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The counterfactual theory of information revisited
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Counterfactuals vs. conditional probabilities: a critical analysis of the counterfactual theory of information
(2008)Cohen and Meskin 2006 recently offered a counterfactual theory of information to replace the standard probabilistic theory of information. They claim that the counterfactual theory fares better than the standard account ... -
Cultural evolutionary psychology is still evolutionary psychology
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-09-12)The cognitive gadgets theory proposes to reform evolutionary psychology by replacing the standard nativist and internalist approach to modularity with a cultural constructivist one. However, the resulting “cultural ... -
Differences in illumination estimation in #thedress
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc., 2017)We investigated whether people who report different colors for #thedress do so because they have different assumptions about the illumination in #thedress scene. We introduced a spherical illumination probe (Koenderink, ... -
Dimensions of concerns: The case of Turkish adolescence
(Academic Press, 1995)The purpose of the present study is to explore the type and seriousness of concerns reported by Turkish adolescents and to investigate the association of these concerns with self-reported psychological distress. The subjects ... -
Disappearing without a moral trace? rights and compensation during times of emergency
(2009)Scholars are divided over whether a victim's rights persist when an agent permissibly responds to an emergency. According to the prevailing view the moral force of rights is not extinguished by moral permissibility and the ... -
Distributed cognition and memory research: history and current directions
(2013)According to the hypotheses of distributed and extended cognition, remembering does not always occur entirely inside the brain but is often distributed across heterogeneous systems combining neural, bodily, social, and ... -
Do electoral institutions have an impact on population health?
(Springer New York LLC, 2011)There is an emerging political economics literature which purports to show that legislatures elected based on proportional electoral rules spend more and redistribute more than legislatures elected based on majoritarian ... -
Does control of rheumatic disease raise the standard of living in developing countries?
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Does freedom of association justify restrictions on immigration?
(University of Southern Denmark, 2015) -
Enforcing the global economic order, violating the rights of the poor, and breaching negative duties? Pogge, collective agency, and global poverty
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Epicurean wills, empty hopes, and the problem of post mortem concern
(Routledge, 2016)Many Epicurean arguments for the claim that death is nothing to us depend on the ‘Experience Constraint’: the claim that something can only be good or bad for us if we experience it. However, Epicurus’ commitment to the ... -
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and the politics of constituent power
(Routledge, 2018)It is often held that the legitimacy of a democratic constitution depends on its production by constituent power. This paper argues that the notion of legitimation by constituent power faces a dilemma: if the authenticity ... -
The evolution of cooperation in finite populations with synergistic payoffs
(Springer, 2019)In a series of papers, Forber and Smead (J Philos 111(3):151–166, 2014, Biol Philos 30(3):405–421, 2015) and Smead and Forber (Evolution 67(3):698–707, 2013) make a valuable contribution to the study of cooperation in ... -
The evolution of testimony: receiver vigitance, speaker honesty, and the reliability of communication
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Drawing on both empirical evidence and evolutionary considerations, Sperber et al. argue that humans have a suite of evolved mechanisms for ‘epistemic vigilance’. On their view, vigilance plays a crucial role in ensuring ... -
Excluding exclusion: the natural (istic) dualist approach
(Taylor and Francis, 2008)The exclusion problem for mental causation is one of the most discussed puzzles in the mind–body literature. There has been a general agreement among philosophers, especially because most of them are committed to some form ... -
Exposures: nancy and heidegger on community
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Expressivism wort the name: a reply to Teemu Toppinen
(University of Southern California, 2015) -
Family, gender, and progress: Sophie de Grouchy and her exclusion in the publication of condorcet’s sketch of human Progress
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)I examine some of the evidence for collaboration between Condorcet and Sophie de Grouchy on the writing of the Sketch of Human Progress, but also uncover the ways in which the publication and reception of that text worked ... -
The fourth revolution: philosophical foundations and technological implications
(Springer, 2010)This article introduces this special issue of Knowledge, Technology and Policy. It also explains why Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology is chosen as the topic of the special issue.
