Declan discusses Schaffer’s case of the debasing demon. I wonder if evidence, no matter how strong, that one is currently a victim of the debasing demon could rationally permit forming a belief that one is currently a victim of the…
The theory that our choices are determined by forces that go back to prehistory is pointless and dangerous. Pointless because any decision taken can be explained by the theory of predetermination or by the common view that people are able…
Rationality requires knowing what you believe, since otherwise you’re liable to fall into an irrational Moorean predicament (174). Declan’s book offers a remarkably systematic picture of the nature of and relations among phenomenal consciousness, justification, belief, and self-awareness. In this…
Vulnerable only [5] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/fair-allocation-mechanism-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-the-covax-facility [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/02/vaccine-nationalism-harms-everyone-and-protects-no-one/ Here, we explore a question of practical ethics: what is the appropriate extent to which a country can prioritize its own people over those in other countries in the securing of vaccines for COVID-19?…
Here is the link to the full version of their commentary. Relevantly, the phenomenal sufficiency thesis seems to imply that if a creature has a perceptual experience, even if it lacks the capacities to form beliefs, the perceptual experience can…
There are two situations when a general anaesthetic might be used in dying patients. The first is when other drugs have not worked and the patient is still distressed or in pain. The second is when a patient has only…
Suppose that your belief “It is raining in Shanghai” is due to wishful thinking, and your total evidence is entirely neutral with respect to this matter. Given your evidence, it could either be true or false that it is raining…
To the free will sceptics, this is all just a desperate attempt at face-saving and changing the subject – an effort to redefine free will not as the thing we all feel, when faced with a choice, but as something…
AFB goes as follows:Smithies might complain that I am exaggerating the gap between actual blindsighters and stipulated blindsighters. Perhaps we do not have to worry about the gap because the stipulated cases are at least in some close possible worlds…
The role I have in mind is a signalling function. A major role of universities is helping employers to make hiring decisions. Many of the positions that graduates go on to occupy don’t require the kind of skills that universities…
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Although “virtue of practical judgment”™ is a technical term in the book, the corresponding vices are easily recognizable. The person who needs very specific and strict policies manifests the vice of inflexibility; these are the people who cannot carpe the…
[3] Please don’t guess Flamengo; the right answer is Fluminense. These three types of preference provide some structure, though they will typically be localized. They might generate fine-grained preference orderings among possible means of building a house, but they will…
Support for the doctor’s unconventional approach might come from a view recently developed by philosopher Moti Gorin and colleagues. They argue that a patient’s best interests should be a doctor’s primary guide in influencing medical decision-making, at least in situations…
