Search Results - "Australasian journal of philosophy"

The Folk Concept of Law: Law Is Intrinsically Moral by Flanagan, Brian, Hannikainen, Ivar R.

“…Most theorists agree that our social order includes a distinctive legal dimension. A fundamental question is that of whether reference to specific legal…”
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Inquiring Minds Want to Improve by Falbo, Arianna

“…Much of the recent work on epistemology of inquiry defends two related theses. First, inquiry into a question rationally prohibits believing an answer to that…”
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What Not to Multiply Without Necessity by Schaffer, Jonathan

“…The Razor commands us not to multiply entities without necessity. I argue for an alternative principle-The Laser-which commands us not to multiply fundamental…”
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Extending the Predictive Mind by Clark, Andy

“…How do intelligent agents spawn and exploit integrated processing regimes spanning brain, body, and world? The answer may lie in the ability of the biological…”
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The Real Foundation of Fictional Worlds by Friend, Stacie

“…I argue that judgments of what is 'true in a fiction' presuppose the Reality Assumption: the assumption that everything that is (really) true is fictionally…”
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Intuitive Expertise in Moral Judgments by Horvath, Joachim, Wiegmann, Alex

“…According to the 'expertise defence', experimental findings suggesting that intuitive judgments about hypothetical cases are influenced by philosophically…”
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Paradoxes and Failures of Cut by Ripley, David

“…This paper presents and motivates a new philosophical and logical approach to truth and semantic paradox. It begins from an inferentialist, and particularly…”
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Hedonic and Non-Hedonic Bias toward the Future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

“…It has widely been assumed, by philosophers, that our first-person preferences regarding pleasurable and painful experiences exhibit a bias toward the future…”
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Skills as Knowledge by Pavese, Carlotta, Beddor, Bob

“…This paper advances a unified theory of skilful and intentional action. According to our theory, the distinguishing feature of both skilful and intentional…”
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Beyond Desire? Agency, Choice, and the Predictive Mind by Clark, Andy

“…'Predictive Processing' (PP) is an emerging paradigm in cognitive neuroscience that depicts the human mind as an uncertainty management system that constructs…”
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Theories of Aboutness by Hawke, Peter

“…Our topic is the theory of topics (that is, the theory of subject matter). My goal is to clarify and evaluate three competing traditions: what I call the…”
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Cost and Psychological Difficulty: Two Aspects of Demandingness by McElwee, Brian

“…The demandingness of a moral prescription is generally understood exclusively in terms of the welfare costs involved in complying with that prescription. I…”
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Imposter Syndrome and Self-Deception by Gadsby, Stephen

“…Many intelligent, capable, and successful individuals believe that their success is due to luck, and fear that they will someday be exposed as imposters. A…”
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Causation and the Time-Asymmetry of Knowledge by Blanchard, Thomas

“…This paper argues that the knowledge asymmetry (the fact that we know more about the past than the future) can be explained as a consequence of the causal…”
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Hermeneutical Sabotage by Edgoose, Han

“…In this paper I identify a distinct form of epistemic injustice and oppression which I call 'hermeneutical sabotage'. Hermeneutical sabotage occurs when…”
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Delusions and the Predictive Mind by Bongiorno, Federico, Corlett, Philip R

“…A growing number of studies in both the scientific and the philosophical literature have drawn on a Bayesian predictive processing framework to account for the…”
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The Ethical Implications of Panpsychism by Gottlieb, Joseph, Fischer, Bob

“…The history of philosophy is a history of moral circle expansion. This history correlates with a history of expansionism about consciousness. Recently,…”
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Mental Causation for Standard Dualists by Vaassen, Bram

“…The standard objection to dualist theories of mind is that they seemingly cannot account for the obvious fact that mental phenomena cause our behaviour. On the…”
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Quantum Entanglement, Bohmian Mechanics, and Humean Supervenience by Miller, Elizabeth

“…David Lewis is a natural target for those who believe that findings in quantum physics threaten the tenability of traditional metaphysical reductionism. Such…”
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Serious Actualism and Nonexistence by Masterman, Christopher James

“…Serious actualism is the view that it is metaphysically impossible for an entity to have a property, or stand in a relation, and not exist. Fine (1985) and…”
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