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Does Compositionality Entail Complexity? 复合性包含复杂性吗？

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.2977

John A. Keller

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Old Bad Attitudes 旧的坏态度

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.2606

R. Pasnau

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Essentialist Non-Reductivism 实在说Non-Reductivism

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.1205

Taylor-Grey Miller

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The Intransparency of Political Legitimacy 政治合法性的不透明

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.1533

Matthias Brinkmann

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The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: Theories and Experiments in Hartley, Priestley, Tucker, and Watson 1749-1785年英国哲学中的幽灵：哈特利、普里斯特利、塔克和华生的理论与实验

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.1281

E. Thomas

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Three paradoxes of bounded rationality 有限理性的三个悖论

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.1198

D. Thorstad

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Stupefying 令人震惊的

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.2117

Michael Deigan

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In Defence of Hybrid Contingentism 为混合偶然主义辩护

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.2118

L. Skiba

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Kant on Decomposing Synthesis and the Intuition of Infinite Space 康德论分解综合与无限空间的直观

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.2122

Tobias Rosefeldt

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Thinking, Guessing, and Believing 思考、猜测和相信

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Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.3998/phimp.2123

Ben Holguín

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