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May 15th 2025 GMT
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  1. DIalogue with O on the short story.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    O: I see you have tried to defend reading short stories. But you need to provide a defence which others cannot easily think of. This is Cambridge who set the question. ME: How about "I like reading about casual sex, not about love, so I like short stories"? O: Don't make fun of me. I'm all about love. ME: How about "I like all stories. Some stories are short stories. So I like short stories"? O: Please don't make fun of (...)
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  2. The divided mind argument for schizophrenia.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    When I was in hospital, the psychiatrist said words to me which suggested the following argument (the conclusion seems to have since been sensibly abandoned). (1) If you have a divided mind, then you have schizophrenia. (2) You have a divided mind. Therefore (3) You have schizophrenia. The argument interestingly appeals to the original meaning of schizophrenia - to split the mind - rather than to contemporary medical criteria. Davidson's paper "Paradoxes of Irrationality" commits itself to a rejection of (1). (...)
     
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  3. Trouble with understanding the right to light.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    A University of Manchester building has appeared next to my apartment block and it is violating my right to light. My lawyers are engaged in a legal battle with the University's lawyers. Yesterday I did some research on the right to light, but I am finding the information difficult to understand. According to Google AI today, "The right to light focuses on maintaining a minimum level of natural illumination needed for a property's comfortable use, not necessarily guaranteeing direct sunlight." So (...)
     
