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    480 philosophical abstracts.Perceiving Facts - 1998 - Philosophy 73 (282).
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  2. Fjactual knowing.Putting Facts & Values In Place - 2005 - Ethics and the Environment 10 (2):137-174.
     
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    Richard Garner.Tensed Facts & Richard Swinburne - 1990 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (2).
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    Philosophical abstracts.Photographing A. Fact - 1989 - American Philosophical Quarterly 26 (1):703-723.
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  5. On Social Facts.Margaret Gilbert - 1989 - Routledge.
    This book offers original accounts of a number of central social phenomena, many of which have received little if any prior philosophical attention. These phenomena include social groups, group languages, acting together, collective belief, mutual recognition, and social convention. In the course of developing her analyses Gilbert discusses the work of Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, David Lewis, among others.
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  6. Interrogatives: Questions, facts and dialogue.Jonathan Ginzburg - 1996 - In Shalom Lappin, The handbook of contemporary semantic theory. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference.
  7. How could scientific facts be socially constructed?: Introduction: The dispute between constructivists and rationalists.Alan Nelson - 1994 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (4):535-547.
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    On Social Facts.Michael Root - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (3):675.
  9. Understanding and the facts.Catherine Elgin - 2007 - Philosophical Studies 132 (1):33 - 42.
    If understanding is factive, the propositions that express an understanding are true. I argue that a factive conception of understanding is unduly restrictive. It neither reflects our practices in ascribing understanding nor does justice to contemporary science. For science uses idealizations and models that do not mirror the facts. Strictly speaking, they are false. By appeal to exemplification, I devise a more generous, flexible conception of understanding that accommodates science, reflects our practices, and shows a sufficient but not slavish (...)
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    Contested Institutional Facts.Johan Brännmark - 2019 - Erkenntnis 84 (5):1047-1064.
    A significant part of contemporary social ontology has been focused on understanding forms of collective intentionality. It is suggested in this paper that the contested nature of some institutional matters makes this kind of approach problematic, and instead an alternative approach is developed, one that is oriented towards a micro-level analysis of the institutional constraints that we face in everyday life and which can make sense of how there can be institutional facts that are deeply contested and yet still (...)
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    The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics.Asya Pereltsvaig & Martin W. Lewis - 2015 - Cambridge University Press.
    Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of the diffusion of viruses. Using these techniques, researchers claim to have located the origin of the Indo-European language family in Neolithic Anatolia, challenging the near-consensus view that it emerged in the grasslands north of the Black Sea thousands of years later. But (...)
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  12. Facts and Values.Peter Railton - 1986 - Philosophical Topics 14 (2):5-31.
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  13. The fabrication of facts : The lure of the incredible coincidence.Ton Derksen & Monica Meijsing - 2008 - In Hendrik Kaptein, Legal Evidence and Proof: Statistics, Stories, Logic. Ashgate. pp. 39-70.
     
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  14. "Just the Facts": Thick Concepts and Hermeneutical Misfit.Rowan Bell - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly (TBA).
    Oppressive ideology regularly misrepresents features of structural injustice as normal or appropriate. Resisting such injustice therefore requires critical examination of the evaluative judgments encoded in shared concepts. In this paper, I diagnose a mechanism of ideological misevaluation, which I call "hermeneutical misfit." Hermeneutical misfit occurs when thick concepts, or concepts which both describe and evaluate, mobilize ideologically warped evaluative judgments which do not fit the facts (e.g. "slutty"). These ill-fitted thick concepts in turn are regularly deployed as if they (...)
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  15. Stick to the Facts: On the Norms of Assertion.Daniel Whiting - 2013 - Erkenntnis 78 (4):847-867.
    The view that truth is the norm of assertion has fallen out of fashion. The recent trend has been to think that knowledge is the norm of assertion. Objections to the knowledge view proceed almost exclusively by appeal to alleged counterexamples. While it no doubt has a role to play, such a strategy relies on intuitions concerning hypothetical cases, intuitions which might not be shared and which might shift depending on how the relevant cases are fleshed out. In this paper, (...)
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  16. Male Circumcision - Facts and Fiction.Rida Usman Khalafzai - 2008 - Chisholm Health Ethics Bulletin 13 (4):6.
    Khalafzai, Rida Usman There is currently much debate about the medical and ethical issues related to male circumcision. This article explores this controversial subject in the light of current research.
     
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  17. Facts and counterfactuals in economic law.Jörg Guido Hülsmann - 200 - Journal of Libertarian Studies 17 (1):57-102.
  18. The logic of facts, liebmann, Otto outline for so-called critical metaphysics.P. Muller - 1991 - Philosophisches Jahrbuch 98 (2):334-345.
     
