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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The EET invokes the key concept of information encapsulation, but what exactly is this? Proponents of the thesis write: Looked at this way, the claim that input systems are informationally encapsulated is equivalent to the claim that the data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
.... For instance, the context might be informationally degraded, very brief, or crowded with distractors. In the next subsection, I'll consider bistable figures. Figure 3 (a and b) contains degraded images of items from familiar categories (see Lupyan 2017 for more examples). A commonplace experience...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
Published: 01 April 2020
... processing (as opposed to drawing on our general set 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 341–348.
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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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 434–438.
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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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 525–554.
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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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 77–95.
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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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
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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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 43–87.
Published: 01 January 2023
... why some probability function or other is worthy of the honorific ‘chance’ at a particular world. The second is epistemological. Chance should guide our subjective degrees of belief, although how and why is a matter of contention. These problems are not separable. What chance is informs how we should...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 1–32.
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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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
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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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
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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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 267–272.
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 Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 273–280.
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 Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 281–286.
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 Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 287–293.
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 Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 294–297.
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 Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 297–300.
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 Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 300–303.
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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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 303–306.
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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