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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 439–447.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Dilip Ninan MacFarlane John , Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . ix + 344 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 This is an impressive book. It presents a bold and original theory with clarity and precision...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 131–171.
Published: 01 April 2014
... of rational belief can be built around these principles that is not ad hoc and that has various philosophical features that are plausible independently. In particular, this essay shows that the theory allows for a solution to the Lottery Paradox, and it has nice applications to formal epistemology. The price...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 365–380.
Published: 01 July 2010
... from the a priori character of these conditionals to the applicability of modal rationalism to the nonphenomenal cases is to rely either on modal rationalism itself or on the denial of type-B materialism. Obviously, in the context of this argument, either way would beg the question. © 2010 by Cornell...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Darren Bradley This article defends the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will argue that all four problems have the same structure...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 415–419.
Published: 01 July 2015
... that is decisive for the application of both ϕ and ϕ * , where these are contrary predicates. Def. Say that ϕ and ϕ * are proximate just in case there are items in a ϕ/ϕ * ordering that can competently be classified as ϕ and competently be classified as ϕ * . Def. For any proximate...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 342–354.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Foundations …is to explain how the application of pure mathematics to the empirical concepts of mathematical physics becomes possible” (88). Kant's goal is to explain, concept by concept, how the fundamental concepts of Newtonian physics—for example, duration , mass , velocity , and force— come...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 442–447.
Published: 01 July 2002
... applicability. Potter divides
the theories he discusses into four main types, determined by their accounts of
the “source of content” and “concepts”: sensibility, thought, language, and the
world. At the end, Potter finds that none succeeds in accounting for all of arith-
metic: at best some capture...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 275–278.
Published: 01 April 2015
... that the representation-dependent quantities used in applications of QM ∞ are different in kind from analogous quantities that appear throughout physics. And here it is not clear that she succeeds. Ruetsche's basic claim is that Conservatism and Imperialism each support practices that the other cannot and that both...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2000
... as this view might appear to be, it cannot be accepted as
applying to all relations whatever. For there is an important class
of metaphysical and linguistic contexts which call for an alternative
conception of relation, one for which the order of the relata plays
no role and in which the application...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 289–337.
Published: 01 July 2003
...-be perspective of the individual in that state. Thus, the pre-
sumption of application of the first-person concept is associated not
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MEMORY AND PERSONS
only with mature persons’ experiential, de se, memories. The presump-
tion is also associated...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 229–232.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of hypothesis in contexts of defense or justification, in addition to contexts of discovery or inquiry” (235, pace 187). Such expansion is essential to his project, since it is only in a justificatory passage that Benson can find a satisfactory application of the method (chap. 8). Even so, Benson (chap. 9) can...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
... a structure-friendly formalism by restricting the possible λ -terms in a natural way. The resulting theory trivially validates the standard rules governing λ : λ -abstraction corresponds to poking a hole where a constituent used to be in a relational diagram, and application corresponds to filling...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 July 2021
...-order arithmetic, and indeed there is a fairly natural way to formalize second-order arithmetic within the modal theory. Overall, Horsten’s book covers a lot of ground and is filled with intriguing ideas. His applications to mathematical structuralism in particular are technically interesting...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 453–497.
Published: 01 October 2022
... abstraction are not applicable to every case involving indiscernible objects. A case in point might be structuralism about physics, in particular, the family of views that goes under the name of Ontic Structural Realism , or osr . While this is not the place to go into the details of this vast literature...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360.
Published: 01 July 2001
.... It will
usually be the case that one can find complex expressions whose
conditions of application approximate those of the original concept
to some degree, where one finds increasingly good approximations
through increasingly complex expressions. In this way we can
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., tables) exist iff the application and coapplication conditions actually associated with the sortal term “K” are fulfilled. Application conditions are semantic rules of use which are meaning-constituting for the term. They are rules for when it is and is not proper to use a term; for example...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 319–322.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Mitchell Green, and Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone also offer applications of their theories to the semantics and pragmatics of imperatives. What most of these contributions share is the conclusion that abstracting force from content is no easy task, and these papers make quite a bit of progress...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the reality of quantum entanglement. The reality of quantum entanglement follows from the reality of the quantum state. After all, the quantum state is so successful in application. If one wants to be a realist, it seems that the most natural way is to accept the reality of the quantum state and its...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 330–335.
Published: 01 April 2021
...) criterion of identity. The book is primarily a contribution to the philosophy of mathematics, given its focus on mathematical objects. But given that the underlying metaontological view is so general, it has applications beyond mathematics—as Linnebo recognizes, even if there is not much discussion...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 465–470.
Published: 01 July 2002
..., and truth. The papers are loosely connected in subject mat-
ter, but present a great variety of issues, theories, and approaches. Amongst the
many subjects discussed are: the revision theory of truth and applications of
revision rules, partiality and fixed point constructions, substitutional quantifi...
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