In a popular paper, Bruce Russell argues that our nonperception of divine reasons for apparently pointless suffering justifies belief in the nonexistence God. generally accepts common interpretive norm we are justified believing something does not exist when do perceive it, if and only have reason to believe would it did exist. However, on strength an example from film The Matrix, this apply Go...

According to the standard view, a belief is based on reason and doxastically justified—i.e., permissibly held—only if causal relation obtains between belief. In this paper, I argue that can be justified by reason’s mere disposition sustain it. Such disposition, however, wouldn’t establish connection unless it were manifested. My argument that, in cases have mind, manifestation of would add no p...

Sandeep Neema, for providing me with an opportunity to work on this project. His direction and guidance throughout the development of the project has been extremely helpful. I would also like to thank Dr. Gabor Karsai for providing me with insightful comments regarding the work done towards this thesis and for providing valuable suggestions to improve it. I wish to express my sincere appreciati...

This paper is about compositionality, belief reports, and related issues. I begin by introducing Putnam’s proposal for understanding compositionality, namely that the sense of a sentence is a function of the sense of its parts and of its logical structure (section 1). Both Church and Sellars think that Putnam’s move is superfluous or unnecessary since there is no relevant puzzle to begin with (...

When confronted with uncertain prospects, people often exhibit both choice deferral and Ellsberg-type ambiguity aversion. This paper obtains a joint representation for these behavioral phenomena. The decision maker as portrayed by my model is willing to choose an uncertain prospect f over g rather than to defer this choice if and only if the expected utility of f is greater that or equal to the...

My paper has two parts. First, I talk about the golden rule. After introducing the rule and its global importance, I explain why many scholars dismiss it as a vague proverb that leads to absurdities when we try to formulate it clearly. I defend the golden rule against such objections. Second, I talk about the golden rule in Persia and Islam; I consider Persian sources (Muslim and non-Muslim) an...