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The Unity of Marx’s Concept of Alienated Labor
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 33–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Pascal Brixel Marx says of alienated labor that it does not “belong” to the worker, that it issues in a product that does not belong to her, and that it is unfulfilling, unfree, egoistically motivated, and inhuman. He seems to think, moreover, that the first of these features grounds all the others...
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Exploring by Believing
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 339–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
... opportunity and accuracy in the long run. Further, it is sometimes rationally permissible to choose the latter. The article breaks down the features of action which give rise to the trade-off, and then argues that each feature applies equally well to belief. This conclusion is an instance of a systematic...
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Counteridenticals
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
Published: 01 July 2018
... that accommodates nontrivial counterpossibles. In this article, I argue that none of these approaches can account for all the peculiar features of counteridenticals. Instead, I propose a modified version of Lewis's counterpart theory, which rejects the necessity of identity, and show that it can explain all...
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Radical Externalism
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 395–431.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Amia Srinivasan This article presents a novel challenge to epistemic internalism. The challenge rests on a set of cases which feature subjects forming beliefs under conditions of “bad ideology”—that is, conditions in which pervasively false beliefs have the function of sustaining, and are sustained...
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The Stability Theory of Belief
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 131–171.
Published: 01 April 2014
... of rational belief can be built around these principles that is not ad hoc and that has various philosophical features that are plausible independently. In particular, this essay shows that the theory allows for a solution to the Lottery Paradox, and it has nice applications to formal epistemology. The price...
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Promising, Intimate Relationships, and Conventionalism
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Seana Valentine Shiffrin The power to promise is morally fundamental and does not, at its foundation, derive from moral principles that govern our use of conventions. Of course, many features of promising have conventional components—including which words, gestures, or conditions of silence create...
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Perceptual Objectivity
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
... empirical representation of the physical environment requires the individual to be able to supplement this representation with representation of general constitutive features of objectivity. This essay criticizes instances of this version in P. F. Strawson and Quine. It maintains that all versions...
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Canny Resemblance
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 183–223.
Published: 01 April 2009
... ability to identify intentions from the products of communicative behavior and our knowledge of stylistic conventions. This account avoids the difficulties that face rival attempts to analyze depiction in terms of resemblance. It also clarifies and explains the features that distinguish depictive from...
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Fundamental Nomic Vagueness
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 1–49.
Published: 01 January 2022
... worlds and the presence of several other accompanying features. Under certain assumptions, such vagueness prevents the fundamental physical theory from being completely expressible in the mathematical language. Moreover, I suggest that such vagueness can be regarded as vagueness in the world . For a case...
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Multiple Universes and Self-Locating Evidence
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
... updating rule that satisfies a few reasonable conditions will have the same feature. The conclusion that fine-tuned life provides evidence for a multiverse is hard to escape. The root issue here is that our qualitative evidence is ordinarily about what there is rather than what there isn’t. You can learn...
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Accuracy, Deference, and Chance
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 43–87.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Benjamin A. Levinstein Chance both guides our credences and is an objective feature of the world. How and why we should conform our credences to chance depends on the underlying metaphysical account of what chance is. I use considerations of accuracy (how close your credences come to truth-values...
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'Ought' and Ability
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 337–382.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the structure of morality and seems to explain certain salient features of the debate over whether the principle is true, goes some way toward recommending it. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 Thanks to audiences at New York University, Southern Methodist University, and the University...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., and it gives a unified treatment that uses simple models of the cases and no controversial assumptions about confirmation or self-locating evidence. The article will argue that the troublesome feature of all these cases is not self-location but selection effects. © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 I...
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Causation, Chance, and the Rational Significance of Supernatural Evidence
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., with respect to objective causation. The essay begins with Newcomb problems, which turn on an apparent tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential factors. Two-boxers give priority...
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Modesty as a Virtue of Attention
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 93–117.
Published: 01 January 2013
... qualities related to oneself is necessary for modesty. It then offers an attention-based account, claiming that what is necessary for modesty is to direct one’s attention in certain ways. By analyzing modesty in this way, we can best explain the distinct features of modesty, keep much of what is intuitive...
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Descartes on the Metaphysics of the Material World
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
... material substance. However, I also consider some surprising features of the argument in the Synopsis. One is that this argument conflicts with the implication in Descartes that any two “really distinct” substances can each exist without the other existing. Another is that the argument tends to undermine...
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Conversational Exculpature
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
... how the resulting theory of conversational exculpature accounts for a varied range of linguistic phenomena. A distinctive feature of the approach is the crucial role played by the question under discussion in determining the result of a given exculpature. © 2018 by Cornell University 2018...
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The Epistemic Role of Core Cognition
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the author argues that core object representations have epistemic statuses like beliefs do, despite their many prototypically perceptual features. First, the author argues that it is a sufficient condition on a mental state's having an epistemic status as justified or unjustified that the state is based...
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Beyond Vision—Philosophical Essays
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 341–348.
Published: 01 July 2019
... as auditory objects. Because they exhibit criteria of identity and individuation, sounds are objects. Sounds exhibit composition and continuity: they bear bounded and unified features, they persist from one moment to the next, they have boundaries, they can have cohesive parts, and they can be identified even...
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The Perception-Cognition Border: A Case for Architectural Division
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
... the grouping of features into dimensions. If cognition leads a perceptual process to compute over a feature that cannot be dimensionally grouped with any of the features that the process was previously able to compute over, then the process has been enriched, and DRH is false. I've now explained DRH...
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