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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: evolutionary
knowing mechanisms while leaving the prescriptive aspects of epistemology to more traditional approaches. At best, the evolutionary analyses serve to rule out normative approaches which are either implausible or inconsistent with an evolutionary origin of human understanding. 1.4 Future Pro...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: perspectives on sex markets
representations of women and sex (Bronstein 2011). Appalled both by the evidence of men's sexual coercion and abuse of women (and girls) and by the mass media's positive images of male sexual aggression, some feminists began to wonder about the relationship between these phenomena (51). Bronstein i...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: revision theory of
four non-quote names, α, β, γ and λ and no predicates other than T. Also recall that M = <D, I > is as follows: D=SentL I(α)=A=Tβ ∨ Tγ I(β)=B=Tα I(γ)=C=¬Tα I(λ)=X=¬Tλ The following table i...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: common knowledge
honor an agreement made with another who has already fulfilled his part of the agreement. Noting that in this situation one has gained all the benefit of the other's compliance, the Foole contends that it would now be best for him to break the agreement, thereby saving himself the costs of co...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: many, problem of
takes a quite different tack. S1. For some j, oj is a typical cloud. S2. Anything that differs minutely from a typical cloud is a cloud. S3. ok differs minutely from oj. C. ok is a cloud. Since we only care about the conditional if oj is a cloud, so is ok, it is clearly acceptable to...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: and modern physics
film is young; it has just been placed in the camera and is ready to be exposed. It is then exposed to the object that comes out of the time machine. (That object in fact is a later stage of the film itself). By the time we come to stage S2 of the life of the film, it has been developed and is about...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Lewis, Clarence Irving
Lewis' SSL system reduced to an extensional one. Lewis (Lewis and Langford (1932) eliminated these problems in SL and provided distinct systems of strict implication or modal logic, S1–S5, each stronger than its predecessor (with S3 the system of SSL). S1 contained the following axioms:...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: logic and
modify. And this design turns out to be essential in enabling these systems to deliver explanations as well as mere conclusions.[5] 1.2 Knowledge Representation In response to the need to design this declarative component, a subfield of AI known as knowledge representation emerged during the 1980...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: and censorship
and degrading pornography causes to women's social standing and opportunities might be sufficiently serious to justify prohibiting such pornography on liberal grounds. Many others, both liberals and feminists, remain unconvinced. They are doubtful that pornography is a significant cause of the oppre...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: deontic
(permitted) must impermissible (forbidden, prohibited) supererogatory (beyond the call of duty) obligatory (duty, required) indifferent / significant omissible (non-obligatory) the least one can do optional better than / best / good / bad ought claim / liberty / power / immunity To be...
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