...Louis deRosset A major source of latter-day skepticism about necessity is the work of David Hume. Hume is widely taken to have endorsed the Humean claim : there are no necessary connections between distinct existences. The Humean claim is defended on the grounds that necessary connections between...

... and necessity. Two central Kantian principles provide the starting point for the comparison: that the possible must be grounded in the actual and that existence is not a real predicate. Both are shown to be intimately connected to the Barcan formulas, and Kant’s views on what he distinguishes as three different...

... of this interpretation with the aim of correcting some persistent misunderstandings of the connection between Aquinas's views and those developed by contemporary philosophers of mind. Cornell University 2008 Anscombe, G. E. M., and Peter Geach. 1961 . Three Philosophers: Aristotle, Aquinas, Frege . Ithaca, NY...

.... The essay proceeds by questioning traditional assumptions about the connection between the objects that are used to specify the truth-conditions of a sentence, on the one hand, and the objects whose existence is required in order for the truth-conditions thereby specified to be satisfied, on the other...

... suggestions about how the apparatus developed in connection with the notion of watching may enable us to offer related explanations of other kinds of perceptual activity. It proposes that a useful distinction can be drawn between perceptual activities like watching which have as their aim knowledge of what...

...Jane Friedman Call the norms of inquiry zetetic norms. How are zetetic norms related to epistemic norms? At first glance, they seem quite closely connected. Aren't epistemic norms norms that bind inquirers qua inquirers? And isn't epistemology the place to look for a normative theory of inquiry...

..., knowledge about parameters measured using imperfect instruments, the connection between knowledge, belief, and probability, and the dynamics of knowledge and belief in response to new evidence. [email protected] [email protected] © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 knowledge...

... premise in the incompatibilist's argument and the Ockhamist response. It sketches some potential links between the issues here and recent work on ontological dependence, and it connects the issues raised by Merricks to important work that has appeared in (among other places) the Philosophical Review . ©...

... intimate connection to the question of whether all fundamental facts are qualitative or whether they include facts about which specific individuals there are and how qualitative properties and relations are distributed over them. Those who think that all fundamental facts are qualitative are arguably...

... even in the context of a thoroughly idealist metaphysics in which the only true substances are nonextended, mindlike “monads.” The essay concludes by drawing some connections between Leibniz's thinking about the puzzle of incompossibility and the development of his views concerning the status...

...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...

... proposes that we define grounding roughly as follows: for one fact to ground another is for the former to be ontologically superior to the latter (e.g., the former exists to a higher degree than the latter) and for these facts to stand in a “connective relation” or a chain of such relations (237, 239, resp...

...-structural criterion for logical constants could be direct- ed at almost any systematic criterion for logical constants, including the truth-functional criterion for logical connectives (a paradigm of a successful criterion of logicality), and I will argue that for the same reason that Hanson’s...

... counterbalancing argument . The next two sections take up this challenge. One premise of Hume's counterbalancing argument seems to be that “if perceptions are distinct existences, they form a whole only by being connected together” (T App 20; SBN 635). Therefore, section 2 examines his account of composition...

...Igor Douven Leitgeb Hannes , The Stability of Belief: How Rational Belief Coheres with Probability . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiv + 365 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 There is an ongoing debate about how to connect categorical beliefs to graded beliefs...

... to suppose that there is a close connection between inferential knowledge and rationality. Thus, there are at least two prima facie reasons for treating both versions of the paradox in the same way. In this paper, I will offer solutions to both versions of the para- dox. My strategy...

... to this question. One may argue that the relationship between meaning and psychology is permissive, that is, meaning is externally specified and then in some way exported to our heads. On that view, it is often hard to systematically explain the connection between meaning and speakers’ judgments of entailment...

... , independently of its relationship to action. In my view, Wang holds that a person has genuine knowledge if and only if they are free from a particular form of doxastic conflict. I will suggest that Wang connects freedom from this form of doxastic conflict to freedom from a particular form of motivational...

... is not a problem with the volume, but it does lend it a somewhat disjointed feeling as authors on either side use similar language and examples to speak at distinct levels. The middle section of the book is devoted to connecting work on fragmentation to the topic of mental files. A mental file is a way...

... theory is to connections and constraints across more-or-less singular intentions that are elements of larger coordi- nating plans for action over time. I develop this point a bit further in my “Hierarchy, Circularity, and Double Reduction,” where I explore what I call “singular commitments...