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The epistemic status of reproducibility in political fact-checking
Fact-checking agencies assess and score the truthfulness of politicians’ claims to foster their electoral accountability. Fact-checking is sometimes...
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Bridging the Fact/Value Divide in Wisdom Research: The Development of Expertise in Wise Decision-Making
What are the relations among wisdom, virtue, and expertise? Wisdom can be defined broadly as knowledge about how to live well. At the least, the task...
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Consistency, Acyclicity, and Positive Semirings
In several different settings, one comes across situations in which the objects of study are locally consistent but globally inconsistent. Earlier...
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On Positive Philosophy: Hegel’s Retort to Schelling
Concentrating on Schelling’s lectures of 1833–1834 regarding the history of philosophy, together with the Berlin lectures of 1842, I will discuss...
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Negative, Positive, and Complementarity: Remarks on Schelling’s Absolute Idealism
Schelling’s late philosophy consists of two philosophical representations, i.e., his negative and his positive philosophy. Whereas his negative...
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Abundance and Variety in Nature: Fact and Value
The mass extinction visited upon us by capitalism involves many kinds of devastation. Here I clarify the grounds for assessing the most obvious of...
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Between Fact and Value: Locating Gandhian Science
The paper draws on the influential ideas of M. K. Gandhi to examine the character and depiction of science in modern India. The predicament posed by...
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Positive Wild Animal Welfare
With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state...
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The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism
Putnam coined what is now known as the no miracles argument “[t]he positive argument for realism”. In its opposition, he put an argument that by his...
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Don’t imagine junk! Positive conceivability and modal illusion in mereology
There is a widespread practice of using evidence obtained from conceiving/imagining for establishing possibility claims. As a case study. I offer a...
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Encouraging Transparency in Lab Safety via Teachable Moments and Positive Feedback
Transparency is an essential part of develo** and maintaining an ethical culture and a safety culture. We found two practices that significantly...
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Learning Context-Free Grammars from Positive Data and Membership Queries
I review some recent results on learning subclasses of the context-free grammars from positive data and membership queries. I motivate the relevant...
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Moral Encroachment and Positive Profiling
Some claim that moral factors affect the epistemic status of our beliefs. Call this the moral encroachment thesis . It’s been argued that the moral...
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Causation and fact granularity
According to the modal theory of facts and states of affairs, two facts or states of affairs are identical iff they are necessarily equivalent. One...
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Moral distress and positive experiences of ICU staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic causes moral challenges and moral distress for healthcare professionals and, due to an increased work load, reduces...
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Human Animal, Positive Psychology, and Trauma: A Conversation Between Alenka Zupančič and Julie Reshe
Alenka Zupančič and Julie Reshe are discussing the topics of the human animal, positive psychology, and trauma.
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Vagueness in Medicine: On Disciplinary Indistinctness, Fuzzy Phenomena, Vague Concepts, Uncertain Knowledge, and Fact-Value-Interaction
This article investigates five kinds of vagueness in medicine: disciplinary, ontological, conceptual, epistemic, and vagueness with respect to...
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A hyperintensional approach to positive epistemic possibility
The received view says that possibility is the dual of necessity: a proposition is (metaphysically, logically, epistemically etc.) possible iff it is...
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Individualistic Models in Collective Norm-Based Regulation: The Positive, Normative and Hermeneutic Dimensions
This chapter is an investigation of the links between the positive, normative and hermeneutic dimensions in the role imparted to norms as they are...
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From Passive to Active: The Positive Spillover of Required Employee Green Behavior on Green Advocacy
This research investigates whether required employee green behavior can spill over to a proactive form of green behavior termed green advocacy....
