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  1. Is It Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners?William D'Alessandro - 2023 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 9 (2):335-354.
    Philosophers have rightly condemned lookism—that is, discrimination in favor of attractive people or against unattractive people—in education, the justice system, the workplace and elsewhere. Surprisingly, however, the almost universal preference for attractive romantic and sexual partners has rarely received serious ethical scrutiny. On its face, it’s unclear whether this is a form of discrimination we should reject or tolerate. I consider arguments for both views. On the one hand, a strong case can be made that preferring attractive partners is bad. (...)
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  2. Viewing-as explanations and ontic dependence.William D’Alessandro - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (3):769-792.
    According to a widespread view in metaphysics and philosophy of science, all explanations involve relations of ontic dependence between the items appearing in the explanandum and the items appearing in the explanans. I argue that a family of mathematical cases, which I call “viewing-as explanations”, are incompatible with the Dependence Thesis. These cases, I claim, feature genuine explanations that aren’t supported by ontic dependence relations. Hence the thesis isn’t true in general. The first part of the paper defends this claim (...)
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  3. Explicitism about Truth in Fiction.William D’Alessandro - 2016 - British Journal of Aesthetics 56 (1):53-65.
    The problem of truth in fiction concerns how to tell whether a given proposition is true in a given fiction. Thus far, the nearly universal consensus has been that some propositions are ‘implicitly true’ in some fictions: such propositions are not expressed by any explicit statements in the relevant work, but are nevertheless held to be true in those works on the basis of some other set of criteria. I call this family of views ‘implicitism’. I argue that implicitism faces (...)
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  4. Mathematical Explanation beyond Explanatory Proof.William D’Alessandro - 2017 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71 (2):581-603.
    Much recent work on mathematical explanation has presupposed that the phenomenon involves explanatory proofs in an essential way. I argue that this view, ‘proof chauvinism’, is false. I then look in some detail at the explanation of the solvability of polynomial equations provided by Galois theory, which has often been thought to revolve around an explanatory proof. The article concludes with some general worries about the effects of chauvinism on the theory of mathematical explanation. 1Introduction 2Why I Am Not a (...)
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  5. Arithmetic, Set Theory, Reduction and Explanation.William D’Alessandro - 2018 - Synthese 195 (11):5059-5089.
    Philosophers of science since Nagel have been interested in the links between intertheoretic reduction and explanation, understanding and other forms of epistemic progress. Although intertheoretic reduction is widely agreed to occur in pure mathematics as well as empirical science, the relationship between reduction and explanation in the mathematical setting has rarely been investigated in a similarly serious way. This paper examines an important particular case: the reduction of arithmetic to set theory. I claim that the reduction is unexplanatory. In defense (...)
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  6. Explanation in mathematics: Proofs and practice.William D'Alessandro - 2019 - Philosophy Compass 14 (11):e12629.
    Mathematicians distinguish between proofs that explain their results and those that merely prove. This paper explores the nature of explanatory proofs, their role in mathematical practice, and some of the reasons why philosophers should care about them. Among the questions addressed are the following: what kinds of proofs are generally explanatory (or not)? What makes a proof explanatory? Do all mathematical explanations involve proof in an essential way? Are there really such things as explanatory proofs, and if so, how do (...)
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  7. Proving Quadratic Reciprocity: Explanation, Disagreement, Transparency and Depth.William D’Alessandro - 2020 - Synthese (9):1-44.
    Gauss’s quadratic reciprocity theorem is among the most important results in the history of number theory. It’s also among the most mysterious: since its discovery in the late 18th century, mathematicians have regarded reciprocity as a deeply surprising fact in need of explanation. Intriguingly, though, there’s little agreement on how the theorem is best explained. Two quite different kinds of proof are most often praised as explanatory: an elementary argument that gives the theorem an intuitive geometric interpretation, due to Gauss (...)
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  8. Unrealistic Models in Mathematics.William D'Alessandro - 2022 - Philosophers’ Imprint.
