Browsing by Author "Easwaran, Kenny"

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    • A Philosophical Perspective on Group Polarization 
      Galvan, Marina A
      Polarization has become an increasingly concern for the United States, especially in recent years. The political parties have refrained from working together, but instead have been dehumanizing one another that has been ...
    • Contextual Reason and Rationality 
      Afroogh, Saleh (2019-05-23)
      In Internal and External Reasons, Bernard Williams proposes a speculative argument for the idea that internal reasons are the only kind of normative reason, and that his counterfactual internal interpretation is the only ...
    • Decision Theory Without Representation Theorems 
      Easwaran, Kenny (Philosophers' Imprint, 2014)
    • A Fallibilistic Approach to Education Policy 
      Petrik, Kathryn Rose (2016-04-22)
      Drawing on classical and contemporary sources in the philosophy of science and education, I argue that a robust understanding of fallibilism is absent from current education policy decisions. An inadequate appreciation of ...
    • New Tools for Classifying Convex Neural Codes: The Factor Complex and the Wheel 
      Ruys De Perez, Alexander Mark (2021-04-30)
      The neural code has prompted many questions in pure mathematics concerning how much topological data can be stored combinatorially. The question of whether one can determine the convexity of a neural code is particularly ...
    • Property of Rapid Decay and Free Wreath Products 
      Weeks, John Munroe (2022-07-21)
      Compact quantum groups have been objects of study for nearly fifty years as ``perturbations" of groups, ones whose algebras of ``continuous functions" is defined to be non-commutative. The quantum automorphism group ...
    • Rethinking the Fittingness of Emotions 
      An, Dong (2021-04-09)
      Emotions are always about something and are thus intentional. Emotional fittingness is a normative concept that is used to describe the relationship between an emotion and its object. If an emotion is fitting, it must ...
    • Stability of Heisenberg Coefficients 
      Ying, Li (2019-07-23)
      The Heisenberg product is an associative product defined on symmetric functions which interpolates between the ordinary product and the Kronecker product. Heisenberg coefficients are Schur structure constants of the ...
    • Strong Relative Novikov Conjecture 
      Tian, Geng (2019-06-19)
      This dissertation can be said to consider Relative Strong Novikov Conjecture for a pair of countable discrete groups. The first part of the dissertation is about formulation of the relative Baum-Connes assembly map for a ...
    • Updating on the Credences of Others: Disagreement, Agreement and Synergy 
      Easwaran, Kenny; Fenton-Glynn, Luke; Hitchcock, Christopher; Velasco, Joel (Philosophers' Imprint, 2016)