... of the principle of maximiz- ing expected utility (PMEU). Suppose Pneeds to decide whether (G) to go to graduate school, and then become a university professor, or (B) to become a professional baseball player' His choice will provide strong evidence about an unknown fact from his past: he knows his father...

... know you are a stone, therefore you do not know you are a stone" (because stones are not knowers), and "Only a father exists, therefore not only a father exists" (because fathers must have sons). I have emphasized the above discussion because a claim often made about Burley is that he fully...

... conditionally obligatory for you to donate blood if you do not attend your father's funeral (cf. Graham 2011, 368–69 ), so the advice “do not donate blood” is incomplete rather than wrong : it is not wrong because it is contained in the more complete advice “(attend your father's funeral, and thus) do...

... ‘sufficient reasons’ in NIR to denote reasons in the narrower sense. A devoted father might have sufficient reasons to spend thousands of dollars on music lessons for his daughter and decisive reasons not to spend the money on a racehorse for himself (although he has a pro tanto prudential reason to buy...

... the son, since there are other propositions, such that the proposition that Barack Obama Sr. married Ann Dunham in 1961 , for which the father will have to be added . But why think that the father has to be added to take care of this latter proposition? Why not add instead the marriage? Or the biggest...

... ‘ought’ claims and plausible assumptions about the logic of the evaluative ‘ought’. For example, as Broome (n.d.) observes, different agents can have conflicting responsibilities. He imagines a case in which it is Father Murphy’s job to baptize everyone in the parish who needs to be baptized...

... example, which “makes it crystal clear that the use of homologein does not signify a shared belief” (22). In Menander's Samia , a Samian concubine, Chrysis, helps two young lovers by pretending that the woman's baby is Chrysis’s own child. When explaining the situation to his father, the young man...

... us on this earth, different and separate from them” (269b13–16), and found exclusively in the superlunary realm. (3) A central thesis of Aristotle’s embryological theory is that, in animal gen- eration, the father contributes form (conveyed by sperma) and the mother con- tributes matter...

... on this belief, but ever since he was a child, he got the sense from his somewhat ill-informed father that one had to be more skilled to drive cars from Germany and Italy. Because he drives a German car, he takes himself to be a better driver than he really is, though his attention is as described above—he...

... Attacker. Is your killing necessary? Killing in Medicine was unnecessary. Killing in Medicine 2 is surely the same. It is saving lives that matters, not saving the lives of people with a particular blood type. Now consider another case: Career Choice : A teenager tells her father that she wants...

.... Suppose Henry, an Edwardian father, comes to regard his daughter Catherine as beyond the pale due to some minor tryst. Meanwhile, it is an open secret in the family that Henry's ward, supposedly an orphaned cousin, is in fact his ‘natural son’. Henry is genuinely bewildered when Catherine points out...

... touches on many other issues related to assisted reproduction, from the nature of rights, to whether people need children, to the status of the embryo, to whether children should always be told who their father is. The book covers a lot of ground, and it does so quickly. Making Babies has...

... work. It seems to me that it is only if God retains ultimate control over human freedom (as I believe church fathers such as Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Luther clearly understood) that God can possess the strong sense of providential control Flint believes orthodox Christians must affirm...

... incomprehensible cruelty and atrocity. Whether we think of General Mladic handing out candy to Muslim children in Srebenica shortly after ordering thousands of their fathers and brothers shot, or doped-up child soldiers in Sierra Leone chopping the arms 620 ...

... married his father’s assassin, etc. Meinongians think it denotes a non-existent impossible abstract object that corresponds to the set of all and only those properties attributed in Hamlet to Hamlet. Thomasson has another idea: ‘Hamlet’ denotes a fictional character: an existent abstract object...

... to desire as a Victorian father to his children: as Gottlieb observes, “The terminology of obeying can be taken to herald a Kantian style view of motivation, where thinking lords it over desiring and feeling” (15). It is a drawback that, where there is obedience, there is scope for disobedience. Aristotle...

.... She touches on many other issues related to assisted reproduction, from the nature of rights, to whether people need children, to the status of the embryo, to whether children should always be told who their father is. The book covers a lot of ground, and it does so quickly. Making Babies has...

... are often morally hamstrung for biological reasons. Those conceived in the summer by an aging father, for example, should expect a lifelong struggle against vice, since southern winds tend to introduce too much feminizing moisture into the residues in a mother's womb and because old men's semen is too cool...

...” about phenomenology or its attitude toward the history of philosophy: Husserl, the father of phenomenology, consistently calls himself a Platoniker . Nonetheless, it is true that Heidegger and Gadamer were obsessed with the Greek Anfang of philosophy. Like Heidegger, Gadamer rejects (progressive...

... argues, “Crito’s loyalty, selflessness, and remarkable capacity for unconditional friendship do not bespeak shallowness and superficiality” (74). Euthyphro’s own stand with regard to his father’s role in a servant’s death is far from unprincipled: indeed, as Beversluis points out, his position...