    Models are indispensable tools of scientific inquiry, and one of their main uses is to improve our understanding of the phenomena they represent. How do models accomplish this? And what does this tell us about the nature of understanding? While much recent work has aimed at answering these questions, philosophers' focus has been squarely on models in empirical science. I aim to show that pure mathematics also deserves a seat at the table. I begin by presenting two cases: Cramér’s random (...)
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  9. Transferable and Fixable Proofs.William D'Alessandro - forthcoming - Episteme.
    A proof P of a theorem T is transferable when a typical expert can become convinced of T solely on the basis of their prior knowledge and the information contained in P. Easwaran has argued that transferability is a constraint on acceptable proof. Meanwhile, a proof P is fixable when it’s possible for other experts to correct any mistakes P contains without having to develop significant new mathematics. Habgood-Coote and Tanswell have observed that some acceptable proofs are both fixable and (...)
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  10. A compendium of paradoxes. [REVIEW]William D’Alessandro - 2022 - Metascience 31 (3):1-4.
    A review of Matt Cook's book Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy.
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  11. Teaching and Learning Guide for: Explanation in Mathematics: Proofs and Practice.William D'Alessandro - 2019 - Philosophy Compass 14 (11):e12629.
    This is a teaching and learning guide to accompany "Explanation in Mathematics: Proofs and Practice".
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    Review of Collin Rice's Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science[REVIEW]William D'Alessandro - 2022 - BJPS Review of Books.
  13. AI Language Models Cannot Replace Human Research Participants.Jacqueline Harding, William D’Alessandro, N. G. Laskowski & Robert Long - forthcoming - AI and Society:1-3.
    In a recent letter, Dillion et. al (2023) make various suggestions regarding the idea of artificially intelligent systems, such as large language models, replacing human subjects in empirical moral psychology. We argue that human subjects are in various ways indispensable.
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  14. Interview with Kenny Easwaran.Kenny Easwaran & William D'Alessandro - 2021 - The Reasoner 15 (2):9-12.
    Bill D'Alessandro talks to Kenny Easwaran about fractal music, Zoom conferences, being a good referee, teaching in math and philosophy, the rationalist community and its relationship to academia, decision-theoretic pluralism, and the city of Manhattan, Kansas.
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    The social nature of saintliness and moral action: a view of William James's Varieties in relation to St Ignatius and Lawrence Kohlberg.Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro & S. J. John J. Cecero - 2003 - Journal of Moral Education 32 (4):357-371.
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    The social nature of saintliness and moral action: a view of William James's Varieties in relation to St Ignatius and Lawrence Kohlberg.Ann Higgins-D'alessandro & John Cecero - 2003 - Journal of Moral Education 32 (4):357-371.
    This article argues that William James's thinking in The Varieties and elsewhere contains the view that social institutions, such as religious congregations and schools, are mediators between the private and public spheres of life, and are necessary for transforming personal feelings, ideals and beliefs into moral action. The Exercises of St Ignatius and the Just Community moral education approach serve as examples. Criticisms of the more commonly held view that James recognised only individual personal experiences as valid religious expressions (...)
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    Global contested terrain: The case of the tuna-dolphin controversy. [REVIEW]Douglas H. Constance, Alessandro Bonanno & William D. Heffernan - 1995 - Agriculture and Human Values 12 (3):19-33.
    Employing the case of the global tuna-fish industry, it is argued that the process of globalization is contested terrain as it opens “free spaces” to some classes or groups and closes “free spaces” to others; that the nation-States' regulatory abilities are weakened; and finally, that while some social movements may gain, others are marginalized. Three basic conclusions are reached. (1) The industry's actions were successfully “contested” by environmental groups supported by the legislative and judicial branches of the US State. (2) (...)
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  18. Dell'umano evento. Trittico filosofico e politico (con A. De Simone e D. D'Alessandro). Parte prima: “In bilico sul crinale dell’essere”. Il soggetto tra natura, storia e cultura: attraverso Hegel, Nietzsche e Thomas Mann.Riccardo Roni, Antonio De Simone & Davide D'Alessandro - 2012 - Perugia PG, Italia: Morlacchi.
