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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 323–348.
Published: 01 July 2008
... or after. For biological conception is most plausibly seen as a momentous event in the continuing life of a preexisting organism—the egg—rather than a cataclysmic event ending one life and creating another. This article considers and rebuts the most likely challenges to this claim. This metaphysical point...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 565–591.
Published: 01 October 2010
... theory of causation is the notion of a real ground or causal power that is non-Humean (since it doesn't reduce to regularities or counterfactual dependencies among events or states) and non-Leibnizean because it doesn't reduce to logical or conceptual relations. However, we raise questions about...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
... accommodate the intuitive idea that causation is an intrinsic relation between events. The second half (sections 3–4) explores the implications of these observations for the mental causation problem. In section 3, I first argue that the attempt of Karen Bennett (2003, 2008) and similar attempts to resolve...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Kenny Easwaran Many philosophers have become worried about the use of standard real numbers for the probability function that represents an agent's credences. They point out that real numbers can't capture the distinction between certain extremely unlikely events and genuinely impossible ones...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 429–484.
Published: 01 October 2014
...) “aim at realization.” This essay traces the ills of direction of fit theory to a misunderstanding of Anscombe and proposes a cure that distinguishes theoretical and practical thought by appeal to a distinction between thought in the form of a state and thought in the form of an event. The second...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 548–550.
Published: 01 October 2005
... are articulated
on the basis of fundamental epistemological concepts. This review is focused
on the manner in which these two features find their way into Enç’s discussion
of two crucial issues of contemporary action theory: the possibility of reducing
actions to events and the problem of causal deviance...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 609–611.
Published: 01 October 2002
... ‘even’ and ‘if’. After reading his work, it’s hard to take seriously
work that does not share this methodology.
Lycan’s semantics for conditionals makes central use of what he calls
‘events’. An event is not a possible world, for it need not be complete or con-
sistent. It is more like what...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2003
...J. David Velleman Cornell University 2003 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 1 (January 2003)
Narrative Explanation
J. David Velleman
The Problem of Narrative Explanation
A story does more than recount events; it recounts...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 April 2015
... this, Swinburne immediately infers “Contrary to Hume and Lewis…it is then not an event which causes another event; but a substance or substances which cause an event. It is not the momentum of the brick but the brick itself which causes the glass window at which it is thrown to break” (131). In chapter 4...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 176–180.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., for instance, from echo questions, as in (2), and anaphora, as in (3). (2) a. The patch looks gray to me. b. The patch looks how to you? (3) The patch looks gray to me, and it looks that way to you too. The same pattern is displayed by sentences about ways of occurring for other sorts of events...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 327–358.
Published: 01 July 2005
... . The Open Door: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation. In Causation and Laws of Nature , ed. Howard Sankey, 175 -85. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Bennett, Jonathan. 1987 . Event Causation: The Counterfactual Analysis. In Philosophical Perspectives. Vol. 1 , Metaphysics, ed. James Tomberlin...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of (1)—a Strawsonian personal dual-
ism, with a token-dualism of Davidsonian event particulars. He assents to (4) by
contending that distinctively mental trying-events bring about bodily behavior.
However, he emphatically disavows Cartesian single-chain interactionism and
is unwilling to abandon (2...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
... , Frigg and Hoefer 2010 ) to a semantic approach linking chance to ability ( Eagle 2011 ). One strategy is to argue that the objective chance of an event depends on the level of description (for example, Loewer 2001 , Glynn 2010 , Strevens 2011 ). According to this strategy, saying...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 527–531.
Published: 01 October 2019
... it (1). This would suffice to make the property in question “dynamic” in Prosser's sense, even if our A-theorist allowed that events remain frozen in the present: that is, this A-theorist rejects that “ which time is present constantly changes as time passes” (3). Since Prosser later paraphrases...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 417–428.
Published: 01 July 2002
..., M. n.d. Knowing Facts and Believing Propositions: The Problem of Doxastic Shift . Parsons, T. 1990 . Events in the Semantics of English: A Study of Subatomic Semantics . Cambridge: MIT Press. ____. 1993 . On Denoting Propositions and Facts. Philosophical Perspectives 7 : 441 -60...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 January 2006
...
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picture leads to counterintuitive results. Suppose a mental event, m1 ,
causes another mental event, m2 . Unless the mental and the physical
are completely independent, there will be a physical event in your brain
or your body or the physical world as a whole that underlies this event...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 605–609.
Published: 01 October 2002
... use of what he calls
‘events’. An event is not a possible world, for it need not be complete or con-
sistent. It is more like what Barwise and Perry call a ‘situation’. Conditionals are
quantifiers over events, as follows:
P if Q = P in any event in which Q
P only if Q = P in no event...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 January 2000
... psychology and compatible with the
supposed theory-ladenness of language, problems he thinks doom extant
distinctions. The new distinction separates sentences that report events
under descriptions attributing physical properties from sentences that re-
port events under the description...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2021
... I have some worries about the main arguments (as I will explain later), I like many parts of the book, such as a defense of mental causation in the antireductionist framework, criticisms of transference approaches to causation, and an equal emphasis on the causal roles of events and those...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 July 2017
... general episodic construction system. This system is responsible for remembering events from the agent's personal past as well as imagining future or merely counterfactual events. According to the simulation theory: “ S remembers an episode e just in case S now has a representation R of e...
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