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  1. Pure Reason as a Cognitive Framework: Toward a Self-Reflective Model of Human and Artificial Intelligence.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This interdisciplinary research explores the concept of Pure Reason not as a fixed cognitive state, but as a dynamic, self-reflective process that bridges philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Drawing from Kantian epistemology, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and AGI architectures, the project proposes a model of rationality that includes the ability to identify and transcend its own limitations. This work argues that Pure Reason is not a natural capacity, but a practiced, meta-cognitive methodology — an emergent structure that only arises through (...)
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  2. Giving Generic Language Another Thought.Eleonore Neufeld, Annie Bosse, Guillermo Del Pinal & Rachel Sterken - forthcoming - WIREs Cognitive Science.
    According to an influential research program in cognitive science, philosophy, and linguistics, there is a deep, special connection between generics and pernicious aspects of social cognition such as stereotyping. Specifically, generics are thought to exacerbate our propensity to essentialize, lead us to overgeneralize based on scarce evidence, and lead to other epistemically dubious patterns of inference. Recently, however, several studies have put empirical and theoretical pressure on some of the main tenets of this research program. The goal of this paper (...)
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  3. Reflective Reasoning for Real People.Nick Byrd - 2020 - Dissertation, Florida State University
    1. EXPLICATING THE CONCEPT OF REFLECTION (under review) -/- To understand how ‘reflection’ is used, I consider ordinary, philosophical, and scientific discourse. I find that ‘reflection’ seems to refer to reasoning that is deliberate and conscious, but not necessarily self-conscious. Then I offer an empirical explication of reflection’s conscious and deliberate features. These explications not only help explain how reflection can be detected; they also distinguish reflection from nearby concepts such as ruminative and reformative reasoning. After this, I find that (...)
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  4. Wissen und Dummheit.Andrej Poleev - 2024 - Enzymes 22.
    Was ist Wissen von morgen im Vergleich mit Wissen von heute? Die geschichtliche Erfahrung zeigt diesen Übergang als ein Prozess der Weiterentwicklung der Sprache, weil menschliches Wissen an die Sprache gekoppelt ist, und seine Inhalte zu begreifen nur in sprachlichen Formen möglich ist. Während alte Sprachen vergehen, entstehen neue Sprachen: in diesem Prozess der Erneuerung von sprachlichen Formen wird das Wissen gesammelt, geklärt, und weitergegeben, und das geschieht durch Auswahl der Worte, deren Gebrauchswert ständig geprüft wird.
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  5. Les invisibles et les inaudibles de l'ingénierie.Marc-Kevin Daoust - manuscript
    Une des contributions phares de Luc Bégin à l’éthique publique est d’avoir bien documenté les obstacles auxquels les gardiens institutionnels québécois doivent porter une attention particulière. Bégin s’est notamment intéressé aux conditions dans lesquelles les ordres professionnels, comme l’Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, sont moins susceptibles de protéger le public contre des pratiques répréhensibles (corruption, collusion, etc.). Je poursuis les réflexions de Bégin à partir d’un point de vue « épistémique ». Je montre d’abord comment les ordres professionnels ont tendance (...)
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  6. Discriminatory Types and Homogenising Relevances: A Schutzian Perspective on Oppression.Tris Hedges & Sabrina De Biasio - 2024 - Human Studies (4):1-22.
    In this paper, we draw on Alfred Schutz’s theoretical framework to better understand how oppression is enacted through discriminatory acts. By closely examining the role of typifications and relevances in our experience of others, and by supplementing this analysis with contemporary social scientific resources, we argue that a Schutzian perspective on oppression yields important phenomenological insights. We do this in three key steps. Firstly, we contextualise Equality and the Meaning Structure of the Social World within Schutz’s broader body of work, (...)
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  7. The Liberation of Philosophy: The PSR as an Anti-Racist Principle.Ember Reed - 2021 - Compos Mentis 9 (1):264-273.
    The method of intuition, the view that the best philosophical perspective will maintain as many of our intuitions as possible, is one of the pillars of analytic philosophy. Unfortunately, the reliance on intuition by analytic philosophers has created conditions such that the biases of those who do philosophy, predominantly those of hegemonic identities, are accepted as a basis for philosophical knowledge. This problem can be solved by rejecting intuition as a basis for philosophical knowledge and instead relying on a methodology (...)
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  8. Biased Questions and Hamblin Semantics.Anton Zimmerling - 2023 - Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 6 (2):92-135.
    This paper takes a stand on Hamblin semantics and its relation to the semantics-to-pragmatics interface. Biased questions, where the speaker finds one of the options more likely and expects the confirmation that p is true, raise a concern about the limits of Hamblin semantics. I argue that biased questions have modified Hamblin semantics, while unbiased questions have unconstrained Hamblin semantics. The optional bias feature explains compositionally. It is triggered by likelihood presuppositions ranging Hamblin sets and highlighting the preferred alternative(s). Biased (...)
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  1. Does harm or disrespect make discrimination wrong? An experimental approach.Andreas Albertsen, Bjørn G. Hallsson, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen & Viki M. L. Pedersen - 2025 - Philosophical Psychology 38 (4):1756-1781.
    While standard forms of discrimination are widely considered morally wrong, philosophers disagree about what makes them so. Two accounts have risen to prominence in this debate: One stressing how wrongful discrimination disrespects the discriminatee, the other how the harms involved make discrimination wrong. While these accounts are based on carefully constructed thought experiments, proponents of both sides see their positions as in line with and, in part, supported by the folk theory of the moral wrongness of discrimination. This article presents (...)
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  2. Abolishing the Last Ontological Illusion: The Systemic Continuum Paradigm and the End of Artificiality.Ignacio Lucas de León - manuscript
    Since Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s (1968) inception of General System Theory, there has been a longstanding aspiration to achieve a unifying framework for understanding the organization of living, technological, and social systems. However, one historical obstacle has been the assumption that “natural” and “artificial” belong to separate ontological realms. This manuscript introduces the Systemic Continuum Paradigm (SCP), a perspective positing that every form of organization—biological, technological, social, and even phenomena in fundamental physics—belongs to one evolving continuum of emergent self-organization. Rather than (...)
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  3. Generalization Bias in Large Language Model Summarization of Scientific Research.Uwe Peters & Benjamin Chin-Yee - forthcoming - Royal Society Open Science.
    Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex scientific information in accessible terms. However, when summarizing scientific texts, LLMs may omit details that limit the scope of research conclusions, leading to generalizations of results broader than warranted by the original study. We tested 10 prominent LLMs, including ChatGPT-4o, ChatGPT-4.5, DeepSeek, LLaMA 3.3 70B, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, comparing 4900 LLM-generated summaries to (...)
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  4. Identity-protective reasoning: An epistemic and political defense.Carolina Flores - forthcoming - Episteme:1-24.
    Identity-protective reasoning---motivated reasoning driven by defending a social identity---is often dismissed as a paradigm of epistemic vice and a key driver of democratic dysfunction. Against this view, I argue that identity-protective reasoning can play a positive epistemic role, both individually and collectively. Collectively, it facilitates an effective division of cognitive labor by enabling groups to test divergent beliefs, serving as an epistemic insurance policy against the possibility that the total evidence is misleading. Individually, it can correct for the distortions that (...)
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  5. The criminalist's paradox as a counterexample to the principle of total evidence.Michał Sikorski & Alexander Gebharter - 2025 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
    The principle of total evidence says that all relevant information should be considered when making an inference about a hypothesis. In this article, we argue that the criminalist’s paradox from the literature on the methodology of forensic science constitutes a counterexample against the principle of total evidence. The paradox arises, for example, when a forensic scientist uses the results from other forensic procedures to inform their own analysis. In such cases, their results can become more reliable, but at the same (...)
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  6. Algorithmic Fairness Criteria as Evidence.Will Fleisher - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    Statistical fairness criteria are widely used for diagnosing and ameliorating algorithmic bias. However, these fairness criteria are controversial as their use raises several difficult questions. I argue that the major problems for statistical algorithmic fairness criteria stem from an incorrect understanding of their nature. These criteria are primarily used for two purposes: first, evaluating AI systems for bias, and second constraining machine learning optimization problems in order to ameliorate such bias. The first purpose typically involves treating each criterion as a (...)
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  7. Para muestra no basta un botón cualquiera: Acerca de las decisiones teórico-metodológicas de selección de unidades.Gonzalo Seid - 2016 - Unidad Sociológica 2 (8).
    This article synthesizes some classic methodological keys about sample decisions in social research and attempts to highlight some dimensions that are not always problematized. First, we define the concepts of sample and universe, and ask general questions about what sampling decisions involve. Then, it is proposed to think the variety of sampling procedures by organizing them in two large families: case selection guided by experimental logic and case selection based on random sampling. Although the types of samples are not reduced (...)
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  8. THE INTUITION OF KNOWING: ITS BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION AND NATURAL TRIGGERING-CONDITIONS.Nathan J. Fox - 2017 - Dissertation, Open University (Uk)
    Over the last hundred years, competing and incompatible positions in relation to basic problems of knowledge and the use of the verb ‘to know’ have multiplied; and the prospect of a consensus solution emerging with respect to any of the problems has not seemed particularly good. We have a Gordian knot. Even so, I suggest that we also have a way to cut it. This will involve identifying why the cognitive mechanism that produces our intuitions of knowing evolved and was (...)
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  9. Error Management Theory and the Ability to Bias Belief and Doubt.Nathan J. Fox - 2024 - Culture and Evolution 21:1-17.
    Error Management Theory (EMT) suggests that cognitive adaptations evolve to minimize the cost of false negative and false positive errors in detections of consequential environmental conditions. These adaptations manifest as biases tailored to specific environmental conditions. This paper proposes that the same selection pressure fostered the evolution of a self-biasing ability, allowing us to minimize such costs based on experience and culturally transmitted information. The research indicates that this ability specifically applies to productions of belief or doubt about the existence (...)
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  10. Ambivalent Stereotypes.Andreas Bengtson & Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - forthcoming - Res Publica.
    People often discriminate based on negative or positive stereotypes about others. Important examples of this are highlighted by the theory of ambivalent sexism. This theory distinguishes sexist stereotypes that are negative (hostile sexism) from those that are positive (benevolent sexism). While both forms of sexism are considered wrong towards women, hostile sexism seems intuitively worse than benevolent sexism. In this article, we ask whether the difference between discriminating based on positive vs. negative stereotypes in itself makes a morally relevant difference. (...)
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