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  1. Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism.Brian Cutter & Dustin Crummett - forthcoming - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion.
    This paper develops a new argument from consciousness to theism: the argument from psychophysical harmony. Roughly, psychophysical harmony consists in the fact that phenomenal states are correlated with physical states and with one another in strikingly fortunate ways. For example, phenomenal states are correlated with behavior and functioning that is justified or rationalized by those very phenomenal states, and phenomenal states are correlated with verbal reports and judgments that are made true by those very phenomenal states. We argue that psychophysical (...)
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    Effectiveness and Demandingness.Brian Berkey - 2020 - Utilitas 32 (3):368-381.
    It has been argued in some recent work that there are many cases in which individuals are subject toconditional obligationsto give to more effective rather than less effective charities, despite not being unconditionally obligated to give. These conditional obligations, it has been suggested, can allow effective altruists (EAs) to make the central claims about the ethics of charitable giving that characterize the movement without taking any particular position on morality's demandingness. I argue that the range of cases involving charitable giving (...)
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    Hermeneutics vs. Genealogy: Brandom’s Cloak or Nietzsche’s Quilt?Brian Lightbody - 2020 - The European Legacy 25 (6):635-652.
    This article examines genealogical investigations in an attempt to explain what they are, how they work, and what purpose they serve. It is a critique of Robert Brandom’s view of genealogists as naïve semanticists who believe that normative thinking, as it relates to all forms of epistemic inquiry and language use, is reducible to naturalistic causes. This reduction, Brandom claims, is hopelessly misguided and semantically incoherent since genealogies are not epistemically neutral in that “they count no more and no less,” (...)
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  4. The AI Ensoulment Hypothesis.Brian Cutter - forthcoming - Faith and Philosophy.
    According to the AI ensoulment hypothesis, some future AI systems will be endowed with immaterial souls. I argue that we should have at least a middling credence in the AI ensoulment hypothesis, conditional on our eventual creation of AGI and the truth of substance dualism in the human case. I offer two arguments. The first relies on an analogy between aliens and AI. The second rests on the conjecture that ensoulment occurs whenever a physical system is “fit to possess” a (...)
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    The Ambitions of Consequentialism.Brian McElwee - 2020 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 17 (2):198--218.
    Consequentialism is most famously a theory of right action. But many consequentialists assume, and some have explicitly argued, that consequentialism is equally plausible as a direct theory of the right rules, motives, character traits, institutions, and even such things as climates and eye colours. In this paper, I call into question this ‘Global Consequentialist’ extension of consequentialist evaluation beyond the domain of action. Consequentialist treatments of evaluands other than action are most plausible when they are interpreted as claims about reasons (...)
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    Mechanisms of value-learning in the guidance of spatial attention.Brian A. Anderson & Haena Kim - 2018 - Cognition 178 (C):26-36.
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    Calculus and counterpossibles in science.Brian McLoone - 2020 - Synthese 198 (12):12153-12174.
    A mathematical model in science can be formulated as a counterfactual conditional, with the model’s assumptions in the antecedent and its predictions in the consequent. Interestingly, some of these models appear to have assumptions that are metaphysically impossible. Consider models in ecology that use differential equations to track the dynamics of some population of organisms. For the math to work, the model must assume that population size is a continuous quantity, despite that many organisms are necessarily discrete. This means our (...)
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    Reward predictions bias attentional selection.Brian A. Anderson, Patryk A. Laurent & Steven Yantis - 2013 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7.
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    The Broad Nature and Importance of Public Philosophy.Brian J. Collins - 2020 - Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice 2:72-87.
    Many professional philosophers are hesitant about “public philosophy”—unsure about what it is and how it’s done, and downright pessimistic about whether it is an important and valuable philosophical practice. In response to this hesitancy and in support of public philosophy, I argue that most of these philosophers already find at least one form of public philosophy important and valuable for the discipline and profession: teaching. I offer and defend a broad conception of public philosophy in order support this controversial claim. (...)
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  10. The Many-Subjects Argument against Physicalism.Brian Cutter - forthcoming - In Geoffrey Lee & Adam Pautz (eds.), The Importance of Being Conscious. Oxford University Press.
    The gist of the many-subjects argument is that, given physicalism, it’s hard to avoid the absurd result that there are many conscious subjects in your vicinity with more-or-less the same experiences as you. The most promising ways of avoiding this result have a consequence almost as bad: that there are many things in your vicinity that are in a state only trivially different from being conscious, a state with similar normative significance. This paper clarifies and defends three versions of the (...)
