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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 286–289.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., and epistemic and ethical reasoning on the other. The inadequacy of a weight model for the former does not clearly disqualify such an approach to the latter. The default theory is presented as a competitor to the standard “weight” account, including decision-theoretic models, which Horty doubts can...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of state-recognized marriage, and then offers an elegant and promising alternative. Chambers proposes that the state should devise default rules to regulate intimate partnerships, which would take into account the practices that constitute them, rather than regulate these partnerships through some system...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 495–532.
Published: 01 October 2007
... deviant and default out- comes of various processes. This distinction will be discussed in greater detail in section 5. Although the deviant/default distinction frequently tracks the event/absence distinction, it does not do so universally; we will examine an important exception in section 9...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Pelletier, F., and N. Asher. 1997 . “Generics and Defaults.” In Handbook of Logic and Language , ed. J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, 1125 -79. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Roeper, T., U. Strauss, and B. Z. Pearson. 2006 . “The Acquisition Path of the Determiner...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2000
....” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1991, 419 -24. Fagin, R., J. Y. Halpern, Y. Moses, and M. Y. Vardi. 1995 . Reasoning about Knowledge. Cambridge: MIT Press. Friedman, N., and J. Y. Halpern. 1998 . “Plausibility Measures and Default...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 45–96.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., default, or inertial, and events which are abnormal, deviant departures therefrom 2. The theory of Sander Beckers and Joost Vennekens (2017, 2018) is a notable exception modulo some finicky issues related to their timings . Unfortunately, this theory says that a preemptive overdeterminer (see section 4...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 344–349.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and how we should conceive of the relationship between the theory of knowledge and intellectual ethics. Part 2 offers a comprehensive treatment of the epistemology of suspension. Part 3 is primarily concerned with default assumptions and understanding how they lead to refinements of telic virtue...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 199–241.
Published: 01 April 2006
... that knowledge from being a priori.) In the case of testimony, the potential defeaters (and defeater-defeaters) include, not just defeat- ers pertaining to the original warrant, but defeaters of one’s “default entitlements” (see section 2). 2. It is clear that Burge thinks that we can...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 367–413.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and opt-in for First Nations citizens. Call this Disparate Defaults. Since people tend to opt for the default, including in choosing whether to enroll as a voter, 19 this arrangement would ensure that First Nations citizens exerted less electoral influence. Disparate Defaults, like Disparate...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 537–540.
Published: 01 October 2019
... they want as long as they have real and fair opportunities not to do so. Anderson does not seem to reject this principle. But she argues that most people are, as a matter of fact, forced to work under a private government. This is due to both the nature of modern capitalism and the default rules...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 371–375.
Published: 01 July 2019
... on consistency between the two is to miss the point of current dual-process theories, which are default-interventionist ( Evans 2007 ; Kahneman 2011 ), meaning that Type 1 processes are supposed to quickly generate default responses on which, if necessary (e.g., when a decision really matters to us), Type 2...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 323–326.
Published: 01 April 2021
... work. In chapter 3, Goldberg argues that there are default defeasible permissions we have to rely on certain belief-forming processes, like visual perception. The beliefs formed by these processes serve as the foundation for the rest of our epistemically proper beliefs. Here we start to see...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 371–398.
Published: 01 July 2018
... depends on the levels of the cause variable that we compare (i.e., three vs. two or five vs. zero pints per day). This choice is codified in the postintervention distribution p * ( ⋅ ) . By contrast, I do not include external factors such as typicality, defaults, and normative...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 291–295.
Published: 01 April 2001
... that the meaning of a sentence often depends on information that surfaced ear- lier in a conversation, and it focuses on longer swatches of discourse than single sentences or arguments. Second, nonmonotonic (default, presumptive) rea- soning is rife in commonsense thinking, and concerns with such reasoning in AI...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 1–50.
Published: 01 January 2006
... to disqualify candidate causal claims that relate absences. However, in many cases the presence/absence contrast (at least insofar as this infl uences the causal judgments we are prepared to accept) seems to derive from a deeper contrast between what might be described as the normal or default outcome...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 415–448.
Published: 01 October 2006
.... Context Principle enthusiasts may take this to be Frege’s notion of default or customary Bedeutung. In developing an occurrence-based seman- tics of variable-binding, I take my cue from Frege’s theory of indirect (oblique, ungerade) contexts. The variables occurring in (2) occur exclusively...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 356–362.
Published: 01 July 2019
...), they have a default practice of taking (4) to be true (provided that no other sentence Sid utters that day is untrue). Yet, both (4) and (T) involve semantic circularity. Shaw argues that speakers' judgments about (4) and (T) need to be taken seriously. If that is correct, then different varieties...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 97–143.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... 6.2. Default Demarcation Another demarcation holds that a subset of declaratives can or do token assertion by means of some default.22 Accordingly, the use of a declarative in a context generates KRE unless the default is overridden. The attraction of a default-based demarcation is that one can add...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 664–667.
Published: 01 October 2013
... nations are moral equals and that each has a relevantly similar interest in greater rather than lesser gains, the default requirement is that the gains ought to be shared equally across trading nations. This presumption can be overcome if greater gains flow to poorer countries. In addition...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and independent of the agent's cognitive system) as parts of the cognitive system. The pragmatist would rather deny this assumption and highlight that the organism-environment interconnectedness is the default, and hence the very idea of the “internal-external” divide is flawed. Similarly, underived...