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An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition

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Book Symposium

The book symposium series features newly published books by leaders in the field. A symposium consists in a precis (1600 words), three critical discussions (4000 words each), and a set of replies (6000 words...
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4th Annual Chapel Hill normativity workshop

This special issue is devoted to a selection of papers presented at the 4th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop, which took place on April 1-3, 2022, on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ca...
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5th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop

This special issue is devoted to a selection of papers presented at the 5th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop, which took place on April 14-16, 2023, on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
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AI Safety

Special Issue Description The accelerating pace of recent advances in artificial intelligence highlights the importance of safety in developing and deploying new technologies. The nascent field of AI safety ...
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APA 2022 Pacific

This special issue of Philosophical Studies features papers that were originally presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Vancouver, BC in April 2022. The confer...
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Artificial Researchers and Scientific Discoveries

Humanity faces grand challenges, and the hope is that scientific progress will provide us with inventions, innovations, and breakthroughs that help us meet those challenges. Scientific progress, in turn, dep...
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Difference-Making and Explanatory Relevance

In a variety of recent debates, philosophers have found it useful to appeal to a notion of difference-making. Metaphysicians have appealed to difference-making in analysing aspects of relations such as causa...
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Experimental Semantics in Philosophy

Experimental methods are gaining more and more foothold in philosophy of language, especially in studies of reference. Most theorists agree that the facts that theories in philosophical semantics attempt to ...
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Higher-Order Metaphysics of Ground

The last decades have seen two paradigm shifts in metaphysics. One concerns explanation and has resulted in the rehabilitation of metaphysical or grounding explanations. The other concerns quantification and...
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Hybrid Views in Animal Ethics

Utilitarian judgments in animal ethics might be more attractive than utilitarian judgments in other areas. For instance, utilitarian defenses of certain forms of extremely harmful scientific research involvi...
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Incommensurability and Population-Level Bioethics

Whereas value incommensurability has received significant attention over the last couple of decades, its importance and implications in applied ethics are largely understudied. This special issue aims to hel...
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Persistence and Modality

After a long predominance of Humeans such as Willard V. O. Quine or David Lewis, the revival of Aristotelian ideas marks a fundamental turning point in the recent history of metaphysics. Those adopting the n...
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Normative Theory and Artificial Intelligence

As humanity comes to rely on ever more sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence (AI), we face pressing normative questions about what to do with AI technology. But designing socially acceptable AI syst...
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Pacific APA 2020-2021

This special issue includes eleven papers developed from presentations at the American Philosophical Association's 2021 Pacific Division Meeting. The global COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 Pacific APA conf...
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Paradox, Context, and Generality

A well-known line of argument originating with the work of Russell and Dummett interprets the semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes as diagonal arguments that can be used to indefinitely extend any contextual...
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Understanding: One or Many?

Human beings strive for understanding the world, but what exactly is understanding? This is a challenging question — among other things — because understanding strikes us as a rather fragmented phenomenon. U...
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