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Care and resentment. An essay on moral temporality
Whereas caring is commonly perceived as a moral virtue or a socially beneficial ethical practice, resentment appears to represent its opposite....
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Egocentric Content and the Complex Subject
While it is commonly observed that visual experiences have an egocentric character, it is less clear how to properly characterize it. This manuscript...
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Preach! (Practice not Included): A Qualified Defense of Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is generally treated as particularly repugnant, perhaps the “only unforgivable sin.” I argue that this attitude is misplaced....
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Strategic justice, conventions, and game theory: introduction to a Synthese topical collection
Evolutionary, game-theoretic approaches to justice and the social contract have become increasingly popular in contemporary moral and political...
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Maps, Simulations, Spaces and Dynamics: On Distinguishing Types of Structural Representations
Structural representations are likely the most talked about representational posits in the contemporary debate over cognitive representations....
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Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Re-Conceptualisation of Resonant Leadership
This paper critiques the concept of resonant leadership which focuses on utilising emotional intelligence in managing an organisation. It is argued...
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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Interpretation plays a central role in using scientific models to explain natural phenomena: Meaning must be bestowed upon a model in terms of what it...
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Exploring the transition: biology, technology, and epistemic activities
By focusing on biorobotics, this article explores the epistemological foundations necessary to support the transition from biological models to...
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In defense of humean non-universal laws
In this paper, I raise a novel objection to David Lewis’s Humean account of laws. The objection is that non-universal laws are metaphysically...
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Quantum Ontology: A Modal Bundle-Theorist Relational Proposal
Quantum mechanics poses several challenges in ontological elucidation. Contextuality threatens determinism and favors realism about possibilia ....
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Designing Ethical A.I. Under the Current Socio-Economic Milieu: Philosophical, Political and Economic Challenges of Ethics by Design for A.I.
A promising paradigm in the discourse on Technology Ethics and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has manifested in scholarly literature and...
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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self
Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the...
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Blameworthiness Implies ‘Ought not’
Here is a crucial principle for debates about moral luck, responsibility, and free will: a subject is blameworthy for an act only if, in acting, she...
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An all-purpose framework for affordances. Reconciling the behavioral and the neuroscientific stories
Research on the concept of affordance generated different interpretations, which are due to different stories aimed at describing how this notion...
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Gods, Absolute, Non-theistic Divinity, and Monotheism in Indian Philosophy of Religion: A Genealogical Critique of Evolutionary Theogony
There are various permutations of theism: henotheism, pantheism, panentheism, a/theism, and nontheistic divinity. There is debate whether the idea of...
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Having a Disposition and Making a Contribution
Dispositional accounts of various phenomena have claimed that dispositions can be intrinsically masked. In cases of intrinsic masking, something has...
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Interpersonal independence of knowledge and belief
We show that knowledge satisfies interpersonal independence , meaning that a non-trivial sentence describing one agent’s knowledge cannot be...