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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 625–630.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Lina Jansson Strevens Michael , Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2008 . xi + 516 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS
Huw Price, Naturalism Without Mirrors.
New York: Oxford...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Andrew Altman Brock Gillian , Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xvi +366 pp . © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS
Paula Gottlieb, The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics.
New York: Cambridge...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 605–609.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Jason Stanley Jeffrey C. King, Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account. Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2001. Pp. xiii, 207. Cornell University 2002 Evans, G. 1979 . Reference and Contingency. Monist 62 : 161 -89. Neale, S. Term Limits. In Philosophical...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 349–353.
Published: 01 April 2023
...John Greco Suppose Kelp and Simion were to revise their view so as to accommodate these concerns. Many of their arguments and much of their view would be left intact, including their functionalist defense of KRA. And we would still have a compelling (now partial) account of the goodness...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 423–427.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Matthew McGrath [email protected] Pinillos Ángel , Why We Doubt: A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical Inclinations . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2023 . viii + 277 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 In Why We Doubt: A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 205–239.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Jennifer Smalligan Marušić Locke seems to hold that we have knowledge of the existence of external objects through sensation. Two problems face Locke's account. The first problem concerns the logical form of knowledge of real existence. Locke defines knowledge as the perception of the agreement...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 274–276.
Published: 01 April 2000
...David Basinger DIVINE PROVIDENCE: THE MOLINIST ACCOUNT. By Thoms P. Flint. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 258. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2000)
DMAE PROVIDENCE...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Alistair M. C. Isaac Piccinini Gualtiero , Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . ix + 313 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 The question of which physical systems compute is of pressing foundational import for the cognitive...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 183–223.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Catharine Abell Depiction is the form of representation distinctive of figurative paintings, drawings, and photographs. Accounts of depiction attempt to specify the relation something must bear to an object in order to depict it. Resemblance accounts hold that the notion of resemblance is necessary...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (3): 223–263.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Nicholas DiBella This article proposes a revision of Cantor’s account of set size that understands comparisons of set size fundamentally in terms of surjections rather than injections. This revised account is equivalent to Cantor’s account if the axiom of choice is true, but its consequences differ...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 87–102.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Sydney Shoemaker Tyler Burge argues on the basis of an account of memory that the notion of quasimemory cannot be used to answer the circularity objection to psychological accounts of personal identity. His account implies the impossibility of the “Parfit people,” creatures psychologically like us...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 465–500.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of them have proposed counterexamples to it. Using a novel account of desire, this essay handles the proposed counterexamples in a way that shows the superiority of the Humean theory. The essay addresses the classic objection that the Humean theory cannot explain the feeling of obligation, Stephen...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 77–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
...John Turri In this essay I show how to reconcile epistemic invariantism with the knowledge account of assertion. My basic proposal is that we can comfortably combine invariantism with the knowledge account of assertion by endorsing contextualism about speech acts. My demonstration takes place...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... generics more quickly and readily than seemingly simpler quantifiers such as `all' and `some'. I present an account of generics that not only illuminates the strange truth conditions of generics, but also explains how young children find them so comparatively easy to acquire. I then argue that generics...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 301–343.
Published: 01 July 2017
... analysis—it presents a new account that builds on both the existential and conditional analyses. On this account, the act conditional analysis , a sentence like ‘John can swim across the river’ says that there is some practically available action (in a sense the essay makes precise...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Sarah Moss This paper defends an account of full belief, including an account of its relationship to credence. Along the way, I address several familiar and difficult questions about belief. Does fully believing a proposition require having maximal confidence in it? Are rational beliefs closed...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
... commitments. What is really at issue between conventionalists and nonconventionalists is whether the basic moral relation of promissory commitment derives from the moral principles that govern our use of social conventions. Other nonconventionalist accounts make problematic concessions...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 99–117.
Published: 01 January 2008
... skis off' are complex demonstratives. There are also plural complex demonstratives such as `these skis' and `those snowboarders smoking by the gondola'. My book Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account argues against what I call the direct reference account of complex demonstratives...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 81–122.
Published: 01 January 2017
... that we have come to a different and more expansive understanding of ‘all sets’ (or ‘all ordinals’ or ‘all cardinals’). But indefinite extensibility is philosophically puzzling: extant accounts are either metasemantically suspect in requiring mysterious mechanisms of domain expansion, or metaphysically...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 211–249.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the authors draw on an analogy with a similar distinction between types of reasons for actions in the context of activities. This motivates a two-level account of the structure of normativity. The account relies upon a further distinction between normative reasons and authoritatively normative reasons. Only...
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