Here is a simple and inviting picture: the semantic values of sentences, relative to contexts, are sets of possible worlds. These are the truth conditions of assertions of those sentences in contexts. They are thus the contents of assertions, or the objects of attitudes we might take towards such contents. There have been many questions raised about the simple picture. For instance, sets of wor...

This study investigates the role of demographics, specifically gender, on susceptibility to three social influence types for certain products. Data were collected in two stages from business students at a large university. Analyses were performed at the construct and product levels. At the construct level, marital status and living situation were found to be the significant demographics for bot...

Many scholars and activists favor banning illicit businesses, especially given that such businesses constitute a large part of the global economy. But these businesses are commonly operated as if they are subject only to the ethical norms their management chooses to recognize, and as a result they sometimes harm innocent people. This can happen in part because there are no effective legal const...

F. Correia and A. Iacona (eds.), Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future, Synthese Library 361, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5167-5_1, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract In his paper “Future Contingents and Relative Truth,” John MacFarlane argues for truth relativism on the basis of the possibility of the open future. He defend...

A recent article pointed out that `̀ past research has paid relatively little attention to the sources of individuals’ moral philosophies from either a conceptual or an empirical standpoint’’ and investigated the determinants of idealism and relativism among American marketers. A literature review indicates that there is even less theoretical and empirical crosscultural investigation of moral ph...

Thesis (1) appears in two papers published in 1963.1 Theses (2) and (3) appear in later works under the joint rubric of internal realism.2 Putnam has not explained how the semantic theses that constitute internal realism fit together with his earlier, reliabilist conception of scientific inquiry. Nor have his followers. Barrels of philosophical ink have been spilled on (3) in complete isolation...

This article discusses Sandra Harding's idea of strong objectivity. The is a response to the problems faced by feminist methodology which stands between objectivism and subjectivism. Objectivism conventional that views research process must be objective value-free. Meanwhile, subjectivism privileges role subjects values. However, objectivity within normally biased with interests dominant group,...