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The Structure of Open Secrets

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Sam Berstler
The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (2): 109–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-11676088
Published: 01 April 2025
... understanding of discourse structure. When interlocutors are conforming to open secrecy norms, they rely on at least two disjoint common grounds, one of which has a privileged status. To understand why and how it is privileged, the author develops Erving Goffman’s notion of defining a social interaction...
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The Unity of Marx’s Concept of Alienated Labor

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Pascal Brixel
The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 33–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10935339
Published: 01 January 2024
... her human nature. He suggests, moreover, that the first of these features in some way grounds all the others. On the face of it, though, these features are all quite independent of one another. They can in principle come apart; they share no obvious common cause or explanation; and if they often occur...
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Beyond Resemblance

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Gabriel Greenberg
The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 215–287.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1963716
Published: 01 April 2013
...Gabriel Greenberg What is it for a picture to depict a scene? The most orthodox philosophical theory of pictorial representation holds that depiction is grounded in resemblance. A picture represents a scene in virtue of being similar to that scene in certain ways. This essay presents evidence...
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New Work on Speech Acts

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Samia Hesni
The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 319–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8809984
Published: 01 April 2021
... all span across multiple themes. So for now, I will focus on what I take to be some of the key innovations and contributions of the volume. First, a bridging of the tools and insights of SAT with expansive notions of common ground. Second, applications of formal frameworks to social and normative...
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Category Mistakes

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Zoltán Gendler Szabó
The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 289–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2845842
Published: 01 April 2015
.... Assume that assertion is a proposal to add the content of the sentence uttered to the common ground and that felicitous assertion requires that the presuppositions of the sentence be already common ground. Also, assume that to assert a conjunction is to assert its conjuncts sequentially. Then making...
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Lying and Misleading in Discourse

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Andreas Stokke
The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3321731
Published: 01 January 2016
... common ground as a result of one's utterance. One can offer presuppositions that one believes to be false for accommodation. 47 In the case of pronouns, this is most obvious regarding the gender features of pronouns. Suppose, for instance, that Marion replies as in (25) in order to make Mick think...
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Book reviews

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Patrick Rysiew
The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 126–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3683702
Published: 01 January 2017
... is disposed to behave, in her use of language, as if she believed p to be common ground in C (26), where, again following Stalnaker, ‘common ground’ refers to those things that, for purposes of the conversation, all parties accept (that is, treat as true), and believe that all accept, and believe...
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‘The’ Problem for the-Predicativism

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Robin Jeshion
The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 219–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3772008
Published: 01 April 2017
... descriptions are those descriptions used in a context in which it is part of the common ground that there is exactly one individual satisfying the descriptive content across a wide range of possible situations and that the satisfier varies across those situations. Take ‘the president of the United States...
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Putting Things in Contexts

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Ben Caplan
The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 191–214.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-2-191
Published: 01 April 2003
.... Conversational participants take for granted, or presuppose, various propositions at various times. The set of propositions that conversational participants presuppose at a given time is the common ground. On Stalnaker’s view, a context is the set of worlds that are consistent with the propositions...
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Context

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Una Stojnić
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 408–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6718834
Published: 01 July 2018
... of how they are encoded in language or thought. The central notion remains the common ground (CG), a body of information presumed shared by interlocutors, defined in terms of mutual acceptance: in its simplest form it is a set of propositions everyone in the conversation accepts, accepts...
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Scientific Ontology

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Vera Flocke
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 144–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7890533
Published: 01 January 2020
... argument, as he makes his main claims in a roundabout way. Chakravartty begins by describing the common ground between realists and empiricists. Members of both camps, he suggests, can subscribe to “the norm of naturalized metaphysics,” according to which: Naturalized Metaphysics . Only...
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Metaphysics and Science

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Christian Wüthrich
The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 136–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3683722
Published: 01 January 2017
..., there could not be science, that is, there could be neither prediction nor explanation of natural phenomena. From this common ground, however, Mumford and Tugby leap to the further—and much stronger—claim that, therefore, the only legitimate concern for the metaphysician of science is what “imposes...
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Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

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Tristram McPherson
The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 100–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-11592518
Published: 01 January 2025
..., we are surely talking about a negligible fraction of humanity. So even if the “partial convergence” Sebo sketches is correct, it is not the basis for some sort of ethical common ground. Most depressingly, there is nothing even close to a broad convergence among humans even on the crucial (and in my...
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Moral Particularism

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Pekka Väyrynen
The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 478–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-478
Published: 01 July 2002
..., what is such a reason here may not be the same reason in other cases. Claims such as ‘Cowardice is to be avoided’ seem to be common ground. On the one hand, such claims are too weak for generalists, for they fail to achieve the sort of mappings of nonmoral features of the world onto moral...
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Conversational Exculpature

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Daniel Hoek
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-4326594
Published: 01 April 2018
... . The prediction is that only this relevant remainder r , and not p or q , is seriously endorsed and added to the conversational common ground. It is worth stressing that, following Yablo (2014 , chaps. 11–12), the notion of content subtraction presented here extends beyond cases where the equality p...
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Probabilistic Knowledge

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Melissa Fusco
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 139–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7890520
Published: 01 January 2020
... in the set of all probability spaces that assign .4 to the proposition that it will rain. Uptake goes by simple intersection: perceptual content, for example, is intersected with one's probability space or representor; asserted content is intersected with an upgraded version of the common ground...
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PLATONIC ETHICS, OLD AND NEW

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Rachel Barney
The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 123–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-1-123
Published: 01 January 2001
... to speak, nowhere to put it” (29). Two recurrent projects here are the finding of common ground between “Socratic”and “Platonic” ideas and between Plato and the Stoics. The former move often seems to me persuasive, as when Annas argues, thoroughly and with great plausibility...
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Epistemic Modality

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Malte Willer
The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 641–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2315324
Published: 01 October 2013
..., that epistemic modal claims express propositions of some kind. Stephen Yablo offers a dynamic semantics for epistemic modals that gives the semantics of (1) in terms of its update effects on the common ground between discourse participants. The classical dynamic approach to might by Veltman (1985 , 1996...
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Brentano’s Philosophical System: Mind, Being, and Value and Brentano’s Mind

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Michelle Montague
The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 473–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8311447
Published: 01 July 2020
....” This interpretation of Brentano is admittedly controversial; Kriegel rejects it. I believe nevertheless that it is only against this background that we can understand some of what Brentano says about intentionality . We can begin with some common ground. Kriegel, Textor, and I all agree that in directing our...
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Books Received

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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 469–474.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-120-3-469
Published: 01 July 2011
... to Frege. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. xvii þ639 pp. Rorty, Richard. 2011. An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground between Philosophy and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press. xxii þ76 pp. Rowlands, Mark. 2010. The New Science of the Mind...
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