The use of similarities has been one of the main approaches to resolve the ambiguities of coordinate structures. In this paper, we present an alternative method for coordination disambiguation, which does not use similarities. Our hypothesis is that coordinate structures are supported by surrounding dependency relations, and that such dependency relations rather yield similarity between conjunc...

Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – which he calls the debasing demon – that apparently threatens all of our purported knowledge. We show that any debasing skeptical argument must attack the justification condition and can do so only if a plausible thesis about justification is false. Jonathan Schaffer (2010) has summoned a new sort of demon – what he calls the debasing ...

Let A be a basis for N0 of some order. By an essentiality of A one means a subset P such that A\P is no longer a basis (of any order) and such that P is minimal among all subsets of A with this property. In a recent paper, Deschamps and Farhi asked whether every basis of N0 possesses some such subset. We construct, for every integer h ≥ 2, a basis of order h with no essentialities.

The absolute privacy of the secret-keys associated with cryptographic algorithms has been the corner-stone of modern cryptography. Still, in practice, keys do get compromised at times for a variety or reasons. A particularly disturbing loss of secrecy is as a result of side channel attacks. These attacks exploit the fact that every cryptographic algorithm is ultimately implemented on a physical...

Pierre, a story which could easily be true in the world as we know it. The story doesn't contain any so-called twin worlds or molecule-tomolecule identical people. In this respect it is more innocent than many other philosophical thought experiments of the recent past. But even without any such dramatic devices it seems to point to possibilitiesand what is more, to "realistic" possibilities-whi...

Today, any credible philosophical attempt to discuss personhood must take some position on the proper relation between the philosophical analysis of topics like action, intention, emotion, normative and evaluate judgment, desire and mood Cwhich are grouped together under the heading of `moral psychology'C and the usually quite different approaches to ostensibly the same phenomena in contemporar...

In this chapter I lay out a notion of philosophical naturalism that aligns with pragmatism. It is developed and illustrated by a presentation of my views on natural kinds and my theory of concepts. Both accounts reflect a methodological naturalism and are defended not based on metaphysical considerations, but in terms of their philosophical fruitfulness. A core theme is that the epistemic inter...