Fischer’s Deterministic Frankfurt-Style Argument
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-016-9809-7
Abstract: According to the Dilemma Defense, it is question-begging against the incompatibilist defender of the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) to assume that the agent in a deterministic Frankfurt-style case (FSC) cannot do otherwise in light… read more here.
Keywords: frankfurt style; argument; fischer deterministic; deterministic frankfurt ... See more keywords
The Replication Argument for Incompatibilism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-018-0010-z
Abstract: In this paper, I articulate an argument for incompatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism. My argument comes in the form of an extended story, modeled loosely on Peter van Inwagen’s “rollback argument” scenario. I thus… read more here.
Keywords: argument; replication argument; argument incompatibilism;
Putnam’s Diagonal Argument and the Impossibility of a Universal Learning Machine
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-018-9975-x
Abstract: AbstractPutnam construed the aim of Carnap’s program of inductive logic as the specification of a “universal learning machine,” and presented a diagonal proof against the very possibility of such a thing. Yet the ideas of… read more here.
Keywords: impossibility; learning machine; argument; universal learning ... See more keywords
Similarity Arguments in the Genetic Modification Debate
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9757-y
Abstract: In the ethical debate on genetic modification (GM), it is common to encounter the claim that some anti-GM argument would also apply an established, ethically accepted technology, and that the anti-GM argument is therefore unsuccessful.… read more here.
Keywords: similarity arguments; argument; genetic modification; debate ... See more keywords
What’s Left for the Companions in Guilt Argument?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-09981-x
Abstract: Companions in guilt arguments (CGAs) respond to moral error theory by pointing out that its philosophical rationale mandates the rejection of all categorical normative reasons, including epistemic reasons. A number of philosophers (including Christopher Cowie,… read more here.
Keywords: left companions; biting response; argument; companions guilt ... See more keywords
Reply to a Comment on “Quantum Theory and the Limits of Objectivity”
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DOI: 10.1007/s10701-019-00290-y
Abstract: In this short note I reply to criticisms of an argument in my paper [1] that appear in comment [2]. I refer the reader to section 4 of [1] in which I described the scenario… read more here.
Keywords: comment quantum; quantum theory; main criticism; argument ... See more keywords
On Friederich’s New Fine-Tuning Argument
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DOI: 10.1007/s10701-021-00449-6
Abstract: The most common objection to the Fine-Tuning Argument for the Multiverse is that the argument commits the Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy. Simon Friederich has recently composed an interesting version of this fine-tuning argument that avoids this… read more here.
Keywords: new fine; tuning argument; argument; fallacy ... See more keywords
The “Positive Argument” for Constructive Empiricism and Inference to the Best Explanation
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DOI: 10.1007/s10838-018-9414-3
Abstract: In this paper, I argue that the “positive argument” for Constructive Empiricism (CE), according to which CE “makes better sense of science, and of scientific activity, than realism does” (van Fraassen in The scientific image,… read more here.
Keywords: argument constructive; best explanation; inference best; argument ... See more keywords
An Argument for the Principle of Indifference and Against the Wide Interval View
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DOI: 10.1007/s10838-019-09488-0
Abstract: The principle of indifference has fallen from grace in contemporary philosophy, yet some papers have recently sought to vindicate its plausibility. This paper follows suit. In it, I articulate a version of the principle and… read more here.
Keywords: principle; argument; interval view; wide interval ... See more keywords
Realism and Empirical Equivalence
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DOI: 10.1007/s10992-019-09526-8
Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to investigate various notions of empirical equivalence in relation to the two main arguments for realism in the philosophy of science, namely the no-miracles argument and the indispensability… read more here.
Keywords: thesis; theory; equivalence; argument ... See more keywords
Naïve realism and phenomenal overlap
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-016-0753-9
Abstract: Many arguments against naïve realism are arguments against its corollary: disjunctivism. But there is a simpler argument—due to Mehta (J Philos 111:311–331, 2014)—that targets naïve realism directly. In broad strokes, the argument is the following.… read more here.
Keywords: realism phenomenal; argument; phenomenally similar; mehta argument ... See more keywords