• Vulnerable Patients, Autonomy, Well-being, and Death 

  Gipe, Kelsey (2018)

  At the beginning of our lives and often at the end, we have important medical decisions made for us by proxy consenters including family, legal guardians, and/or medical professionals. This places us in particularly ...

• The Distinction in the Tractatus Between Saying and Showing 

  Harward, Donald W. (1970)

  The distinction between saying and showing is fundamental to Wittgenstein's attempt in the Tractatus to explain the communication of significant propositions, the function of non-significant assertions, and the general ...

• Novels and Their Instances: A Metaphysical Exploration 

  Aliev, Alexey (2017)

  What is the ontological status of novels? Are they inscriptions (i.e., concrete texts typically written or printed on something or displayed on the screen of some electronic device)? Sets of inscriptions? Mental representations ...

• Rationality and Moral Risk: A Moderate Defense of Hedging 

  Tarsney, Christian (2017)

  How should an agent decide what to do when she is uncertain not just about morally relevant empirical matters, like the consequences of some course of action, but about the basic principles of morality itself? This question ...

• RELATIVE AND OBJECTIVE, ON BALANCE: Detailing the Best Systems Analysis of Laws 

  Bialek, Max (2017)

  Variations on Lewis’ Best Systems Analysis (BSA) of laws of nature have tended to emphasize the aspects of the view that allow it to accommodate the peculiarities of scientific practice. That move has allowed such views ...

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