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    Conditionals: A Debate with Jackson
    Priest, G (Oxford University PressOxford, 2010-05-01)
    Abstract This chapter presents a number of concerns about Jackson's approach to conditionals. The first section discusses the view defended by Frank Jackson in his book Conditionals; it describes his account and notes some of its shortcomings. There are good reasons for doing this. Views of the kind defended there are, if not orthodox, still very common. And Jackson defends the view in, arguably, its most cogent form. The second section sketches a rather different account, which avoids these shortcomings. It proposes a general framework for an account of conditionals, one that leaves plenty of parameters to be adjusted for fine tuning.
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    The Rehabilitation of the Jackdaw: Philo of Alexandria and Ancient Philosophy
    RUNIA, D. (Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 2007)
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    Multiple conclusions
    RESTALL, GA (King's College Publications, 2005)
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    The idea of a great gallery
    YOUNG, D ( 2005)
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    A Paraconsistent Model of Vagueness
    Weber, Z (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2010-10)
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    Bridging the Modal Gap
    GOSWICK, D. ( 2010)
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    SECRECY IN CONSEQUENTIALISM: A DEFENCE OF ESOTERIC MORALITY
    de Lazari-Radek, K ; Singer, P (WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2010-03)
    Abstract Sidgwick's defence of esoteric morality has been heavily criticized, for example in Bernard Williams's condemnation of it as ‘Government House utilitarianism.’ It is also at odds with the idea of morality defended by Kant, Rawls, Bernard Gert, Brad Hooker, and T.M. Scanlon. Yet it does seem to be an implication of consequentialism that it is sometimes right to do in secret what it would not be right to do openly, or to advocate publicly. We defend Sidgwick on this issue, and show that accepting the possibility of esoteric morality makes it possible to explain why we should accept consequentialism, even while we may feel disapproval towards some of its implications.
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    Extensionality and Restriction in Naive Set Theory
    Weber, Z (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010-02)
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    TRANSFINITE NUMBERS IN PARACONSISTENT SET THEORY
    WEBER, Z (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010-03)
    This paper begins an axiomatic development of naive set theory—the consequences of a full comprehension principle—in a paraconsistent logic. Results divide into two sorts. There is classical recapture, where the main theorems of ordinal and Peano arithmetic are proved, showing that naive set theory can provide a foundation for standard mathematics. Then there are major extensions, including proofs of the famous paradoxes and the axiom of choice (in the form of the well-ordering principle). At the end I indicate how later developments of cardinal numbers will lead to Cantor’s theorem, the existence of large cardinals, and a counterexample to the continuum hypothesis.