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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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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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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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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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On the Logical Argument from Natural Evil: A Response to Moore
Dwayne Moore’s "A Naturalistic Theodicy for Sterba’s Problem of Natural Evil," (Moore, 2024) provides a detailed critique of my logical argument from...
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Pragma-dialectics and the problem of agreement
Pragma-Dialectics (PD) is an approach to argumentation that can be described as disagreement-centric. On PD, disagreement is the condition which...
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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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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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Discovering Maximum Entropy Knowledge
This paper seeks to determine a rational agent’s evidential constraints given her beliefs. Rationality is here construed as adherence to a principle...
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The Epistemic Condition for Character Responsibility
If responsibility for character requires (among other things) having knowledge of the quality of one’s character, and this knowledge requires having...
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Egocentric Content and the Complex Subject
While it is commonly observed that visual experiences have an egocentric character, it is less clear how to properly characterize it. This manuscript...
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Maps, Simulations, Spaces and Dynamics: On Distinguishing Types of Structural Representations
Structural representations are likely the most talked about representational posits in the contemporary debate over cognitive representations....
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Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Re-Conceptualisation of Resonant Leadership
This paper critiques the concept of resonant leadership which focuses on utilising emotional intelligence in managing an organisation. It is argued...
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Blameworthiness Implies ‘Ought not’
Here is a crucial principle for debates about moral luck, responsibility, and free will: a subject is blameworthy for an act only if, in acting, she...
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Gods, Absolute, Non-theistic Divinity, and Monotheism in Indian Philosophy of Religion: A Genealogical Critique of Evolutionary Theogony
There are various permutations of theism: henotheism, pantheism, panentheism, a/theism, and nontheistic divinity. There is debate whether the idea of...
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Having a Disposition and Making a Contribution
Dispositional accounts of various phenomena have claimed that dispositions can be intrinsically masked. In cases of intrinsic masking, something has...
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Truthmaker Semantics, Ground, and Generality
Our aim in this paper is to extend the semantics for the kind of logic of ground developed in deRosset and Fine (
2023 ). In that paper, the authors...