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Values in public health: an argument from trust
Research on the role of values in science and objectivity has typically approached trust through its epistemic aspects. Yet, recent work on public...
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Questioning the Emergence of Time
The Evolving Block Universe is a model where spacetime continuously emerges leading to a ‘growth’ of spacetime by which there is a passage of time....
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Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy
The block universe is generally considered as the metaphysical position that best accommodates the outcomes of relativistic physics. Its most...
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Defending and Defining Environmental Responsibilities for the Health Research Sector
Six planetary boundaries have already been exceeded, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, chemical pollution, and land-system change. The...
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Social learning in models and minds
After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving...
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Gradual de-idealisation and progress in political science: a case study
This article contributes to the discussion regarding the relationship between idealisation, de-idealisation and cognitive scientific progress. In...
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Comparing First-Year Engineering Student Conceptions of Ethical Decision-Making to Performance on Standardized Assessments of Ethical Reasoning
The Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2) and Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI) are designed to measure ethical reasoning of general (DIT-2)...
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Collapsing strong emergence’s collapse problem
It is impossible to deduce the properties of a strongly emergent whole from a complete knowledge of the properties of its constituents, according to...
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How to act on what you know
That we may rely on our knowledge seems like a platitude. Yet, the view that knowledge is sufficient for permissible reliance faces a major...
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AI Through Ethical Lenses: A Discourse Analysis of Guidelines for AI in Healthcare
While the technologies that enable Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to advance rapidly, there are increasing promises regarding AI’s beneficial...
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On quantum computing for artificial superintelligence
Artificial intelligence algorithms, fueled by continuous technological development and increased computing power, have proven effective across a...
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The problem of extrinsic grounding
Can a fact constituted by an object A be grounded exclusively in facts which do not entail A as a constituent? I call this the problem of extrinsic...
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On informational injustice and epistemic exclusions
Information is a unique resource. Asymmetries that arise out of information access or processing capacities, therefore, enable a distinctive form of...
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The role of scenarios in paradoxes
This paper fills a gap in the existing metaphilosophical research on paradoxes by focusing on the role of scenarios. Typical philosophical paradoxes...
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Overlap: on the relation between perceiving and believing
In this paper, I argue that mental types can overlap. That is, one token mental state can be multiple types. In particular, I argue that a perceptual...
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Normative uncertainty meets voting theory
Recent attempts to provide a viable account of decision making under normative uncertainty through the use of voting procedures seem promising, but...
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Naturalness, veritism, and epistemic significance
A particularly influential thesis about epistemic axiology is veritism: that true belief is the only basic, or fully non-derivative, epistemic value....