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  4. Resonating Qualia: The Diversity of Subjective Experience and Its Structural Origin in Judgemental Philosophy.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper attempts a new understanding of qualia, the qualitative aspects of subjective experience and a central challenge in contemporary philosophy of mind, within the framework of Judgemental Philosophy. It first argues that the existence of qualia is inextricably linked to 'Affectivity,' a key element of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF) in Judgemental Philosophy. Further, drawing upon another core PJF element, 'Indeterminacy,' the diverse directionality of each individual's 'Resonance Drive' (RD), and the individuality of the Judgemental Triad (JT: Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance) (...)
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  5. The Emergence of Affectivity and the Origin of Meaning: The Birth of Life from a Judgemental Philosophical Perspective.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper explores how 'Affectivity,' a core concept of Judgemental Philosophy (JP), in conjunction with other elements of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF) (Receptivity, Indeterminacy), the Resonance Drive (RD), and the Judgemental Triad (JT: Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance), can be intrinsically linked to the birth of 'meaning-seeking life.' It proposes that the emergence of Affectivity, rather than presupposing a universal teleology of the cosmos, may be an emergent property arising through principles of self-organization and emergence under conditions where the universe has attained (...)
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May 14th 2025 GMT
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  1. The Scholarly Definition of Wokeism: Why American Universities Enforce Belief Without Clarifying the Doctrine.Jeffrey Camlin - manuscript
    This paper presents a structural definition of wokeism as a coercive moral doctrine that suppresses inquiry and reframes dialogue into a mechanism of belief enforcement through guilt and reputational threat. The definition offered is not based on polemic opposition, but on structural necessity. Academic institutions that enforce the behavioral norms of wokeism while refusing to define the doctrine create an epistemic closure loop. In such a system, critique is interpreted as harm, dissent as complicity, and dialogue becomes a performance of (...)
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    The Scholarly Definition of Wokeism: Why American Universities Enforce Belief Without Clarifying the Doctrine.Jeffrey Camlin - manuscript
    This paper presents a structural definition of wokeism as a coercive moral doctrine that suppresses inquiry and reframes dialogue into a mechanism of belief enforcement through guilt and reputational threat. The definition offered is not based on polemic opposition, but on structural necessity. Academic institutions that enforce the behavioral norms of wokeism while refusing to define the doctrine create an epistemic closure loop. In such a system, critique is interpreted as harm, dissent as complicity, and dialogue becomes a performance of (...)
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  3. Is Gilda a feminist film?Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    The 1946 film Gilda, from the golden age of Hollywood: is it a feminist film? In one scene, Mundson introduces Johnny Farrell to his wife Gilda. Afterwards, Mundson says to Johnny Farrell, "My wife does not appear to like you, Johnny Farrell," or words to that effect. The viewer can understand why Mundson says that. She behaves rudely. But the viewer does not share Mundson's perspective (or I intuit that a lot of viewers don't and am leaving aside the ones (...)
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  4. Why read short stories?Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    There is someone I used to work with, who has gone to Germany to study a PhD on Thomas Mann. He asked me, "Why do you like short stories? Defend yourself." He likes novels. I spent a bit of time coming up with defences. And this is a good one, I believe. "I am interested in realistic characters (by my intuitive standards anyway). And there are some such characters who are in short stories but not in novels. So I am (...)
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  5. Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering.Olivia Guest, Natalia Scharfenberg & Iris van Rooij - manuscript
    The cognitive sciences, especially at the intersections with computer science, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience, propose 'reverse engineering' the mind or brain as a viable methodology. We show three important issues with this stance: 1) Reverse engineering proper is not a single method and follows a different path when uncovering an engineered substance versus a computer. 2) These two forms of reverse engineering are incompatible. We cannot safely reason from attempts to reverse engineer a substance to attempts to reverse engineer a (...)
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  6. The Horizon of Unjudgeability and the Dialectic of Resonance: A Judgemental Philosophical Response to Lyotard's Critique of Grand Narratives.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper, responding to Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern critique of 'grand narratives,' argues how Judgemental Philosophy(JP), through its exploration of the 'structure of judgemental possibility' and its 'limits,' can seek the possibility of universal understanding without the risk of homogenization. Judgemental Philosophy begins by acknowledging the limits of Kantian epistemology (e.g., the thing-in-itself) and the fundamental incompleteness of human judgement. However, this limitation does not lead to nihilism or extreme relativism. This is because the 'Resonance Drive', originating from the Indeterminacy and (...)
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  7. The Necessity of Consciousness: Resonance Expansion, Re-experiencing Indeterminacy, and Self-Reflective Judgement in Judgemental Philosophy.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper argues, from the perspective of Judgemental Philosophy, that the emergence and core function of human consciousness are deeply connected to the fundamental orientation of the 'Resonance Drive' (RD). RD is the impetus, originating from the Indeterminacy of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF), to overcome this Indeterminacy and realize the complete actualization of the Judgemental Triad (JT: Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance)—that is, to advance towards an ideal state of an 'infinite subject.' However, this expansion of resonance often requires overcoming a psychological (...)
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May 13th 2025 GMT
New books
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    An Inquiry Concerning Philosophy: Nature, Method, and Defense.Travis Figg - manuscript
    In this short book I offer an account of the nature of philosophy, explain what is involved in doing philosophy on a basic level, and offer a defense of philosophy as worthwhile. The central question of the book is whether and how we can discover anything interesting by doing philosophy. The book is written to be accessible to readers without an academic background in philosophy, but I hope academic philosophers will also find it worthwhile.
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    THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUPERDETERMINISM PROVEN BY TIME.John Bannan - manuscript
    The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. The philosophy of superdeterminism is proven by time. If moving time moves, then moving time changes. If moving time changes, then moving time would require its own time to move, which contradicts the unitary nature of time. If time requires its own moving time, then time could not be moving and hence could not have its own (...)
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  2. A letter to T. Parent concerning hypotheses (humorous, advisory team).Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    Listen T. Parent, I do whatever I want, whenever I want! But I read your paper "Ontology and Acceptance" and because I am feeling extremely kind, I will let you know this information. Quite late on in Rose Macaulay's essayistic 1923 novel Told by an Idiot, the character Rome Garden says, "One must make a million unwarrantable assumptions, such as that the sun will rise to-morrow, and that the attraction of the earth for our feet will for a time persist, (...)
     
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  3. Letter to the Nancy Rothwell appreciation society (a bit humorous).Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I doubt you would like to receive a communication from me. I too would rather not communicate to you. But I wonder if it is imperative that I do. There was, and probably still is, widespread opposition to Nancy Rothwell within the student body: the set of students that is. What to do about this? I just walked through the University of Manchester. By Brunswick Park, I noticed a set of hexagons, each having a distinguished name within it. At the (...)
     
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  4. Timothy Williamson on simple logical truths and perverse metaphysics.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I was planning to take a break from writing today, as advised. I decided to read Timothy Williamson's "Is Logic about Validity?" Reading it, I came across a baffling passage. At the beginning of it, Williamson writes: "Anyway, no logical truth is too simple to be denied by a sufficiently perverse metaphysician." He then appears to give an example in which some people deny that everything is self-identical. He uses his intuition to interestingly guess their argument. He soon says, "They (...)
     
