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Obituary: Professor Gouranga Charan Nayak
This article is an obituary on the life and works of Professor G. C. Nayak who was a renowned philosopher of India in the contemporary times. He has...
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Shutdown-seeking AI
We propose develo** AIs whose only final goal is being shut down. We argue that this approach to AI safety has three benefits: (i) it could...
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Population, existence and incommensurability
Jan Narveson has articulated a deeply held, widely shared intuition regarding what moral law has to say about bringing additional people into...
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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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Safety and Pluralism in Mathematics
A belief one has is safe if either (i) it could not easily be false or (ii) in any nearby world in which it is false, it is not formed using the...
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Adhipati, Yogācāra Intersubjectivity, and Soteriology in Kuiji’s Commentaries
This study sheds light on a key concept of Yogācāra intersubjectivity that played a significant role in medieval Chinese Yogācāra. Specifically, it...
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A Generic Solution to the Sorites Paradox
This paper offers a generic revenge-proof solution to the Sorites paradox that is compatible with several philosophical approaches to vagueness,...
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On the desire to make a difference
True benevolence is, most fundamentally, a desire that the world be better. It is natural and common, however, to frame thinking about benevolence...
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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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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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Husserlian Phenomenology of Limit-Problems: a “‘Geometry’ of Lived Experience”?
The proper way in which limit-problems [ Grenzprobleme ]—birth, death, dreamless sleep, the “prior to birth” [ das vor der Geburt ], the “after death” [ da...
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Intention reconsideration in artificial agents: a structured account
An important module in the Belief-Desire-Intention architecture for artificial agents (which builds on Michael Bratman’s work in the philosophy of...
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Saving logic from paradox via nonclassical recapture
The Liar paradox arguably shows that a coherent and self-applicable notion of truth is governed by nonclassical logic. It then seems natural to...
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Reasons, intentions, and actions
Several theorists maintain that a consideration is a reason to ϕ (where ϕ -ing is an act-type) if and only if that consideration is a reason to intend...
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From representationalism to identity representationalism
Representationalism about consciousness is the view that the phenomenal character of an experience supervenes on the content of that experience. Much...