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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 473–507.
Published: 01 October 2016
... go? Are there limits to what close friends, as friends, should be willing to do for one another? 1 Consider the joke: “A friend will help you move house, but a good friend will help you move a body.” The view of close friendship implicit here would seem to hold that there are very few limits...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 251–256.
Published: 01 April 2018
...David Wasserman Barnes Elizabeth , The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2016 . xii + 200 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 The Minority Body is an important and provocative book. It moves disability further into the center...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 285–320.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Samuel Levey The article is a critical notice of Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad . Garber presents a developmental reading of Leibniz's metaphysics that focuses on Leibniz's evolving analysis of body and force as the key to his account of substance. Garber claims that Leibniz shifts...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 139–168.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Michael Tye Cornell University 2006 Balog, K. 1999 . “Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem.” Philosophical Review 108 : 497 -528. Block, N. 1980a . “Troubles with Functionalism.” In Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology , 1 : 268 -305. Cambridge, MA: MIT...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 621–623.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Alan Millar THE BODY IN MIND: UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES. By Mark Rowlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Pp. x, 270. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001)
THE BODY...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (4): 582–584.
Published: 01 October 2004
...David Boonin Rosamund Scott, Rights, Duties and the Body: Law and Ethics of the Maternal-Fetal Conflict. Oxford and Portland, Ore.: Hart Publishing, 2002. Pp. xxxv, 437. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS
of further elaboration if it is to satisfy his...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 641–645.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Porter Williams [email protected] Batterman Robert W. , A Middle Way: A Non-fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . xiii + 174 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 For over two decades now, Robert Batterman’s work has...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Peter Van Inwagen PERSONS AND BODIES: A CONSTITUTION VIEW. By Lynne Rudder Baker.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 233. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS
enology of sense includes representing moving objects, Clark’s theory seems...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 293–336.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Colin Chamberlain Consider the distinctive qualitative property grass visually appears to have when it visually appears to be green. This property is an example of what I call sensuous color . Whereas early modern mechanists typically argue that bodies are not sensuously colored, Margaret Cavendish...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Tad M. Schmaltz It is a matter of continuing scholarly dispute whether Descartes offers a metaphysics of the material world that is “monist” or “pluralist.” One passage that has become crucial to this debate is from the Synopsis of the Meditations , in which Descartes argues that since “body taken...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Jeffrey K. McDonough This essay offers an account of the relationship between extended Leibnizian bodies and unextended Leibnizian monads, an account that shows why Leibniz was right to see intimate, explanatory connections between his studies in physics and his mature metaphysics. The first...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Robert Van Gulick In “Absent Qualia and the Mind-Body Problem,” Michael Tye (2006) presents an argument by which he claims to show the inconceivability of beings that are functionally equivalent to phenomenally conscious beings but lack any qualia. On that basis, he concludes that qualia can...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 135–163.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of corporeal substances and extended bodies. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 I would like to thank Marcy Lascano, Alison Simmons, and three anonymous referees for this journal for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this essay. I would also like to thank audiences for helpful feedback...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 495–519.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of visuomotor action, on the other. This “dual visual systems” hypothesis, which finds many echoes in various other bodies of cognitive scientific research, poses a prima facie challenge to the Assumption of Experience-Based Control. More importantly, it provides (I shall argue) fuel for an alternative...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 433–468.
Published: 01 October 2005
... in explicating a body’s instantaneous velocity not
merely as equal to, but moreover as identical to the time-derivative of its
trajectory. This approach exploits the conceptual advances in “arith-
meticizing” the foundations of the calculus that were made over the
course of the nineteenth century...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 587–591.
Published: 01 October 2021
... material substances of the Scholastics. They emphasize here Descartes’s claim in the Synopsis of the Meditations that since “body in general” is a substance, it must be incorruptible (CSM 2:10). 1 Brown and Normore conclude—correctly, I think—that this claim commits Descartes to the conclusion...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 155–204.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of other central elements of that metaphysics that are linked to substance and independence, including (but not limited to) the distinction between mind and body and their union, as well as the notions of infinity and perfection, and lead to a better understanding of the relationship between Cartesian...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
... both successful singular reference
and successful attributive indication of kinds, properties, or relations.
“Represents as such” is more committal. Take the instance, “represents
bodies as such.”1 The phrase applies to language or representational
content that represents bodies as being bodies...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 531–563.
Published: 01 October 2010
.... ———. 1988 . Behind the Geometrical Method . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Della Rocca, Michael. 1996 . Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ———. 2003 . “The Power of an Idea: Spinoza's Critique of Pure Will.” Noûs 37 , no. 2 : 200...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 317–354.
Published: 01 July 2006
... and purposes would thus
not confl ict with his denial of divine providence or his commitment to
mechanistic physics.
But is this sort of teleological explanation consistent with Spinoza’s
denial of mind-body interaction? Thought and extension, according to
Spinoza, are two distinct attributes...
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