{"title":"Austerity in Mohist ethics","authors":"Bradford Jean-Hyuk Kim","doi":"10.1093/analys/anad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anad005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Fraser highlights an unattractive feature of Mohist ethics: the Mohists, while criticizing their Confucian contemporaries, restrict one’s pursuits to the most basic sorts of goods. Fraser suggests that the Mohists assume the perpetuity of scarce resources, which leads to a commitment to austerity, which in turn leads them to deny a plausible third way between austerity and excess. In their defence, I argue that the Mohists do not assume perpetuity of scarce resources but rather the hedonic treadmill. And instead of begging the question by assuming austerity and then denying a moderate alternative to excess, the Mohists take the hedonic treadmill to preclude a principled stopgap between austerity and excess, leaving austerity as the only acceptable option. Finally, these dynamics illuminate a feature that should make us wary of parallels to Millian utilitarianism: the maximization principle of the latter is absent from Mohism, and this goes hand-in-hand with austerity.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78589466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a new class of two-variable functional equations on semigroups with involutions","authors":"Iz-iddine El-Fassi","doi":"10.1515/anly-2022-1071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anly-2022-1071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Let 𝑆 be a commutative semigroup, 𝐾 a quadratically closed commutative field of characteristic different from 2, 𝐺 a 2-cancellative abelian group and 𝐻 an abelian group uniquely divisible by 2. The goal of this paper is to find the general non-zero solution f : S 2 → K fcolon S^{2}to K of the d’Alembert type equation f ( x + y , z + w ) + f ( x + σ ( y ) , z + τ ( w ) ) = 2 f ( x , z ) f ( y , w ) , x , y , z , w ∈ S , f(x+y,z+w)+f(x+sigma(y),z+tau(w))=2f(x,z)f(y,w),quad x,y,z,win S, the general non-zero solution f : S 2 → G fcolon S^{2}to G of the Jensen type equation f ( x + y , z + w ) + f ( x + σ ( y ) , z + τ ( w ) ) = 2 f ( x , z ) , x , y , z , w ∈ S , f(x+y,z+w)+f(x+sigma(y),z+tau(w))=2f(x,z),quad x,y,z,win S, the general non-zero solution f : S 2 → H fcolon S^{2}to H of the quadratic type equation f ( x + y , z + w ) + f ( x + σ ( y ) , z + τ ( w ) ) = 2 f ( x , z ) + 2 f ( y , w ) , x , y , z , w ∈ S , f(x+y,z+w)+f(x+sigma(y),z+tau(w))=2f(x,z)+2f(y,w),quad x,y,z,win S, where σ , τ : S → S sigma,taucolon Sto S are two involutions.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86220632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel Beta matrix function via Wiman matrix function and their applications","authors":"N. Khan, Saddam Husain","doi":"10.1515/anly-2022-1098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anly-2022-1098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many authors defined and extended the beta function in various forms because the beta function has wide uses in different fields of science and applied science. In this article, we define a new more generalized form of the extended beta matrix function via the Wiman matrix function and describe their significant properties and special cases. Furthermore, we define an extension of the Gauss hypergeometric and confluent hypergeometric matrix functions by adopting a novel type of beta matrix function. We also derive their Laplace transform, derivative formula and transformation formulae.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73035098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Aren’t I Part of a Whale?","authors":"David Builes, Caspar Hare","doi":"10.1093/analys/anad004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anad004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We start by presenting three different views that jointly imply that every person has many conscious beings in their immediate vicinity, and that the number greatly varies from person to person. We then present and assess an argument to the conclusion that how confident someone should be in these views should sensitively depend on how massive they happen to be. According to the argument, sometimes irreducibly de se observations can be powerful evidence for or against believing in metaphysical theories.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86696554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lying: revisiting the ‘intending to deceive’ condition","authors":"V. Krstić","doi":"10.1093/analys/anac099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac099","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper refines the received analysis of deceptive lies. This is done by assessing some cases of lies that are supposedly not intended to deceive and by arguing that they actually involve sophisticated strategies of intentional deception. These lies, that is, merely seem not to be intended to deceive and this is because our received analysis of deceptive lies is insufficiently sophisticated. We need to add these strategies to our analysis of deceptive lying. The argument ends by presenting this refined analysis.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76644847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There is no aesthetic experience of the genuine","authors":"M. Windsor","doi":"10.1093/analys/anac101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac101","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Many hold that aesthetic appreciation is sensitive to the authenticity or genuineness of an object. In a recent body of work, Carolyn Korsmeyer has defended the claim that genuineness itself is an aesthetic property. Korsmeyer’s aim is to explain our aesthetic appreciation of objects that afford a sense of being ‘in touch with the past’. In this paper, I argue that genuineness cannot explain our appreciation of these objects. There is no aesthetic experience of the genuine.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"1217 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72433164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Bayesian analysis of self-undermining arguments in physics","authors":"D. Wallace","doi":"10.1093/analys/anac096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac096","url":null,"abstract":"Some theories in physics seem to be ‘self-undermining’: that is, if they are correct, we are probably mistaken about the evidence that apparently supports them. For instance, certain cosmological theories have the apparent consequence that most observers are so-called ‘Boltzmann brains’, which exist only momentarily and whose apparent experiences and memories are not veridical. I provide a Bayesian analysis to demonstrate why theories of this kind are not after all supported by the apparent evidence in their favor, taking advantage of the split between ‘primary evidence’, which directly supports a theory, and ‘proximal evidence’, which is our evidence (largely records and testimony) for the primary evidence. contexts in physics generate , or","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81622357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against classical paraconsistent metatheory","authors":"Koji Tanaka, P. Girard","doi":"10.1093/analys/anac093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac093","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 There was a time when ‘logic’ just meant classical logic. The climate is slowly changing, and non-classical logic cannot be dismissed off-hand. However, a metatheory used to study the properties of non-classical logic is often classical. In this paper, we will argue that this practice of relying on classical metatheories is problematic. In particular, we will show that it is a bad practice because the metatheory that is used to study a non-classical logic often rules out the very logic it is designed to study.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85167786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bullshit questions","authors":"Dennis Whitcomb","doi":"10.1093/analys/anad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anad002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper argues that questions can be bullshit. First it explores some shallowly interrogative ways in which that can happen. Then it shows how questions can also be bullshit in a way that is more deeply interrogative.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"84 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78140600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Existence of anti-periodic solutions for Ψ-Caputo-type fractional p-Laplacian problems via Leray--Schauder degree theory","authors":"Ali El Mfadel, S. Melliani, M. Elomari","doi":"10.1515/anly-2022-1089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anly-2022-1089","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The main crux of this work is to study the existence of solutions for a certain type of nonlinear Ψ-Caputo fractional differential equations with anti-periodic boundary conditions and p-Laplacian operator. The proofs are based on the Leray–Schauder degree theory and some basic concepts of Ψ-Caputo fractional calculus. As an application, our theoretical result has been illustrated by providing a suitable example.","PeriodicalId":82310,"journal":{"name":"Philosophic research and analysis","volume":"50 1","pages":"193 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84571228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}