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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Alexander Bird Lange Marc , Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xviii + 257 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 In recent years a resurgence of interest in the laws of nature has led to a number...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Alexander Bird Susan Haack, Defending Science — Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism . Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. 411 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Railton, Facts, Values, and Norms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of the fact that watching is perceptual, if S is watching some object, O, at t, then S saw it at t. But there is a puzzling case that implies that at least one of these two claims about the nature of watching must be false. 3.1. The Bird Case Jim is watching a peregrine falcon swoop down from its...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 410–417.
Published: 01 July 2017
... are realists about concepts . In their view, for example, you have a concept of birds ( birds ) if you have a mental representation that has all and only birds in its extension. When psychologists (and philosophers) speak of ‘concepts’, they sometimes use the word ‘concept’ differently. They sometimes use...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... not venture into obscurity to find a phenomenon worthy of attention. If one so chooses, one may ask any English speaker whatsoever whether sentences such as ‘tigers have stripes’, ‘birds lay eggs’, or ‘mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus’ are true, or whether ‘mosquitoes don’t carry the West Nile...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Marc Lange Cornell University 2010 Alexander Bird, Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 100–103.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Peter Sullivan Cornell University 2010 Gregory Landini, Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 300 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 104–108.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Patrick Kain Cornell University 2010 Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii + 342 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256 pp...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 108–112.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Don Garrett Paul Russell, The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xi + 424 pp. Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Steven T. Kuhn Richard Tuck, Free Riding . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. viii + 223 pp. Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256 pp...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Thomas Hurka C. A. J. Coady, Morality and Political Violence . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi + 317 pp. Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 118–123.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Stephan Leuenberger Dean Zimmerman, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics , vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 400 pp. Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 January 2010
...John Dupré Daniel P. Steel, Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science . New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256 pp. Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Alexander Bird, Nature’s Metaphysics: Laws and Properties. Oxford...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2000
... reasoning in the AI community (McCarthy 1980, Reiter 1980). The goal of this work is to provide semantics for statements like “birds typically/ normally/by default fly.” We want to be able to conclude from such state- ments that, for example, if all we know about Tweety is that Tweety is a bird...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 273–316.
Published: 01 July 2006
... Pelletier, 300 -338. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bird, Alexander. 1998 . “Dispositions and Antidotes.” Philosophical Quarterly 48 : 227 -34. Bonevac, Daniel. 2003 . Deduction . Malden, MA: Blackwell. Carnap, Rudolf. 1936 . “Testability and Meaning I.” Philosophy of Science 3...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of search times. Birds, monkeys, and apes track bodies over months without inter- vening observation.40 The idea that issues of reidentification do not “arise” for these animals needs support that Quine does not give. Quine thinks that there is a further special problem about deter- mining...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 327–359.
Published: 01 July 2022
...-hallucination is an amalgam of pigs that, to the hallucinator, looks like a single pig. 37 To a first approximation, a siren is half-woman, half-bird. A painting of a siren, although no doubt “fashioned in the likeness” of women and birds encountered by the painter, need not be of a particular woman...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 537–541.
Published: 01 October 2022
... also that parallel cases can be build for structured groups, like ‘the philosophy department’. References Bird Alexander . 2010 . “ Social Knowing: The Social Sense of ‘Scientific Knowledge .” Philosophical Perspectives 24 , no. 1 : 23 – 56 . Hutchins Edwin . 1995...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 January 2024
... can see a bird as a superb fairywren. So long as the birdwatcher is a novice, however, they won’t be able to see a bird as a superb fairywren (this is part of what makes them a novice birdwatcher). There is a familiar concern for perceptualist accounts of intuitions like Chudnoff’s, which claim...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2021
... with the physical bird itself. An antecedent view contains within it much more than a set of philosophical commitments, of course. If one has been given good reason to think that the lighting is deceptive, the very same experience may make it reasonable to suspend judgment altogether. The hypothetical given serves...