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    Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind.Brian P. McLaughlin & Jonathan Cohen (eds.) - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind showcases the leading contributors to the field, debating the major questions in philosophy of mind today. Comprises 20 newly commissioned essays on hotly debated issues in the philosophy of mind Written by a cast of leading experts in their fields, essays take opposing views on 10 central contemporary debates A thorough introduction provides a comprehensive background to the issues explored Organized into three sections which explore the ontology of the mental, nature of the mental (...)
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    An introduction to the philosophy of religion.Brian Davies - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    A deep and precise introduction to the philosophy of religion that is also remarkably clear and insightful. The author has a conversation with the student and uses concrete examples to explain often abstract concepts and issues.
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  13. A Critique of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.Brian J. Collins - 2023 - Philosophy Now 154:48-50.
    The foundational principles of representative democracy are under attack globally. What we desperately need are enlightened and persuasive public intellectuals who can help us see through the fog of our fear, anger, and disillusionment, to find our rational political commitments again. One of these public intellectuals is undoubtedly Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of three recent books – Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Harari is also a frequent contributor in the popular press, and a (...)
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    Conceptual alternatives: Competition in language and beyond.Brian Buccola, Manuel Križ & Emmanuel Chemla - 2021 - Linguistics and Philosophy 45 (2):265-291.
    Things we can say, and the ways in which we can say them, compete with one another. And this has consequences: words we decide not to pronounce have critical effects on the messages we end up conveying. For instance, in saying Chris is a good teacher, we may convey that Chris is not an amazing teacher. How this happens is an unsolvable problem, unless a theory of alternatives indicates what counts, among all the things that have not been pronounced. It (...)
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    Counterintuitive effects of negative social feedback on attention.Brian A. Anderson - 2017 - Cognition and Emotion 31 (3).
  16. The Social Media Commons: Public Sphere, Agonism, and Algorithmic Obligation.Brian J. Collins, Jose Marichal & Richard Neve - 2020 - Journal of Information Technology and Politics 17.
    This paper takes a unique approach to framing the political obligation social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have in a democratic society by casting the public sphere as a common-pool resource. Over the last decade or so much of our civic discourse has moved to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. This paper argues that just as citizens have an obligation to one another, social media companies have an obligation to promote agonistic forms of civic, political discourse (...)
     
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  17. Bentham on the corruption of democracy.Brian Chien-Kang Chen - 2022 - In Philip Schofield & Xiaobo Zhai (eds.), Bentham on democracy, courts, and codification. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Small cardinals and small Efimov spaces.Will Brian & Alan Dow - 2022 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 173 (1):103043.
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    Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951.Brian McGuinness (ed.) - 2009 - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
    This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore, and Ramsey. Now expanded to include 200 previously unpublished letters and documents, including correspondence between Wittgenstein and the economist Piero Sraffa, and between Wittgenstein and his pupils Includes extensive editorial annotations Provides a fascinating and intimate insight into Wittgenstein's life and thought.
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  20. Pain and representation.Brian Cutter - 2017 - In Jennifer Corns (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain. New York: Routledge. pp. 290-39.
    This chapter focuses specifically on the case of pain. Despite traditional opposition to the representational thesis, the latter has won widespread assent. The most important early proponents of the representational thesis were David Armstrong and George Pitcher, both of whom held that pain is a form of perception. Following Armstrong and Pitcher, intentionalists have traditionally held that the experience of pain has a content with roughly the following form: there is a disturbance with such-and-such features at location L. Since the (...)
     
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    Event Supervenience and Supervenient Causation.Brian P. McLaughlin - 1984 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1):71-91.
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    Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951.Brian McGuinness (ed.) - 2009 - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
    This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore, and Ramsey. Now expanded to include 200 previously unpublished letters and documents, including correspondence between Wittgenstein and the economist Piero Sraffa, and between Wittgenstein and his pupils Includes extensive editorial annotations Provides a fascinating and intimate insight into Wittgenstein's life and thought.
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    The Critique of Science Becomes Academic.Brian Martin - 1993 - Science, Technology and Human Values 18 (2):247-259.