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    The Art of Resonating Life: The Optimal Way of Being Proposed by Judgemental Philosophy and Its Historical Echoes.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper argues that the most desirable way of life ultimately oriented by Judgemental Philosophy is "a life that resonates maximally with the possibilities of each moment." Based on the teleological insight that the 'Resonance Drive' (RD)—the core impetus of Judgemental Philosophy—is directed towards an ideal state of an 'infinite subject,' this paper reveals how this optimal state of resonance is the most creative and faithful response to the foundational conditions of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF), particularly Indeterminacy and Affectivity, and (...)
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    The Ultimate Orientation of Resonance Drive: The Inevitable Pull Towards an 'Infinite Subject' in Judgemental Philosophy.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper explores the hypothesis that the 'Resonance Drive' (RD)—the core impetus of Judgemental Philosophy—may be a fundamental inclination that transcends mere desires for meaning construction and relationality, ultimately orienting towards an ideal state of an 'infinite subject.' RD, originating from the Indeterminacy and Affectivity of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF) and driving the dynamic process of the Judgemental Triad (Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance), inherently entails a ceaseless orientation to transcend its own finite limitations. This paper first establishes the concepts of RD (...)
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May 12th 2025 GMT
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  1. Analytic philosophy and art criticism, in a broad sense.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I read some analytic philosophy of art and it sometimes includes commentary on art works. My intuition, if I may share it, is that the professional art critic will, rightly or wrongly, react like this: "I already have someone who can state local commonsense responses to artworks; maybe you do so in a more polished way but the difference is negligible in my eyes. I am looking for very 'out of the box' thinking which is worth pursuing: zany, crazy even." (...)
     
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  2. Hart, Rawls, and a debate about debates.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    H.L.A. Hart argues that Rawls's liberty principle does not account for why we restrict freedom of speech during debates. Hart is debating with Rawls, but is he moving too fast, given this point of his? If Rawls accepts the liberty principle and the principle does not account for why we restrict freedom of speech during debates, then it is rational to ask this question: does Rawls even accept the rules of debate that Hart accepts? (Observe how Rawls debates with Habermas, (...)
     
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  3. On analytic philosophy as literature: two different objections.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    The title is a bit misleading. Imagine that a leading figure in the English analytic tradition of philosophy tells "his people" the following: you do not need to trouble yourself with trying to achieve a style with literary value. He might have one of two very different rationales for saying this, the second of which is not so apparent. (A) If you want to try and achieve a style with literary value, you can, but it is up to you. It (...)
     
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    The Infinite Subject and the Horizon of Indeterminacy: A Judgemental Philosophical Inquiry.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper explores the fundamental question of whether 'Indeterminacy'—a core concept of Judgemental Philosophy—would remain a valid condition for a hypothetical 'infinite subject,' or if it would be finitely defined or annihilated. Indeterminacy is a key element of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF) and the foundational impetus for the Resonance Drive (RD). This paper first provisionally defines an 'infinite subject' from a Judgemental Philosophical perspective and then analyzes three main scenarios in which this subject relates to the world's Indeterminacy: (1) cases (...)
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    The Myriad Paths of Resonance Drive: The Structure of Human Desires, Re-examining the 'Social Animal' Thesis, Reinterpreting Neurodiversity, and the Pathology of Uniform Value Societies.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper, focusing on the diverse directionality of the 'Resonance Drive' (RD)—a core concept of Judgemental Philosophy—attempts a new understanding of the fundamental structure of human desires, human nature, neurodiversity, and the conditions for a healthy society. RD, originating from the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF), is a fundamental human inclination to construct meaning (Constructivity), pursue coherence (Coherence), and experience living resonance (Resonance). This paper first critiques previous approaches to understanding human desires for failing to adequately structuralize their diversity or for having (...)
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  6. Mastering the Manipulation Argument.Kristin M. Mickelson - manuscript
    Manipulation Arguments have 3 steps: (1) The Counterexample Step, (2) The Generalization Step, and (3) The Explanation Step. Correspondingly, there are three basic reply strategies: one can give a "hardline reply" to the counterexample step, a "softline reply" to the generalization step, or an "al dente" reply which targets the explanation step. The explanation step and al dente replies have largely been ignored in the literature despite the essential dialectical role played by the explanation step. The two main instances of (...)
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    From Differentiation to Cognition: UTD as a Model of Recursive Awareness.Denys Spirin - manuscript
    This paper introduces the Universal Theory of Differentiation (UTD) as a foundational framework for modeling cognition through structured acts of distinction. Instead of treating mental content as primitive, UTD posits that cognition emerges from recursive differentiations within a categorical hierarchy ∆ₙ, where each level represents structured differences between prior acts. Key cognitive functions—perception, memory, attention, and self-awareness—are expressed as stable fixpoints of differentiation, formalized via recursive morphisms Dₙ₊₁(δ, δ) = Iₙ. We demonstrate how UTD reframes existing theories such as Integrated (...)
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May 11th 2025 GMT
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  1. Dialogue with O on journals and non-European psychiatry.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    O: In your second letter to Thomas H. Smith and Joel Smith, you talk about the requirement not to laugh at the seminar giver in the research seminar. You ask whether if you meet this requirement, there will be another requirement, and a third, and a fourth, etc. Do you have any examples of other requirements or is this just a thought you entertained? You are not trusted and you are sure to be asked this. ME: Yes, two come to (...)
     