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    Homer William Smith, Sc.D. His Scientific and Literary Achievements. Herbert Chasis, William Goldring, Homer William Smith. [REVIEW]William D. Blake - 1966 - Isis 57 (2):290-291.
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    A Bad Theory of Truth in Fiction.Ioan-Radu Motoarc? - 2017 - British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (4):379-387.
    William D’Alessandro has recently argued that there are no implicit truths in fiction. According to the view defended by D’Alessandro, which he terms explicitism, the only truths in fiction are the ones explicitly expressed therein. In this essay, I argue that explicitism is incorrect on multiple counts. Not only is the argument D’Alessandro gives for it invalid, but explicitism as a theory of truth in fiction fails drastically to account for a number of phenomena that are crucial to our (...)
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    V. d'Alessandro, "La sfida dell'istruzione".Anna Laura Zanatta - 1997 - Polis 11 (2):310-311.
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    A Sense of Place.William D. Adams - 2019 - Chiasmi International 21:277-288.
    Merleau-Ponty spent the summer of 1960 in the small French village of Le Tholonet writing Eye and Mind. His choice of location was no accident. Le Tholonet was the physical and emotional epicenter of Paul Cezanne’s late painting, the ultimate proving ground of his relentless quest to reveal the truth of landscape in art.It makes perfect sense that Merleau-Ponty wrote Eye and Mind in Le Tholonet. The essay is a philosophical meditation on vision and painting. But it also is a (...)
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    Difficulties in understanding reactions to whistleblowing Comments on “The psychology of whistleblowing” (J.E. Sieber). [REVIEW]Ann Higgins-D’Alessandro - 1998 - Science and Engineering Ethics 4 (1):25-28.
  24. William Channing Woodbridge: Geographer.William D. Walters - 1993 - Journal of Social Studies Research 16:42-47.
  25. Manoscritti filosofico-politici: la vocazione critica del pensiero.Davide D'Alessandro - 2012 - Perugia: Morlacchi.
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    Difficulties in understanding reactions to whistleblowing.Professor Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro - 1998 - Science and Engineering Ethics 4 (1):25-28.
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    Paolo d'Alessandro;, Pier Daniele Napolitani. Archimede Latino: Iacopo da San Cassiano e il “Corpus” Archimedeo alla metà del Quattrocento, con edizione della “Circuli dimensio” e della “Quadratura parabolae.”. 371 pp., illus., table, apps., bibl., indexes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. €75. [REVIEW]W. R. Laird - 2014 - Isis 105 (1):210-211.
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    The Paṭiccasamuppāda: A developed formula: D. M. WILLIAMS.D. M. Williams - 1978 - Religious Studies 14 (1):35-56.
    The purpose of this article should become plain during the reading of it, but perhaps some prior explanation is needed. Almost from the beginning of my study of the paṭiccasamuppāda I have had the notion that it could not have come into existence in the form the usual twelvefold formulation takes. For reasons which I try to make clear this twelvefold formulation is not a satisfactory statement of what it is supposed to explain, namely the reasons for each individual's continued (...)
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    Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition.William D. Casebeer - 2003 - Bradford.
    In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral cognition just as we study other forms of cognition. His goal is to show that we have "softly fixed" human natures, that these natures are evolved, and that our lives go well or badly depending on how we satisfy the functional demands of these natures. Natural Ethical Facts is a (...)
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    Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition.William D. Casebeer - 2003 - Bradford.
    In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral cognition just as we study other forms of cognition. His goal is to show that we have "softly fixed" human natures, that these natures are evolved, and that our lives go well or badly depending on how we satisfy the functional demands of these natures. Natural Ethical Facts is a (...)
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  31. Heidegger's Temporal Idealism.William D. Blattner - 1999 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger's account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of 'temporal idealism' with its sources in Plotinus, Leibniz, and Kant. For Heidegger, time can only be explained in terms of 'originary temporality', a concept integral to his ontology. Blattner sets out not only the foundations of Heidegger's ontology, but also his phenomenology of the experience of time. Focusing on a neglected but central aspect of Being (...)
