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Analysis United Kingdom
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October 1, 2024
There is a theorem that shows that it is impossible for an algorithm to jointly satisfy the statistical fairness criteria of Calibration and Equalized Odds non-trivially. But what about the recently advocated alternative to Calibration, Base Rate Tracking? ...
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Philosophy of Science
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January 2024
AbstractThis article concerns the diachronic rationality norms for comparative confidence judgments, that is, judgments of the form “I am at least as confident in
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JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
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2024
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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November 1, 2023
It is a consequence of the theory of imprecise credences that there exist situations in which rational agents inevitably become less opinionated toward some propositions as they gather more evidence. The fact that an agent's imprecise credal state can dila ...
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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March 1, 2023
Kim’s causal exclusion argument purports to demonstrate that the non-reductive physicalist must treat mental properties (and macro-level properties in general) as causally inert. A number of authors have attempted to resist Kim’s conclusion by utilizing th ...
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Minds and machines
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January 2023
According to a mainstream position in contemporary cognitive science and philosophy, the use of abstract compositional concepts is amongst the most characteristic indicators of meaningful deliberative thought in an organism or agent. In this article, we sh ...
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Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy
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December 28, 2022
Suppositions can be introduced in either the indicative or subjunctive mood. There are also two types of judgments that may be initiated by suppositions of either sort: qualitative (binary) judgments and quantitative (numerical) ones. The former ar ...
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Philosophy & Public Affairs
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March 2022
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind
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January 1, 2022
Most agree that mental properties depend in some way on physical properties. While physicalists describe this dependence in terms of deterministic synchronic relations like identity or supervenience, some dualists prefer to think of it in terms of indeterm ...
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Analysis
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October 4, 2021
AbstractAccording to orthodoxy, there are two basic moods of supposition: indicative and subjunctive. The most popular formalizations of the corresponding norms of suppositional judgement are given by Bayesian conditionaliz ...
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The Review of Symbolic Logic
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June 2021
AbstractQuantum set theory (QST) and topos quantum theory (TQT) are two long running projects in the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics (QM) that share a great deal of conceptual and technical affinity. Most pert ...
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The Philosophical Quarterly
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September 17, 2020
AbstractThe logic of indicative conditionals remains the topic of deep and intractable philosophical disagreement. I show that two influential epistemic norms—the Lockean theory of belief and the Ramsey test for conditional ...
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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July 2, 2020
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Philosophy of Science
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December 1, 2019
Whether y obtains under the counterfactual supposition that x is thought to depend on whether y obtains in the most similar world(s) in which x obtains. Graphical causal models have proved useful in developing a principled notion of similarity between worl ...
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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December 1, 2019
Schupbach and Sprenger ([2011]) introduce a novel probabilistic approach to measuring the explanatory power that a given explanans exerts over a corresponding explanandum. Though we are sympathetic to their general approach, we argue that it does not (with ...
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The Journal of Philosophy
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2019
The principle of indifference (PI) states that in the absence of any relevant evidence, a rational agent will distribute their credence equally among all the possible outcomes under consideration. Despite its intuitive plausibility, PI famously fal ...
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Psychological Review
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October 2018
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