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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 634–637.
Published: 01 October 2008
...José Luis Bermúdez Maximilian De Gaynesford, I: The Meaning of the First Person Term . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 198 pp. © 2008 by Cornell University 2008 xxx prjuly2008-04 October 21, 2008 11:39 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 425–464.
Published: 01 October 2009
...Dilip Ninan When one considers one's own persistence over time from the first-person perspective, it seems as if facts about one's persistence are “further facts,” over and above facts about physical and psychological continuity. But the idea that facts about one's persistence are further facts...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Mario De Caro Baker Lynne Rudder , Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 248 pp . © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 Many contemporary philosophers hold a version of scientific naturalism, the view according to which (i...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 449–495.
Published: 01 October 2010
... about the nature of the self or soul. His diagnosis has two main components: first, the positing of “Transcendental Illusion”—a pervasive intellectual illusion, modeled on perceptual illusion, which predisposes us to accept as sound certain invalid arguments for substantive theses about the nature...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 158–163.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Louise Antony Srinivasan Amia , The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2021 . 183 pp. + notes © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Over the last few decades, interest has grown among academic philosophers in what’s come...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 147–150.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... Chapter 3 turns to the role animals play in chivalric identity, particularly the vital relation between the knight and his horse (a companion as well as battle-mate); chapter 4 identifies a tension between violence and affection toward animals “common to both thirteenth and twentieth-first centuries” (87...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 515–519.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Eva Schmidt [email protected] Schroeder Mark , Reasons First . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . x + 274 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Mark Schroeder’s latest book delves deeper into the topic of normativity and reasons, while moving his...
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 2.   The relevant message r is computed by first restricting the irrelevant literal meaning p to the contextual presupposition q ; this restriction p ↾ q is then completed by the subject matter S. More
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Chiwook Won The overdetermination problem has long been raised as a challenge to nonreductive physicalism. Nonreductive physicalists have, in various ways, tried to resolve the problem through appeal to counterfactuals. This essay does two things. First, it takes up the question whether...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (4): 515–566.
Published: 01 October 2011
...David J. Chalmers The philosophical interest of verbal disputes is twofold. First, they play a key role in philosophical method. Many philosophical disagreements are at least partly verbal, and almost every philosophical dispute has been diagnosed as verbal at some point. Here we can see...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Rachael Briggs Diachronic Dutch book arguments seem to support both conditionalization and Bas van Fraassen's Reflection principle. But the Reflection principle is vulnerable to numerous counterexamples. This essay addresses two questions: first, under what circumstances should an agent obey...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 1–58.
Published: 01 January 2015
... as such is first generated by the understanding through an act of synthesis of the imagination. Against this reading, this article argues that a key characteristic of space as a form of intuition is its nonconceptual unity, which defines the properties of space and is as such necessarily independent...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 481–531.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Hilla Jacobson Attempts to account for the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences have so far largely focused on their sensory aspects . The first aim of this article is to support the claim that (perceptual) phenomenal character has another, significant, aspect—the phenomenal realm...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 159–191.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Daniel Jacobson This essay argues, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. First, it contends that there is logical space for a view that deserves to be called utilitarian despite its rejection of consequentialism; second, that this logical space is, in fact...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 323–348.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Eugene Mills Suppose you and I are “human beings” in the sense of human animals , members of the genus Homo . Given this supposition, this article argues first and foremost that (it's at least very plausible that) we originated not at the moment of our biological conception but either before...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
Published: 01 July 2009
... take it to show that indicative conditionals don't have truth-conditions in the first place. But we have overlooked two possibilities for assigning truth-conditions to indicatives. What's more, those possibilities deliver what we want and turn out to be equivalent. Cornell University 2009...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 225–240.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Mark Eli Kalderon In Fear of Knowledge , Paul Boghossian argues against the very coherence of epistemic relativism. This essay does two things. First, without questioning the truth of his conclusion, it argues that Boghossian's argument for that conclusion fails. Second, it argues that the avowed...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and accountability in a way that effectively concedes a Rawlsian publicity condition. It is also argued that Parfit's arguments that Kantian and Scanlonian Contractualism entail Rule Consequentialism can be resisted. Two elements of Parfit's metaethics are critically discussed. First, concerning Parfit's arguments...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 353–392.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to this view, which this essay calls the “diary model,” one's memory ordinarily serves as a means for one's present self to gain evidence about one's past judgments, and in turn about the truth. This essay rejects the diary model's analogy between memory and testimony from one's former self, arguing first...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 173–204.
Published: 01 April 2014
... in Benevolence : “Each one is morally bound to regard the good of any other individual as much as his own, except in so far as he judges it to be less, when impartially viewed, or less certainly knowable or attainable by him.” The axioms face challenges from two sides. First, one test requires that a claim...