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    Schanbacer, William D: The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict Between Food Security and Food Sovereignty: Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-313-36328-3, $34.95 hardback. [REVIEW]Cornelia Butler Flora - 2011 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 24 (5):545-547.
    Schanbacer, William D: The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict Between Food Security and Food Sovereignty Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s10806-010-9267-1 Authors Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University 317 East Hall Ames IA 50011-1070 USA Journal Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Online ISSN 1573-322X Print ISSN 1187-7863.
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    On the Date of a Comet Ascribed to A. D. 1238.William D. Stahlman - 1952 - Isis 43 (4):348-351.
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    Values and ideal-language models.William D. Zarecor - 1959 - Philosophical Quarterly 9 (36):259-263.
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    On the Diversity of Linguistic Data and the Integration of the Language Sciences.Roberta D’Alessandro & Marc van Oostendorp - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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  36. The neural mechanisms of moral cognition: A multiple-aspect approach to moral judgment and decision-making. [REVIEW]William D. Casebeer & Patricia S. Churchland - 2003 - Biology and Philosophy 18 (1):169-194.
    We critically review themushrooming literature addressing the neuralmechanisms of moral cognition (NMMC), reachingthe following broad conclusions: (1) researchmainly focuses on three inter-relatedcategories: the moral emotions, moral socialcognition, and abstract moral reasoning. (2)Research varies in terms of whether it deploysecologically valid or experimentallysimplified conceptions of moral cognition. Themore ecologically valid the experimentalregime, the broader the brain areas involved.(3) Much of the research depends on simplifyingassumptions about the domain of moral reasoningthat are motivated by the need to makeexperimental progress. This is a (...)
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  37. William James and gestalt psychology.William D. Woody - 1999 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 20 (1):79-92.
    To date, there have been only two scholarly papers devoted to a comparison of Gestalt psychology with the psychology of William James. An early paper by Mary Whiton Calkins called attention to numerous similarities between these two schools of thought. However, a more recent paper by Mary Henle argues that the ideas of William James, as presented in The Principles of Psychology, are irrelevant to Gestalt psychology. In what follows, this claim is evaluated both in terms of The (...)
     
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  38. Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education.F. Clark Power, Ann Higgins-D'alessandro & Lawrence Kohlberg - 1989
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    The public interest and political theory.William D. Zarecor - 1958 - Ethics 69 (4):277-280.
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    Mirror-image matching and mental rotation problem solving by baboons (< em> Papio papio): Unilateral input enhances performance.William D. Hopkins, Joël Fagot & Jacques Vauclair - 1993 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 122 (1):61.
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    Is there sign-tracking in aversive conditioning?William D. Bartter & Fred A. Masterson - 1980 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 15 (2):87-89.
  42. Analyse, synthèse et codage de la parole.C. D’Alessandro - forthcoming - Hermes.
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  43. Darstellung e soggettività: saggio su Althusser.Paolo D'Alessandro - 1980 - Firenze: La nuova Italia.
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    Filosofia e psicoanalisi: le parole e i soggetti.Davide D'Alessandro (ed.) - 2020 - Milano: Mimesis.
  45. Giambattisto Vico and Christian Gottlob Heyne: Many stages in the reception of their works.G. D'Alessandro - 1999 - Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 19 (3):372-398.
     
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  46. Hegel e Mendelssohn: Ebraismo e stato moderno.G. D'alessandro - 1991 - Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 11 (2):260-274.
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  47. In viaggio con Kant.Giuseppe D'Alessandro - 2017 - Milano: Mimesis.
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    La ciencia política de Guillermo O'Donnell.Martín D'Alessandro, Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell & Osvaldo Iazzetta (eds.) - 2015 - Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Eudeba.
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  49. L'illuminismo dimenticato: Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752-1827) e il suo tempo.Giuseppe D'Alessandro - 2000 - Napoli: Liguori editore.
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    Lo stile del pensiero: il caso emblematico di Friedrich Nietzsche.Paolo D'Alessandro - 2006 - Milano: CUEM. Edited by Matteo Ciastellardi.
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