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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 404–408.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Elijah Millgram Bas van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. xix + 282 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS
John Searle, Rationality in Action.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 298 pp.
This book...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Tyler Burge A central preoccupation of philosophy in the twentieth century was to determine constitutive conditions under which accurate (objective) empirical representation of the macrophysical environment is possible. A view that dominated attitudes on this project maintained that an individual...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 355–458.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Kevin Dorst Predictable polarization is everywhere: we can often predict how people’s opinions, including our own, will shift over time. Extant theories either neglect the fact that we can predict our own polarization, or explain it through irrational mechanisms. They needn’t. Empirical studies...
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Sinan Dogramaci; Miriam Schoenfield This article gives a Bayesian argument showing that, even if your total empirical evidence confirms that you have zillions of duplicate Boltzmann Brains, that evidence does not confirm that you are a Boltzmann Brain. The article also attempts to explain what goes...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 463–509.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of the epistemology literature. But it is principled and empirically grounded, and shows good prospects for yielding the desired epistemological verdicts. The paper articulates and elaborates the theory, drawing out some of its consequences. Toward the end, the fleshed-out theory is applied to two important case...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 481–532.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Jon Erling Litland Most authors on metaphysical grounding have taken full grounding to be an internal relation in the sense that it's necessary that if the grounds and the grounded both obtain, then the grounds ground the grounded. The negative part of this essay exploits empirical and provably...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
... both theoretical and empirical support, and also defends the view against several objections. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 perception cognition cognitive penetration modularity Many philosophical debates presuppose that there is a border between perception and cognition...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 495–519.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of Experience-Based Control) is hostage to empirical fortune. It is a hostage, moreover, whose safety is in serious doubt. Thus Milner and Goodale (1995) argue for a deep and abiding dissociation between the contents of conscious seeing, on the one hand, and the resources used for the online guidance...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 263–298.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., and deploy a new theoretical tool in the empirical investigation of consciousness. A noteworthy consequence of this new framework is that the structure of the mental qualities of conscious experiences is fundamentally different from the structure of the perceptible qualities of external objects. © 2021...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 481–531.
Published: 01 October 2021
... is suffused with valence. What it’s like to undergo perceptual experiences—from pains to supposedly “neutral” visual experiences—standardly feels good or bad to some degree. The second aim is to argue, by appealing to theoretical and empirical considerations pertaining to the phenomenon of (perceptual...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 511–514.
Published: 01 October 2022
... questions. Jauernig defends what she calls “a version of the classic two-world view” (16), according to which spatiotemporal appearances (empirical objects) and nonsensible things in themselves are numerically distinct entities. For Jauernig, both types of entities genuinely exist, even though...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 342–354.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Foundations …is to explain how the application of pure mathematics to the empirical concepts of mathematical physics becomes possible” (88). Kant's goal is to explain, concept by concept, how the fundamental concepts of Newtonian physics—for example, duration , mass , velocity , and force— come...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2001
... insistence that logical consequence be both a necessary
and formal relation, and she accepts his characterization of formality as
freedom from influence by empirical knowledge. Again I concur with
her general approach. (Hanson 1997, 392-93)
But, according to Hanson, there is a flaw...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 July 2022
... notable exceptions, tended to focus on the formal aspects of Kant’s view: Kant’s transcendental philosophy, Kant’s categorical imperative of morality, and Kant’s theory of the “free play of the faculties” as the ground of pure aesthetic judgments. Where Kant’s theory of empirical knowledge is concerned...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2021
... between perceptual experience and empirical reasoning. What one thinks about the nature of perception inevitably influences one’s view of empirical reasoning (and vice versa). For philosophers like Donald Davidson (1986), who argue that experience consists in brute sensations, perception can, at best...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 536–541.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to the editors' introductory chapter. Instead, I will focus on how to think of and use this volume in light of the rapidly developing empirical and theoretical research on implicit bias. My task here is to explain the ways in which the literature has changed, and how this is (or in some cases is not) reflected...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 635–638.
Published: 01 October 2001
.... By BILL BREWER. New York: Oxford University
Press, Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 281.
“This book is about the role of conscious perceptual experiences in the acqui-
sition of empirical knowledge” (xiii). So begins Bill Brewer’s interesting Percep-
tion and Reason, whose introduction usefully...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 456–459.
Published: 01 July 2000
... in presentation and
response to criticism; and modesty in formulations and claims. An unfor-
tunate cost of this integrity is the limited epistemological terrain to which
Firth continually returned. He could not move forward without a major
advance on the basic project (of how one moves from empirical...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 232–236.
Published: 01 April 2018
... philosophy” (20) and to highlight the foundational role played by experience in Wolff's German and Latin works. Dyck emphasizes the influence of the empiricist tradition on Wolff's conception of cognition and on his redefinition of philosophical method. Empirical or ‘historical’ cognition is taken...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 541–545.
Published: 01 October 2018
... empirically. And she shows how they can be changed where they are detrimental to individuals, or to the groups to which they belong. While many philosophers address similar kinds of issues, few do so in ways that are both empirically precise and socially meaningful. This is where Bicchieri excels. Using tools...
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