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Daniel Elliot Weissglass

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


A multisectoral and multidisciplinary endeavor: a review of diabetes self-management apps in China.

Journal Article BMC public health · September 2023 BackgroundWhile the use of self-management apps has considerable promise to efficiently reduce the diabetes burden that disproportionally affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the multisectoral and multidisciplinary approaches have ... Full text Cite

Impact of federalization for health financing and workforce in Nepal.

Journal Article Global health research and policy · June 2023 The adoption of its 2015 constitution has converted Nepal to a federal government while simultaneously resulted in significant reforms of the health system in Nepal in terms of both structure and commitment. In this commentary, we review evidence ranging f ... Full text Cite

Correction to: Greatest surprise reduction semantics: an information theoretic solution to misrepresentation and disjunction (Philosophical Studies, (2020), 177, 8, (2185-2205), 10.1007/s11098-019-01305-0)

Journal Article Philosophical Studies · October 1, 2022 The article: ‘‘Greatest surprise reduction semantics: an information theoretic solution to misrepresentation and disjunction’’, written by D. E. Weissglass, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 04 July 2019 without ... Full text Cite

Is belief evaluation truth sensitive? A reply to Turri

Journal Article Synthese · September 1, 2021 A key question about the value of truth in epistemology is whether the truthfulness of some proposition is (or should be) a factor in our evaluation of beliefs. The traditional view—evidenced in introductory texts (e.g., Moser et al. in The theory of knowl ... Full text Cite

Greatest surprise reduction semantics: an information theoretic solution to misrepresentation and disjunction

Journal Article Philosophical Studies · August 1, 2020 Featured Publication Causal theories of content, a popular family of approaches to defining the content of mental states, commonly run afoul of two related and serious problems that prevent them from providing an adequate theory of mental content—the misrepresentation problem ... Full text Cite

Imaginative Role-Playing as a Medium for Moral Development: Dungeons & Dragons Provides Moral Training

Journal Article Journal of Humanistic Psychology · January 1, 2020 This study investigates the use of imaginative role-play games to sponsor positive development in young adult moral reasoning. Twelve college students participated in six approximately 4-hour gaming sessions using a customized game system based on Dungeons ... Full text Cite