In the ‘false belief’ task (Wimmer and Perner 1983) autistics and three year olds attribute beliefs based on the objective truth of a situation in the world rather than what the person believes on the basis of available information. Several recalcitrant problems in philosophy are based on the same mistake in which philosophers take their own knowledge of the truth rather than the subject’s just...

Philosophy of religion is dominated by Christianity and Christians. This, in conjunction with the historically anti-LGBTQIA bent Christian thinking, has resulted exclusion less dominant often marginalized perspectives, including queer ones. This essay charts a normative direction for philosophers philosophy religion, subfield they dominate. First, given some unique ways have unjustly harmed que...

In this work, we consider distributed protocols that operate on arbitrary networks. The analysis of such protocols is challenging, as an arbitrarily chosen network may have limited global symmetry. We describe a methodology that uncovers significant local symmetries by appropriately abstracting node neighborhoods in a network. The local symmetries give rise to uniform compositional proofs of co...