If there are positive facts, there are negative facts IF YOU BELIEVE IN POSITIVE FACTS, YOU SHOULD BELIEVE IN NEGATIVE FACTS* Gunnar Björnsson Department of Philosophy, Göteborg University gunnar.bjornsson@filosofi.gu.se ABSTRACT: Substantial metaphysical theory has long struggled with the question of negative facts, facts capable of making it true that Valerie isn’t vigorous. This paper argues th

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Eight Brides for Twenty-Four Brothers Four Brides for Twelve Brothers: How to Dutch Book a Group of Individually Rational Players 1 Luc Bovens London School of Economics and Political Science Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method L.Bovens@LSE.ac.uk You can’t be wise and in love at the same time. (Bob Dylan) Abstract. Wlodek Rabinowicz suggested in an e-mail conversation (2001) to me tha

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Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 Requirements John Broome Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford john.broome@philosophy.ox.ac.uk ABSTRACT: Expressions such as ‘morality requires’, ‘prudence requires’ and ‘rationality requires

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Microsoft Word - SJSI WR-Festschrift2.doc Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 IS HYPOTHETICAL CONSENT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ACTUAL CONSENT? Linus Broström & Mats Johansson Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University Department of Philosophy, Lund Uni

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Indicative conditionals: the logic of assertion John Cantwell September 25, 2006 Abstract I argue that indicative conditionals are best viewed as having partial truth condi- tions: “If A, B” is true if A and B are both true, false if A is true and B is false, and lacks truth value if A is false. The truth conditions are shown to explain a variety of important phenomena regarding indicative conditi

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We take ”better than”, denoted by ≻, as a primitive relation Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek PARITY DEFINED IN TERMS OF BETTERNESS Erik Carlson Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University Erik.Carlson@filosofi.uu.se ABSTRACT: Ruth Chang has def

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Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 Race and Politics* Dan Egonsson Department of Philosophy, Lund University Dan.Egonsson@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: Some reflections on Hussein Kassim’s article on the concept of race in A Companion to Genet

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Roger Fjellstrom Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek Roger Fjellstrom SIGNAL, DEFINITION, FUNCTION, CONSTITUTION OR WHAT? A question about the relation between value and reason-giving in the buck-passing account of value ABSTRACT The so called ‘buck

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WR – cooperation and its cogniive demands Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 The Cognitive and Communicative Demands of Cooperation Peter Gärdenfors Lund University Cognitive Science Kungshuset, Lundagård S-223 50 Lund, Sweden Peter.Gardenfors@lu

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1 Are There Reasons to Be Rational? Olav Gjelsvik, University of Oslo The thesis. Among people writing about rationality, few people are more rational than Wlodek Rabinowicz. But are there reasons for being rational? This paper explores whether there are, and attempts to defend a limited thesis to the effect that there are reasons to be rational. The thesis that is defended is limited this way: As

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Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 Cognition, multimodal interaction and new media1 Jana Holsanova2 Cognitive Science Dept., Lund University jana.holsanova@lucs.lu.se ABSTRACT: From a cognitive perspective, this paper summarises a nu

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Microsoft Word - Priority_Population.doc 1 ON GIVING PRIORITY TO POSSIBLE FUTURE PEOPLE Nils Holtug Philosophy Section Department of Media, Cognition and Communication nhol@hum.ku.dk ABSTRACT: According to prioritarianism, roughly, it is better to benefit a person, the worse off she is. This seems a plausible principle as long as it is applied only to fixed populations. However, once this restrict

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Reasonable Hypocricy and Partial Compliance Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek PARTIAL COMPLIANCE: SUNDAY SCHOOL MORALITY MEETS GAME THEORY. Magnus Jiborn Magnus.jiborn@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: There is a striking gap between the moral standards that mo

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Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 SUPERIORITY IN VALUE AND THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION∗ Karsten Klint Jensen Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment kkj@foi.dk ABSTRACT: James Griffin has considered a weak form of superiority i

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DELIBERATION DOES CROWD OUT PREDICTION DELIBERATION DOES CROWD OUT PREDICTION Isaac Levi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 levi@columbia.edu Wlodek Rabinowicz (2002) has challenged the thesis that deliberation as to what one is to do and prediction as to what one will do cannot be jointly undertaken coherently. He maintains that even if it were tru

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My Choice, Our Choice My Choice, Our Choice Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication Section of Philosophy University of Copenhagen ABSTRACT: Luck-egalitarianism is often formulated as the view that it is in itself bad for some to be worse off than others through no fault or choice of their own. This formulation is surprisingly ambiguous. When these ambiguities ar

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Mongin WR Volume Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek

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THE CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE REVISITED Printed from: Homage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Eds. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonssson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/HomageaWlodek UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH Lennart Nordenfelt, Dept of Health and Society, Linköping University, lenno@ihs.liu.se ABSTRACT: Contemporary philosophy of health h

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Rabinowich and Lindström on relation belief revision Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek Lindström and Rabinowicz on relational belief revision Erik J. Olsson Lund University and University of Constance Abstract: It is usually taken for granted that

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Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek BOUNDED REVISION: TWO-DIMENSIONAL BELIEF CHANGE BETWEEN CONSERVATISM AND MODERATION Hans Rott Department of Philosophy, University of Regensburg hans.rott@psk.uni-regensburg.de ABSTRACT: In this paper I present th

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