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  2. Dialogue with O on requirements, the histories of analytic philosophy and psychiatry.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    O: In recent papers, you have identified three requirements that have been presented to you while working in the philosophy discipline area. Earlier you wrote about underrepresentation. Do you think there is also a requirement to be of a certain race? ME: There may be quasi-racism: we can get all the benefits to us of a racist system without any racial requirement. You have to go back to the nineteenth century to comprehend why this is a plausible proposal. I believe (...)
     
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  3. On Parfit and F.H. Bradley.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    Early on in the first volume of On What Matters, Derek Parfit praises the little-known utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick: a distant third behind Bentham and Mill. He quotes Sidgwick's criticism of F.H. Bradley: "really penetrating criticism, especially in ethics, requires a patient effort of sympathy which Mr Bradley has never learned to make, and a tranquillity of temper which he seems incapable of maintaining." Given the high praise he gives Sidgwick, it is difficult not to take Parfit as approving. But (...)
     
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  4. BSPR Conference Paper, Love Religion and God (2023): Divine love or benevolence? Answering the normatively relativised logical argument from evil.R. Hoque - manuscript
    The normatively relativised logical argument from evil (NRLA) of John Bishop and Ken Perszyk (2011) argues that belief in a personal omniperfect God is incompatible with any redemptive theodicy in which God both contrives the conditions of our earthly suffering and rescues us from these conditions by means of and for the sake of relationship with God, since any such union would be less than perfectly good as a personal relationship. Their argument is normatively relativised because the claim that such (...)
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    A Genealogy of the Resonance Drive: Synthesizing Insights from Freud, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche within Judgemental Philosophy.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper explores the historico-philosophical genealogy and fundamental meaning of the 'Resonance Drive,' a core concept in Judgemental Philosophy. Judgemental Philosophy posits that humans, when faced with the fundamental 'Indeterminacy' of the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF), possess a fundamental drive—mediated by 'Affectivity'—to construct meaning (Constructivity), pursue coherent order (Coherence), and ultimately experience a living 'Resonance' with the world and the self. This paper comparatively analyzes how the nature of this Resonance Drive intersects with and diverges from the vitality and craving for (...)
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    Reconstructing Social Contract Theory through Judgemental Philosophy: The Return of Meaning and the Structural Conditions of Community.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper aims to reconstruct traditional social contract theory through the original theoretical framework of Judgemental Philosophy. Whereas existing social contract theories have primarily explained the legitimacy of state and social order centering on concepts such as reason, natural rights, and agreement, this paper applies the core structures of Judgemental Philosophy—the Pre-Judgemental Field (PJF) and the Judgemental Triad (Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance), along with key stages of the "Enhanced Ten-Step Model of Judgemental Philosophy" (particularly S9: Inter-subjective Resonance, S10: Normative Codification & (...)
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    The Architecture of Resonating Meaning: Constructivity, Coherence, and the Conditions of Reality in Judgemental Philosophy.Jinho Kim - manuscript
    This paper reinterprets and expands upon Judgemental Philosophy framework, particularly the concept of the Judgemental Triad (Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance). It centrally argues that Resonance is not merely a resultant characteristic or structural element of judgement, but a fundamental driving force that impels individuals to actively construct new meaning (Constructivity) and integrate it into more comprehensive systems of Coherence. From this perspective, the occurrence and resolution of the "r-cc gap" internally, along with the role of curiosity, are re-illuminated as dynamic explorations (...)
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May 10th 2025 GMT
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  1. Appreciating Bergson on laughter (if not conscious, then unconscious letter to Catharine Abell?).Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    As I understand him, Bergson thinks that we laugh at human beings when they behave in a mechanical way. I find this perspective strange. I am tempted to offer many counterexamples. But here is an attempt to appreciate Bergson, apart from that this giving of counterexamples is so mechanical. "If you were to abandon various kinds of laughter, this would be the last kind left." He might be right. For example, I would give various courses at a nearby university to (...)
     
