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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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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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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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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...
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Alternatives to the self-indication assumption are doomed
The self-indication assumption (SIA) claims that given that one exists, one should think that the universe has many people, for a universe that has...
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...
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Environmental risk and market approval for human pharmaceuticals
This paper contributes to the growing discussion about how to mitigate pharmaceutical pollution, which is a threat to human, animal, and...
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Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease
Disability studies have been successfully focusing on individuals' lived experiences, the personalization of goals, and the constitution of the...
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Singular concepts
Alonzo Church proposed a powerful and elegant theory of sequences of functions and their arguments as surrogates for Russellian singular propositions...
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Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership
In this editorial essay, we argue that Generative Artificial Intelligence programs (GenAI) draw on what we term a “hypercommons”, involving...
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Indeterministic grounding
Grounding is sometimes thought of as metaphysical causation. If we take this analogy seriously, given the possibility of indeterministic causation we...