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Oct 12th 2022 GMT
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  1. The Identity of Milan Kundera as Astrologer.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    In his The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera describes how he was fired from his job and secretly wrote astrology columns. I register a puzzle that various readers should feel about this information, owing to the distinctive style of Kundera: how can this be kept a secret? I also propose solutions.
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Oct 11th 2022 GMT
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  1. The Memory Skepticism Solution to the Surprise Exam Paradox.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    Will a surprise exam happen in the next school week? The memory skepticism solution says, “The students should expect a rational student on the penultimate evening of that week to open themselves up to the possibility that the exam may have happened already, rather than predicting that the exam will happen tomorrow.”.
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Oct 10th 2022 GMT
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  1. "The Vanishing Goal": A New Interpretation of Voluntarism.Victor Mota - manuscript
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    Incentives to Scan Complex Wholes?Terence Rajivan Edward -
    Robert Nozick declares that scanning complex wholes is not easy. Presumably few people exhibited the skill before Nozick, but I propose another explanation for why few people exhibit it than difficulty. Focusing specifically on scanning for inconsistencies, papers conveying them won’t look impressive to certain evaluators.
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Oct 9th 2022 GMT
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  1. A natureza degenerante: o Brasil de Hipócrates.Henrique F. Cairus -
    In the 18th century, Guilielmus Piso arrives in Brazil as the archiater in the court of John Maurice of Nassau. Upon his return to Europe, he takes on the task of writing a descriptive treatise of these Western Indies. For this purpose, he makes use of the mental framework bequeathed by his education, setting up therefore the treatise On Airs, Waters and Places about Brazil. In the same manner and by the same means found in the homonymous treatise of the (...)
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  1. It is Possible to Be Ethically Impartial?Victor Mota - manuscript
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  2. New Treatie on Human Understanding.Victor Mota - manuscript
    new treatie on human understandi, pursuing Human and Locke.
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  3. "Between Obscenity and Ascetism": A Romantic Explanation.Victor Mota - manuscript
    a romantic solution to the dilemma beteew obscenity and ascetism.
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  4. The Idea of Sublime.Victor Mota - manuscript
    sublime and sublimation, between ascetism en religious practice, social order and cultural feelings.
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  5. The Key, Cinematic Argument.Victor Mota -
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    On the Very Idea of the Political Right Wing: A Paradox and Meta-Paradox.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This paper presents a paradox of the concept of the right wing, because it groups together significantly different political philosophies, in terms of premises and conclusions – ones that recommend a minimal state and ones oriented towards preserving the traditions of a community. It also presents a meta-paradox: everyone has noticed this and yet it is my paradox!
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  7. The Misterious Disease of Frances K.Victor Mota - manuscript
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Oct 8th 2022 GMT
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    Sages and Pragmatists: How a Certain Philosophy is Spoiled.Victor Mota - manuscript
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    R.R. Marett’s 1923 Objections to Sir James Frazer’s Anthropology.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This is a one page handout presenting R.R. Marrett's objections to Frazer from an article reviewing books by Frazer and also one by Malinowski (and others not referred to here).
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Oct 7th 2022 GMT
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  1. You Can Think, But You Can't Think.Victor Mota -
    thinking or not thinking, there is tha question. The institutions say "Don't Think", while philosophers say "Think, please". What attitude we must choose?
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    On the Exhaustion Criterion of Difficulty, with Wittgenstein, Robert Graves, and Kripke.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    The philosopher and builder Ludwig Wittgenstein remarks that architecture is more difficult than philosophy. He suggests an exhaustion criterion for how difficult a discipline is: a field is more difficult the more exhausting it is. I make a case against this claim. There was once a demand to prevent the Greek myths from establishing themselves in the curriculum by means of “our own rival myths.” It is difficult to compete with a renowned Greek myth, but if one does produce a (...)
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    The Twofold Objectivity of Truth.Howard Sankey - manuscript
    Truth about matters of fact is objective. This is not just because truth is objective. It is also because facts are objective. An objective fact makes an assertion of that fact true. The objectivity of the fact adds a further element of objectivity to the objective truth of the assertion. True assertions of fact are true because truth is objective and because the facts that make them true are objective. True assertions of fact are objective twice over. Their objectivity is (...)
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Oct 6th 2022 GMT
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    "Social Don't Matter": A New Perspective for Social Anthropology.Victor Mota - manuscript
    Suspending the social matter of social anthropology (along with other surprises).
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    Victorian Anthropology Paradox: Another Solution.Terence Rajivan Edward -
    Parts of the Victorian middle class were troubled by how Victorian society was both highly evolved and contained savage parts. I propose a solution to the paradox they faced.
