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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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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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Truthmaker Semantics, Ground, and Generality
Our aim in this paper is to extend the semantics for the kind of logic of ground developed in deRosset and Fine (
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The Role of Moral Norms in Political Theory
In the recent debate on political normativity in political philosophy, two positions have emerged among so-called political realists. On the first...
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The (Father Almighty) God We Worship: The Epistemological Role of Liturgy in Christian Theology
In this paper I will argue that Christian theology is rooted in liturgical practices, being theology the theoretical reflection on the ritual...
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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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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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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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The Varieties of Russellianism
Russellianism is the view that the meaning of a proper name is the individual designated by the name. Together with other plausible assumptions,...
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A step in the right direction, or more of the same? A systematic review of the impact of human rights due diligence legislation
Recently, there has been a strong push for binding human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation, both at the national and European levels. As...
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Artificial consciousness: a perspective from the free energy principle
Does the assumption of a weak form of computational functionalism, according to which the right form of neural computation is sufficient for...
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Meaning, Communal Use and Deference to Experts
It is hardly controversial that laypeople have little-to-no knowledge concerning the actual meaning of such specialist terms as “boson” or...
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Epistemic Bystander
Epistemic bystanding occurs when an agent has all the competences, knowledge and opportunity to prevent another person from forming a false or risky...
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Moral Facts Do Not Supervene on Non-moral Qualitative Facts
It is very natural to think that if two people, x and y, are qualitatively identical and have committed qualitatively identical actions, then it...
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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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Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts
By supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological...