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Room for a view: on the metaphysical subject of personal identity
Sydney Shoemaker leads today's "neo-Lockean" liberation of persons from the conservative animalist charge of "neo-Aristotelians" such as Eric Olson, accord...
Daniel Kolak
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Explanatory warrant for scientific realism
Nancy Cartwright relies upon an inference pattern known as inference to the best causal explanation (IBCE) to support a limited form of entity realism, according to which we are wa...
Robert Pierson, Richard Reiner
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Methodological naturalism and epistemic internalism
Epistemic naturalism holds that the results or methodologies from the cognitive sciences are relevant to epistemology, and some have maintained that scientific methods are more com...
Gregory R. Wheeler, Luís Moniz Pereira
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Quantifiers and propositional attitudes: Quine revisited
Quine introduced a famous distinction between the `notional' sense and the `relational' sense of certain attitude verbs. The distinction is both intuitive and sound but i...
Sean Crawford
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Quantified coalition logic
We add a limited but useful form of quantification to Coalition Logic, a popular formalism for reasoning about cooperation in game-like multi-agent systems. The basic constructs o...
Thomas Ågotnes, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael ...