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How Infallibilists Can Have It All

agent S has to a fact P that makes P certain for S. I do not take a stand here on precisely what facts we can apprehend. This will largely depend on the outcomes of debates in the philosophy of mind and ... philosophy of mind and perception will differ on what kinds of factors are mentally accessible in this way. In section 1, I developed the concept of apprehension in a way that remains neutral on these debates

Collective memory for political leaders in a collaborative government system: Evidence for generation-specific reminiscence effects

Collective memory is shared by a group and is part of that group’s identity. Memory for political leaders is a prototypical case of collective memory. The present study investigated collective memory ... generation-specific reminiscence effect was observed in any of the previous studies on collective memory for political leaders in single-leader systems. One reason for the lack of such generation-specific

Rationality, preference satisfaction and anomalous intentions: why rational choice theory is not self-defeating

preferences than they would be if they abided by some normative theory of choice other than RCT. In this paper, I combine insights from philosophy of action, philosophy of mind and the normative foundations of

People from the U.S. and China think about their personal and collective future differently

people think about the past and the future similarly. We suggest political and cultural differences (such as dialectical thought) as potential explanations for the differences between countries in future ... . Of course, there are a number of sociological differences between China and the U.S.—China is radically different in its political structure (authoritarian vs. democratic government), media, and

The impact of group identity on the interaction between collective memory and collective future thinking negativity: Evidence from a Turkish sample

and two in the next 70 years for Turkey, and rated events’ valence, centrality, and transitional impact. Past events were dominated by national political events whereas future events’ themes were more ... literature by providing data from a context characterized by political turmoil and sharp divides, investigating the generalizability of previous findings and directly addressing the link between sociopolitical

How people think about the truth of hypothetical impossibilities

Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Author Note The raw data for the experiments are accessible at the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/rtcxj/. The study materials are ... ). Counterpossible non-vacuity in scientific practice . The Journal of Philosophy , 116 ( 1 ), 32 - 60 . Thompson , V. A. , & Byrne , R. M. J. ( 2002 ). Reasoning counterfactually: making inferences about things that

Grounding of abstract concepts related to power

– parties, countries, or political leaders (past or present) were depicted to indicate the political system. For democracy, a lot of drawings referred to voting of political parties, either by showing a ... example, differences in opinion between people, or depicted political demonstrations. Wealth and poverty In the ratings of images, the significant main effect of content indicated that the presence of

Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation

of Philosophy, University of Duesseldorf , Universitaetsstr. 1, 40225 Duesseldorf , Germany There is a plurality of formal constraints for aggregating probabilities of a group of individuals ... philosophy of science recent research focusses a lot on the relation of scientific groups having gathered a different set of evidence, holding different theories, and providing alternative explanations (cf

Bounded rationality for relaxing best response and mutual consistency: the quantal hierarchy model of decision making

( 4 ), 1297 - 1333 . Alaoui , L. , & Penta , A. ( 2022 ). Cost-benefit analysis in reasoning . Journal of Political Economy , 130 ( 4 ), 881 - 925 . Anufriev , M. , Duffy , J. , & Panchenko , V. ( 2022 ... & Philosophy , 3 ( 2 ), 179 - 214 . Binmore , K. ( 1988 ). Modeling rational players: Part II . Economics & Philosophy , 4 ( 1 ), 9 - 55 . Binmore , K. , McCarthy , J. , Ponti , G. , Samuelson , L. , & Shaked

Belief inducibility and informativeness

divide et impera and, thus, wants to create political unrest in a foreign country by implementing a very heterogeneous belief profile.2 Suppose that there are only two states, say X and Y. Then it is ... ). Feasible joint posterior beliefs . Journal of Political Economy , 129 , 2546 - 2594 . Aumann , R.J. , Maschler , M.B. , & Stearns , R.E . (Eds.), ( 1995 ). Repeated games with incomplete information . MIT

Who accepts Savage’s axiom now?

the measurability of utility . Journal of Political Economy , 1 , 463 - 474 . Gilboa , I. ( 2010 ). Questions in decision theory . Annual Review of Economics , 2 , 1 - 19 . https://doi.org/10. 1146 ... it became, what it really was, what it now suggests to us . Economics and Philosophy , 35 , 423 - 459 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267118000469 Moskovitz , H. ( 1974 ). Effects of problem

The Impossibility of Conservatism? Insights from Russian History

in the Tsarist period to show that if they live in times of great hardship, or under arbitrary political rule, political actors and thinkers with conservative sympathies (such as respect for tradition ... developing conservative political philosophy, other parts of history where conservatism?s problems have emerged and have a recognizable connection with the situation today remain of great interest. In

Living-in-history effect in the dating of important autobiographical memories

veterans (58%) than among nonveterans (28%). The memory content analysis revealed that public event references were mostly used to date public memories (e.g., war and political struggle) and the memories ... participants who experienced a major collective transition during their formative years. Young people affected by collective transition share similar social, political, and economic consequences, which would

Accountability as a Warrant for Trust: An Experiment on Sanctions and Justifications in a Trust Game

quality of deliberation . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 12 ( 4 ), 389 - 410 . Charness , G. , Cobo-Reyes , R. , & Jime´nez, N. ( 2008 ). An investment game with third party intervention . Journal of ... accountability. In political economy and rational choice theory, accountability is primarily understood as a mechanism based on material sanctions or rewards (Fearon, 1999: 55) . Besley (2006: 37) defines

Original position arguments and social choice under ignorance

Journal of Philosophy , 115 ( 11 ), 588 - 604 . Harsanyi , J. C. ( 1953 ). Cardinal utility in welfare economics and in the theory of risk-taking . Journal of Political Economy , 61 ( 5 ), 434 - 435 ... Science, Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium 1 Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands John Rawls famously argued that the Difference

Acting on belief functions

The degrees of belief of rational agents should be guided by the evidence available to them. This paper takes as a starting point the view—argued elsewhere—that the formal model best able to capture this idea is one that represents degrees of belief using Dempster–Shafer belief functions. However, degrees of belief should not only respect evidence; they also guide decision and...

Just society

scrutinized in a number of fields including political philosophy and economics. His maximin rule for the distribution of income and wealth is perhaps most criticized. Rawls is well aware that the maximin rule ... person and the right to hold property; political liberty (the right to vote and equal eligibility for public office); and equal access for positions in private and public sectors). Thus, the three

Implicit intertemporal trajectories in cognitive representations of the self and nation

passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its role in advancing political equality for African Americans, or of a particular junior scholar in a prestigious academic program overcoming her imposter ... across political affiliations in the American sample. From this evidence, Shrikanth et al. (2018) concluded that personal and collective future thought were dissociable domains of future thought—that is

Cost-(in)effective public good provision: an experimental exploration

impure altruism: Applications to charity and Ricardian equivalence . Journal of Political Economy , 97 ( 6 ), 1447 - 1458 . Andreoni , J. ( 1990 ). Impure altruism and donations to public goods: A theory ... . , & Wilhelm , M. O. ( 2002 ). Altruistic and joy-of-giving motivations in charitable behavior . Journal of Political Economy , 110 ( 2 ), 425 - 457 . Richefort , L. ( 2018 ). Warm-glow giving in networks with

The effect of bilingualism on executive functions when languages are similar: a comparison between Hungarian–Serbian and Slovak–Serbian young adult bilinguals

Experimental Psychology, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy , Novi Sad , Serbia 2 Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London , London , UK 3 Laboratory for Experimental ... Psychology, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy , Belgrade , Serbia 4 Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy , Belgrade , Serbia Among the factors argued to