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Knowledge without dogmatism
Rachel Fraser, Gilbert Harman, Saul Kripke, and Maria Lasonen-Aarnio have offered arguments for paradoxical implications of knowledge. The arguments...
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The Moral Agent: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
Despite the moral underpinnings of Karl Popper’s philosophy, he has not presented a well-established moral theory for critical rationalism (CR). This...
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Aristotelian and Boolean Properties of the Keynes-Johnson Octagon of Opposition
Around the turn of the 20th century, Keynes and Johnson extended the well-known square of opposition to an octagon of opposition, in order to account...
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Wittgenstein and the liar
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on contradictions and paradoxes have been met with incomprehension and have fueled the widespread and long-standing...
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Same and different are additive presupposition triggers
We propose an account of interpretive effects involving same and different , relying on two claims: the first is that same and different are able to...
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Sounds are broad events
The debate over the metaphysics of sounds is about the nature of what we immediately auditorily perceive. There are good reasons to identify a sound...
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Egyptology and fanaticism
Various decision theories share a troubling implication. They imply that, for any finite amount of value, it would be better to wager it all for a...
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What does nihilism tell us about modal logic?
Brauer (Philos Stud 179:2751–2763, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01793-7 , 2022) has recently argued that if it is possible that there is...
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Materializing values
In contrast to the history of science and to science and technology studies, the value discourse in the philosophy of science has not provided a...
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Indistinguishability as a constraint on priors
Invoking metaphysical naturalness is “perhaps the most popular proposed solution” to the problem of grue (Hedden in Can J Philos 45:716–743, 2016)....
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Pathos in Natural Language Argumentation: Emotional Appeals and Reactions
In this paper, we present a model of pathos, delineate its operationalisation, and demonstrate its utility through an analysis of natural language...
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Ability predicates, or there and back again
Predicates like knowable , believable or evincible each are associated with Fitch-like paradoxes. Given some plausible assumptions, the prima facie ...
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Opaque Options
Moral options are permissions to do less than best, impartially speaking. In this paper, we investigate the challenge of reconciling moral options...
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Truth-Ratios, Evidential Fit, and Deferring to Informants with Low Error Probabilities
Suppose that an informant (test, expert, device, perceptual system, etc.) is unlikely to err when pronouncing on a particular subject matter. When...
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The inferential constraint and if \(\varvec{\phi }\) ought \(\varvec{\phi }\) problem
The standard semantics for modality, together with the influential restrictor analysis of conditionals (Kratzer, 1986, 2012) renders conditional ought ...
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Consolation Through Argumentation? Prototypical and Stereotypical Argumentative Patterns in Secular Eulogies
The article focuses on the argumentative character of the eulogy, a speech that is part of a funeral ritual and serves to console the community of...
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Multiset-Multiset Frames
This paper presents the notion of multiset-multiset frame (mm-frame for short), a frame equipped with a relation between (finite) multisets over the...
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Which ‘Intensional Paradoxes’ are Paradoxes?
We begin with a brief explanation of our proof-theoretic criterion of paradoxicality—its motivation, its methods, and its results so far. It is a...