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Abstract For Jerry Fodor, Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature is “the foundational document cognitive science” whose significance transcends mere historical interest: it a source theoretical inspiration in psychology. Here I am going to argue that those reading Hume along Fodor’s lines rely on problematic, albeit inspiring, construction science mind. My strategy this paper contrast understanding th...

ABSTRACT Two rival approaches to property rights dominate contemporary political philosophy: Lockean natural and egalitarian theories of distributive justice. This article defends a third approach, which can be traced the work David Hume. Unlike rights, Humean are not grounded in pre-institutional moral entitlements. In contrast begins with highly abstract principles justice, theory starts simp...

GRW Theory postulates a stochastic mechanism assuring that every so often the wave function of a quantum system is ‘hit’, which leaves it in a localised state. How are we to interpret the probabilities built into this mechanism? GRW theory is a firmly realist proposal and it is therefore clear that these probabilities are objective probabilities (i.e. chances). A discussion of the major theorie...