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16 January, 2017

Desirability of Conditionals

Synthese, Volume 193, Issue 6,  pp. 1967–1981DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0823-0 Abstract This paper explores the different ways in which conditionals can be carriers of good and bad news. I suggest a general

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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15 December, 2021

Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem

Synthese 199 Abstract This article is about the role of factual uncertainty for moral decision-making as it concerns the ethics of machine decision-making (i.e., decisions by AI systems, such as autonomo

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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09 March, 2016

The implications of learning across perceptually and strategically distinct situations

Synthese, 1-18. Abstract Game theory is a formal approach to behavior that focuses on the strategic aspect of situations. The game theoretic approach originates in economics but has been embraced by sch

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , , Cownden, D Eriksson, Kimmo , , Cownden, D
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17 June, 2019

Is risk aversion irrational? Examining the “fallacy” of large numbers

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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26 January, 2021

Expert deference as a belief revision schema

in Synthese (2020) AbstractWhen an agent learns of an expert’s credence in a proposition about which they are an expert, the agent should defer to the expert and adopt that credence as their own. This

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe
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20 September, 2024

Seeking a reflective equilibrium in the face of disagreement

Synthese, vol. 204, 86 Abstract How is someone who seeks a reflective equilibrium to respond upon learning that others disagree with her? Regrettably, not much attention has been devoted to that questio

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke
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16 March, 2021

Quasi-realism and normative certitude

in: Synthese 2020 Abstract Just as we can be more or less certain that there is extraterrestrial life or that Goldbach’s conjecture is correct, we can be more or less certain about normative matters, su

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , , Björkholm, Stina & Jonas Olson
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06 March, 2020

Does semantic information need to be truthful?

Synthese 196(7): 2885–2906. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1587-5 Abstract The concept of information has well-known difficulties. Among the many issues that have been discussed is the alethic nature of a se

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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28 April, 2025

Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts

Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina
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23 March, 2018
Giulia Andrighetto

Giulia Andrighetto

I am a senior researcher at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. I am also a senior researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in ).

PhD, Philosophy
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