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    Mechanisms of bacterial morphogenesis: Evolutionary cell biology approaches provide new insights.Chao Jiang, Paul D. Caccamo & Yves V. Brun - 2015 - Bioessays 37 (4):413-425.
    How Darwin's “endless forms most beautiful” have evolved remains one of the most exciting questions in biology. The significant variety of bacterial shapes is most likely due to the specific advantages they confer with respect to the diverse environments they occupy. While our understanding of the mechanisms generating relatively simple shapes has improved tremendously in the last few years, the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of complex shapes and the evolution of shape diversity are largely unknown. The emerging field of (...)
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  2. Two Problems of Direct Inference.Paul D. Thorn - 2012 - Erkenntnis 76 (3):299-318.
    The article begins by describing two longstanding problems associated with direct inference. One problem concerns the role of uninformative frequency statements in inferring probabilities by direct inference. A second problem concerns the role of frequency statements with gerrymandered reference classes. I show that past approaches to the problem associated with uninformative frequency statements yield the wrong conclusions in some cases. I propose a modification of Kyburg’s approach to the problem that yields the right conclusions. Past theories of direct inference have (...)
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  3. The normative character of interpretation and mental explanation.Paul D. Thorn - 1998 - Dissertation, Simon Fraser University
    This essay is devoted to the study of useful ways of thinking about the nature of interpretation, with particular attention being given to the so called normative character of mental explanation. My aim of illuminating the nature of interpretation will be accomplished by examining several views, some of which are common to both Donald Davidson and Daniel Dennett, concerning its unique characteristics as a method of prediction and explanation. Moreover, some of the views held by Davidson and Dennett will be (...)
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  4. Undercutting defeat via reference properties of differing arity: a reply to Pust.Paul D. Thorn - 2011 - Analysis 71 (4):662-667.
    In a recent article, Joel Pust argued that direct inference based on reference properties of differing arity are incommensurable, and so direct inference cannot be used to resolve the Sleeping Beauty problem. After discussing the defects of Pust's argument, I offer reasons for thinking that direct inferences based on reference properties of differing arity are commensurable, and that we should prefer direct inferences based on logically stronger reference properties, regardless of arity.
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    Kant's Dialectic.Paul D. Guyer - 1976 - Philosophical Review 85 (2):274.
  6. Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism.Paul D. Forster - 1992 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28 (4):691.
     
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    How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing.Paul D. McGeoch & Romke Rouw - 2020 - Bioessays 42 (12):2000099.
    We propose that synesthetic cross‐activation between the primary auditory cortex and the anatomically adjacent insula may help explain two puzzling conditions—autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and misophonia—in which quotidian sounds involuntarily trigger strong emotional responses. In ASMR the sounds engender relaxation, while in misophonia they trigger an aversive response. The insula both plays an important role in autonomic nervous system control and integrates multiple interoceptive maps representing the physiological state of the body to substantiate a dynamic representation of emotional wellbeing. (...)
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    Are all signs signs?Paul D. Wienpahl - 1949 - Philosophical Review 58 (3):243-256.
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    Philosophy of ethics, ethics, and moral theory.Paul D. Wienpahl - 1948 - Journal of Philosophy 45 (3):57-67.
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    The desirability bias in predictions under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty.Paul D. Windschitl, Jane E. Miller, Inkyung Park, Shanon Rule, Ashley Clary & Andrew R. Smith - 2022 - Cognition 229 (C):105254.
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    Thinking about security in Africa.Paul D. Williams - manuscript
    This article attempts to clarify some of the central questions and distinctions that provide the necessary backdrop for thinking in a sophisticated way about security in Africa. Drawing on the developing Critical Security Studies literature it suggests that an understanding of security based on people, justice and change offers the surest route to a stable future. It then sketches preliminary answers to some fundamental questions, namely: whose security should be prioritized? How have security dynamics in Africa been influenced by the (...)
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    Risk it? Direct and collateral impacts of peers' verbal expressions about hazard likelihoods.Paul D. Windschitl, Andrew R. Smith, Aaron M. Scherer & Jerry Suls - 2017 - Thinking and Reasoning 23 (3):259-291.
    When people encounter potential hazards, their expectations and behaviours can be shaped by a variety of factors including other people's expressions of verbal likelihood. What is the impact of such expressions when a person also has numeric likelihood estimates from the same source? Two studies used a new task involving an abstract virtual environment in which people learned about and reacted to novel hazards. Verbal expressions attributed to peers influenced participants’ behaviour toward hazards even when numeric estimates were also available. (...)
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    Measuring psychological uncertainty: Verbal versus numeric methods.Paul D. Windschitl & Gary L. Wells - 1996 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 2 (4):343.
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    God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol, and Myth in Religion and Theology.Paul D. L. Avis - 1999 - Routledge.