    The author uses personal experiences to introduce the view that the critique of science, on entering the academy in the form of the sociology of scientific knowledge, has become increasingly remote from crucial social issues and social movements confronting it. By linking their analyses more with such issues and movements, science studies scholars can serve a more useful social purpose and also reinvigorate their theory.
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    Captives of Controversy: The Myth of the Neutral Social Researcher in Contemporary Scientific Controversies.Brian Martin, Evelleen Richards & Pam Scott - 1990 - Science, Technology and Human Values 15 (4):474-494.
    According to both traditional positivist approaches and also to the sociology of scientific knowledge, social analysts should not themselves become involved in the controversies they are investigating. But the experiences of the authors in studying contemporary scientific controversies—specifically, over the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, fluoridation, and vitamin C and cancer—show that analysts, whatever their intentions, cannot avoid being drawn into the fray. The field of controversy studies needs to address the implications of this process for both theory and practice.
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    Painting as Metaphor in Plato's Republic.Brian Marrin - 2023 - International Philosophical Quarterly 63 (1):5-21.
    This paper examines the use of the painting metaphor in the Republic, showing that earlier mentions of painting suggest an understanding of mimesis at odds with the critique of book X, and argues that this disagreement can only be understood in the dialogical context of the work as a whole. Early on, painters are said to be able to produce images truer and more beautiful than any existing object, and both the depiction of the city in speech itself and its (...)
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  26. Universal Basic Income.Brian McDonough & Jessie Bustillos Morales - 2020
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    Doing for circular time what Shoemaker did for time without change: How one could have evidence that time is circular rather than linear and infinitely repeating.Cody Gilmore & Brian Kierland - forthcoming - Philosophies.
    There are possible worlds in which time is circular and finite in duration, forming a loop of, say, 12,000 years. There are also possible worlds in which time is linear and infinite in both directions, and in which history is repetitive, consisting of infinitely many 12,000 year epochs, each two of which are exactly alike with respect to all intrinsic, purely qualitative properties. Could one ever have empirical evidence that one inhabits a world of the first kind rather than a (...)
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    Commentary: Doing the Most Good with the Least Harm in Cases of Suspected Malingering.Brian Andrews - 2018 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27 (4):740-742.
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  29. Raymond Aron and the Defence of Political Reason.Brian C. Anderson - 1997 - Dissertation, University of Ottawa (Canada)
     
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    Introduction: Trauma and Textualities.Brian Brown, Ricardo Rato Rodrigues, Charley Baker & Paul Crawford - 2020 - Journal of Medical Humanities 42 (2):209-211.
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    Systems thinking in gender and medicine.Brian D. Earp - 2020 - Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (4):225-226.
    If there is a single thread running through this issue of the journal, it may be the complex interplay between the individual and the system of which they are apart, highlighting a need for systems thinking in medical ethics and public health.1 2 Such thinking raises at least three sorts of questions in this context: normative questions about the locus of moral responsibility for change when a system is unjust; practical questions about how to change systems in a way that (...)
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    Portmanteau Constructions, Phrase Structure, and Linearization.Brian Hok-Shing Chan - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  33. Wittgenstein in Cambridge.Brian McGuinness (ed.) - 2008-03-28 - Blackwell.
     
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    Hill on phenomenal consciousness.Brian P. McLaughlin - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (3):851-860.
    I argue that it is at least open to a proponent of type materialism for phenomenal consciousness to accept Hill’s representational theory of experiential awareness of perceptual qualia.
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  35. Bentham on the corruption of democracy.Brian Chien-Kang Chen - 2022 - In Philip Schofield & Xiaobo Zhai (eds.), Bentham on democracy, courts, and codification. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    Philosophy and the human condition: an anthology.Brian R. Clack (ed.) - 2017 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Philosophy and the Human Condition brings together essential readings on the crucial philosophical problems related to the human condition and human nature. This collection includes traditional works of Western philosophers from Plato to the present day; relevant extracts from religious texts;and contributions by women, traditions outside of the Western philosophical canon, and other disciplines.
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    Two wings: integrating faith and reason.Brian B. Clayton - 2018 - San Francisco: Ignatius Press. Edited by Douglas Kries.
    This work arises out of the efforts of two college teachers to explain to their beginning students how believing and reasoning are two human activities that may be integrated to form a complete Christian view of human existence. Two Wings takes its title from the opening of John Paul II's encyclical Fides et Ratio, which speaks of how the human spirit rises on the two wings of faith and reason to stretch toward truth. The book offers a basic yet engaging (...)
