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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 647–650.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Laurence Thomas Boonin David , Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 This is a most engaging, informed, and honest work. The third characterization perhaps reflects...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 55–93.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Matthew Kotzen This essay addresses the question of when evidence for a stronger claim H1 also constitutes evidence for a weaker claim H2. Although the answer “Always” is tempting, it is false on a natural Bayesian conception of evidence. This essay first describes some prima facie counterexamples...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 433–463.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Kieran Oberman This article addresses a previously overlooked problem in the ethics of defensive killing. Everyone agrees that defensive killing can only be justified when it is necessary. But necessary for what? That seemingly simple question turns out to be surprisingly difficult to answer...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
... counterfactuals can yield an appropriate notion of causal redundancy and argues for a negative answer. Second, it examines how this issue bears on the mental causation debate. In particular, it considers the argument that the overdetermination problem simply does not arise on a dependency conception of causation...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 95–130.
Published: 01 January 2020
... for present actions are grounded in present or future desires. Futurist subjectivism promises to answer Parfit's Agony Argument , and it is motivated by natural extensions of some of the considerations that support subjectivism in general. However, it faces a problem: because which desires one will have...
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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 (2012) 121 (2): 241–275.
Published: 01 April 2012
... conditions on distance measures, and it answers two pressing objections to Joyce’s strategy. Accuracy, Chance, and the Principal Principle
Richard Pettigrew
University of Bristol
How should my degrees of credence in propositions about objective...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 155–187.
Published: 01 April 2013
... and modal truth-makers depend on God? Very roughly, Leibniz’s own answers are: (1) God’s intellect and (2) a form of ontological dependence. The essay first distinguishes Leibniz’s account from two nearby (and often misunderstood) alternatives found in Descartes and Spinoza. It then examines Leibniz’s...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 337–393.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of having true beliefs)? The overwhelming answer among contemporary epistemologists is “Yes, we should.” This essay argues to the contrary. Just as taking the good to be prior to the right in ethics often leads one to sanction implausible trade-offs when determining what an agent should do, so too...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
Published: 01 July 2019
... under entailment, or does the preface paradox show that rational agents can believe inconsistent propositions? Does whether you believe a proposition depend partly on your practical interests? My account of belief resolves the tension between conflicting answers to these questions that have been...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 159–210.
Published: 01 April 2020
... matters is whether they suffer from an autonomy flaw. To answer this question, the author develops an account of autonomy failure, according to which a preference is nonautonomous if an injustice played an appropriate role in its causal history. The author then discusses the moral implications...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 129–168.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... Does Kant leave open the possibility of discursive cognizers who have different categories? Even if other discursive cognizers might not sense like us, must they at least think like us? This essay argues that textual and systematic considerations do not determine the answers to these questions...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 555–606.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Michael G. Titelbaum Can self-locating beliefs be relevant to non-self-locating claims? Traditional Bayesian modeling techniques have trouble answering this question because their updating rule fails when applied to situations involving contextsensitivity. This essay develops a fully general...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and other elements of our emotional lives. It then shows how this argument helps to answer an important recent challenge to Strawson's position. If this essay is right, there is good reason to doubt that the reforms envisaged by some incompatibilists, reforms to our blame-related practices, are a real...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 345–383.
Published: 01 July 2017
... is The Counting Approach 's identification of answers with propositions—in particular, with Hamblin propositions. On a closer look, this identification is puzzling. Intuitively, answers can be known in part or completely. For example, Mary may know in part the answer to the question Who came to the party...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 483–523.
Published: 01 October 2003
....1 Harry Frankfurt has done an enormous amount to develop this
second sort of question, and his now familiar “hierarchical” approach
to answering it has inspired much recent work on autonomy. Frank-
furt’s model gives pride of place to the concept of identification:
whether a desire on which...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
Published: 01 January 2016
... based on the QUD framework. In section 4, I show how this account handles a number of different ways of exploiting the lying-misleading distinction in discourse. I apply the account to the classic contrast between assertion and implicature as well as to ways of committing oneself to misleading answers...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 386–390.
Published: 01 July 2022
... calls neopositivism. Neopositivism is the view that metaphysical questions completely decompose into ordinary empirical questions that can be answered by scientific inquiry ( empirical ) or ordinary logical or modal questions, which can be answered by appeal to a metaphysically innocent modalism...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 619–639.
Published: 01 October 2013
... of the compatibility of foreknowledge and freedom has an answer: they are more relevantly similar to the given prior truths. 3 In particular, the compatibilist (about foreknowledge and freedom) would (or certainly could) press the following two points. First, it certainly is not the case that we do what we do...
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