Duncan Macintosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Macintosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Macintosh |
| SIGNATURE | MACINTOSH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Re-Examining the Law and Ethics of Robotic Warfare
Could God Have Made the Big Bang? (On Theistic Counterfactuals)
That the universe began in a big bang is often believed by theists to confirm divine creation ex nihilo . But Quentin Smith claims that it means God must not exist. For if he does, there is an earliest state E of the universe. God made E. E is ensured either to contain animate creatures or to lead to an animate state. For God would know that an animate universe is better than an inanimate one, and that even a minimally morally good being would be…
Partial Convergence and Approximate Truth
Scientific Realists (SRs) argue that it would be a miracle if scientific theories were getting more predictive without getting closer to the truth; so they must be getting closer to the truth. Van Fraassen, Laudan et al. argue that owing to the underdetermination of theory by data (UDT) for all we know, it is a miracle, a fluke. So we should not believe in even the approximate truth of theories. I argue that there is a test for who is right: supp…
Persons and the Satisfaction of Preferences: Problems in the Rational Kinematics of Values
Selon l'A., il est rationnel de reviser ses preferences dans des PCSs i.e. paradoxical choice situations (situations de choix paradoxaux). Neanmois, il existe des objections a cette rationalite, objections revelatrices du conflit entre trois conceptions de la raison pratique, de la nature des personnes et leur identite
Preference's Progress: Rational Self-Alteration and the Rationality of Morality
On the received theory of rational choice,(a) a choice is rational if it maximizes one's individual expected utility. However in the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), by this standard, each agent should Defect, since each maximizes no matter what the other does if he Defects. But then both will Defect, doing poorly; better for each if both had Co-operated
Modality, Mechanism and Translational Indeterminacy
How does Quine argue to the indeterminacy of translation? It has always been hard to tell, but one construction goes like this: A fact is determinate only if it is empirically determinable, for empirical evidence under-determines truth about the trans-empirical; theory is underdetermined by data. Therefore, facts about the unobservable, facts of theory, are indeterminate. A fact about the meaning of a person's sentence is only determinate if it i…
Two Gauthiers
In outline, at least, the major argument of David Gauthier's,Morals By Agreementis quite clear: it is rational to acquire a disposition to moral behaviour with those similarly disposed because having it gives one the highest practically attainable utility in interactions with them. Once one has acquired such a disposition, a disposition which constrains one's individual maximization of the satisfaction of one's preferences (i.e., a Constrained Ma…
Gerald Vision and Indexicals
Journal Article Gerald Vision and indexicals Get access Julia Colterjohn, Julia Colterjohn Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Duncan MacIntosh Duncan MacIntosh Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 1987, Pages 58–60, https://…
Preference's Progress: Rational Self-Alteration and the Rationality of Morality
On the received theory of rational choice,(a) a choice is rational if it maximizes one's individual expected utility. However in the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), by this standard, each agent should Defect, since each maximizes no matter what the other does if he Defects. But then both will Defect, doing poorly; better for each if both had Co-operated
Two Gauthiers
In outline, at least, the major argument of David Gauthier's,Morals By Agreementis quite clear: it is rational to acquire a disposition to moral behaviour with those similarly disposed because having it gives one the highest practically attainable utility in interactions with them. Once one has acquired such a disposition, a disposition which constrains one's individual maximization of the satisfaction of one's preferences (i.e., a Constrained Ma…
Partial Convergence and Approximate Truth
Scientific Realists (SRs) argue that it would be a miracle if scientific theories were getting more predictive without getting closer to the truth; so they must be getting closer to the truth. Van Fraassen, Laudan et al. argue that owing to the underdetermination of theory by data (UDT) for all we know, it is a miracle, a fluke. So we should not believe in even the approximate truth of theories. I argue that there is a test for who is right: supp…
Gerald Vision and Indexicals
Journal Article Gerald Vision and indexicals Get access Julia Colterjohn, Julia Colterjohn Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Duncan MacIntosh Duncan MacIntosh Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 1987, Pages 58–60, https://…
Modality, Mechanism and Translational Indeterminacy
How does Quine argue to the indeterminacy of translation? It has always been hard to tell, but one construction goes like this: A fact is determinate only if it is empirically determinable, for empirical evidence under-determines truth about the trans-empirical; theory is underdetermined by data. Therefore, facts about the unobservable, facts of theory, are indeterminate. A fact about the meaning of a person's sentence is only determinate if it i…
Two Gauthiers
In outline, at least, the major argument of David Gauthier's,Morals By Agreementis quite clear: it is rational to acquire a disposition to moral behaviour with those similarly disposed because having it gives one the highest practically attainable utility in interactions with them. Once one has acquired such a disposition, a disposition which constrains one's individual maximization of the satisfaction of one's preferences (i.e., a Constrained Ma…
Preference's Progress: Rational Self-Alteration and the Rationality of Morality
On the received theory of rational choice,(a) a choice is rational if it maximizes one's individual expected utility. However in the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), by this standard, each agent should Defect, since each maximizes no matter what the other does if he Defects. But then both will Defect, doing poorly; better for each if both had Co-operated
Persons and the Satisfaction of Preferences: Problems in the Rational Kinematics of Values
Selon l'A., il est rationnel de reviser ses preferences dans des PCSs i.e. paradoxical choice situations (situations de choix paradoxaux). Neanmois, il existe des objections a cette rationalite, objections revelatrices du conflit entre trois conceptions de la raison pratique, de la nature des personnes et leur identite
Could God Have Made the Big Bang? (On Theistic Counterfactuals)
That the universe began in a big bang is often believed by theists to confirm divine creation ex nihilo . But Quentin Smith claims that it means God must not exist. For if he does, there is an earliest state E of the universe. God made E. E is ensured either to contain animate creatures or to lead to an animate state. For God would know that an animate universe is better than an inanimate one, and that even a minimally morally good being would be…
Partial Convergence and Approximate Truth
Scientific Realists (SRs) argue that it would be a miracle if scientific theories were getting more predictive without getting closer to the truth; so they must be getting closer to the truth. Van Fraassen, Laudan et al. argue that owing to the underdetermination of theory by data (UDT) for all we know, it is a miracle, a fluke. So we should not believe in even the approximate truth of theories. I argue that there is a test for who is right: supp…
Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Re-Examining the Law and Ethics of Robotic Warfare
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