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Mary and the Two Gods: Trying Out an Ability Hypothesis
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 191–217.
Published: 01 April 2017
...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...
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Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 266–269.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Erin I. Kelly Hans Oberdiek, Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Pp. ix, 182. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS
and “Knowing What it is Like: The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argu-
ment...
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Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 263–266.
Published: 01 April 2003
... two papers: “Multiple Ref-
erence, Multiple Realization and the Reduction of Mind,” by Terence Horgan,
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and “Knowing What it is Like: The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argu-
ment,” by Michael Tye (which...
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On Imagism About Phenomenal Thought
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 43–95.
Published: 01 January 2011
... means
to contrast his diagnosis with the “ability hypothesis.” The ability hypoth-
esis also says that black-and-white Mary can come to know all facts about
color vision, but it claims that what she lacks is only knowledge how to do
certain things, such as visualizing conscious qualities...
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Probabilistic Knowledge and Cognitive Ability
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 509–587.
Published: 01 October 2016
... 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...
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Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get beyond the Statistics
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 185–189.
Published: 01 January 2021
... three lessons from Mayo's book that are valuable for philosophers and scientists alike. I then discuss one way in which I think Mayo's arguments could be tightened. Mayo argues that one has evidence for a hypothesis to the extent the hypothesis has passed a severe test . More precisely, she argues...
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Multidimensional Possible-World Semantics for Conditionals
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Hooker C. A. , 261 – 308 . Dordrecht : D. Reidel . Multidimensional Possible-World Semantics
for Conditionals
Richard Bradley
London School of Economics and Political Science
Adams’s Thesis is the hypothesis...
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Know-How and Gradability
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 345–383.
Published: 01 July 2017
... propositional knowledge one possesses. “Ability” here means mental or cognitive ability, not simply strength or fitness, just in the way in which, according to Lewis's Ability Hypothesis, mental or cognitive ability is needed in addition to factual knowledge for one to count as knowing what it is like to see...
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Plato's Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good by Rachana Kamtekar
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 643–646.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the descriptions of the method of hypothesis in the Meno , Phaedo , and Republic (20). True, in all three dialogues the Greek word hypothêsis appears in a description of philosophical method, but the differences between these passages raise the possibility that there is no single “method of hypothesis...
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Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360.
Published: 01 July 2001
... necessitation, is concerned.
The relevant claim must hold that the actual world is minimal among the class
of epistemic possibilities satisfying P, where an epistemic possibility corresponds
intuitively to a maximally specific hypothesis that is not ruled out a priori. On
some philosophical views...
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How to Know the Good: The Moral Epistemology of Plato's Republic
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 469–496.
Published: 01 October 2005
... through sense-percep-
tion. Our access to Forms is direct when the soul is disembodied and
pure.
While the account that Socrates offers in the Phaedrus of our ability
to gain knowledge of justice is simply a myth, and like many myths, it
may well play fast and loose with philosophical niceties...
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How Is Perception Tractable?
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
... critically the ability to recover a large number of perceptible properties across a vast diversity of scenes, this information must be opinionated (strongly focusing computational work in narrow regions of the hypothesis space), particular (sensitive to the directly measurable properties of the scene, rather...
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Generics: Cognition and Acquisition
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... is innately
given apart from this ability.
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many. Thus an interesting hypothesis presents itself: just as, at the level
of logical form, Gen is a default operator, at the level of language com-
prehension, its contribution...
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Externalism, Skepticism, and the Problem of Easy Knowledge
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 January 2005
.... Therefore we can conclude that you don’t know that you
have a broken fingernail. The argument can be applied to every prop-
osition that you know to be incompatible with a version of the evil-
demon hypothesis that you don’t know not to obtain, including the vast
majority of the propositions for which...
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Distorted Reflection
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that she will conditionalize on
veridical evidence in the future. I argue that Qualified Reflection follows
from the probability calculus together with a few idealizing assumptions.
Unfortunately, perfect confidence in one’s future ability to condi-
tionalize is hard to come by. Under all...
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Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 511–518.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the qualitative inaccuracy hypothesis . According to this proposition, “our introspective representations fail to represent mental states as they are in themselves. More specifically, introspection represents phenomenal properties as having certain characteristic qualitative natures, and…these properties actually...
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Doxastic Deliberation
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 497–534.
Published: 01 October 2005
... influences, whereas acknowledging that belief’s
responsiveness to evidence leaves room for other influences entails
accepting that it is not strong enough to account for transparency. We
choose the latter option, because transparency can be explained
instead by the hypothesis that the concept of belief...
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Probability and Conditionals: Belief Revision and Rational Decision
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2000
... construal of conditional probability. A reader coming to this
topic for the first time is best advised to start by reading “The hypothesis
of the conditional construal of conditional possibility,” by Alan Hfijek and
Ned Hall, the sixth essay in the volume. It lays out the central problem
very...
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Not So Phenomenal!
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 January 2021
... other than the intrinsic qualities of those states: it also depends, for instance, on the subject's discriminative abilities. 24 If two seemings are similar enough, then a subject cannot come to know, justifiably believe, or become reasonably rationally confident just which one she has. 25 However...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and hypothesis: what is it for evidence to confirm a hypothesis?
A central feature of Bayesian confirmation theory is that evidence con-
I have had helpful exchanges with dozens of people on the material in this article over the
years. For discussion of recent predecessors of this article I am grateful to Huw...
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