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    Scientific Disagreements, Fast Science and Higher-Order Evidence.Daniel C. Friedman & Dunja Šešelja - manuscript
    Scientific disagreements are an important catalyst for scientific progress. But what happens when scientists disagree amidst times of crisis, when we need quick yet reliable policy guidance? In this paper we aim to provide a normative account for how scientists facing disagreement in the context of ‘fast science’ should respond, and how policy makers should evaluate such disagreement. Starting from an argumentative, pragma-dialectic account of scientific controversies (Donato Rodríguez and Zamora Bonilla, 2013), we argue for the importance of ‘higher-order evidence (...)
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Oct 5th 2022 GMT
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    "Under the sign of Faust": Some reflections on art and creation processes.Victor Mota - manuscript
    Is art and wrting a pagan manifestation of profane thoughts and feelings? What about the sacred art? Is there a link between the two? In other hand, the social status of the artist and semo processes of artistic creation, his strategy, his willing, his fundamentals.
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    "Under the Sign of Faust": Some Reflections on Art and Creation Processes.Victor Mota - manuscript
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    The Death of Kripke and False Accusations and Filth.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I consider the place of Saul Kripke and what to make of accusations against him. I raise the problem of evaluating such accusations in an environment of false accusations. I end with a response to a remark by Wittgenstein.
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Oct 4th 2022 GMT
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    Laughter and Ethnic Identity: Flora Nwapa’s Women Are Different.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This brief paper raises a puzzle, or half-puzzle, about Flora Nwapa’s ethnic identity in light of sentences in her novel Women are Different and presents two solutions.
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Oct 3rd 2022 GMT
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    Against Evil Reflective Equilibrium: A Response to Thomas Kelly and Sarah McGrath.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This paper responds to Thomas Kelly and Sarah McGrath’s worry that there can be evil reflective equilibrium. I propose that some of John Rawls’s restrictions on moral judgments we can enter into the procedure serve to protect against evil reflective equilibrium.
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Oct 2nd 2022 GMT
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    Consciousness, Haecceitism, and Grounding.Hasen Khudairi - manuscript
    This paper aims to demonstrate that the ontology of consciousness is consistent with both the modal and the metaphysical versions of Haecceitism. I examine the varieties of Haecceitism, and I specify the intended versions that the arguments will vindicate. I define the property of 'being purely qualitative', and examine its relation to the properties of phenomenal consciousness. I draw, inter alia, on Bayesian perceptual psychology, in order to specify the identity-conditions of phenomenal properties in detail. I provide two, abductive arguments (...)
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    On Parfit’s Disagreement with Nietzsche (by D*N*Ld D*V*Ds*N).Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This paper presents a Davidsonian perspective on Derek Parfit’s disagreements with Nietzsche. I have actually gone further, too far perhaps, and tried to imitate Davidson’s attractive essayistic style.
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Oct 1st 2022 GMT
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  1. Making of the Problem: Induction From Socrates to Popper.John P. McCaskey - manuscript
    A comprehensive history of how induction has been conceived, from Socrates to Karl Popper.
     
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    The Simplicity of Physical Laws.Eddy Keming Chen - manuscript
    Physical laws are strikingly simple, although there is no a priori reason they must be so. I propose that nomic realists of all types (Humeans and non-Humeans) should accept that simplicity is a fundamental epistemic guide for discovering and evaluating candidate physical laws. This principle of simplicity clarifies and solves several problems of nomic realism and simplicity. A consequence is that the often-cited epistemic advantage of Humeanism over non-Humeanism is exaggerated, undercutting an influential epistemological argument for Humeanism. Moreover, simplicity is (...)
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    The Psychology of Specialization and the Origins of Money.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This paper raises a worry that it is difficult to reconcile Adam Smith’s claims about the relationship of specialization to talent and character with his account of the origins of money. Specialization makes one stupid outside of one’s specialism yet money arises by specialists also providing what everyone wants.
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    Der logische Aufbau der Welt: Formale Aspekte.Thomas Mormann - manuscript
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Sep 30th 2022 GMT
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    Dorothea Versus John Locke’s Philosophy.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I interpret George Eliot as objecting to John Locke in Middlemarch – more specifically, his theory of ideas – by means of her account of Dorothea’s experiences of Edward Casaubon at dinner.
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    Standpoints and Subjective Facts About Consciousness.Martin A. Lipman - manuscript
    The starting point of this paper is the thought that the phenomenal appearances that accompany mental states are somehow only there, or only real, from the standpoint of the subject of those mental states. The world differs across subjects in terms of which appearances obtain. Not only are subjects standpoints across which the world varies, subjects are standpoints that we can moreover ‘adopt’ in our own theorizing about the world (or stand back from). The picture that is suggested by these (...)
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Sep 29th 2022 GMT
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    A Compensatory Solution to the All-or-Nothing Problem.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    The all-or-nothing problem, formulated by Joe Horton, presents us with a situation in which you can do nothing or save one child or save two. It is dangerous to save any, making doing nothing morally permissible, but there is no extra danger in saving two, so it seems wrong to just save one. But then doing nothing is morally better than saving one. I present a solution in response to this problematic result, which is that doing nothing is not an (...)