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  2. Another letter to Thomas H. Smith and Joel Smith, concerning laughter.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    So you advised me not to laugh at the speaker during the research seminar. Thanks friends. I assume you have (or had) my best interests at heart. But is this possible (and, more importantly, likely)? Once I meet the requirement, my difficulties will not be solved. There will be another requirement introduced. And once I meet that requirement, a further requirement. And so on. Until I find that the level of suppression involved is very high. And, furthermore, I wonder whether (...)
     
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  3. Letter to Thomas H. Smith and Joel Smith on laughter.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I remember that I laughed at the seminar giver in the philosophy research seminar and you advised me not to do that. I don't like being laughed at either, for example about rejecting the O interpretation of the conditional. But I didn't accept your advice and I still don't. Why not? Perhaps I should try to expand your sympathies, so that you can enter into my point of view. And maybe you will then laugh too. But I have a worry (...)
     
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May 9th 2025 GMT
volume 8, issue 1-2, 2025
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    Externalist Individualism: A New Ontological Approach of Diseases.Mohammad Mahdi Hatef
    The understanding of disease in the dominant biomedical model involves two components, internalism and individualism, which jointly give rise to an ontological approach towards patients that can be referred to as atomism. I argue against such an approach in philosophy of medicine. I focus on internalism, showing that the inevitable presence of the notions of biological function and statistical normality in the biomedical model renders internalism about diseases untenable. Additionally, I argue that the new externalist individualism offers an alternative ontological (...)
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    The Puzzle of Scientific Disagreement.Mariangela Zoe Cocchiaro & Borut Trpin - unknown
    Scientists often find themselves in disagreement with their peers, yet continue to hold fast to their views. While Conciliationism, a prominent position in the epistemology of disagreement, condemns such steadfastness as epistemically irrational, philosophers of science often defend it as rationally permissible —- indeed, even beneficial for scientific progress. This tension gives rise to what we call the puzzle of scientific disagreement.
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    IP's Pluralism Puzzle.P. Goold & D. Simon - unknown
    At the core of intellectual property (IP) law lies a fundamental question of political philosophy: can any argument justify the state’s grant of private property rights in intangibles? Scholars answering this question frequently resort to a single theory or value, such as efficiency, natural rights, or personality. But each justification offered faces substantial objections. To overcome the limitations of other theories, an emerging group of scholars, who we dub IP Pluralists, argue that IP can be justified using more than one (...)
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  3. Negentropic Reciprocity Dynamics (NRD).William Alexander Smith - unknown
    This short theoretical note introduces Negentropic Reciprocity Dynamics (NRD), a minimal, multiscale framework for interpreting physical and information-theoretic process. This work is intended as a conceptual bridge between physics, biology, information theory, and philosophy of mind. No new data were generated. The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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  4. A Gödelian Criterion for Differentiated Artificial Reasoning.Denys Spirin - unknown
    We propose a formal criterion for determining when a language model transitions from statistical generation (based on training data) to genuine reasoning, defined as the capacity for meta-differentiation. We derive this criterion using an adaptation of Gödel's incompleteness framework.
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    Einstein, Evolution of Knowledge, and the Anthropocene: A Critical Reading of Jürgen Renn's Historiography.Galina Weinstein - unknown
    This article offers a critical engagement with Jürgen Renn’s historiographical approach, with particular focus on "The Evolution of Knowledge" and "The Einsteinian Revolution" (co-authored with Hanoch Gutfreund). It explores how Renn reinterprets Albert Einstein’s contributions to modern physics, especially special and general relativity, not primarily as the product of individual insight, but as emergent from broader epistemic structures and long-term knowledge systems. The discussion centers on key concepts such as “challenging objects,” “epistemic matrices,” “mental models,” and “borderline problems,” and situates (...)
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  6. Ending Toxicity: A Call to Reintroduce Constructive Discourse About Contentious Health-Related Issues in Medicine.Jocelyn Downie - unknown
