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...Mark Navin Hassoun Nicole , Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . xii +235 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 In Globalization and Global Justice , Nicole Hassoun advocates a political...

... vindications of David Lewis’s original Principal Principle as well as recent reformulations due to Ned Hall and Jenann Ismael. Joyce enumerates properties that a function must have if it is to measure the distance from a set of credences to a set of truth values; he shows that, on any such measure, and for any...

...Andrew Y. Lee Conscious experiences are characterized by mental qualities, such as those involved in seeing red, feeling pain, or smelling cinnamon. The standard framework for modeling mental qualities represents them via points in multidimensional spaces, where distances between points inversely...

... in terms of time (253, 257), and that the temporal duration of a motion is identified with its speed (273). Thus, one motion is faster than another if and only if it takes less time. Plato does not consider distance as a second, independent factor determining the speed of a motion. Sattler gives two...

.... 1968 . “ Distance Perception as a Function of Available Visual Cues .” Journal of Experimental Psychology 77 : 523 – 29 . Leibowitz H. W. Moore D. . 1966 . “ Role of Changes in Accommodation and Convergence in the Perception of Size .” Journal of the Optical Society of America 56...

... under any subjunctive circumstance: L is a law if for any F, F ▪ →  L. That cannot be quite right, for the following looks to be true: if gravity were an inverse cube law, then the strength of gravitational attraction would fall off even faster with distance. But note that in this case, the antecedent...

... units of time is continuous. Supposing there is a first moment of time, this means that for any n and ɛ, we can find a perturbation of the state at the first moment that is so small that even after n years, the state of the system will still be within distance ɛ of its actual position (according...

... rationality—should read this book. Since this book contains more material than any single review can hope to cover, I will focus on two big-picture issues. As Staffel observes (chap. 3), there is by now a rich literature on how to measure the distance between two entities. Staffel’s general...

..., and adherent belief may not be closed under some rules of inference, it is closed under others, regardless of how the premises of the rules came to be believed. But there are ways of quantifying distance under which L worlds and R worlds are arbitrarily close. Suppose that we measure the distance...

... and a perceiver, measured by the angle the object subtends at the eye. It is easy to see that apparent magnitude varies with the distance between object and perceiver (objects subtending smaller angles when further away) while real magnitude does not. Once we record these facts correctly as in Reid’s version...

... in any function-conferring circumstances. While CDAT fixes the contents associated with S 1 , S 2 , and S 5 , it does not give us a unique way of assigning contents to S 3 and S 4 . This is because, as Neander maintains, an analog system can exhibit distortion of the similarity distances between...

.... He concludes, “All possible spatial geometries are represented by metric spaces” (31), spaces with a natural notion of distance, and he describes a variety of these. Many of the examples pop up later in the book, though some readers may not be as interested in the mathematical details until after...

...: “It is quite conceivable that the whole universe may constitute one great linkage, that is, a system of points bound to maintain invariable distances, certain of them from certain others, and that the law of gravitation and similar physical rules for reading off natural phenomena may be the consequences...

... argument is by no means intended to turn clearly empirical properties of the force of universal gravitation into a priori demonstrative truths” (531). Kant argues in the Metaphysical Foundations that we can know a priori that every piece of matter exerts an immediate attractive force acting at a distance...

... to be a conceptual item at all, there must be some kind of distance between the thought had by means of the concept and the thing in the world that makes the thought true. As Brewer says: Part of what the additional requirements [on demonstrative-concept possession] must achieve is a certain...

... has the resources to distance Plato from the structure of contemporary epistemology rather more radically than it does. For reasons I have sketched, such distancing may create extra challenges for a DO reading. Whether or not Moss succeeds in converting those disposed to some less stringently...

... exploitable relation that can generate representation: structural correspondence . Structural correspondence occurs when a relation over the representing system mirrors a relation over the represented domain: for instance, distances on a map mirror distances in physical space. According to Shea...

... “spooky action at a distance”) describes the phenomenon that events that are arbitrarily far apart can influence one another and the strength of the influence does not depend on their distance. Quantum nonlocality is a strange feature, and its falsity was assumed in the 1935 argument by Einstein, Podolsky...

...’ or ‘vindicated’ credence function; and we need to identify the correct measure of distance from each of these credence functions to another credence function. The CRPS takes the perfect or vindicated credence function at w , υ w , to be the omniscient credence function , that is, the credence...

... as closeness to truth, a sub- ject’s reliability is a function of the distance of a subject’s judgment from the truth-value of the proposition judged. So in terms of P, the diagram shows that A is distance a from the truth, B is distance b from the truth, and since a , b, A is closer than B to the truth...