David Lewis (1974, 1994/1999) proposed to reduce the facts about mental representation sensory evidence, dispositions act, and rationality. Recently, Robert Williams (2020) Adam Pautz (2021) have taken up developed Lewis's project in sophisticated novel ways. In this paper, we aim present, clarify, ultimately object core thesis that they all build their own views around. The different developme...

Background Islamic doctrine and related teachings play a seminal role in constructing the sexual performance of followers, women in particular. Objective The aim was to explore women's understandings of Islamic Shiite principles related to their sexuality. Materials and Methods In a qualitative content analysis approach, four individual interviews and seven focus groups conducted in Rafsanj...

Herbert Simon was the apostle of bounded rationality. He very often illustrated bounded rationality in the context of the theory of the firm, and was, of course, a major contributor to organizational theory. However, in spite of Simon s efforts, I argue that bounded rationality has been only incompletely absorbed in the economics of organization, is little used for substantive purposes, and mos...

Stalnaker provided an example of a perfect information game in which common knowledge of rationality does not yield backward induction. However, in his example, knowledge is treated as defeasible: players forfeit their knowledge of rationality at some vertices. This is not how ‘knowledge’ is understood in epistemology where, unlike belief, it is not subject to revision. In this respect, the Sta...

Râfıza isminin Şiî düşünce ve İmâmiyye ile iltisâkını araştıran bu makalede, söz konusu ismin türediği rafz kelimesinin içerdiği “reddetme”, “terk etme” “ayrılma” anlamlarının Şiâ uyumuna işaret edilmektedir. Bu bağlamda, kendilerine muhaliflerince verilen kaynağına dair rivayetlerden hareketle genel özel olarak iki farklı anlam içerdiği: anlamda Hz. Peygamber’den sonra imâmeti nas tayine dayan...