We run an experimental study using sender-receiver games to evaluate how senders' willingness lie others compares their tell hard truths, i.e., promote outcome that the sender knows is unfair receiver without explicitly lying. Unlike in previous work on lying when it has consequences, we do not find antisocial behavior less frequent involves than does not. In fact, opposite result setting where...

In Beebe (2011), I argued against the widespread reluctance of philosophers to treat skeptical challenges to our a priori knowledge of necessary truths with the same seriousness as skeptical challenges to our a posteriori knowledge of contingent truths. Vahid (2013) offers several reasons for thinking the unequal treatment of these two kinds of skepticism is justified, one of which is a priori ...

Historically, most mathematicians have believed that mathematical truths such as "2+5=7" exist independently of human minds, being universally and eternally true. Mathematicians believe they are discovering properties of, say, prime numbers, rather than merely inventing them. This view of mathematics dates back to Pythagoras (500 BC) and Plato (400 BC). It is often called “Platonism”. In order ...

In CORBA-based applications that depend on object replication for fault tolerance, inconsistencies in the states of the replicas of an object can arise when concurrent threads within those replicas perform updates in di erent orders. By imposing a single logical thread of control on every replicated multithreaded CORBA client or server object, and by providing deterministic scheduling of thread...

INTRODUCTION Under the influence of Enlightenment epistemo-logical thought, the social sciences have exhibited a distinct tendency to prefer deterministic1 explanations of social phenomena. In the sociology of knowledge, for example, " foundational " researchers seek to arrive at objective knowledge of social phenomena through the application of " social scientific methodolog[ies] based on the ...