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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 487–514.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Peter B. M. Vranas The claim that (OIC) “ought” implies “can” (i.e., you have an obligation only at times at which you can obey it) entails that (1) obligations that become infeasible are lost (i.e., you stop having an obligation when you become unable to obey it). Moreover, the claim that (2...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 43–87.
Published: 01 January 2023
...) to propose a new way of deferring to chance. The principle I endorse, called the Trust Principle, requires chance to be a good guide to the world, permits modest chances, tells us how to listen to chance even when the chances are modest, and entails but is not entailed by the New Principle. As I show...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 349–383.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Michael McKenna Peter van Inwagen contends that nonresponsibility transfers across deterministic relations. Suppose it does. If the facts of the past and the laws of nature entail every truth about what one does, and no one is even in part morally responsible for the past and the laws, then no one...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and accountability in a way that effectively concedes a Rawlsian publicity condition. It is also argued that Parfit's arguments that Kantian and Scanlonian Contractualism entail Rule Consequentialism can be resisted. Two elements of Parfit's metaethics are critically discussed. First, concerning Parfit's arguments...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 73–114.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Conor Mayo-Wilson Epistemic closure ( ec ) is the thesis that knowledge is closed under known entailment. Although several theories of knowledge violate ec , failures of ec seem rare in science. I argue that, surprisingly, there are genuine violations of ec according to theories of knowledge widely...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 397–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and Jonathan Bennett in effect interprets the result to mean that PSR entails that there are no contingent truths. But reflection on parallels in philosophy of mathematics shows it can equally be interpreted either as a proof that there are “too many” contingent truths to combine in a single conjunction...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
Published: 01 July 2019
... under entailment, or does the preface paradox show that rational agents can believe inconsistent propositions? Does whether you believe a proposition depend partly on your practical interests? My account of belief resolves the tension between conflicting answers to these questions that have been...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 411–447.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Jacob Ross This essay argues that there is a conflict between the principle of Countable Additivity and standard views of how we should update centered or de se beliefs. The latter views, this essay argues, entail a general principle, which the essay calls the Generalized Thirder Principle...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 289–306.
Published: 01 April 2013
... and that the only way out for that theory is a modification of it that entails incompatibilism. The essay invites the reader to find this consequence of CDT a reason to reject it. References Beebee H. 2003 . “ Local Miracle Compatibilism .” Noûs 37 : 258 – 77 . Bennett J. 2003...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 89–145.
Published: 01 January 2023
... situation, then one can know that that possibility does not obtain. This explains how people can have inductive knowledge that goes beyond what is strictly entailed by their evidence. We motivate the framework by showing how it illuminates knowledge about the future, knowledge of lawful regularities...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 January 2024
... catchall propositions. Orthodox Bayesianism, it is concluded, must be amended. In this article, I show that this argument fails and that, on the contrary, the orthodox version of Bayesianism is particularly well suited to accommodate awareness growth. For it entails what I call the refinement view , which...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to superquestion under a strict entailment relation between questions, and it discusses ways of lying and misleading in relation to multiple questions. © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 lying misleading questions what is said inquiry We sometimes have goals that urge us to mislead each other...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (3): 223–263.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the division paradox is mathematically unassailable if we assume the injective account of set size. However, I will show that the surjective account entails that any set is at least as big as any partition of it—and is never smaller than it— regardless of whether the axiom of choice is true . 5 Moreover...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., it’s our prejudice against the material conditional that needs
reforming. True, that would give us more entailments than we want, the
paradoxes of material implication among them. But maybe we can explain
those away by appeal to the implicatures, conversational or conventional,
of ordinary...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360.
Published: 01 July 2001
.../papers/belief.html >. ____. 2002b. “Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?” In Conceivability and Possibility, ed. T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne. Oxford: Oxford University Press. < consc.net/papers/conceivability.html >. ____. Forthcoming a. “The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 55–93.
Published: 01 January 2012
... take myself to have thereby collected evi-
dence that Joe is not in California. Or researchers might collect evidence
that some scientific theory T is true and take themselves to have thereby
collected evidence that T’s entailments (that is, its predictions) will come
true. Thus, the principle...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 143–178.
Published: 01 April 2019
... . That is, S x , w = { f ∈ S : x ∈ f ( w ) } . In constructing a global expansion of G , we'll be interested in a particular family of bipartitions of S x , w for each x , w . These are the partitions of S x,w that are closed under nonlocal entailment . To define...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 462–465.
Published: 01 July 2002
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tion p, <<p> is true> entails <p> (where ‘<p>’ abbreviates ‘the proposition that
p McGinn parts company from orthodox disquotationalists in rejecting the
converse entailment, from <p> to <<p> is true>, in order to “leave conceptual
room for the idea of a propositional speech acts that fail of truth...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 225–240.
Published: 01 April 2009
.... Relationalism about color is
the claim that an object is only colored relative to a perceiver and
the circumstances of perception. (Color relationalism has recently been
defended by Cohen 2004 and McLaughlin 2003.) Relationalism about
color entails color pluralism—that objects are multiply colored—since...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 April 2012
... them.
Tye’s response to such cases is indirect. He does not offer a de-
tailed functional specification and show that it would entail the presence
I have benefited from useful comments on an earlier draft of this article from Mark Heller
and the anonymous referee for the Philosophical...
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