An Introduction to Metametaphysics

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A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America\u27s Civil War, 1854–1877

Review of: "A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America\u27s Civil War, 1854–1877," by Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff

Leveraging the Effects of Loss Framing to Nudge Low-Income, High-Achieving Students in Chicago Towards Higher Education

The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving high school students in the U.S. either do not apply to college or undermatch by attending less selective institutions than those they are qualified to attend. Previous research has demonstrated that behavioral “nudges” can be an effective and low-cost method of influencing students’ application behavior and encouraging them to enroll in selective institutions. This study contributes to this existing body of literature by examining whether framing college earnings premium information as a loss causes low-income high school students in Chicago to report greater likelihood of applying to college than when the same information is framed as a gain. I find that there are no significant differences between the gain and loss conditions, but that students in both conditions report greater likelihood of applying to a highly selective college as compared to students in the control, where no earnings premium information was provided

Iowa and the Civil War, volume 1, Free Child of the Missouri Compromise, 1850-1862

Review of: "Iowa and the Civil War, volume 1, Free Child of the Missouri Compromise, 1850-1862" by Kenneth L. Lyftog

Meeting Dan Sperber’s Challenge to Searlean Social Ontology

What follows is a brief commentary to Dan Sperber's plenary lecture at ECAP7 "The deconstruction of social unreality". Sperber's main criticism to Searle's socia lontology is that Searle attributes a causal role to mere Cambridge properties (in Sperber'sexample: Jones dies, so the rest of the world gains the Cambridge status of "Jones' survivors"). Sperber then argues that declarations do not create institutional facts causally, criticizes the Serlean theory of recognition/acceptance and put forward his thesis using the concept cognitive causal chains

The Sacred Cause of Union: Iowa in the Civil War

Review of: The Sacred Cause of Union: Iowa in the Civil War , by Thomas R. Baker