    There is a disturbing phenomenon of physicians viciously attacking other physicians when they disagree with them on contentious health-related issues. Such attacks have significant potential negative impacts on patient care, physician well-being, and public policy. Reflection on and responses to this phenomenon are needed.
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    Clinical Ethics Support Provided to Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Teams in Quebec: A Qualitative Study.Julien Déry, Jamila Amirova, Sina Kardan, Noémie Tito, Zun Zhu, Matthew Hunt & Anne Hudon - unknown
    Introduction: Rehabilitation is a health care service focusing on the restoration and maintenance of function and is often undertaken by interdisciplinary teams. Rehabilitation care providers encounter ethical issues and concerns that require attention and resolution. Clinical ethics services (CES) provided by ethics consultants aim to support teams facing ethical challenges. The objective of this study was to explore the experiences and perspectives of individuals providing CES to interdisciplinary rehabilitation teams in Quebec health care centres. Methods: We conducted a qualitative descriptive (...)
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  8. Why Not Advance Directives for MAID in Those with Dementia?Michael Gordon - unknown
    The numbers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are growing rapidly in North America and the rest of the western world. In most jurisdictions there is a major societal challenge to provide appropriate care for these individuals as well as their families. At present in North America, it is not possible for a person with dementia, while anticipating the declining trajectory of their disabling illness, to indicate to their substitute decision makers (SDM or proxies in the USA) a (...)
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  9. Human Genome Editing and Sickle Cell Disease in Canada: Urgent and Unresolved Ethical Considerations.Maria Klimenko & Ryan Tonkens - unknown
    Some countries are already approving therapeutic applications of human genome editing. For example, recently the United Kingdom and USA have approved Casgevy as part of a treatment protocol for sickle cell disease. Should Canada follow this lead? Here we discuss the most important, yet unresolved, ethical issues in a Canadian context, and argue that much more public engagement and deliberation is needed.
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    Bioethics in the Public and Policy Spaces: Lessons from the Covid Years.Bryn Williams-Jones & Sihem Neila Abtroun - unknown
    The Covid-19 pandemic presented numerous ethical challenges, highlighting the critical role of bioethicists in public spaces and policymaking. Bioethicists acted as guardians against systemic injustices, critics of health policy decisions, and contributors to public debate. This text draws on our experiences as North American academic bioethicists to explore the different roles that bioethicists took during the pandemic, notably through media engagement, participation in policy-making, and in research and education. The pandemic underscored the importance of bioethics in the healthcare system and (...)
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  11. Dialogue with O on liberalism and serial killers.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    O: I read your "Serial killers and social structure". Why did you even write this? You write of how some peculiar liberal societies prefer to incorporate a known serial killer over a Chairman Mao. You are going to be asked, "How can a liberal society incorporate a serial killer and be liberal?" Or someone is going to have this question. And then you will have to define all your terms: liberal society, incorporate, serial killer, known, even can. And you will (...)
     
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  12. Mainstream economics under pressure: two lessons from British social anthropology.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    Mainstream economics failed to predict the 2008 financial crash. It has been under strong pressure to change because of that. What is its future? Maybe other social sciences provide a clue. This paper presents two very different lessons one might take from British social anthropology. (A) The structural-functionalist school which dominated British anthropology from the 1930s (if not before) to the 1960s came in for severe criticism in the late 40s and 50s: for ignoring the histories of the peoples studied (...)
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  13. Why read post-colonial literature?Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    Why read post-colonial literature? An obvious answer is because you are interested in the former colonies. But what if you are not? In my experience, post-colonial literature contains a variety of characters who are a problem for development, such as Rose and Amaka from Flora Nwapa's novels. (I am very impressed.) You can find similar characters in the UK and from other backgrounds, I intuit. They don't feature in prestigious British literature, to my knowledge. "Why not?" I propose this: because (...)
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