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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 224–228.
Published: 01 April 2019
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 128–132.
Published: 01 January 2000
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (4): 475–513.
Published: 01 October 2011
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 125–131.
Published: 01 January 2012
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 440–443.
Published: 01 July 2001
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 284–288.
Published: 01 April 2004
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 337–364.
Published: 01 July 2010
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 481–531.
Published: 01 October 2021
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 129–168.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 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. Return to the dilemma. The point we want...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 509–587.
Published: 01 October 2016
... 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...
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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 (2003) 112 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 July 2003
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 199–240.
Published: 01 April 2001
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 176–180.
Published: 01 January 2021
...—something I'll also discuss more below. In chapter 7, he argues that his approach does not imply that visual experience requires conceptual capacities. He then extends his account—first in chapter 8 to other forms of ‘looks’ sentences, and then in chapter 9 to other characters of visual experience...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537.
Published: 01 October 2002
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 523–528.
Published: 01 October 2022
... for a difference between your friend at one time and your friend later. Similarly, the conscious character of V constitutively involves acquaintance with a mind-independent yellow ball-shaped object. This makes for a difference between V and H. And it i s an aspect of what it is like for one to undergo V...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 April 2003
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 437–440.
Published: 01 July 2001
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 587–590.
Published: 01 October 2001
.... 110, No. 4 (October 2001) CROSS-EXAMINING SOCRATES: A DEFENSE OF THE INTERLOCUTORS IN PLATO’S EARLY DIALOGUES. By JOHN BEVERSLUIS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 416 In Plato’s early dialogues, we witness a character named “Socrates” in philo- sophical action...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 385–389.
Published: 01 July 2017
... themselves to us in visual awareness in such a way that we can grasp their character directly (vii, 165, 184). Kalderon sees it as closely allied to Oxford realism and its more recent descendants (xi). So far, so familiar. But that's not where Kalderon leaves things, of course, and there is much...