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On the principal principle and imprecise subjective Bayesianism
Whilst Bayesian epistemology is widely regarded nowadays as our best theory of knowledge, there are still a relatively large number of incompatible...
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The Principal Principle, admissibility, and normal informal standards of what is reasonable
This paper highlights the role of Lewis’ Principal Principle and certain auxiliary conditions on admissibility as serving to explicate normal...
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Centering the Principal Principle
I show that centered propositions—also called de se propositions, and usually modeled as sets of centered worlds—pose a serious problem for various...
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Finite Additivity, Complete Additivity, and the Comparative Principle
In the longstanding foundational debate whether to require that probability is countably additive, in addition to being finitely additive, those who...
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Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu on the principle of sufficient reason
Canonical defenders of the principle of sufficient reason (PSR), such as Leibniz and Spinoza, are metaphysical foundationalists of one stripe or...
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Slee** Beauty and the Evidential Centered Principle
Since Elga published his “Self-locating belief and the Slee** Beauty problem,” there has been an intense debate about which credence between 1/2...
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The Principal Principle and subjective Bayesianism
This paper poses a problem for Lewis’ Principal Principle in a subjective Bayesian framework: we show that, where chances inform degrees of belief,...
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The Excess of Descartes’ First Principle of Philosophy
This chapter comprises a rewriting of Descartes’ first principle of philosophy, Cogito, ergo sum. It follows the Meditations on First Philosophy...
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Aquinas’s Principle of Misericordia in Corporations: Implications for Workers and other Stakeholders
Despite its central position in the history of European and Christian thought on the protection of human dignity, the virtue of mercy is currently a...
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Climate Uncertainty, Real Possibilities and the Precautionary Principle
A challenge faced by defenders of the precautionary principle is to clarify when the evidence that a harmful event might occur suffices to regard...
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‘Just Doing Bioethics’: Policy, Principle, and Process
This chapter considers how a bioethics body might perform if, hypothetically, it was to be insulated against any background pressure of policy,...
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Everettian Probabilities, The Deutsch-Wallace Theorem and the Principal Principle
This paper is concerned with the nature of probability in physics, and in quantum mechanics in particular. It starts with a brief discussion of the...
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Towards a Universal Principle of Emergence (UPE)
This chapter clarifies the essential theoretical background. In opposition to the prevailing diversification of the meaning of the concept of...
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Dialectical logic or logical dialectics? The Polish discussion on the principle of non-contradiction (1946–1957)
The discussion on the principle of non-contradiction (1946–1957) between Marxist and non-Marxist philosophers was one of the major philosophical...
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The Principle of Complementarities in the Shura-Tasbih Practice and Its Implications on Socio-scientific Thought
The Tawhidi IIE(θ(ε))-model is of extensively conceptual and applied nature, invoking a theme of study in the philosophy of science inclusive of the...
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“A Single and Indivisible Principle of Unity”: On Growth and Form in Context
D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form is one of the key works at the intersection of science and the imagination. This introductory essay explores the...
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A Context Principle in Brentano?
My paper investigates the hypothesis that Brentano paved the way to Frege and Wittgenstein and already introduced a “context principle” in his...
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The Precept of the Common Good in the Principle of Just Ends
The Tawhidi epistemic socio-scientific worldview has no commonality in abstraction and application to the non-Tawhidi socio-scientific worldview....
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What chance-credence norms should be
We show a somewhat surprising result concerning the relationship between the Principal Principle and its allegedly generalized form. Then, we...