In this paper, we focus on one controversial element of the method reflective equilibrium, namely Rawls’ idea that commitments enter justificatory procedure should be pre-selected or filtered: According to him, only considered judgements taken into account in moral philosophy. There are two camps critics filtering process: 1) Critics equilibrium: They reject Rawlsian process as too weak and see...

‘[An] aspect of Recanati’s proposal that is not entirely clear is its precise scope. For we are told that mental files are mental indexicals which depend, for their existence, on there being an epistemically rewarding relation, in the form of acquaintance, between a subject and the object the file is a file of. On the face of it, however, this would entail that mental files are quite limited, f...

In earlier work we proposed an account of information grounded in counterfactual conditionals rather than probabilities, and argued that it might serve philosophical needs that more familiar probabilistic alternatives do not. Demir (2008) and Scarantino (2008) criticize the counterfactual approach by contending that its alleged advantages are illusory and that it fails to secure attractive desi...

Software architectures evolve as the result of numerous, interrelated design decisions. At any point in an architecture's evolution, current decisions can critically affect alternatives at later stages, and each decision has the potential of requiring previous decisions to be reconsidered. Analysis techniques that provide feedback only after " complete " sequences of design decisions have been ...

In this paper we propose a framework for the development of artificial art critics, consisting of an architecture and a validation methodology. The architecture includes two modules: a feature extractor, which performs a pre-processing of the artwork, extracting several measurements and characteristics; and an evaluator, which, based on the output of the feature extractor, classifies the artwor...