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... and Ability .” In Philosophical Analysis , ed. Black Max , 148 - 65 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Frankfurt Harry . 1969 . “ Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility .” Journal of Philosophy 66 : 829 - 39 . Gowans Christopher W. 1987 . Moral Dilemmas...

... knowledge.” Whatever else it takes for an agent's credences to amount to knowledge, their success, or accuracy, must be the product of cognitive ability or skill . The brand of Bayesianism developed here helps ensure this ability condition is satisfied. Cognitive ability, in turn, helps make credences...

...Hongwoo Kwon There are close parallels between Frank Jackson's case of black-and-white Mary and David Lewis's case of the two omniscient gods. This essay develops and defends what may be called “the ability hypothesis” about the knowledge that the gods lack, by adapting Lewis's ability hypothesis...

...Matthew Mandelkern; Ginger Schultheis; David Boylan This essay proposes a new theory of agentive modals : ability modals and their duals, compulsion modals. After criticizing existing approaches—the existential quantificational analysis, the universal quantificational analysis, and the conditional...

... of what it is for something to depict an object, this account also sheds significant light on the epistemological issue of how we are able to work out that something depicts an object. This essay argues that our ability to work out that something depicts an object results from both our more general...

..., as the prototypes to which a satisfactory account must answer. I argue against these positions and then pursue an account that finds its motivation in their rejection. My main claim is: the power to make promises, and other related forms of commitment, is an integral part of the ability to engage in special...

... like. Is such knowledge to be understood as knowledge of a fact, or rather as a kind of ability? From the claim that the knowledge in the target cases is not immediate, and the fact that these cases are paradigm cases of immediate knowledge of objects' kinds, the essay concludes that perception does...

.... Game designers designate goals and abilities for the player; they shape the agential skeleton which the player will inhabit during the game. Game designers work in the medium of agency. Game-playing, then, illuminates a distinctive human capacity. We can take on ends temporarily for the sake...

... unhelpful baggage. To shed this baggage, we should replace this expression with talk of agents' abilities. Thus, instead of asking whether free will is compatible with determinism, we should ask whether determinism is compatible with our sometimes being able to take one course of action and able to take...

... for a moment to address two natural thoughts to have at this stage. First, the reader is likely to have noticed the similar- ity between these cases and Allan Gibbard and William Harper’s (1978) Death in Damascus case and may be thinking thoughts about unratifi abil- ity. The cases are, however...

..., each practically describing (for s ) different parts of M . So, for every part of the task φ -ing (relative to method M and to the subject s 's set of primitive abilities), there corresponds a part of a practical answer to the question How to φ that practically describes that part of the task...

... content that sets veridicality conditions must have at least one singular element. The element is context-dependent since it can apply only to what causes it. Perception must also involve application of general abilities that function to group or categorize types of particulars from a perceptual...

... of freedom are to be found in the political contrast between freedom and slavery. Plato would contribute to the extension of this originally political notion of freedom to the ability to do as one wishes and independence from external constraints. And this idea of freedom would ultimately take on its...

... sensible theory of abilities, the question of whether you have the ability at t1 to perform some act A at some later time, t2, depends on what the circumstances are at t1. The ability to perform A at t2 is an ability that one might have at earlier times, but subsequently lose as time progresses...

... freedom” (135). Ismael defends a level of freedom that is “practical, on the ground, thumb-your-nose-at-anyone-that-tries-to-predict-your-behavior ability” (175). Her book presents a compelling understanding of the underlying physics that makes the idea that free will cannot exist in a deterministic...

..., LoLordo argues that Locke thinks of nonhuman animals as possessing thought, some degree of reason, and even the power to will. She says that animals fail to qualify as moral agents for Locke because they lack the ability to suspend the prosecution of their desires and to deliberate about the best course...

... by combining it with Thompson's (2008) account of naive action explanation. Practical knowledge that I am pruning roses would simply be the ability to be guided (in my acts) by the fact that I am pruning roses . This would still leave questions about whether practical knowledge has a ground, and whether...

... in the ability to be morally responsible (78). It is the principal aim of McKenna's conversational model to explain and elucidate this intimate and inextricable link between being capable of “moral address” and being a responsible agent. McKenna's account of this connection begins with “the condition...

... without denying either of the two pre- mises in the above argument. Beebee contends, not without justice, that I neglected to attend to the different times at which a person might be said to have the ability to perform an action. She correctly notes that a person may at one time have the ability...

... the capacity to respond to reasons without having to represent them as reasons. Many nonhuman animals have beliefs, desires, and other propositional attitudes that presuppose this ability. According to Garthoff, this makes them worthy of recognition, which involves taking account of their points of view...