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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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Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing
This essay accomplishes two goals. First, contra accepted interpretations, I reveal that the early Husserl executed valuable and extensive...
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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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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition , an Ideal continuum ,...
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Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience
This article is a theo-phenomenological study on discernment in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, particularly as it is described in the Philokalia and...
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A Better Argument for Tawḥīd?: Philosophical Discussions of Divine Attributes in the Sharḥ Al-ʿaqāid Tradition
This study focuses on al-Taftāzānī’s discussion of the ontological status of divine attributes in his Sharḥ al-ʿAqāid and aims to demonstrate that...
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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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Does “Better Than” Have a Common Scale?
Ordinal, interval, and ratio scales are discussed and arguments for the thesis that “better than” comparisons reside on interval or ratio scales are...
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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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The Power to Exclude: The (Mis)Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors under the Trump and Biden Administration
In “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants” (hereinafter “Biden Plan“), then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “reassert...
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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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Whence Correctness?
We know that lots of things are correct. (Hel** people in need is correct. Moving the bishop diagonally when playing chess is correct. Adding 7 to...
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The shutdown problem: an AI engineering puzzle for decision theorists
I explain and motivate the shutdown problem: the problem of designing artificial agents that (1) shut down when a shutdown button is pressed, (2)...
