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Response-Dependent Responsibility; or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Blame

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David Shoemaker
The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 481–527.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-4173422
Published: 01 October 2017
... and less controversial case for response-dependence about the funny. In part 2, it shows the tight analogy between anger and amusement in developing the harder and more controversial case for response-dependence about a kind of blameworthiness (and so response-dependence about a kind of responsibility...
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Rational Sentimentalism

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Rachel Achs
The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 441–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-11499589
Published: 01 October 2024
...; the amusing; the shameful; and the pride-, guilt-, and anger-worthy 1 —are all “essentially emotion-dependent” (13). The second is its rationalist part: “the claim that to predicate one of these values is to hold that the relevant emotion F is a fitting response to its object x ”—in other words...
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The Parmenidean Ascent

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Graham Priest
The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 628–632.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-9264095
Published: 01 October 2021
... it clear that there is much in the book with which I agree). However, what one can do in a review is clearly limited. So in what follows I will concentrate on what I take to be the backbone of the book, as outlined above. The very short chapters 12 and 13 are intended as both serious and amusing. I...
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The Conditional Fallacy

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Daniel Bonevac, Josh Dever, David Sosa
The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 273–316.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-001
Published: 01 July 2006
... of fragility whenever a fragility-manifesting condition obtains still counts as fragile? Is it really so obvious that the World’s Funniest Joke is indeed funny if the hearing of it kills the hearer, thereby removing the causal basis for manifestations of amusement?27 26. (c ∧ b ) ⇒ m...
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Selflessness and Responsibility for Self: Is Deference Compatible with Autonomy?

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Andrea C. Westlund
The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 483–523.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-4-483
Published: 01 October 2003
... by learning to live with “radical and continuing doubts” (1998, 107) that she knows can never permanently be put to rest by any justifications she might give for her commitments. Instead of being paralyzed by these doubts, however, the successful ironist “relishes and is amused by … the contingency of her...
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Moral Fictionalism

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Tristram McPherson
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 445–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-004
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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The Two Faces of Justice

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Simon Căbulea May
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 448–451.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-005
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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Fear of Knowledge

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Iris Einheuser
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 451–455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-006
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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Artha: Meaning

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Charles Goodman
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 455–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-007
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics

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Richard Healey
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 458–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-008
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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The Metaphysics of Hyperspace

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Graham Nerlich
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 462–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-009
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion

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Wayne Proudfoot
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 465–468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-010
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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Plato's Meno

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Lesley Brown
The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 468–471.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-011
Published: 01 July 2008
... to move deftly, weightlessly through its tangles and sudden changes of direction with an air of ease and certainty. That is a comment on his style, both intel- lectual and literary, which has enviable grace, wit, and charm. His arguments amuse and surprise...
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Deliberation and Acting for Reasons

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Nomy Arpaly, Timothy Schroeder
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 209–239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1539089
Published: 01 April 2012
... only at amusing the subject is not deliberation. A mental activity aimed only at facilitating sleep is not delib- eration. Determining what to think or what to do is thus a constitutive end of deliberation, in the same way that persuasion is a constitutive end of arguing, or getting coffee...
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On the Very Idea of Direction of Fit

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Kim Frost
The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 429–484.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2749720
Published: 01 October 2014
... of correctness of this bare type—namely, doing what's required to succeed at amusing one's audience—even though this requires flouting whatever standard of correctness is embodied in the score. The standard of correctness implicit in the performance is internal to it in some way: it might well conflict...
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The Realm of Reason

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Gilbert Harman
The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 243–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-016
Published: 01 April 2006
... 1.) But more clever ways to convert axioms into rules give quite nice SCs. I found the discussion of affi ne geometry, including a proof-theoretic proof of the independence of a form of Euclid’s fi fth postulate (the unique- ness axiom for parallel lines) particularly amusing. Chapter 7...
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Knowledge and Its Place in Nature

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Harvey Siegel
The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 246–251.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-017
Published: 01 April 2006
...-theoretic proof of the independence of a form of Euclid’s fi fth postulate (the unique- ness axiom for parallel lines) particularly amusing. Chapter 7 considers three intermediate propositional logics: those pro- duced by weak excluded middle and by double-negation elimination (both for atomic...
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A Priori Justification

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Jennifer Nagel
The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 251–255.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-018
Published: 01 April 2006
... 1.) But more clever ways to convert axioms into rules give quite nice SCs. I found the discussion of affi ne geometry, including a proof-theoretic proof of the independence of a form of Euclid’s fi fth postulate (the unique- ness axiom for parallel lines) particularly amusing. Chapter 7...
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Structural Proof Theory

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Harold T. Hodes
The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 255–258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-019
Published: 01 April 2006
...-theoretic proof of the independence of a form of Euclid’s fi fth postulate (the unique- ness axiom for parallel lines) particularly amusing. Chapter 7 considers three intermediate propositional logics: those pro- duced by weak excluded middle and by double-negation elimination (both for atomic...
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The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus

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Jeffrey E. Brower
The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 259–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-020
Published: 01 April 2006
...-theoretic proof of the independence of a form of Euclid’s fi fth postulate (the unique- ness axiom for parallel lines) particularly amusing. Chapter 7 considers three intermediate propositional logics: those pro- duced by weak excluded middle and by double-negation elimination (both for atomic...
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