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Can AI Know?
This paper argues that individual propositional knowledge, as traditionally analyzed in terms of true-justified-ungettiered belief, does not require...
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First Things First: Using Anchoring Bias to Examine the Effect of Penalty Severity and Social Norms on Tax Compliance
Although ethics research shows that prospective penalties for tax fraud can increase taxpayers’ compliance with tax laws, we do not have a clear...
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Scoring the Ethics of AI Robo-Advice: Why We Need Gateways and Ratings
Unlike the many services already transformed by artificial intelligence ( AI ), the financial advice sector remains committed to a human interface....
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Nonexistent Objects and Their Semantic and Ontological Dependence on Referential Acts
This paper argues for a distinction between fictional characters, as parts of intentionally created abstract artifacts, and intentional objects, as...
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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms
The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European...
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Does Social Media Pressure Induce Corporate Hypocrisy? Evidence of ESG Greenwashing from China
Hypocrisy in corporate social responsibility has attracted increasing attention from scholars. Under the context of the digital era, we examine...
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Locative grounding harmony
In this paper, we explore locative grounding harmony, according to which the location of the grounds mirrors the location of the grounded. We proceed...
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The Sum Relation as a Primitive Concept of Mereology
Mereology in its formal guise is usually couched in a language whose signature contains only one primitive binary predicate symbol representing the par...
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Is the State a Socially Responsible Shareholder? State-Owned Enterprises, Political Ideology, and Corporate Social Performance
The effects of state ownership on firms’ outcomes depend on how governments influence the goals of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Yet scant...
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Are generics quantificational?
The standard view about generic generalizations is that they have a tripartite quantificational logical form involving a phonologically null...
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Philosophical Investigations into AI Alignment: A Wittgensteinian Framework
We argue that the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and mathematics, substantially focused on rule-following, is relevant to understand and...
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The Limits of Calibration and the Possibility of Roles for Trustworthy AI
With increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in high-stakes contexts, a race for “trustworthy AI” is under way. However, Dorsch and Deroy ( Phil...
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Amodal Completion: Mental Imagery or 3D Modeling?
In amodal completion the mind in some sense completes the visual perceptual representation of a scene by representing parts of the scene hidden...
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Teleosemantics, Structural Resemblance and Predictive Processing
We propose a pluralist account of content for predictive processing systems. Our pluralism combines Millikan’s teleosemantics with existing...
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A New Game Theoretic Semantics (GTS-2) for Weak Kleene Logics
Hintikka’s game theoretical approach to semantics has been successfully applied also to some non-classical logics. A recent example is Başkent ( A...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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How (not) to Talk to a Plant: An Application of Automata Theory to Plant Communication
Plants are capable of a range of complex interactions with the environment. Over the last decade, some authors have used this as evidence to argue...
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Universalism, Pluralism, and the Moral Status of Social Robots: a Reply to Jecker
This reply address two issues raised by Nancy Jecker’s commentary, “Robots With and Without Sophisticated Cognitive Capacities: Are They Persons?”....
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Exploring mental systems within regenerative agriculture: systems thinking and rotational grazing adoption among Canadian livestock producers
Regenerative agriculture is an approach that places soil conservation at the center of its practices. As part of this approach, regenerative...