    'A mere metaphor', 'only symbolic', 'just a myth' - these tell tale phrases reveal how figurative language has been cheapened and devalued in our modern and postmodern culture. In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues the contrary: we see that actually, metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. Avis examines what he calls an alternative tradition, stemming from the Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth and Keats and drawing on the (...)
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    How Category Selection Impacts Inference Reliability: Inheritance Inference From an Ecological Perspective.Paul D. Thorn & Gerhard Schurz - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (4):e12971.
    This article presents results from a simulation‐based study of inheritance inference, that is, inference from the typicality of a property among a “base” class to its typicality among a subclass of the class. The study aims to ascertain which kinds of inheritance inferences are reliable, with attention to the dependence of their reliability upon the type of environment in which inferences are made. For example, the study addresses whether inheritance inference is reliable in the case of “exceptional subclasses” (i.e., subclasses (...)
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    Situations and Individuals.Paul D. Elbourne - 2005 - MIT Press.
    In Situations and Individuals, Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals — pronouns, proper names, and definite descriptions — have a common syntax and semantics, roughly that of definite descriptions as construed in the tradition of Frege. In the course of his argument, Elbourne shows that proper names have previously undetected donkey anaphoric readings.This is contrary to previous theorizing and, if true, would undermine what philosophers call the direct reference theory (...)
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  17. (1 other version)Frege's sinn und bedeutung.Paul D. Wienpahl - 1950 - Mind 59 (236):483-494.
    This article is concerned with frege's "sinn und bedeutung", As an examination of (1) a statement and analysis of frege's argument, And (2) specification and justification of a meaning of 'sense' which fits the data of frege's discussion and does not make 'sense' a subsistent entity. (staff).
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    Why subject naturalists need pragmatic genealogy.Paul D. G. Showler - 2021 - Synthese 199 (1-2):4313-4335.
    Huw Price’s subject naturalism has emerged as a leading pragmatist position within recent debates surrounding philosophical naturalism. Unlike orthodox views which tend to be guided by metaphysical questions about the “place” of, for instance, the mind, meaning, and morality within the natural world, subject naturalism focuses philosophical attention on language-users and the functions that certain concepts play within discursive practices. This paper considers two objections to subject naturalism and argues that they can be overcome by looking to the methodological insights (...)
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    Theology in the Borderlands: Donald MacKinnon and Contemporary Theology.Paul D. Murray - 1998 - Modern Theology 14 (3):355-376.
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    The stimulus-to-perception connection: a simulation study in the epistemology of perception.Paul D. Thorn - 2020 - Synthese 199 (1-2):551-578.
    The present paper introduces a simple framework for modeling the relationship between environmental states, perceptual states, and action. The framework represents situations where an agent’s perceptual state forms the basis for choosing an action, and what action the agent performs determines the agent’s payoff, as a function of the environmental conditions in which the action is performed. The framework is used as the basis for a simulation study of the sorts of correspondence between perceptual and environmental states that are important (...)
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  21. Dynamic Transcendence.Paul D. Hanson - 1978
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  22. Political Engagement as Biblical Mandate.Paul D. Hanson - 2010
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    (1 other version)Point of View and the Craft of Cinema: Notes on Some Devices.Paul D. Mcglynn - 1969 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (2):187-196.
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    Fragile Y Chromosomes.Paul D. Waters - 2017 - Bioessays 39 (11):1700142.
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    Are All Signs Signs?Paul D. Weinpahl - 1949 - Philosophical Review 58:243.
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    Concerning Moral Responsibility.Paul D. Wienpahl - 1952 - Analysis 13 (6):127 - 135.
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    Women: A more balanced brain?Paul D. MucLeun - 1996 - Zygon 31 (3):421-439.
    On the basis of knowledge prior to 1988, Ashbrook pointed out that whereas most men are primarily dependent on the left cerebral hemisphere (“dominant hemisphere”) for verbally related functions, women show a greater hemispheric balance in this respect. For men, he argues, their possession of a “speaking” and a “non‐speaking hemisphere” results in a positive‐negative, bipolar way of thinking that may be characterized as dualistic and dialectically hierarchical. In contrast, the greater balance of hemispheric function in women appears to promote (...)
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    Fallibilism, faith and theology: Putting Nicholas Rescher to theological work1.Paul D. Murray - 2004 - Modern Theology 20 (3):339-362.
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    The Cosmic Breath: Spirit and Nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-Science Trialogue by Amos Yong.Paul D. Numrich & Sid Brown - 2014 - Buddhist-Christian Studies 34:230-234.
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    Problems with Rorty’s Pragmatist Defense of Liberalism.Paul D. Forster - 2000 - Journal of Philosophical Research 25:345-362.
