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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 501–532.
Published: 01 October 2009
...Desmond Hogan A central doctrine of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason holds that the content of human experience is rooted in an affection of sensibility by unknowable things in themselves. This famous and puzzling affection doctrine raises two seemingly intractable old problems, which can be termed...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 169–213.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Harvey Lederman This article presents a new interpretation of the great Ming dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming’s (1472–1529) celebrated doctrine of the “unity of knowledge and action” (知行合一). Wang held that action was not unified with all knowledge, but only with an elevated form of knowledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 449–495.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of the soul; second, the identification of the relevant fallacies. This essay examines Kant's account in the First Paralogism of how these two elements combine to produce the doctrine that the soul is a substance. It is argued that Kant has a novel, ingenious—and even somewhat plausible—account of how...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 135–163.
Published: 01 April 2010
... it is easy to appreciate Leibniz's reasons for embracing this view, it has proven difficult to see how his doctrine of incompossibility might be reconciled with the broader commitments of his larger philosophical system. This essay develops, in four sections, a novel solution to the “puzzle...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (2): 197–202.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Christopher Benzenberg; Andrew Chignell 7. Christopher Benzenberg (2023) defends the stronger view that arguments by analogy and/or from empirical premises do not produce doctrinal Belief. He thinks that Proops’s argument for the afterlife only yields opinion. 6. Proops also says...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 April 2015
... devotes one chapter to each of the virtues of character, since each chapter may weave together discussion of several virtues and allow different doctrines to emerge, comprising what Curzer calls “Aristotle's architectonic.” The most important doctrines, according to Curzer, are the doctrine of disjoint...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 428–432.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of insulation” in aiming to develop a “freestanding” political conception of justice that “leaves philosophy as it is” reveals a deep tension in the view. Eventually, then, this leads to a contradiction: the free-standing doctrine must be autonomous and can only be so if morally grounded on practical reason...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., in PoM, Russell accepts the doctrine of the unrestricted variable: if we replace a logical subject of a proposition by a variable to yield a propositional function, the range of that variable includes absolutely every entity. For absolutely any entity can be taken as a value of that variable...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 January 2001
... as “a new interpretation and defence of Kant’s doctrine of things in themselves.” This is an extremely engag- ing and thought-provoking book. I am pleased to recommend it. Its focus is Kant’s doctrine that we can have no knowledge of things in them- selves. Langton labels this doctrine “Humility...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 511–518.
Published: 01 July 2013
... argument, and the Cartesian modal argument. As can be seen from the foregoing formulation, the hypothesis rests on the doctrine that awareness of phenomenal properties is always representational in character: when one is aware of a phenomenal property, one's state of awareness is partially constituted...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 670–674.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of an empirical set up, and we can thus read off important facts about the empirical set up from the mathematics” (Bueno and Colyvan 2011 : 345). Such doctrines are predicated upon a “warehouse” conception of mathematical activity; left to their own devices, mathematicians build up a large fund...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 440–443.
Published: 01 July 2001
.... Pp. xxii, 377. Over the past decade, scholarship on Kant’s practical philosophy has developed from a one-dimensional focus on his objective normative doctrines toward a more richly textured engagement with his views of character, virtue, and subjective moral consciousness. A significant...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 January 2014
... in academic reflection on ethics, ranging from Socrates to Reformation (vol. 1), from Suárez to Rousseau (vol. 2), and from Kant to Rawls (vol. 3), thus embracing in a single undertaking the main ethical doctrines that Western philosophers produced over many centuries. This is such a formidable task...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2017
...R. Lanier Anderson Allais Lucy , Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and His Realism . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . vii + 329 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 There is no doctrine more central to Kant's philosophy, nor one more confusing in its fundamental...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 31–88.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of the theory (sec- tion 4), and then evaluating the extent to which substantial forms can be seen to have survived in the work of Descartes, Boyle, and Locke. Contrary to some recent suggestions, Descartes accepts virtually noth- ing of the doctrine (section 5). Boyle and especially Locke, however, can...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 529–532.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Michael Jacovides By my count, Jolley has five reasons for thinking that Locke ought to be a materialist by his own lights. First, he observes that in arguing against Descartes's doctrine that the soul always thinks, Locke claims that it's absurd to suppose that two persons might share one soul...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 225–240.
Published: 01 April 2009
... between these three doctrines? Boghos- sian does not explicitly say. Nevertheless, it is natural to understand epistemic relationalism as the fundamental doctrine with epistemic plu- ralism and the denial of absolutism as consequences of epistemic rela- tionalism. So consider the case of color...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of important texts and doctrines that, if not always convincing, is fresh, nuanced, and provocative. Miles writes with several targets in mind—standard readings of Cartesian doctrines—against which his own views are presented as “heretical.” He thinks that some of the more dubious positions attributed...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 51–98.
Published: 01 January 2022
... it means for a unilateral acquisitive will to be “included in” a politically united will. Provisional acquisition is acquisition plain and simple, but it is partial or incomplete. A repeated figure in the Doctrine of Right makes this idea vivid. Kant glosses provisional acquisition as acquisition...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 573–575.
Published: 01 October 2002
... are my own, but I hope fair): (1) Both Pla- tonists and Christians from the end of the first century A.D. onwards grounded the authority of a doctrine in its antiquity. Christian writers claimed that Chris- tianity is the expression of an ancient wisdom from which both Judaism and pagan philosophy...