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Open AccessCognitivism and the argument from evidence non-responsiveness*
Several philosophers have recently challenged cognitivism, i.e., the view that moral judgments are beliefs, by arguing that moral judgments are evidence non-responsive in a way that beliefs are not. If you bel...
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Open AccessDisagreement and inconsistency: a problem for orthodox expressivism
What makes two sentences inconsistent? Expressivists understand the meaning of a sentence in terms of the mental state it expresses. In order to explain the inconsistency between two sentences, the expressivis...
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Open AccessMoral Judgments, Cognitivism and the Dispositional Nature of Belief: Why Moral Peer Intransigence is Intelligible
Richard Rowland has recently argued that considerations based on moral disagreement between epistemic peers give us reason to think that cognitivism about moral judgments, i.e., the thesis that moral judgments...
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The VIII International Congress on Stress Proteins in Biology and Medicine: täynnä henkeä
About 150 international scientists gathered in Turku, Finland, in August of 2017 for the eighth in a series of international congresses about the roles of stress proteins in biology and medicine. The scientifi...
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Open AccessThe Influence of Preoperative Symptoms on the Death of Patients with Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (SI-NETs) are uncommon tumors with an annual incidence of about 1 per 100,000. Usually, SI-NETs have a slow progression, and patients often present with generalized disea...
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Expressivism, Attitudinal Complexity and Two Senses of Disagreement in Attitude
It has recently become popular to apply expressivism outside the moral domain, e.g., to truth and epistemic justification. This paper examines the prospects of generalizing expressivism to taste. This applicat...
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Matters of ambiguity: faultless disagreement, relativism and realism
In some cases of disagreement it seems that neither party is at fault or making a mistake. This phenomenon, so-called faultless disagreement, has recently been invoked as a key motivation for relativist treatm...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Projects
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PD) was endorsed in Paris at the Second High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in March 2005 by 90 develo** and donor countries, including the United States. In add...
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Elaborating Expressivism: Moral judgments, Desires and Motivation
According to expressivism, moral judgments are desire-like states of mind. It is often argued that this view is made implausible because it isn’t consistent with the conceivability of amoralists, i.e., agents ...
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Long-Term Results of Surgery for Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors at a Tertiary Referral Center
Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (SI-NETs) are uncommon, with an annual incidence of about 1 per 100,000 individuals. The primary tumor (PT) is generally small, but nevertheless the majority of patients ...
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Straight talk: conceptions of sincerity in speech
What is it for a speech act to be sincere? The most common answer amongst philosophers is that a speech act is sincere if and only if the speaker is in the state of mind that the speech act functions to expres...
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Self-expression, Expressiveness, and Sincerity
This paper examines some aspects of Mitchell Green’s account of self-expression. I argue that Green fails to address the distinction between success and evidential notions of expression properly, which prevent...
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Surgery and Radiofrequency Ablation for Treatment of Liver Metastases from Midgut and Foregut Carcinoids and Endocrine Pancreatic Tumors
Many neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have a tendency to metastasize to the liver. In case of limited number of metastases, liver surgery or radiofrequency ablation (RFA) may result in apparently total clearance o...
