An ethics concerned with health care developments and systems must be historically continuous, especially as it concerns the application to managed structures of key moral-epistemic concepts such as care, love and empathy. These concepts are traditionally most at home in the personal, individual domain. Human beings have non-instrumental worth just because they are human beings and not by virtu...

Abstract This essay provides a novel argument for impurism , the view that certain non-truth-relevant factors can make difference to belief's epistemic standing. I argue purists, unlike impurists, are forced claim ‘high-stakes’ cases rationally require agents be akratic. Akrasia is one of paradigmatic forms irrationality. So in virtue calling akrasia mandatory range with no obvious precedent, t...

A plausible condition on having the standing to blame someone is that target of blame's wrongdoing must in some sense be your “business”—the wrong harm or affect you, others close you. This known as business blame. Many cases epistemic discussed literature do not obviously involve examples harming affecting another. As such, enough has been said about how an individual's failing can really coun...

Jim Joyce argues for two amendments to probabilism. The first is the doctrine that credences are rational, or not, in virtue of their accuracy or “closeness to the truth” (1998). The second is a shift from a numerically precise model of belief to an imprecise model represented by a set of probability functions (2010). We argue that both amendments cannot be satisfied simultaneously. To do so, w...

When reassessing the role of Debreu’s axiomatic method in economics, one has to explain both its success and unpopularity; one has to explain the “bright shadow” Debreu cast on the discipline: sheltering, threatening, and difficult to pin down. Debreu himself did not expect to have such an influence. Before he received the Bank of Sweden Prize in 1983 he had never openly engaged with the method...

The five ambiguous words—sentence, proposition, judgment, statement, and fact—each have meanings that are vague in the sense of admitting borderline cases. This paper discusses several senses of these and related words used in logic. It focuses on a constellation of recommended primary senses. A judgment is a private epistemic act that results in a new belief; a statement is a public pragmatic ...

As audiences demand better and more diverse representation in the fictions they consume, there is a question of how that should be placed on fiction creators. In this article, I answer by arguing creators have hermeneutical responsibility to include characters their creations, do so without relying harmful stereotypes. cast as epistemic virtue due diligence, offset laziness paralysis correspond...

We examine the paradox of the surprise examination using dynamic epistemic logic. This logic contains means of expressing epistemic facts as well as the effects of learning new facts, and is therefore a natural framework for representing the puzzle. We discuss a number of different interpretations of the puzzle in this context, and show how the failure of principle of success, that states that ...