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synthetictask··on The necessity of Nussbaum
May I offer the following list, informed by my own interests:

- Ramsey's work on decision theory and subjective probability: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/bradleyr/pdf/Ramsey.dialectica.pd...

- Russell's Paradox and its impact on set theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell-paradox/

- David Lewis' work on signalling games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_signaling_game

- Following up on that, Brian Skyrms' work on signalling, information, and evolution: https://www.codebiology.org/pdf/[7]%20Skyrms%20(2010)%20Sign...

One issue might be that when a philosophical debate ends up solving a more applied problem, the debate is no longer considered philosophical.