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Theories 'n Things: October 2007

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007. London Logic and Metaphysics Forum (x-posted from MV). If you're in London on a Tuesday evening, what better to do than to take in a talk by a young philosopher on logic or metaphysics? Spotting this gap in the tourist offerings, the clever folks in the capital have set up the London Logic and Metaphysics forum. Looks an exciting programme, though I have my doubts about the joker on the 11th Dec. Tues 30 Oct: David Liggins (Manchester). Tues 27 Nov: Ofra Magidor (Oxford).

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Alexander Pruss's Blog: The randomness argument against compatibilism

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Sunday, July 17, 2011. The randomness argument against compatibilism. The randomness argument insists that if our actions are not determined by our character, then they are a matter of chance and hence not free. This is the most powerful argument against libertarianism. I want to think about whether the argument presents a challenge to the. As strong as her desire to inherit the money from her uncle. But when desires are sufficiently close in strength, then which desire is the stronger is "a matter o...

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Michael Bench-Capon's Blog: Ripped at the seems

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Thursday, September 25, 2014. Ripped at the seems. I don’t often have ideas about epistemology. Longtime readers may remember me talking about epistemic virtues of personal concern. And for a while I misguidedly tried to push the idea that Gettier was wrong about knowledge not being justified true belief. Recently though, I was listening to Peter Adamson’s excellent podcast series on the history of philosophy. Not to be happening, right? If P&Q seems to be true, does that mean P seems to be true as well?

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Thoughts Arguments and Rants » Andy Egan

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Skip to main content. Thoughts Arguments and Rants. Online Papers in Philosophy. People with Online Papers in Philosophy. Australasian Journal of Logic. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. This is Not the Name of This Blog. The Web of Belief. John Holbo and Belle Waring. 7 July, 2007. Much friendlier than the Monaco doggies. There was no way I was going to fly all the way to the south of France and not make (several versions of) that joke. 18 June, 2007. 15 March, 2...

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Michael Bench-Capon's Blog: Are Nato the bad guys?

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Saturday, August 30, 2014. Are Nato the bad guys? Today there is a Nato summit going on in Newport, Wales, and some people are protesting against it. Here are some of them:. Thousands gathered at rally in Newport to listen to peace activists from around the world say #NoToNato. 8212; CND (@CNDuk) August 30, 2014. I know it looks like they're protesting in support of Palestine, whose main antagonist (Israel) isn't in Nato. But I'm assured that it's an anti-Nato protest. Now, while it's obviously nice if p...

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Alexander Pruss's Blog: It is more than 2.588 times as important to avoid certainty about a falsehood than to have certainty about a truth

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Monday, October 10, 2011. It is more than 2.588 times as important to avoid certainty about a falsehood than to have certainty about a truth. William James suggests there is no right answer: different people will simply have different preferences. Here are the assumptions. Let V. Be the value of having credence r. Proposition, for 1/2≤ r. 8804;1. Let D. Be the disvalue of having credence r. Proposition, again for 1/2≤ r. 8804;1. Then the assumptions are:. 8805;1/2 to a proposition p. 8722;(1− r. For if i...

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Alexander Pruss's Blog: Limitations, art and evil

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Limitations, art and evil. It's a standard thought that art thrives on limitations. These may be imposed by the technical capacities of the medium (I was reading this. Today) or by repressive authorities (think here of communist-era Eastern European literature), or they may be limitations imposed by the artist or her artistic community. In this regard art is like sport, where there are rules that constrain one. For we can answer some "Why did God not do it this way instead? I am ...

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Alexander Pruss's Blog: Preference structures had by no possible agent

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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Preference structures had by no possible agent. Say that a preference structure is a total, transitive and reflexive relation (i.e., a total preorder) on centered worlds- i.e., world-agent pairs w. Then there is a preference structure had by no possible agent. This is in fact just an easy adaptation of the proof of Cantor's Theorem. Be my own centered world @. Pruss . We now define a preference structure Q. As follows. If agent x. Then we say that c. Otherwise, we say that w.