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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self
Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the...
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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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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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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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Amodal Completion: Mental Imagery or 3D Modeling?
In amodal completion the mind in some sense completes the visual perceptual representation of a scene by representing parts of the scene hidden...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence
The development of artificial intelligence necessarily implies the anthropological question of the difference between human and artificial...
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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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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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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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Dual process theory and the challenges of functional individuation
Despite on-going debates in philosophy and cognitive science, dual process theory (DPT) remains a popular framework for theorizing about human...
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Engaging with Conspiracy Believers
Conspiracy theories abound in social and political discourse, believed by millions of people around the world. In this article, we highlight when it...
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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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Early Conceptual Knowledge About Food
Recent research suggests that preschool (three- to six-years-old) children’s food cognition involves much more than the nutritional information...
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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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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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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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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...