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  19. Meaning and Social Facts: Interpretation in the Black Speech Community..Stephen Lester Thompson - 1994 - Dissertation, City University of New York
    Attempts within sociolinguistics to model the African American speech community require a sound account of what a competent participant knows when they give correct interpretations of utterances made within such a community, a phenomenon any larger theory of language use ought to address. To provide this account, I reconstruct a line of argument from the philosophical history of discussions on African American speech communities. I give this history in terms of pragmatic arguments, that is, in terms of the ability of (...)
     
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  20. Facts, Values, and Norms.Peter Railton - 2005 - Philosophical Studies 126 (3):433-448.
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  21. The Facts in Perception.Hermann Helmholtz - 1878 - In R. Kahl, Selected Writings of Hermann Helmholtz. Wesleyan University Press.
    The problems which that earlier period considered fundamental to all science were those of the theory of knowledge: What is true in our sense perceptions and thought? and In what way do our ideas correspond to reality? Philosophy and the natural sciences attack these questions from opposite directions, but they are the common problems of both. Philosophy, which is concerned with the mental aspect, endeavours to separate out whatever in our knowledge and ideas is due to the effects of the (...)
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    Facts and values: studies in ethical analysis.Charles L. Stevenson - 1975 - Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
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    (2 other versions)How facts make law.Greenberg Mark - 2004 - Legal Theory 10 (3).
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    Making objective facts from intimate relations: the case of neuroscience and its entanglements with volunteers.Simon Cohn - 2008 - History of the Human Sciences 21 (4):86-103.
    This article explores the way in which the practice of neuroscience, in the form of contemporary brain-imaging, has to actively define and isolate aspects of mindfulness as solely contained within the individual. Although hidden from final scientific accounts, at the centre of this process is the need for the researchers to forge brief but intimate and personal relationships with the volunteers in their studies. With their increasing interest in studying more and more complex mental processes, and in particular as researchers (...)
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  25. Selections from The Facts of Causation.D. H. Mellor - 2004 - In Tim Crane & Katalin Farkas, Metaphysics: a guide and anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 412-432.
     
