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Perceiving objects the brain does not represent
It is often assumed that neural representation, with content that is in principle detachable from the flow of natural-factive information, is...
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Scientific Inference with Interpretable Machine Learning: Analyzing Models to Learn About Real-World Phenomena
To learn about real world phenomena, scientists have traditionally used models with clearly interpretable elements. However, modern machine learning...
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Representation, arbitrariness, and the emergence of speech
This paper discusses three related claims. The first claim is that the expressive limitations of iconic and indexical communication and cognition are...
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Beyond Cognition and Affect: An Analysis of Anorexia Nervosa within the Framework of Addiction
Anorexia Nervosa is widely recognized as having both cognitive and affective dimensions. Current accounts typically explain the perplexing behaviors...
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Group prioritarianism: why AI should not replace humanity
If a future AI system can enjoy far more well-being than a human per resource, what would be the best way to allocate resources between these future...
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On why proximal intentions need to remain snubbed: a reply to Mele
I argue against elements of Alfred Mele’s picture of the nature of intentions and the triggers of intentional actions. Mele (Philosophical Studies...
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Many Bombers of the Principle of Double Effect: An Analysis of Strategic/Terror Bomber Thought Experiment Variants
The strategic/terror bomber thought experiment is often employed in the contemporary debate on the principle of double effect (PDE). It is taken to...
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The Heaviest Metal
It has recently been argued that metal’s ‘heaviness’ is conceptually inarticulable. I argue, on the contrary, that ‘heaviness’ is a matter of...
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Individual values and inductive risk: remotivating the Bayesian alternative
The argument from inductive risk has become widely accepted as good reason to reject the value-free ideal. The literature that follows is then...
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Probing the Unorthodox: Moderate Direct Control over Implicit Bias
The consensus among philosophers is that indirect control is the only plausible type of control that individuals can exercise over implicit bias. By...
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Varieties of Natural Concepts
The concepts to be considered in this chapter are those that occur in everyday common human thought and language – the “natural history” of concepts...
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A triviality worry for the internal model principle
The good regulator theorem and the internal model principle are sometimes cited as mathematical proofs that an agent needs an internal model of the...
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Interpersonal factors that contribute to collective intelligence in small groups a qualitative systematic review
The study of collective intelligence has focused in the last years on crowdsourcing and artificial swarm intelligence. Currently, large online...
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Beyond prediction: a new paradigm for understanding suicide risk
Recent meta-studies have shown that there are no known risk factors for suicidal behavior that could be used for behavior prediction, rendering the...
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A localist solution to the problem of mixed inferences by juxtaposition
Logical localism is a thesis within philosophy of logic according to which the correct logic is dependent on the topic, domain or subject matter of...
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Moral decay, inequality, and the perception of corruption: the reproduction of bribery as a social norm
In the paper, the role of a citizen, a public official, and an observer in the reproduction of bribery as a social norm are each analyzed. To make...
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Libertarianism, decision-making, and a point of no return
This paper develops a challenge to standard libertarian views that is based on an imagined neuroscientificdiscovery that is incompatible with...
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Epistemic benevolence
I make the case that what gets called epistemic paternalism isn’t correctly labelled as such. This mislabelling is problematic for two reasons....
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McDowell’s overlooked argument for disjunctivism - realism, self-consciousness, and knowledge
McDowell’s defence of disjunctivism is often portrayed as starting from a controversial epistemological access-internalism, which he fails to support...