Beyond the hype: The value of evolutionary theorizing in economics

AW Schulz - Philosophy of the social sciences, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, I consider the recent resurgence of “evolutionary economics”—the idea that
evolutionary theory can be very useful to push forward key debates in economics—and …

Using Pascal's Wager as a Model for Introducing God to Unbelievers in an Increasingly Fast-paced, Secular World

L Sharma - 2023 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
Statistics say that each year, 4.5 billion people, or nearly 60% of the world's population, will
gamble at least once. Every time someone gambles in a casino, the statistical probability …

[图书][B] Dominance conditionals and the Newcomb problem

T Korzukhin - 2014 - academia.edu
In this paper I aim to make progress on two fronts, the semantics of indicative conditionals
and the Newcomb problem, by investigating an interesting type of sentence, the indicative …

Agreement, All the Way Up: An Essay on Public Reason and Theory Choice

B Kogelmann - 2017 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation offers novel contributions to two distinct but related projects, what I call the
first-order public reason liberalism project and the second-order public reason liberalism …

Modus Ponens and the Logic of Decision

N Charlow - Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2023 - Springer
This article presents and discusses a prima facie counterexample to modus ponens. To
appropriately theorize the case, I argue for conceptualizing the notions of logical …

Diagnostic Preliminaries to Applying a Theory of Decision

M Thalos - SATS, 2014 - degruyter.com
Decision theory cannot be a purely formal theory, free of all metaphysical assumptions and
ascertainments. It must instead rely upon the end user for the wisdom it takes to prime the …

Indicative And Subjunctive Conditionals

T Korzukhin - 2013 - ecommons.cornell.edu
My dissertation, consisting of three independent papers, argues for a version of Stalnaker's
semantics of indicative conditionals, similar to the approach taken by Heim (1992). In the first …