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  26. Negative truths from positive facts.Colin Cheyne & Charles Pigden - 2006 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (2):249 – 265.
    According to the truthmaker theory that we favour, all contingent truths are made true by existing facts or states of affairs. But if that is so, then it appears that we must accept the existence of the negative facts that are required to make negative truths (such as 'There is no hippopotamus in the room.') true. We deny the existence of negative facts, show how negative truths are made true by positive facts, point out where the (...)
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  27. Facts and tautological entailments.Bas C. Van Fraassen - 1969 - Journal of Philosophy 66 (15):477-487.
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    Husserl in England: Facts and Lessons.Herbert Spiegelberg - 1970 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 1 (1):4-14.
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    Thoughts are facts in possible worlds, truths are facts of a given world.Leszek NowAK - 1991 - Dialectica 45 (4):273-288.
    Mentalism preserves the triad: brain's state — thought — state of affairs whereas phy‐sicalism identifies the former two elements of it. Both stands meet the famous difficulties. But these presuppose ontological actualism. On the ground of ontological possibilism, claiming the existence of all possible worlds, one may identify a thought with the corresponding state of affairs in a possible world. Yet, possibilism turns out to be too narrow to carry such an identification and requires a significant generalization.
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  30. The transposability of facts and values.Ray Lepley - 1939 - Journal of Philosophy 36 (11):290-299.
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    On 'Capturing Facts Alive in the Past': Response to Fotiadis and Little.Alison Wylie - 1994 - American Antiquity 59 (3):556-560.
    Michael Fotiadis (1994) and Barbara Little (1994) both question the oppositions that structure current debate about the "objectivity" of archaeological science; they raise concerns about my own proposal for a "mitigated objectivism" where it reaffirms these oppositions. I welcome their discussion and offer three responses to clarify and situate my own position. Most valuable, they identify several lines of inquiry that should be pursued beyond the philosophical analyses I have developed, in this instance of gender research.
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    Getting “the real facts” contemporary cultural theory and avant‐garde technocultural practices.Nicholas Zurbrugg - 1999 - Angelaki 4 (2):183 – 191.
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    The half-life of facts: why everything we know has an expiration date.Samuel Arbesman - 2012 - New York, New York, U.S.A.: Current.
    A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful.
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    Theories, Facts, and Meanings in Political Philosophy.Gregory Robson & Guido Pincione - 2024 - Philosophers' Imprint 24 (1).
    The consequences of correctly implementing a normative political theory arguably bear on its acceptability. A theory whose correct implementation permits slavery is highly implausible. We defend a claim about incorrect implementation. We argue that normative political theories that will predictably be put to bad use deserve harsher assessments than theories that will predictably be put to better use. Theories that key political actors will predictably invoke to justify bad policy recommendations are bad theories, even if those recommendations are not logical (...)
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    The status of facts in economic thought.Wayne A. Leeman - 1951 - Journal of Philosophy 48 (13):401-413.
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    An Essay on Facts.Brian Leftow - 1990 - International Philosophical Quarterly 30 (4):508-510.
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  37. The facts of the social sciences.F. A. Hayek - 1943 - Ethics 54 (1):1-13.
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    IX-The Totality of Facts.Peter M. Sullivan - 2000 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (2):175-192.
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    Intentionality and possible facts.Richard E. Aquila - 1971 - Noûs 5 (4):411-417.
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  40. Norms, institutions, and institutional facts.Neil MacCormick - 1998 - Law and Philosophy 17 (3):301-345.
    Norms explained as grounds of practical judgment, using example of queue. Some norms informal, inexact, depend on common understanding ; some articulated in context of two-tier normative order: `rules', explicit or implicit. Logical structure of rules displayed. Informal and formal normative order explained, `institutional facts ' depend on acts and events interpreted in the light of normative order. Practical force of rules differentiated; either `absolute application' or `strict application' or `discretionary application', depending on second-tier empowerment. Discretion can be guided (...)
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    The Chimes of Freedom: Bob Dylan, Epigrammatic Validity, and Alternative Facts.John Harris - 2018 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27 (1):14-26.
    :This essay brings together work I have done over the past 10 years: on the nature of ethics, on the purpose of ethics, and on its foundations in a way that, I hope, as E.M. Forster put it, connects “the prose and the passion.” I deploy lessons learned in this process to identify and face what I believe to be crucial challenges to science and to freedom. Finally I consider threats to freedom of a different sort, posed by the creation (...)
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    Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts.Santiago Zabala - 2020 - Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press.
    Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings. This new order conspires to undermine the interpretive practices of open-ended critique, normalizing a sense of threat to preserve control. The greatest emergency has become the absence of emergencies. Tracing an intellectual alliance between academics such as Jordan Peterson and Christina Hoff Sommers and right-wing populist politicians such as Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, this book denounces framings that (...)
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    The weight of facts: A puzzle about perception, reasons and deliberation.Andrea Giananti - 2019 - Ratio 32 (2):104-113.
    How should we understand the epistemic role of perception? According to epistemological disjunctivism (ED), a subject’s perceptual knowledge that p is to be explained in terms of the subject believing that p for a factive and reflectively accessible reason. I argue that ED raises far-reaching questions for rationality and deliberation; I illustrate those questions by setting up a puzzle about belief-suspension, and I argue that ED does not have the resources to make sense of the rationality of belief-suspension in cases (...)
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    The Vegetative State: Medical Facts, Ethical and Legal Dilemmas.Bryan Jennett - 2002 - Cambridge University Press.
    A survey of the medical, ethical and legal issues that surround this controversial topic.
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  45. Facts, norms and expected utility functions.Sophie Jallais, Pierre-Charles Pradier & David Teira - 2008 - History of the Human Sciences 21 (2):45-62.
    In this article we explore an argumentative pattern that provides a normative justification for expected utility functions grounded on empirical evidence, showing how it worked in three different episodes of their development. The argument claims that we should prudentially maximize our expected utility since this is the criterion effectively applied by those who are considered wisest in making risky choices (be it gamblers or businessmen). Yet, to justify the adoption of this rule, it should be proven that this is empirically (...)
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    In touch with the facts: epistemological disjunctivism and the rationalisation of belief.Edgar Phillips - 2025 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 68 (2):402-427.
    The idea of believing for a good reason has both normative and psychological content. How are these related? Recently, a number of authors have defended a ‘disjunctivist’ view of rationalisation, on which a good reason can make a subject’s responses to it intelligible in a way that mere ‘apparent reasons’ cannot. However, little has been said about the possible epistemological significance of this view or its relationship to more familiar forms of disjunctivism in the philosophy of perception. This paper examines (...)
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  47. Interpreting neurodynamics: Concepts and facts.Harald Atmanspacher - unknown
    The dynamics of neuronal systems, briefly neurodynamics, has developed into an attractive and influential research branch within neuroscience. In this paper, we discuss a number of conceptual issues in neurodynamics that are important for an appropriate interpretation and evaluation of its results. We demonstrate their relevance for selected topics of theoretical and empirical work. In particular, we refer to the notions of determinacy and stochasticity in neurodynamics across levels of microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic descriptions. The issue of correlations between neural, (...)
     
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  48. Brute facts.Hud Hudson - 1997 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1):77 – 82.
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  49. Goldschmidt and Gueroult: Some facts, some enigmas.Jacques Brunschwig - 2006 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 88 (1):82-106.
    Martial Gueroult (1891–1976) and Victor Goldschmidt (1914–1981) are two major figures in French history of philosophy during the second half of the last century. The latter has often been described as one of the former's “disciples”, on the basis of their common opposition to the “geneticist” approach in the study of past philosophers, and their common support for a “structuralist” one, which was an influential paradigm in various fields of French thought at the time of their activity. A detailed study (...)
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  50. William James: Facts, Faith, and Promise.A. R. Gini - 1973 - The Thomist 37 (3):489.
     
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