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John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the ...
What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought?
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Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (...
Okasha explores the fascinating and complex links between evolutionary biology and rational choice theory...
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Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
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Susanna Schellenberg, "The Unity of Perception:...
How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?
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Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvar...
Given our modern scientific view of the world, how is freedom of the will possible?
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Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of ...
While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.
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Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Sci...
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...
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Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and H...
McGowen identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech can be harm...
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James Doyle, "No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's ...
A close associate of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anscombe contributed fundamental insights in philosophy of mind, action theory, and ethics...
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Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refu...
Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...
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Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injusti...
Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...
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T. J. Kasperbauer, "Subhuman: The Moral Psychol...
Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?
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Michael Hannon, "What is the Point of Knowledge...
Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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Elizabeth Schechter, "Self-Consciousness and Sp...
Elizabeth Schechter argues that while split brain subjects have two minds and two subjective perspectives, and are two intentional agents...
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Guy Axtell, "Problems of Religious Luck: Assess...
Our lives are shot through with contingency – where, when, and into what circumstances we are born is largely a matter of chance...
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Ethan Mills, "Three Pillars of Skepticism in Cl...
The existence of skepticism in Indian Philosophy has long been neglected in favor of dogmatic positions...
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Jonathan Birch, "The Philosophy of Social Evolu...
It seems to go against evolutionary theory for an individual to give up its own chances at reproducing in order to increase the fitness of others...
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Henry S. Richardson, "Articulating the Moral Co...
Even those among us who think that morality is rooted in timeless normative truths will acknowledge that the overall moral fabric that binds us to one another is subject to various kinds of renovation and expansion...
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Maria Kronfeldner, "What's Left of Human Nature...
Much of the debate about the roles of nature vs. nurture in the development of individual people has settled into accepting that it's a bit of both...
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Samuel Schindler, "Theoretical Virtues in Scien...
A fundamental problem in science, and in philosophy of science, is that of theory choice...
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Carrie Figdor, "Pieces of Mind: The Proper Doma...
We’re all familiar with cases where one attributes certain psychological states or capacities to creatures and systems that are not human persons....
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Shannon Spaulding, “How We Understand Others: P...
Social cognition includes the ways we explain, predict, interpret, and influence other people. The dominant philosophical theories of social cognition–the theory-theory and the simulation theory–have provided focused accounts of mindreading,
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David Rondel, “Pragmatist Egalitarianism” (Oxfo...
Pragmatism is a longstanding philosophical idiom that advocates public-facing philosophy – philosophy that abandons merely academic puzzles and addresses itself to the social and political problems of the day.
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Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (M...
For most of us, eugenics — the “science of improving the human stock” — is a thing of the past, commonly associated with Nazi Germany and government efforts to promote a pure Aryan race. This view is incorrect: even in California, for example,
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