Frank Fischer, amplía el estudio sobre las políticas de Posverdad, propuesto en su ensayo 2019 “Knowledge Politics and Post-Truth in Climate Denial: On the Social Construction of Alternative Facts”, este libro la Serie Cambridge Elements. Serie, que, para área Política Pública, tiene por objeto “Desarrollar una colección concisa pero autorizada evaluaciones del estado arte y dar futuras direcci...

During the period from 2001 to 2010 police officials in India were lured by a team of pseudo-scientists, from the Forensic Laboratories in Bangalore and Ahmadabad to make use of narcoanalysis, polygraph test and brain fingerprinting to extract confessions from accused persons. All the three tests, preceded by a pre-test interview and interrogation, were conducted by the one and the same expert ...

The article is primarily concerned with the notion of a truth-maker. An explication for this notion is offered, which relates it to other notions of making something such-andsuch. In particular, it is shown that the notion of a truth-maker is a close relative of a concept employed by van Inwagen in the formulation of his Consequence Argument. This circumstance helps understanding the general me...

After every influenza pandemic (including the Russian of the 1890s and the Spanish influenza of 1918–1919), learned commentaries have reflected on the clinical presentation of the disease, noting that the great majority of cases were very mild, so mild that they corresponded much more to the symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection than to an influenza-like illness with fever and prostr...

Repeated statements are rated as subjectively truer than comparable new statements, even though repetition alone provides no new, probative information (the illusory truth effect). Contrary to some theoretical predictions, the illusory effect seems be similar in magnitude for repetitions occurring after minutes or weeks. This Registered Report describes a longitudinal investigation of ...

Vol. L (June 2013), 289–302 289 *Ray Weaver is Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University (e-mail: [email protected]). Drazen Prelec is Professor of Management, Management Science and Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (e-mail: [email protected]). This research was supported by NSF SES0519141 and the John...

In this paper, I argue against the view there are contingent a priori truths, and against the related view that there are contingent logical truths. I will suggest that in general, predicates ›a priori‹ and ›contingent‹ are implicitly relativized to circumstances, and argue that apriority entails necessity, whenever the two are relativized to the same circumstance. I will then criticize the ide...

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