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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 304–308.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Robert D. Rupert Clark Andy , Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension . New York : Oxford University Press , 2008 . xxix +286 pp . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 References Noë Alva . 2004 . Action in Perception . Cambridge, MA...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 81–122.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jared Warren This essay clarifies quantifier variance and uses it to provide a theory of indefinite extensibility that I call the variance theory of indefinite extensibility. The indefinite extensibility response to the set-theoretic paradoxes sees each argument for paradox as a demonstration...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 397–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
... or as a proof that the concept contingent truth is indefinitely extensible and there is no such thing as “all contingent truths.” Either interpretation would reconcile PSR with contingent truth, but the natural rationales of those interpretations are at odds. This essay argues that the second interpretation...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 95–130.
Published: 01 January 2020
... for present actions are grounded in present or future desires. Futurist subjectivism promises to answer Parfit's Agony Argument , and it is motivated by natural extensions of some of the considerations that support subjectivism in general. However, it faces a problem: because which desires one will have...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of mental systems that stand at the border of perception and belief, and has been extensively studied in developmental psychology. Core cognition's borderline states do not fit neatly into the traditional epistemic picture. What is the epistemic role of these states? Focusing on the core object system...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 247–283.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Zoltán Gendler Szabó Consider the hypothesis that every quantified sentence in every natural language contains some expression or other whose extension constrains the domain of quantification. If the hypothesis is correct, quantificational domains are fixed in fundamentally different ways...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
... on an extension of a proposal due to Ned Hall and others from the case of chance to that of causation. The remedy suggests a new view of the relation between causal decision theory and evidential decision theory, namely, that they stand to each other much as chance stands to credence, being objective...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (3): 337–393.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., this essay argues, taking the good to be prior to the right in epistemology leads one to sanction implausible trade-offs when determining what a subject should believe. Epistemic value—and, by extension, epistemic goals—are not the explanatory foundation upon which all other normative notions in epistemology...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 529–578.
Published: 01 October 2023
... theory of truth, which solves the liar paradox in a principled manner. We end by showing that our theory and simple extensions thereof have the resources to axiomatize the internal logic of several supervaluational hierarchies, including Cantini’s. This solves open problems of Halbach (2011) and Horsten...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 415–448.
Published: 01 October 2006
... possible motiva-
tion for the Context Principle—is the desire for universal principles of
extensionality for designation and of compositionality for semantic content.
(According to extensionality, the extension of a compound expression
is a function of the extensions of its meaningful components...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 410–417.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of birds ( birds ) if you have a mental representation that has all and only birds in its extension. When psychologists (and philosophers) speak of ‘concepts’, they sometimes use the word ‘concept’ differently. They sometimes use it to refer to a certain associated body of ‘knowledge’ (in a very loose...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
... offers a metaphysics of the material world that is “monist” or “pluralist.” On the monist interpretation, Descartes holds that there is only one material substance, namely, the realm of extension as a whole. 1 In contrast, on a pluralist reading Descartes takes the material world to be composed...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 157–201.
Published: 01 April 2004
... two sections of the System are the Axioms of Intuition and the
Anticipations of Perception. The principle of the Axioms is “All intui-
tions are extensive magnitudes,” and the principle of the Anticipations
is “In all appearances the real, which is an object of sensation, has
intensive magnitude...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (2): 219–250.
Published: 01 April 2007
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plify φ, but not and yet φ and φЈ should be coextensive. This is an
unacceptable conclusion; if x exemplifi ed only one of the properties,
then inevitably they would differ extensionally. So the question arises: if
the claim ‘φ and φЈ are coextensive’ is not equivalent to ‘everything...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 465–470.
Published: 01 July 2002
... background in ele-
mentary logic, though some of the papers do assume more extensive knowl-
edge.
Instead of attempting to touch upon all of the many issues discussed by the
papers in this collection, I shall try to place the book within the current litera-
ture, and comment on some of the more...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 623–627.
Published: 01 October 2021
... kinds of arguments as unpromising, a version of an argument from indefinite extensibility is endorsed. Ultimately, this is presented as a distinctively set-theoretic argument: any attempt to quantify over sets with absolute generality makes salient some sets—such as the non-self-membered sets—which...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 432–434.
Published: 01 July 2003
...)
Robert Audi, The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rational-
ity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 286.
Audi’s book stands out among works on rationality in that it offers a theory of
both theoretical and practical reason and of the extensive parallels between...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360.
Published: 01 July 2001
... for explicit definitions is eschewed, the model
of conceptual analysis that emerges is something like the following.
When given sufficient information about a hypothetical scenario,
subjects are frequently in a position to identlfy the extension of a given
concept, on reflection, under...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 541–544.
Published: 01 October 2014
... or sensations in the mind. The argument can obviously be extended to other sensible qualities, such as extension and color (103–4). In the Dialogues , Dicker believes, “Philonous presents [this] as a valid demonstration” (104). But in the Treatise , as he notes, Berkeley seems to reject it. “It must...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 77–79.
Published: 01 January 2001
... metaphysics of possible worlds, holds that these classes
should range across possible worlds. This allows him largely to evade one tra-
ditional difficulty for a class theory of properties: that it wrongly identifies co-
extensive properties. Provided that the properties are only contingently co...
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