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Serious Actualism
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 219–250.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Yannis Stephanou Cornell University 2007 Bergmann, Michael. 1996 . “A New Argument from Actualism to Serious Actualism.” Noûs 30 : 356 -59. ____. 1999 . “(Serious) Actualism and (Serious) Presentism.” Noûs 33 : 118 -32. Fine, Kit. 1985 . “Plantinga on the Reduction...
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Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 323–326.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Terry Pinkard Frederick Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 337. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
who held that it was only on account of such systematic unity...
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Two Axes of Actualism
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 297–326.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Karen Bennett Cornell University 2005 Adams, Robert. 1974 . Theories of Actuality. Nos 8 : 211 -31. ____. 1981 . Actualism and Thisness. Synthse 49 : 3 -41. Armstrong, D. M. 1989 . A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility . New York: Cambridge University Press. Bennett...
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Freedom and the Fixity of the Past
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 179–207.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Wesley H. Holliday According to the Principle of the Fixity of the Past (FP), no one can now do anything that would require the past to have unfolded differently than it actually did, for the past is fixed, over and done with. Why might doing something in the future require the past to be different...
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Quantifying Over Possibilities
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
... be taller than I would be’ or ‘if I am seven feet tall, I am taller than I am’. These examples exemplify the fact that whether a sentence's evaluation remains at the actual world in the scope of a modal or conditional depends on the combination of mood in the embedded and matrix clauses rather than...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 241–286.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Cian Dorr This essay considers how counterfactuals should be evaluated on the assumption that determinism is true. It argues against Lewis's influential view that if anything had happened that did not actually happen, the actual laws of nature would have been false, and defends the competing view...
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Existence and Modality in Kant: Lessons from Barcan
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and necessity. Two central Kantian principles provide the starting point for the comparison: that the possible must be grounded in the actual and that existence is not a real predicate. Both are shown to be intimately connected to the Barcan formulas, and Kant’s views on what he distinguishes as three different...
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Epistemology Normalized
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 89–145.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Jeremy Goodman; Bernhard Salow We offer a general framework for theorizing about the structure of knowledge and belief in terms of the comparative normality of situations compatible with one’s evidence. The guiding idea is that, if a possibility is sufficiently less normal than one’s actual...
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Ought , Agents, and Actions
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2011
... that there are two distinct normative senses of 'ought', which actually exhibit different syntactic behavior, and then going on to argue that the deliberative sense of 'ought' relates agents to actions, rather than to propositions. It closes by drawing lessons for a range of issues in moral theory. © 2011...
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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
... of a conditional is independent of any proposition inconsistent with its antecedent. But they also point to something important, namely, that our uncertainty about conditionals is not confined to uncertainty about the facts (what the actual world is like) but also expresses uncertainty about the counterfacts (what...
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Subjectivism without Desire
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 407–442.
Published: 01 July 2012
... is the phrase “under the proper conditions”: Should the proper conditions of valuing be actual or idealized? What sort of idealization is appropriate? And so forth. Though these concerns are of the first importance, this essay focuses on a second source of dispute. As stated, subjectivists must account for what...
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Response-Dependent Responsibility; or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Blame
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 481–527.
Published: 01 October 2017
...David Shoemaker This essay attempts to provide and defend what may be the first actual argument in support of P. F. Strawson's merely stated vision of a response-dependent theory of moral responsibility. It does so by way of an extended analogy with the funny. In part 1, it makes the easier...
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Causation and Free Will
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 550–554.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... It is innovative and rigorous, and makes genuine progress on the classic long-standing philosophical problem of whether or not we are free, and if so, in what this freedom consists. Whether or not we are free depends only on facts about the actual world rather than the availability of alternative possibilities...
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I Am Not the Zygote I Came from because a Different Singleton Could Have Come from It
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 295–325.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... This weaker thesis (weaker than A-human-was-once-a-zygote ), however, cannot be defended if Developmental Plasticity is true. Suppose, as argued in Section 3, that a zygote z naturally develops into a singleton, Lea, in the actual world and naturally develops into a numerically different singleton, Mae...
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Making a Difference in a Deterministic World
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 189–214.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Robert Pereboom Derk Vargas Manuel , 85 – 125 . New York : Blackwell . Sartorio Carolina . 2005 . “ Causes as Difference-Makers .” Philosophical Studies 123 : 1-271-96 . ———. 2011 . “ Actuality and Responsibility .” Mind 120 , no. 480 : 1071 – 97...
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Future Desires, the Agony Argument, and Subjectivism about Reasons
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 95–130.
Published: 01 January 2020
... could have in the future to generate reasons for you to act in certain ways now, even though you will not actually have those desires. After all, they should think that even if I prevent my future agony, my possible but nonactual future desire not to be in agony gives me a reason to prevent my agony...
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God and Inscrutable Evil: In Defense of Theism and Atheism
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 617–621.
Published: 01 October 2000
... or eaten alive
by predators or who died slowly and painfully, decimated by disease, fam-
ine, or drought, all before we even came on the scene. That’s a lot of
NERNP. Now, at any world at which God exists, he can actualize a world-
Wp, O’Connor calls it-in which the purposes envisioned by OT...
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Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 419–422.
Published: 01 October 2024
..., the argumentation is powerful, and the position defended is novel and attractive. The book develops what Sartorio calls “big-picture causalism,” the view that “when a behavior is an action/free action, the actual causal history of the behavior is what makes it an action/free action” (3). Sartorio assumes...
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What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 415–419.
Published: 01 October 2024
...) Occasionalism—God maintains the causal unity of our fundamentally noncausal universe (chap. 10) In the process of system building, Adams defends deflationary views of actuality and existence (chaps. 1 and 2), classifies various kinds of intentional objects (chap. 3), and explicates the core concept...
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Critical Notice of Kit Fine's Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 275–287.
Published: 01 April 2008
... quantifiers. I also discuss a previously unpublished paper of Fine's on modality and existence. Cornell University 2008 Crossley, John, and Lloyd Humberstone. 1977 . “The Logic of `Actually'.” Reports on Mathematical Logic 8 : 11 -29. Davidson, Donald. 1969 . “On Saying That.” In Words...
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