Evil Person as True Object and Evil Person as True Cause:

Learning name variants from true person resolution

Name variants which differ more than a few characters can seriously hamper person resolution. A method is described by which variants of first names and surnames can be learned to a large extent automatically from records that contain more information than needed for a true link decision. Limited manual intervention (active learning) is unavoidable, however, to differentiate errors from variant...

Person as scientist, person as moralist.

It has often been suggested that people's ordinary capacities for understanding the world make use of much the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A series of recent experimental results offer a challenge to this widely-held view, suggesting that people's moral judgments can actually influence the intuitions they hold both in folk psychology and in causal cognition...

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

INTRODUCTION “[D]eath is different.” When used to punish, death taps society’s most primal urges. It is meant to be a deterrent for potential offenders, triggering in them the innate reflex for self-preservation. For society, it is meant to feed the primal desire for retribution. For these very reasons, it is often claimed that death is only reserved for the worst of the worst. However, in tryi...

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‘‘True’’ as Ambiguous

In this paper, I argue (a) that the predicate ‘‘true’’ is ambiguously used to express a deflationary and a substantial concept of truth and (b) that the two concepts are systematically related in that substantial truths are deflationary truths of a certain kind. Claim (a) allows one to accept the main insights of deflationism but still take seriously, and participate in, the traditional debate ...