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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 July 2012
...: it sets the bar for coherence too high and places certain cases of self-doubt on the wrong side of the divide. Given that the suppositional test is unsatisfactory, we are left without any justification for discriminating between Diachronic DBAs and ought to reject them all—including the DBA...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 367–413.
Published: 01 October 2024
... 2024 democracy political equality equality of opportunity discrimination compulsory voting Political egalitarians hold that there is a distinct ideal of political equality, which is used to define and justify democracy. So what is political equality? The orthodox view says it is equality...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 263–298.
Published: 01 May 2021
... are isomorphic to models of perceptible qualities. The standard methodology for constructing a model of mental qualities is to first use data concerning perceptual discrimination judgments to construct a model of perceptible qualities, and to then extrapolate from that to a model of mental qualities...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 397–420.
Published: 01 July 2001
..., for example, to discriminate in experience more shades of colors than he has color concepts. The key move in their argument, therefore, is to articulate the conceptual content of experience using demonstrative, instead of general, concepts. For instance, these authors argue that the content...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 302–305.
Published: 01 April 2002
... it between wholly causal theories and theories that require discriminating knowledge. Aristotle requires more than causal connection: the kind’s imprint on the thinking faculty must be accompanied by an explicit grasp of nonacci- dental features (159). Still, to require this kind of grasp is to require...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
... formulas and surrounding issues in enough detail to facilitate an initial comparison with Kant. In this section, I connect the Barcan formulas to Kant’s views about existence. Most commentators agree that, for Kant, existence is not a discriminating property of things, where a discriminating...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 January 2021
... might be presented with either a yellow, orange, or red object. The color of the object will be randomly determined by a chancy process. Moreover, your abilities of color discrimination will differ depending on the color of the object. If the object is yellow or red, you will have fairly poor abilities...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 163–167.
Published: 01 January 2015
... in what someone reports, or discrimination behavior more generally (and this appears to be what he has in mind), then what differences are relevant? Even very fine-grained features of neural states carry information about the environment and can have a small statistical impact on discriminatory abilities...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
... terms. The representational content of perceptual attributives depends on relations to the environment. Whatever procedures that we have for discriminating and acting on such perceivable kinds derive their meaning from the fact that they are adaptations and accommodations in the per- ceiver’s...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 292–295.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... Taylor sketches in “The Role of Women in Plato's Republic ,” why Plato might be fairly congenial to feminist thought ( pace Annas): (a) Plato is against institutional discrimination of women (84), and (b) if happiness is understood as self-fulfilment, then Plato enables women to achieve that (85...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and that distances in this space underlie relations of phenomenal perceptual similarity and discriminability. The ultimate goal is usually to explain facts about perceptual phenomenal character in nonqualitative, structural terms.  5. Two qualifications. First, it shouldn't be taken for granted...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 January 2002
... (but not homo- sexuals) are diseased, disabled, and suffer from limited abilities, which they would suffer from even if there were no societal discrimination against them. 2I grapple with the moral and scientific issues related to these sorts of procedures in Edward Stein, The Mismeasure of Desire...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 447–449.
Published: 01 July 2002
... is Dionysian: it is the subjective embrace of all change without trying to establish anything as permanent. Spirit (Geist), on the other hand, is Apollonian: it involves discrimination, thought, and judgment. Neither is prior to the other, but Spirit takes life as its object and lends meaning to it. As Spirit...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 118–120.
Published: 01 January 2003
... if getting these reasons did not itself require solving some difficult problem of cooperation. As far as I can see, McMahan’s solution here is that individuals have an interest in finding ways to adopt fair and profitable cooperative schemes, so that reason- ing that aims at discriminating the better...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 124–126.
Published: 01 January 2003
... and criticize lesser ills in matters of race, such as insensitivity, ignorance, discomfort, conflict, and discrimination. He argues that when these smaller moral infractions are labeled as “racist,” this impedes communication, as the accused become so anxious and perhaps resentful about being called racist...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 112–116.
Published: 01 January 2014
... wrongs, such information is needed and useful. Nevertheless, Allen is aware that racial information can also be used to discriminate, oppress, and control. She also claims that individuals freely give away too much information—we should be more aware of the value of privacy and personal information...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 491–494.
Published: 01 July 2023
...” is not just an arcane detail or a convenient explanation of our ability to discriminate a variety of qualities but a reflection of their very nature—one that is well equipped to explain why we perceive them as they are. Kelsey’s book is to be commended not only for sketching a promising new position...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
... 10 7 neurons in the brain), parallelization will not make a difference in the analyzes to come. 30. Estimates range from 1-10 million. 31. Just noticeable differences (JNDs) are the smallest differences that provoke above chance discrimination. Here I am assuming for the sake...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 285–288.
Published: 01 April 2005
.... What follows are tight and engaging discussions of progressivity, the tax base, tax discrimination, and inheritance. On the question of whether tax should target income or consumption, the authors find no issue of principle. Again, what matters is which type of tax leads to a better distribution...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 558–561.
Published: 01 October 2018
...: Colors are properties of perceptual interactions [or processes] involving a perceiver (P) endowed with a spectrally discriminating visual system (V) and a stimulus (S) with spectral contrast of the sort that can be exploited by V. (140) She says, “we must focus on the interaction occurring between...