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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 367–371.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Alex Worsnip Snedegar Justin , Contrastive Reasons . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiv + 149 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Justin Snedegar's book Contrastive Reasons is a deft, lean, and elegant explication and defense of contrastivism about reasons...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 327–358.
Published: 01 July 2005
... . The Mishap at Reichenbach Fall: Singular vs. General Causation. Philosophical Studies 78 : 257 -91. ____. 1996 . The Role of Contrast in Causal and Explanatory Claims. Synthese 107 : 395 -419. ____. 2001 . The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed in Equations and Graphs. Journal...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 525–554.
Published: 01 October 2008
...) may also be shifted by operators in the representation language. Indeed verbs that create hyperintensional contexts, like `think', are treated as operators that simultaneously shift the world and assignment parameters. By contrast, metaphysical modal operators shift the world of assessment only. Names...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 351–374.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... The timocrat by contrast represents the second-best kind of moral agent that the best nature (gold-souled individuals) can develop into. The timocrat is morally inferior to the auxiliary and seems to embody Homeric shame-culture. Plato is critical of this approach to morality, but the timocrat justifiably...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 1–58.
Published: 01 January 2015
....” The traditional interpretation regards the distinction between the two notions as reflecting a distinction between indeterminate space and determinations of space by the understanding, respectively. By contrast, a recent influential reading has argued that the two notions can be fused into one and that space...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 173–204.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Robert Shaver Sidgwick gives various tests for highest certainty. When he applies these tests to commonsense morality, he finds nothing of highest certainty. In contrast, when he applies these tests to his own axioms, he finds these axioms to have highest certainty. The axioms culminate...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Zoe Jenkin According to a traditional picture, perception and belief have starkly different epistemic roles. Beliefs have epistemic statuses as justified or unjustified, depending on how they are formed and maintained. In contrast, perceptions are “unjustified justifiers.” Core cognition is a set...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2011
... sense of 'ought', on which it relates agents to actions. In contrast, logically and linguistically sophisticated philosophers have typically rejected this naive view. According to them, there is no argument-place for an agent in any relation expressed by 'ought', nor is there any argument-place...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
...John Mackay A person of average height would assert a truth by the conditional ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would be taller than I am,’ in which an indicative clause ‘I am’ is embedded in a subjunctive conditional. By contrast, no one would assert a truth by ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 45–96.
Published: 01 January 2021
...J. Dmitri Gallow This article provides a theory of causation in the causal modeling framework. In contrast to most of its predecessors, this theory is model-invariant in the following sense: if the theory says that C caused (didn’t cause) E in a causal model, M , then it will continue to say...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 July 2023
...W. Clark Wolf Kant’s formula of universal law (FUL) is standardly understood as a test of the moral permissibility of an agent’s maxim: maxims that pass the test are morally neutral, and so permissible, while those that do not are morally impermissible. In contrast, this article argues that the FUL...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 263–298.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the phenomenal contrast between seeing an object as crimson in foveal vision versus merely as red in peripheral vision. The solution the article proposes is to model mental qualities using regions, rather than points. The article explains how this seemingly simple formal innovation not only provides a natural...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 428–434.
Published: 01 July 2000
... SHERMAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 387. There is a tradition of contrasting Greek and Kantian conceptions of eth- ics. Whereas Greek ethics is an ethics of virtue, Kantian ethics is an ethics of duty. Greek virtue ethics does not distinguish sharply between moral and nonmoral...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 355–388.
Published: 01 July 2006
... in the Contents of Visual Experience
objects, unlike cases of mere sensation, one can take different perspec-
tives on the object perceived. In contrast, phosphenes cannot be viewed
from different angles. One might say that S is perspectivally connected to
an object when S’s visual phenomenology depends...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 99–103.
Published: 01 January 2022
... terms, Moss sees the principal contrast for Plato not as one between knowledge and belief, as those terms might be understood in a contemporary context, but between a superior cognitive state ( epistēmē ) that gives its possessor “a deep grasp of ultimate reality,” and an inferior one ( doxa...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 371–398.
Published: 01 July 2018
... “Is C or C ′ a more effective cause of E?” starts to get explored as well (e.g., Chockler and Halpern 2004 ; Halpern and Hitchcock 2015 ). By contrast, the quantitative question “What is the strength of the causal relationship between C and E?” is relatively neglected. This is surprising since causal...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 235–266.
Published: 01 April 2000
... between concepts and intuitions turns, then, on
two points of contrast: intuitions are immediate and singular, con-
cepts, mediate and general. The import of both of these points of
contrast, and their relation to each other, continue to be a subject
of debate among Kant scholars. In particular...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 1–50.
Published: 01 January 2006
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will, ceteris paribus, strike us as sensitive and hence nonstandard, prob-
lematic, or at least different from paradigmatic causal claims even if the
counterfactual (1.2) is relatively insensitive. By contrast, if (1.1) is insen-
sitive and (1.2) is sensitive, (1.4) will strike us as unproblematic. In other...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 511–515.
Published: 01 October 2019
... per se, but in how, why, and in what contexts they came to be thought of as a group in contrast to Socrates. Once we recognize Presocratic philosophy as a construction of modern philosophy’s autobiography, we may ask with Laks to what degree this construct, on the one hand, legitimately represents...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., with the result being an action expressing two degrees of beneficence. This is then contrasted with another person, who is burdened with only three degrees of miserliness and seven degrees of a capacity to act according to the principle of obligation, which means that the action will exhibit four degrees...
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