Commentary on “Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?”

Can Privacy be Just Another Good?

I. PRIVACY AS FINAL GOOD AND INTERMEDIATE GOOD .............. 251 II. TREATING PRIVACY AS A FINAL GOOD WITH CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY: INITIAL AGREEMENTS ....................................... 253 A. How Initial Agreements Can Work Well ............................. 254 B. How Initial Agreements Can Fail ....................................... 256 III. MODIFYING POLICIES LATER ........................

A question worth asking?

Commentary: you can observe a great deal by just looking.

Good science? We should all be asking

Objectivity is a central tenet of the scientific process. That is, in order for science to be a successful tool for understanding the nature of reality it must be free from bias. This idea is so core to science that cases of explicit bias (e.g., data fabrication and false reporting of results) are both mystifying and sensational. In principle and (we hope) in practice, instances of bias can be ...

When a good fit can be bad.

How should we select among computational models of cognition? Although it is commonplace to measure how well each model fits the data, this is insufficient. Good fits can be misleading because they can result from properties of the model that have nothing to do with it being a close approximation to the cognitive process of interest (e.g. overfitting). Selection methods are introduced that fact...