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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 646–651.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Chris Bobonich Brink David O. Meyer Susan Sauvé Shields Christopher , eds., Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2018 . x+318 pp © 202020 by Cornell University 2020 This volume...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 275–287.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Graeme Forbes In this critical review I discuss the main themes of the papers in Kit Fine's Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers . These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Kit Fine Cornell University 2000 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (January 2000) Neutral Relations Kit Fine There is a standard view of relations, held by philosophers and logicians alike, according to which we may...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 195–234.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Gail Fine Cornell University 2000 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2000) Descartes and Ancient Skepticism: Reheated Cabbage? Gail Fine 1. Lately, several commentators have argued...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Yoaav Isaacs; John Hawthorne; Jeffrey Sanford Russell Is the fact that our universe contains fine-tuned life evidence that we live in a multiverse? Ian Hacking and Roger White influentially argue that it is not. We approach this question through a systematic framework for self-locating epistemology...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 281–338.
Published: 01 July 2014
... reasonably be confident in a counterfactual whose consequent can be true only if a certain very finely tuned microphysical configuration obtains. This essay develops the foregoing puzzle and explores several possible solutions. © 2014 by Cornell University, 2014 2014 Understand ‘semantics’ broadly...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 451–472.
Published: 01 October 2016
... argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an individual it is fine for you to act in the expected interests of the individual and that many interactions with individuals may compose...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Darren Bradley This article defends the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will argue that all four problems have the same structure...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 495–519.
Published: 01 October 2001
... conception, the links are often quite direct. The contents of conscious visual experience, according to this conception, are typically active in the control and guidance of our fine-tuned, real-time engagements with the surrounding three-dimensional world. But this idea (which I shall call the Assumption...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 225–228.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Luca Castagnoli Fine Gail , The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . xiv + 399 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 Gail Fine's The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 293–297.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... In his fine chapter on Statesman 297B5-303D3 (hereafter, Stephanus numbers without titles refer to the Statesman ), Christoph Horn tackles one of the dialogue’s most difficult passages and one of the most difficult issues in Plato’s political philosophy, that is, the topic of changing the laws...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 263–267.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and the fine; nonrational spirited desires have their own special object, honor (253-80, especially 276-77). Aristotle rejects this central part of Plato’s psychology and does not posit some particular object for spirited desires in general. But in the virtuous person, once the appropriate stage...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 July 2021
... view—as long as they feel that they understand it” (3). I worry that readers who do not understand the idea of an arbitrary object may come away from this book without feeling enlightened. Reference Fine, Kit. 1985. Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects. London: Blackwell. eebauer...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 453–497.
Published: 01 October 2022
... if they are arranged in a circle in that order ( Fine   2000a : 17n10). A different—and very interesting—suggestion is presented in Donnelly   2016 . Due to considerations of space, we cannot discuss it further here. 60. Here we are, of course, relying on the principle that the states of affairs that result...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 481–532.
Published: 01 October 2015
... notion; as Fine (2012b, 39) puts it, the grounds explain the grounded in the sense “that there is no stricter or fuller account of that in virtue of which the explanandum holds. If there is a gap between the grounds and what is grounded, then it is not an explanatory gap.” 5 For the purposes...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 January 2008
...A. D. Carpenter Gail Fine, Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 464 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 410–415.
Published: 01 July 2015
... offers a cursory exploration of connections between grounding and other philosophically significant notions such as modality, the “because” locution, explanation, existential dependence, truth making, and reduction. The opening paper in the collection is Kit Fine's “Guide to Ground.” This paper...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2008
... interesting set of claims, which have already engendered much discussion. In the short space available, let me post some concerns that, to a certain extent, lie outside of the minimalism versus con- textualism dialectic. Now, C & L’s logic is fine: moderate contextualism entails the more radical...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 January 2008
... interesting set of claims, which have already engendered much discussion. In the short space available, let me post some concerns that, to a certain extent, lie outside of the minimalism versus con- textualism dialectic. Now, C & L’s logic is fine: moderate contextualism entails the more radical...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2008
... interesting set of claims, which have already engendered much discussion. In the short space available, let me post some concerns that, to a certain extent, lie outside of the minimalism versus con- textualism dialectic. Now, C & L’s logic is fine: moderate contextualism entails the more radical...