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...Simon Prosser Intentionalism is the view that the phenomenal character of a conscious experience is wholly determined by, or even reducible to, its representational content. This essay puts forward a version of intentionalism that allows (though does not require) the reduction of phenomenal...

...Jeff Speaks Chalmers David , The Character of Consciousness . New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 . xxvii +596 pp . © 2011 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS David Chalmers, The Character of Consciousness. New York: Oxford University...

...Peter B. M. Vranas John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 272. Cornell University 2004 Darley, J. M., and C. D. Batson. 1973 . “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional...

...Jason D’Cruz [email protected] Doris John M. , Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . 356 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 Character Trouble (2022) needed to be written. Doris’s...

...David Cummiskey DIGNITY AND VULNERABILITY: STRENGTH AND QUALITY OF CHARACTER. By George W. Harris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 148. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVlEWS then only when taxonomized as self- and other...

...Zoli Filotas Leunissen Mariska , From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle . New York: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xxxii + 216 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Mariska Leunissen's new book argues that, for Aristotle, nature makes it difficult or impossible...

...Natalie Brender KANT'S CONCEPTION OF MORAL CHARACTER: THE “CRITICAL” LINK OF MORALITY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT. By G. Felicitas Munzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 377. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS political...

... the conceptual and ontological the- ses should not also accept the fundamental thesis, the hypothesis that fictional characters are created by authors. It is to this task we nowturn. 3. Creationism and Concrete Realism about Fictional Characters Although there is some controversy about how to characterize...

...Hilla Jacobson Attempts to account for the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences have so far largely focused on their sensory aspects . The first aim of this article is to support the claim that (perceptual) phenomenal character has another, significant, aspect—the phenomenal realm...

... 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...

... aesthetic value in a way that centers these social forms of aesthetic engagement. To this end, the article argues that there is a social practice of aesthetic valuing, characterized as a participatory practice governed by the value of aesthetic community, which engages us in the social development of our...

... valuable in other ways: it helps mitigate their dependence on epistemic luck, for example. What we end up with, at the end of the day, are credences that are particularly good candidates for constituting probabilistic knowledge. What's more, examining the character of these credences teaches us something...

... be an important difference between what Kant says about discursive cognizers with other forms of sensibility and what he is in a position to say about discursive cognizers with other forms of understanding. Kantian humility here takes on a distinctive character. [email protected] anil.gomes...

... in Hamlet to Hamlet. Thomasson has another idea: ‘Hamlet’ denotes a fictional character: an existent abstract object. Platonists take all universals to be eternal, necessary beings. Thomasson demurs: abstracta may be contingent. Intentionally created, they come to be at one time and cease...

... in McGinn, The Problem of Consciousness (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991). ____. 1989 . Mental Content. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ____. 1996 . The Character of Mind , 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ____. 1997 . “Critical Study of Dretske's Naturalizing the Mind.” Noûs 31 : 528 -37...

...Rachel Etta Rudolph Breckenridge Wylie , Visual Experience: A Semantic Approach . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . x + 165 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Consider the color character of your visual experience of a gray patch. We communicate about...

... the puzzle’s solution. This results in a fundamental tension in Kaplan’s observations concerning demonstra- tives. Kaplan distinguishes among three semantic values for a single expression: extension, content, and character. Extension is essentially Frege’s notion of Bedeutung. The extension...

... of their commitment to conscious differences between veridical perceptions and matching hallucinations. The target here is naive realist disjunctivism , which holds that the conscious character of a veridical perception of a yellow ball (say) is constituted by acquaintance with aspects of the external world...

...Ben Caplan Cornell University 2003 Bach, Kent. 1992a . Intentions and Demonstrations. Analysis 52 : 140 -46. ____. 1992b . Paving the Road to Reference. Philosophical Studies 67 : 295 -300. Braun, David. 1994 . Structured Characters and Complex Demonstratives...

... the relationship between morality and aesthetics. Judgment, Fleischacker concludes, is characterized best as a complex skill allowing us to reach conclusions about the relationship between general standards and concrete particulars. These conclusions are neither based on feelings nor the product of strict...