Philosophy Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Reframing the Opioid Epidemic into its Proper Context: With results from survey taken in March 2018
(2018-06-18)In this essay I will address the imperative nature of relieving pain due to its physiological consequences. I will also reference sources that illustrate comprehensively how to do this. I also recommend measure that can ... -
Women Philosophers Throughout History: An Open Collection
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2020)This is collection of four philosophical texts written exclusively by women. It contemplates in chronological order The Dialogue by Catherine of Siena, The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila, An Essay in Defence of the ... -
Why There is no General Solution to the Problem of Software Verification
(Springer, 2019-06-03)How can we be certain that software is reliable? Is there any method that can verify the correctness of software for all cases of interest? Computer scientists and software engineers have informally assumed that there is ... -
Can we trust Big Data? Applying philosophy of science to software
(SAGE Publications, 2016-09-02)We address some of the epistemological challenges highlighted by the Critical Data Studies literature by reference to some of the key debates in the philosophy of science concerning computational modeling and simulation. ... -
Classics in Moral & Political Philosophy: An Open Collection
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2018-02)This is a collection of classics in moral and political philosophy containing only public domain and fair-use material. The primary role of this collection is to provide instructors, students, and researchers with a set ... -
Moral Distinctiveness and Moral Inquiry
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-04)Actions can be moral or immoral, surely, but can also be prudent or imprudent, rude or polite, sportsmanlike or unsportsmanlike, and so on. The fact that diverse methods of evaluating action exist seems to give rise to a ... -
The Significance of a Life’s Shape
(The University of Chicago Press, 2015-01)The shape of a life hypothesis holds, very roughly, that lives are better when they have an upward, rather than downward, slope in terms of momentary well-being. This hypothesis is plausible and has been thought to cause ... -
Objectivity and Perfection in Hume's Hedonism
(John Hopkins University Press, 2015-04)In this paper, I investigate David Hume’s theory of well-being or prudential value. That Hume was some sort of hedonist is typically taken for granted in discussions of his value theory, but I argue that Hume was a ... -
The brain’s cutting-room floor: segmentation of narrative cinema
(Frontiers Media, 2010-10-01)Observers segment ongoing activity into meaningful events. Segmentation is a core component of perception that helps determine memory and guide planning. The current study tested the hypotheses that event segmentation is ... -
Changes in Events Alter How People Remember Recent Information
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011-05)Observers spontaneously segment larger activities into smaller events. For example, “washing a car” might be segmented into “scrubbing,” “rinsing,” and “drying” the car. This process, called event segmentation, separates ... -
Letter knowledge in parent–child conversations: differences between families differing in socio-economic status
(Frontiers, 2014-06-24)When formal literacy instruction begins, around the age of 5 or 6, children from families low in socioeconomic status (SES) tend to be less prepared than children from families of higher SES. The goal of our study is to ... -
Mindreading and Tacit Knowledge
(Elsevier, 2014-01)Debate over the nature of mindreading proceeds on the assumption that theory and simulation offer distinct characterizations of this ability. The threat of collapse objection questions this assumption, suggesting that ... -
Harming the Dead
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Contemplation, the Noble, and the Mean: The Standard of Moral Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics
(De Gruyter, 1995-12-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Selection, Drift, and Independent Contrasts: Defending the Methodological Foundations of the FIC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2013-02-01)Felsenstein’s method of independent contrasts (FIC) is one of the most widely used approaches to the study of correlated evolution. However, it is also quite controversial: numerous researchers have called various aspects ... -
Duties and Ideals in Leonard Nelson's Ethics
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What's Wrong with These Cities? The Social Dimension of sophrosune in Plato's Charmides
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The General Account of Pleasure in Plato's Philebus
(John Hopkins University Press, 1996-10) -
Conceptualized and Unconceptualized Desire in Aristotle
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Emergence and Reflexive Downward Causation
(Principa, 2002)This paper responds to Jaegwon Kim's powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties. Kim argues that the incoherence of reflexive downward causation means that the causal power of an ...