Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal …
My dissertation aims at throwing new light on the problem of agency, by pursuing a reductionist project about agent causation. In Chapter 1, I provide …
Surprising observations should not steer us toward alternative hypotheses of objective chance, because the pattern-seeking aspect of human psychology gives rise to irrational feelings of …
We take ourselves to be able to access the truth about logic, mathematics, and other nonempirical matters, but it is difficult to reconcile the possibility …
One of Aristotle’s core theses is hylomorphism, the view that things are composed of matter (hule) and form (morphe). In recent years, Aristotle’s hylomorphism has …
There has been increasing attention to the pervasiveness of so-called “bad sex”: apparently consensual sexual encounters that are nonetheless experienced as violating, degrading, and even …
In this thesis, I explore the relevance of computational reinforcement learning to the philosophy of rationality and concept formation. I first argue that the framework …