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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of the female ones and despite the number of mosquitoes that don't carry the virus being ninety-nine times the number that do. Puzzling facts such as these have made generic sentences defy adequate semantic treatment. However complex the truth conditions of generics appear to be, though, young children grasp...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 307–339.
Published: 01 July 2016
... not result in any reasonable state—for example, logical contradictions. Or if you suppose that Bea was born in 1985, then the additional supposition that Bea was born in 1980 leads to absurdity. In general, let's say that S rules out A iff S [ A ] is not a reasonable state. We'll adopt the convenient...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 268–272.
Published: 01 April 2018
... for? Another class of cases that poses questions about Nickel's analysis are what we might call ‘unintended effect’ generics, such as (4): (4) Clowns are creepy. People with coulrophobia, at least, would happily grant that (4) is true. But is there a way of being a normally emotion-eliciting clown...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 463–509.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Jack C. Lyons The paper offers a solution to the generality problem for a reliabilist epistemology, by developing an “algorithm and parameters” scheme for type-individuating cognitive processes. Algorithms are detailed procedures for mapping inputs to outputs. Parameters are psychological variables...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 623–627.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Peter Fritz peter.fritz@acu.edu.au Studd J. P. , Everything, More or Less: A Defence of Generality Relativism . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 304 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Everything, More or Less by J. P. Studd is a joy to read. Its topic...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 545–581.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Gopal Sreenivasan Cornell University 2000 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2000)
What Is the General Will?
Gopal Sreenivasan
What is the general will? In this essay, I propose a simple and
straightforward answer...
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Published: 01 January 2015
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 453–497.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., or, as we will call it here: the type of propositions . We now turn to making these ideas more precise and generalizing them to structural abstraction operations. While there are many operations that satisfy the above application, identity, and existence conditions, the generativist contends...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 411–447.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Jacob Ross This essay argues that there is a conflict between the principle of Countable Additivity and standard views of how we should update centered or de se beliefs. The latter views, this essay argues, entail a general principle, which the essay calls the Generalized Thirder Principle...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 59–117.
Published: 01 January 2015
... for this. The definite article is sometimes pronounced with names in the singular: ‘The Ivan we all love doesn't feel well’. Sloat proposed a disjunctive generalization of when the definite article must be pronounced with a singular name. This essay shows that by slightly revising Sloat's generalization, we arrive...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
... in general” is a substance, and since all substances are “by their nature incorruptible,” this sort of body is incorruptible as well. In this article I defend a pluralist reading of this passage, according to which there are indefinitely many bodies-taken-in-general, each of which counts as an incorruptible...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 183–223.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of what it is for something to depict an object, this account also sheds significant light on the epistemological issue of how we are able to work out that something depicts an object. This essay argues that our ability to work out that something depicts an object results from both our more general...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 315–336.
Published: 01 July 2010
... a powerful “Dilemma Defense.” In the last decade or so, many philosophers have been persuaded by the Dilemma Defense that the Frankfurt cases do not show what Frankfurt (and others) thought they show. This essay presents a template for a general strategy of response to the Dilemma Defense. It thus seeks...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 365–380.
Published: 01 July 2010
... conditional. This article argues for the following claims: First, that it's crucial to the general semantic framework Chalmers and Jackson defend that they do include the phenomenal facts in the supervenience conditional; without them, the conditional would not be a priori. Second, that the only way to argue...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 207–245.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and Brier scoring. Using one measure of reliability, it can be shown that necessarily, meeting halfway is the more reliable rule. Using another measure of reliability, it can be shown that generally, belief-invariance is the more reliable rule. This article argues from these formal results that belief...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 209–239.
Published: 01 April 2012
... acts of deliberation thus leads to infinite regresses and related problems. As a consequence, there must be processes that are nondeliberative and nonvoluntary but that nonetheless allow us to think and act for reasons, and these processes must be the ones that generate the voluntary activities making...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 241–275.
Published: 01 April 2012
... axioms or the Principal Principle, there is a set that satisfies both that is closer to every possible set of objective chances and similarly for Ned Hall’s New Principle and Jenann Ismael’s Generalized Principal Principle. Along the way, the article provides new arguments for some of Joyce’s central...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 April 2012
... systems will preserve their equivalence. If they were functionally equivalent before the exchange, they will also be so after. Consideration of the contextual nature of realization shows that Principle P is not a general truth as Tye claims, and his argument against the possibility of absent qualia thus...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 215–287.
Published: 01 April 2013
... for many other kinds of depiction. The essay concludes that depiction in general is not grounded in resemblance but geometrical transformation. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 This essay benefited from the generous conversation and comments of many friends, colleagues, students, and teachers...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 289–306.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Arif Ahmed The essay presents a novel counterexample to Causal Decision Theory (CDT). Its interest is that it generates a case in which CDT violates the very principles that motivated it in the first place. The essay argues that the objection applies to all extant formulations of CDT...
