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How Is Perception Tractable?

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Tyler Brooke-Wilson
The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10294422
Published: 01 April 2023
... encapsulation then is a relational property. One system is informationally encapsulated from another when the first is barred from accessing the information in the second. In this case, the relevant kind of information encapsulation is the encapsulation of perception relative to cognition. Each...
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The Perception-Cognition Border: A Case for Architectural Division

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E. J. Green
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8311221
Published: 01 July 2020
... differentiate and locate this target as quickly as possible in a context that is crowded and informationally impoverished. Furthermore, visual search provides a good way to gauge perceptual similarity, because it is well known that searching for a target becomes progressively more difficult as target/distractor...
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The Epistemic Role of Core Cognition

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Zoe Jenkin
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8012850
Published: 01 April 2020
... of background beliefs), and integrates that information with sensory data. These systems are informationally encapsulated modules, operating largely independently from both beliefs stored in central cognition and from other perceptual subsystems. Carey hypothesizes that we have evolved these dedicated...
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Foundations of Institutional Reality

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Christian List
The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 437–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-11499571
Published: 01 October 2024
... that there is a widely shared collective intention in the population encapsulating its prescriptive content. But we wouldn’t conclude that such a rule is a rule just for the small percentage of specialists who are aware of it. Some rules may be implied by others, where those implications can be drawn out only through...
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Beyond Vision—Philosophical Essays

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Irene Appelbaum
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 341–348.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7537309
Published: 01 July 2019
... encapsulated from cognitive information. This emphasis on the auditory perception of speech has consequences for the integration of this chapter with the rest of the volume and for the overall goal of accounting for speech perceptual awareness. To the extent that speech perception is assimilated...
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STOIC STUDIES; ESSAYS ON HELLENISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY AND ETHICS

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Charles Brittain
The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 434–438.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-3-434
Published: 01 July 2000
..., but rather used his poems as a source for myth (understood as encapsulating primitive wisdom In both studies Long s attention to apparently peripheral cultural views opened up fertile philosophical topics: the Platonism of the Stoa, the nature of Academic skepticism, and the Stoic version of original sin...
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Variabilism

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Samuel Cumming
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 525–554.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-015
Published: 01 October 2008
..., being variables, refer rigidly in the latter merely intensional contexts, but may vary their reference in hyperintensional contexts. This conforms to the intuition that the content of attitude ascriptions encapsulates referential uncertainty . Furthermore, names in hyperintensional contexts...
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Epistemic Invariantism and Speech Act Contextualism

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John Turri
The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 77–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2009-026
Published: 01 January 2010
... to Informal Logic . New York: Harcourt Brace. Hawthorne, John. 2004 . Knowledge and Lotteries . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hazlett, Allan. Forthcoming. “The Myth of Factive Verbs.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . Schaffer, Jonathan. 2004 . “From Contextualism to Contrastivism...
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Logical Combinatorialism

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Andrew Bacon
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8540944
Published: 01 October 2020
... need in order to write the “book of the world.” This paper attempts to make good on this metaphor. To that end, a modality is introduced that, put informally, stands to propositions as logical truth stands to sentences. The resulting theory, formulated in higher-order logic, also vindicates the Humean...
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Accuracy, Deference, and Chance

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Benjamin A. Levinstein
The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 43–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10123774
Published: 01 January 2023
.... These problems are not separable. What chance is informs how we should let it guide us. This paper focuses especially on the second type of problem. I advocate a principle called the Trust Principle that is weaker than the traditional Principal Principle ( Lewis   1980 ) but stronger than the New Principle...
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The Nature of Awareness Growth

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Chloé de Canson
The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 1–32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10880419
Published: 01 January 2024
... in common: they all take the trivial/non-trivial distinction to mark differences in (logical/metaphysical/poric) modal status. So, I will use the terms necessary and contingent as an umbrella term to encapsulate the three. 6 So, a version of Bayesianism will be orthodox to the extent...
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Causation, Chance, and the Rational Significance of Supernatural Evidence

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Huw Price
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1630912
Published: 01 October 2012
... University 2012 The beginnings of this essay were much indebted to Joseph Berkovitz, whose work on Newcomb problems prompted me to ask the question at the beginning of section 3, and to Rachael Briggs, who suggested the link with Hall’s response to Lewis on chance and inadmissible information...
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Can the Classical Logician Avoid the Revenge Paradoxes?

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Andrew Bacon
The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2895327
Published: 01 July 2015
... of informative characterization of the cases where we can and where we can't reason naively. Charles Chihara calls this the “diagnostic problem of the paradox.” Alfred Tarski once remarked: “The appearance of an antinomy is for me a symptom of disease.” But what disease? That is the diagnostic problem. We have...
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Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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Stephen Law
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 300–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-044
Published: 01 April 2007
... competence is modular in the same way that syntactic competence is evidently modular, in Fodor’s sense of being a fast, unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why...
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Minimal Semantics

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Kent Bach
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 303–306.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-045
Published: 01 April 2007
..., unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why the process whereby hearers recognize speakers’ communicative intentions engages only the out- put of this semantic module...
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Kant's Theory of Knowledge: An Analytical Introduction

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Andrew Chignell
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 307–309.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-046
Published: 01 April 2007
..., unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why the process whereby hearers recognize speakers’ communicative intentions engages only the out- put of this semantic module...
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Heidegger's Confusions

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Matthew C. Halteman
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 310–313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-047
Published: 01 April 2007
..., unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why the process whereby hearers recognize speakers’ communicative intentions engages only the out- put of this semantic module...
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Thinking How to Live

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David O. Brink
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 267–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-038
Published: 01 April 2007
..., unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why the process whereby hearers recognize speakers’ communicative intentions engages only the out- put of this semantic module...
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The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life

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Frances Kamm
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 273–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-039
Published: 01 April 2007
..., unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why the process whereby hearers recognize speakers’ communicative intentions engages only the out- put of this semantic module...
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Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

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Gary Varner
The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 281–286.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-040
Published: 01 April 2007
..., unconscious, special-purpose computational mechanism that is domain specifi c, informationally encapsulated, and auto- matic in its workings. Borg makes a strong case for why the process whereby hearers recognize speakers’ communicative intentions engages only the out- put of this semantic module...
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