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The Informativeness Norm of Assertion
Although assertions are often characterised as essentially informative speech acts, there is a widespread disagreement concerning how the...
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Prehistory, anti-Cartesianism, and the first-person viewpoint
The concept of mind is widely used in today’s debates on the lives, behavior, and cognition of prehistoric hominins. It is therefore presumably an...
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Methodological worries for humean arguments from evil
Humean arguments from evil are some of the most powerful arguments against Theism. They take as their data what we know about good and evil. And they...
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Expected choiceworthiness and fanaticism
Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness (MEC) is a theory of decision-making under moral uncertainty. It says that we ought to handle moral uncertainty in...
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Between social cognition and material engagement: the cooperative body hypothesis
In recent years, social cognition approaches to human evolution and Material Engagement Theory have offered new theoretical resources to advance our...
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Symmetries and ground
If the tiles of a mosaic are arranged symmetrically, then the image those tiles constitute must be symmetric as well. This paper formulates and...
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The presumption of realism
Within contemporary metaethics, it is widely held that there is a “presumption of realism” in moral thought and discourse. Anti-realist views, like...
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In defense of genuine un-forgiving
Despite much philosophical attention on forgiveness itself, the phenomenon of un-forgiving is relatively neglected. Some views of forgiveness commit...
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Logicality in natural language
Is there a relation of logical consequence in natural language? Logicality, in the philosophical literature, has been conceived of as a restrictive...
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Normativity, prudence and welfare
Most discussions of discourse about welfare and discourse about prudence are a “package deal” when it comes to their normativity—either both or...
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The good life as the life in touch with the good
What makes your life go well for you? In this paper, we give an account of welfare. Our core idea is simple. There are impersonally good and bad...
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Picking up the gauntlet. A reply to Casper and Haueis
In recent years phenomenology has attracted the interest of science, acquiring a role far beyond philosophy. Despite Husserl's clear denial of a...
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The self-reinforcing nature of joint action
Shared intention normally leads to joint action. It does this, it is commonly said, only because it is a characteristically stable phenomenon, a...
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Words and Roots – Polysemy and Allosemy – Communication and Language
Most substantive (content-bearing) words are polysemous, but polysemy is cross-categorial; for instance, the lexical forms ‘stone’ and ‘front’ are...
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Nenad Miščević Stays True to Himself!
This is a contribution to a symposium about a book on thought experiments by Nenad Miščević. I argue that it is the first monograph dedicated to a...
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Existentialist risk and value misalignment
We argue that two long-term goals of AI research stand in tension with one another. The first involves creating AI that is safe, where this is...
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Fictions that don’t tell the truth
Can fictions lie? According to a classic conception, works of fiction can never contain lies, since their content is not presented as true, nor is it...
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Really situated self-control: self-control as a set of situated skills
Traditionally, self-control is conceptualized in terms of internal processes such as willpower or motivational mechanisms. These processes supposedly...
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The unconscious as sedimentation: threefold manifestations of the unconscious in consciousness
This article explores the notion of the unconscious ( das Unbewusste ) in terms of its nature and constitutive manifestations in consciousness. In...
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Are Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?
Philosophers have proposed many accounts of biological function. A coarse-grained distinction can be made between backward-looking views, which...