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The Quantified Argument Calculus with Two- and Three-valued Truth-valuational Semantics
We introduce a two-valued and a three-valued truth-valuational substitutional semantics for the Quantified Argument Calculus (Quarc). We then prove...
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From Maximal Intersubjectivity to Objectivity: An Argument from the Development of Arithmetical Cognition
One main challenge of non-platonist philosophy of mathematics is to account for the apparent objectivity of mathematical knowledge. Cole and Feferman...
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Feeding Infants: Choice-Specific Considerations, Parental Obligation, and Pragmatic Satisficing
Health institutions recommend that young infants be exclusively breastfed on demand, and it is widely held that parents who can breastfeed have an...
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On Smithies’ Argument from Blindsight
Declan Smithies’ The Epistemic Role of Consciousness (2019) is a defense of “Phenomenal Mentalism” according to which, necessarily, which...
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Theory Choice and Social Choice: Two Proposals to Escape from Arrovian Impossibility for ‘Large Scale’ Theory Choices Based on Kuhn’s Criteria
By applying Arrow’s impossibility theorem for social choice to scientific theory choice, Okasha concludes that there is no acceptable theory choice...
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Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty
In this paper, I develop an epistemological argument for freedom from poverty, building on Gerald Gaus’ work on political and moral disagreement in...
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The moral parody argument against panpsychism
I exploit parallel considerations in the philosophy of mind and metaethics to argue that the reasoning employed in an important argument for...
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The Choice
The health of the Earth is in crisis with many indicators pointing to a rapidly escalating deterioration. The argument is made that engineering has...
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Commentary on “Responsibility for Health and the Value of Choice”
This chapter is a commentary on T. M. Scanlon’s Lanson Lecture in Bioethics. It discusses whether the existence of disagreement affects the...
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Phenomenology, abduction, and argument: avoiding an ostrich epistemology
Phenomenology has been described as a “non-argumentocentric” way of doing philosophy, reflecting that the philosophical focus is on generating...
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Arguing in Direct Democracy: An Argument Scheme for Proposing Reasons in Debates Surrounding Public Votes
We develop a novel argument scheme tailored to debates surrounding public votes on a state action. It can be used to propose reasons for voting “yes”...
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How strong is the argument from inductive risk?
The argument from inductive risk, as developed by Rudner and others, famously concludes that the scientist qua scientist makes value judgments. The...
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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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Values in public health: an argument from trust
Research on the role of values in science and objectivity has typically approached trust through its epistemic aspects. Yet, recent work on public...
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The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism: A Minimally Metaphysical Response
The anti-metaphysical argument against scientific realism (AMA) is the following: (1) Knowledge of unobservable entities implies metaphysical...
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Everyday Attitudes About Euthanasia and the Slippery Slope Argument
This chapter provides empirical evidence about everyday attitudes concerning euthanasia. These attitudes have important implications for some ethical...
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Argument by Association: On the Transmissibility of Commitment in Public Political Arguments
In this paper, I examine the question of commitment transmissibility in public political arguments. I explore the idea that under certain conditions,...
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An Axiomatic Approach to the Quantified Argument Calculus
The present article employs a model-theoretic semantics to interpret a fragment of the language of the Quantified Argument Calculus (
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The parallelism argument and the problem of moral luck
Robert Hartman’s parallelism argument aims to show that resultant moral luck exists. The gist of the argument is this: because there is...