--- abstract: "In what follows, I strive to present the elements of a philosophical doctrine, which can be defined as dialectical contextualism. I proceed first to define the elements of this doctrine: dualities and polar contraries, the principle of dialectical indifference and the one-sidedness bias. I emphasize then the special importance of this doctrine in one specific field of meta-philosophy: the methodology for solving philosophical paradoxes. Finally, I describe several applications of this methodology on the following paradoxes: Hempel's paradox, the surprise examination paradox and the Doomsday Argument." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - p.franceschi@univ-corse.fr creators_name: - family: Franceschi given: Paul honourific: Dr lineage: '' date: 2014-03-07 date_type: published datestamp: 2014-05-10 00:07:47 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/92/25 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 9225 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/9225/1/cxd-en.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'dialectical contextualism, contextualism, dialectics, one-sidedness bias, cognitive distortion, meta-philosophy, polar contraries, paradox' lastmod: 2014-05-10 00:07:47 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: "Beck, AT. (1963) Thinking and depression: Idiosyncratic content and cognitive distortions, Archives of General Psychiatry, 9, 324-333.\r\nBeck,AT. (1964) Thinking and depression: Theory and therapy, Archives of General Psychiatry, 10, 561-571.\r\nBlair, J. Anthony (1988) What Is Bias?\" in Selected Issues in Logic and Communication, ed. Trudy Govier [Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1988], 101-102).\r\nBoulanger, P. (2000) Culture et nature, Pour la Science, 273, 3.\r\nChalmers, D. (2002) The St. Petersburg two-envelope paradox, Analysis, 62: 155-157.\r\nEckhardt, W. (1993) Probability Theory and the Doomsday Argument, Mind, 102, 483-488.\r\nEckhardt, W. (1997) A Shooting-Room view of Doomsday, Journal of Philosophy, 94, 244-259.\r\nEllis, A. (1962) Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, Lyle Stuart, New York.\r\nFranceschi, P. (1999). Comment l'urne de Carter et Leslie se déverse dans celle de Carter, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 29, 139-156.\r\nFranceschi, P. (2002) Une classe de concepts, Semiotica, 139 (1-4), 211-226.\r\nFranceschi, P. (2005) Une analyse dichotomique du paradoxe de l'examen surprise, Philosophiques, 32-2, 399-421.\r\nFranceschi, P. (2007) Compléments pour une théorie des distorsions cognitives, Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive, 17-2, 84-88. Preprint in English: www.cogprints.org/5261/\r\nFranceschi, P. (2009) A Third Route to the Doomsday Argument, Journal of Philosophical Research, 34, 263-278.\r\nHall, N. (1999) How to Set a Surprise Exam, Mind, 108, 647-703.\r\nLeslie, J. (1993) Doom and Probabilities, Mind, 102, 489-491.\r\nLeslie, J. (1996) The End of the World: the science and ethics of human extinction, London: Routledge\r\nQuine, W. (1953) On a So-called Paradox, Mind, 62, 65-66.\r\nSorensen, R. A. (1988) Blindspots, Oxford : Clarendon Press.\r\nStuart Mill, J. (1985) On Liberty, London: Penguin Classics, original publication in 1859.\r\nSuber, E. (1998). The One-Sidedness Fallacy. Manuscript, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/inflogic/onesided.htm. Retrieved 11/25/2012\r\nWalton, D. (1999) One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias, Albany: State University of New York Press.\r\nWilliamson, T. (2000) Knowledge and its Limits, London & New York : Routledge." relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 10 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2014-05-10 00:07:47 subjects: - phil-logic - phil-mind - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Elements of dialectical contextualism type: preprint userid: 2943 volume: ~