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    When “Replicability” is More Than Just “Reliability”: The Hubble Constant Controversy.Vera Matarese & C. D. McCoy - manuscript
    We argue that the epistemic functions of replication in science are best understood by their role in assessing kinds of experimental error. Direct replications serve to assess the reliability of an experiment through its precision: the presence and degree of random error. Conceptual replications serve to assess the validity of an experiment through its accuracy: the presence and degree of systematic errors. To illustrate the aptness of this view, we examine the Hubble constant controversy in astronomy, showing how astronomers have (...)
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Sep 28th 2022 GMT
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    Henrika Kuklick on the Functionalist Paradigm in British Social Anthropology.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    In Britain and also in France, arguments have been put forward against the claim that there are or have been paradigms in British social anthropology. But historian of anthropology Henrika Kuklicka supposes that there was a paradigm from the late 1920s to just before the 1960s. I raise an objection to her portrait of this research community and observe that her text implies two quite different replies.
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Sep 27th 2022 GMT
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    Marxism as a Learning Process: The Epistemic Rationality of Precedential Reasoning.Stephen D'Arcy -
    My aim in this paper is fairly modest. I obviously do not claim that there has never been or could never be an instance of irrational or fallacious appeals to quotations from canonical sources in the marxist tradition. Instead, I claim that the practice of using quotations from canonical sources is not, as such, irrational. If we understand the epistemological infrastructure of the practice -- the rational underpinnings of it -- we can grasp how these citations appeal to the presumptive (...)
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    Do Ut Des- On the Gratuitouness of Bliss in the Liberal Capital Society.Victor Mota - manuscript
    A logic path between moral principles of social organization of religious rules and the economiy of belief in industrial societies. I argue that some lifes may be like currency, a Good and a Bad Side, due to the dilema betwee profit and spiritual reasons.
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    Multitudo Virtutis Dilectio: How Singularity Crambles with the Masses.Victor Mota - manuscript
    Solitude. Is being with other without the other, is being with other, among the masses. Has de integrality of personhood something to loss with social contact? We believe not, we need war words and deeds.
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    Salvifici Doloris- How Religion Glorifies Suffering.Victor Mota - manuscript
    The social and personal utility of mental and physical suffering, exploration of the ideia that pain can be tolerated if we belive and so on euthanasia is not mandatory to several cases.
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    Ought-Implies-Can, the Original Position, and Reflective Equilibrium.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    Are John Rawls’s most noticeable methodological contributions, reflective equilibrium and the original position, consistent with each other? I draw attention to a worry that they stand in inconsistent relationships to the claim that ought implies can: it can only be the case that we ought to do something if we can do it.
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    Resolution by Proxy.Samuel Elgin - manuscript
    I show that the theory of definition in Definition by Proxy can consistently embrace the principles I show to be inconsistent in Definition.
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    The Partial Coherence of Cicero’s De Officiis.Thornton Lockwood - manuscript
    Martha Nussbaum has provided a sustained critique of Cicero’s De officiis (or On Duties), concerning what she claims is Cicero’s incoherent distinction between duties of justice, which are strict, cosmopolitan, and impartial, and duties of material aid, which are elastic, weighted towards those who are near and dear, and partial. No doubt, from Nussbaum’s cosmopolitan perspective, Cicero’s distinction between justice and beneficence seems problematic and lies at the root of modern moral failures to conceptualize adequately our obligations in situations of (...)
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Sep 26th 2022 GMT
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    “Graphomania” in Told by an Idiot, and Crowds.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    This paper examines what is said about a craze for essay writing in Rose Macauley’s 1923 essayistic novel Told by an Idiot, comparing the material with Milan Kundera on graphomania. In the appendix, I note a passage on crowds which is reminiscent of the widely read European author.
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    Supererogation and the Limits of Reasons.Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt & Daniel Munoz -
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    In Vino Veritas: A New Way of Understanding the Intoxication of Knowledge.Victor Mota - manuscript
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    Love, Reason, and Irreplaceability (Draft).Christopher Grau -
    This is a draft of a talk I have given at several venues. At one point I planned to revise it for inclusion in the Oxford Handbook I co-edited, but for various reasons I decided against that. Since I still think it contains some useful material, I'm uploading it here.
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    Cheerfulness (Hilaritas).Valtteri Viljanen - manuscript
    The first (September 2022) draft for the forthcoming Spinoza Cambridge Lexicon. Please do not quote, but comments are welcome.
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    Pantheism Controversy.Valtteri Viljanen - manuscript
    The first (September 2022) draft for the forthcoming Spinoza Cambridge Lexicon. Please do not quote, but comments are welcome.
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Sep 25th 2022 GMT
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    Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism.Emma C. Gordon - 2022 - Routledge.
    This book outlines and criticises the six main contemporary arguments for scepticism about the role of human enhancements in promoting well-being. It also defends important and concrete ways in which enhancement-permissive policies should be embraced with the aim of promoting well-being.
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