    Richard Rorty’s attempts to defend liberalism by appeal to pragmatism fail primarily as a result of his conflation of epistemological and political concepts. It is this confusion that leads him to defend unpalatable political views. Once the question of pragmatism is properly distinguished from the question of liberalism, it becomes clear that criticisms of Rorty’s politics have no bearing on his views of philosophy and, similarly, that acceptance of Rorty’s critique of philosophy does not commit pragmatists to his political views.
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    The Limits of Pragmatic Realism.Paul D. Forster - 1994 - Philosophy Today 38 (3):243-258.
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  32. The brain and subjective experience: question of multilevel role of resonance.Paul D. MacLean - 1997 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 18 (2-3):247-268.
    Everything we experience and do as individuals is assumed to be a function of the nervous system. It is as though we were born with a total supply of algorithms for all given forms of psychic states and solutions for immediate or eventual actions. There is evidence that the forebrain is, so to speak, the central processor for psychic experience and psychologically directed behavior. Since information itself is immaterial, all forms of psychic experience represent immaterial emanations of the forebrain, including (...)
     
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    Induction by Direct Inference Meets the Goodman Problem.Paul D. Thorn - 2018 - Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 32 (2):1-24.
    I here aim to show that a particular approach to the problem of induction, which I will call “induction by direct inference”, comfortably handles Goodman’s problem of induction. I begin the article by describing induction by direct inference. After introducing induction by direct inference, I briefly introduce the Goodman problem, and explain why it is, prima facie, an obstacle to the proposed approach. I then show how one may address the Goodman problem, assuming one adopts induction by direct inference as (...)
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    "Reflections on palliative care: A" trouble case.".Paul D. Henteleff - forthcoming - Journal of Palliative Care.
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    Divine causality and the nature of theological questioning.Paul D. Janz - 2007 - Modern Theology 23 (3):317-348.
  36. James B.-** ro* K in context.Paul D. Maclean Women, A. More Balanced Brain & Rodney Holmes - forthcoming - Zygon.
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    Freedom of conscience: a Baptist/humanist dialogue.Paul D. Simmons (ed.) - 2000 - Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
    At a historic dialogue convened at the University of Richmond, Virginia, Baptist and secular humanist scholars in theology, history, philosophy, and the social sciences, came together to define shared concerns and common values. The dialogue focused on major areas of concern: academic freedom; social, political, and religious tolerance; biblical scholarship; separation of church and state; the social agenda of the Christian Coalition and the Southern Baptist Convention; the danger of militant fundamentalism; freedom of conscience and the historic and current role (...)
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    Crónica.Paul Gilbert, Francis X. D'Sa & J. Cardozo-Duarte - 2001 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57 (1):163 - 169.
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    Education and the Prevention of AIDS.Paul D. Cleary - 1988 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 16 (3-4):267-273.
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    An example of a function with multiple ambiguities.Paul D. Humke - 1975 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 21 (1):413-416.
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    Markedness in Canaanite and Hebrew Verbs.Paul D. Korchin - 2008 - BRILL.
    By applying markedness to Semitic morphology in a rigorous manner, this book brings to bear a venerable linguistic construct on a persistent philological crux, in order to achieve deeper clarity in the structures and workings of Canaanite and Hebrew verbs.
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  42. The Diversity of Scripture: A Theological Interpretation.Paul D. Hanson - 1982
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    Moral Reasoning.Paul D. Eisenberg & R. W. Beardsmore - 1971 - Philosophical Review 80 (3):400.
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  44. What Is at Stake Between Putnam and Rorty?Paul D. Forster - 1992 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (3):585-603.
    This paper is a discussion of points of agreement and conflict between Rorty and Putnam.
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    How can studies of information consumers be used to improve the educational communication system?Paul D. Hood - 1990 - Knowledge, Technology & Policy 3 (2):8-25.
  46. Three Problems of Direct Inference.Paul D. Thorn - 2007 - Dissertation, University of Arizona
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    The loss of fragile Y chromosomes (comment on 10.1002/bies.201500040).Paul D. Waters - 2015 - Bioessays 37 (9):933-933.
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    Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption, and Virtue – Jeanine Grenberg.Paul D. Janz - 2007 - Modern Theology 23 (1):147-149.
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    Families of Receptive Theological Learning: Scriptural Reasoning, Comparative Theology, and Receptive Ecumenism.Paul D. Murray - 2013 - Modern Theology 29 (4):76-92.
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    Three dimensions of thermolabile sex determination.Paul D. Waters, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Sarah L. Whiteley, Arthur Georges & Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - 2023 - Bioessays 45 (2):2200123.
    The molecular mechanism of temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) is a long‐standing mystery. How is the thermal signal sensed, captured and transduced to regulate key sex genes? Although there is compelling evidence for pathways via which cells capture the temperature signal, there is no known mechanism by which cells transduce those thermal signals to affect gene expression. Here we propose a novel hypothesis we call 3D‐TSD (the three dimensions of thermolabile sex determination). We postulate that the genome has capacity to remodel (...)
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