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    Ten days in physics that shook the world: how physicists transformed everyday life.Brian Clegg - 2021 - London: Icon.
    The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives. It is a unique selection. Focusing on practical impact means there is no room for (...)
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    The first scientist: a life of Roger Bacon.Brian Clegg - 2003 - London: Constable.
    Back in thirteenth-century Europe, in the early years of the great universities, learning was spiced with the danger of mob violence and a terrifyingly repressive religious censorship. Roger Bacon, a humble and devout English friar, seems an unlikely figure to challenge the orthodoxy of his day - yet he risked his life to establish the basis for true knowledge. Born c.1220, Bacon was passionately interested in the natural world and how things worked. Such dangerous topics were vetoed by his Order, (...)
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  40. FINLAY-FREUNDLICH, E. "Cosmology".Brian Coffey - 1951 - Modern Schoolman 29:183.
     
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    A Political Interpretation of Aristotle’s Ethics.Brian J. Collins - 2017 - In Emma Cohen de Lara & Rene Brouwer (eds.), Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between the Ethics and Politics. Chem, Switzerland: Springer. pp. 171-186.
    In this chapter I take up the question of how Aristotle understood the relationship between the contemplative life and the active life in contributing to human flourishing and to the political regime. While the connections between Aristotle’s ethics and politics are abundant, there exists a prevalent assumption in the inclusive/dominant debate concerning the interpretation of eudaimonia (human flourishing) that Aristotle’s Politics cannot or should not play a prominent role in helping to understand eudaimonia. On the ‘inclusivist’ reading, eudaimonia is understood (...)
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  42. Introduction: Chinese philosophy as a resource for problems in contemporary philosophy.Brian Bruya - 2015 - In The Philosophical Challenge from China. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
     
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    Augustine in the Predestination Controversy of the Ninth Century.Brian J. Matz - 2015 - Augustinian Studies 46 (2):155-184.
    A debate over whether God predestines to make some people reprobate broke out in the ninth century. No one taught this view, but it was presumed by several churchmen at the time to be the position of those who called themselves double predestinarians. In part, this article explains why two double predestinarians, Gottschalk of Orbais and Ratramnus of Corbie, were mistaken for proponents of this view. They had been trying to explain Augustine’s phrase, “those predestined to punishment”, which they found (...)
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  44. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on virtue, happiness, and magic.Brian Copenhaver - 2019 - In Stephen Gersh (ed.), Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism From the Renaissance to the Modern Era. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    A Critique of Kim’s Case That Classical Metaphysical Emergence is Incoherent.Brian P. McLaughlin - 2022 - ProtoSociology 39:11-18.
    Jaegwon Kim, in “‘Supervenient and Yet Not Deducible’: Is There a Coherent Concept of Ontological Emergence?” (2009), attempts to show that C.D. Broad’s conception of metaphysical emergence is incoherent. I argue that Kim’s attempt fails because he fails to recognize that trans-ordinal laws, in Broad’s sense, are supposed to be ontologically fundamental laws. Broad’s conception of metaphysical emergence is coherent, though it is another issue (one I do not address here) whether anything in fact answers to it.
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  46. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Second Edition.Brian McLaughlin & Jonathan Cohen (eds.) - forthcoming - Wiley.
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  47. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edition.Brian McLaughlin & Jonathan Cohen (eds.) - 2023 - Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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  48. Self-knowledge and the use of the self in the Platonic theages.Brian Marrin - 2018 - In James M. Ambury & Andy R. German (eds.), Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    Techniques to Pass on: Technology and Euthanasia.Brian Martin - 2010 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 30 (1):54-59.
    Proponents and opponents of euthanasia have argued passionately about whether it should be legalized. In Australia in the mid-1990s, following the world’s first legal euthanasia deaths, Dr. Philip Nitschke initiated a different approach: a search for do-it-yourself technological means of dying with dignity. The Australian government has opposed this effort, especially through heavy censorship. The citizen efforts led by Nitschke have the potential to move the euthanasia issue from a debate about legalization to a struggle over technology.
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    Architectures of the unforeseen: essays in the occurent arts.Brian Massumi - 2019 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    Form Follows Force : Greg Lynn -- Relational Architecture : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer -- Making to Place : Simryn Gill -- Concluding Remarks : Immanence (Many Lives).
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