsó
Susana Monsó
It is generally assumed that humans are the only animals who can possess a concept of death. However, the ubiquity of death in nature and the evolutionary advantages that would come with an understanding of death provide two prima facie rea...
Extended Implicit Bias: When the Metaphysics and Ethics of Implicit Bias Collide [0.03%]
隐偏的概念扩展：当隐偏的形而上学与伦理学发生冲突时
Uwe Peters
Uwe Peters
It has recently been argued that to tackle social injustice, implicit biases and unjust social structures should be targeted equally because they sustain and ontologically overlap with each other. Here I develop this thought further by rela...
Luis Estrada-González
Luis Estrada-González
A contra-classical logic is a logic that, over the same language as that of classical logic, validates arguments that are not classically valid. In this paper I investigate whether there is a single, non-trivial logic that exhibits many fea...
Lee Elkin
Lee Elkin
The Precautionary Principle is typically construed as a conservative decision rule aimed at preventing harm. But Martin Peterson (JME 33: 5-10, 2007; The ethics of technology: A geometric analysis of five moral principles, Oxford University...
Sebastian Schmidt
Sebastian Schmidt
The normative force of evidence can seem puzzling. It seems that having conclusive evidence for a proposition does not, by itself, make it true that one ought to believe the proposition. But spelling out the condition that evidence must mee...
Julien Murzi,Lorenzo Rossi
Julien Murzi
It is often argued that fully structural theories of truth and related notions are incapable of expressing a nonstratified notion of defectiveness. We argue that recently much-discussed non-contractive theories suffer from the same expressi...