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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 341–396.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Jennifer Lackey This essay raises new objections to the two dominant approaches to understanding the justification of group beliefs— inflationary views, where groups are treated as entities that can float freely from the epistemic status of their members’ beliefs, and deflationary views, where...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 9. Two groups are presented with arguments favoring q ; red group never scrutinizes, while blue group always does. Top left: 0 % chance of finding flaw if there is one; full blue polarization. Top right: 100 % chance of finding flaw if there is one; no blue polarization More
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 537–541.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Mona Simion [email protected] Lackey Jennifer , The Epistemology of Groups . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . x + 200 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 Jennifer Lackey’s excellent new book is very ambitious, as the title suggests: it covers all...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 266–269.
Published: 01 April 2009
... concerns the role that “collective groupings beyond the nation state” might play in a globalized world (92, n. 43). Finally, because Bilchitz develops his theory from a consideration of sentient beings, not just human beings, he suggests that the theory would have implications for non- human animals...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 451–472.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Caspar Hare Some moral theories (for example, standard, “ex post” forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 531–563.
Published: 01 October 2010
... are, as a matter of course, conscious of ourselves, but we do not, as a matter of course, know ourselves. A second group of remarks, all of which occur in part 5 of the Ethics , emphasizes a different point about consciousness and knowledge: the knowledge that distinguishes the minds of the most powerful...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 355–458.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Figure 9. Two groups are presented with arguments favoring q ; red group never scrutinizes, while blue group always does. Top left: 0 % chance of finding flaw if there is one; full blue polarization. Top right: 100 % chance of finding flaw if there is one; no blue polarization...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 375–378.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for group-differentiated cultural rights but defends cultures as providing contexts of choice, and thus does not ultimately permit collective rights that might restrict individual choice ( Kymlicka 1989 , 1995 ). Like others within this movement, Seymour sees a need to recognize rights that are held...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 596–600.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Groups of Interactive Constructionism Do Not Exclude Races.” Ergo 6, no. 1: 1–30. Rosenberg, Noah A., Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, and Marcus W. Feldman. 2002. “Genetic Structure of Human Populations.” Science 298, no. 5602: 2381–85...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 247–251.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., and the second part of the book is a sustained attack on that very thesis, focusing on social facts about groups. The arguments against ground individualism all have the same structure: a social fact about a group is shown to ground out in more than facts about the individuals that make up the group...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 541–545.
Published: 01 October 2018
... coordination; they ground shared identities and shared values; and they foster group cohesion. Without such convergence, human societies would be far less stable than they are. And while some of these patterns may be the result of species-typical moral dispositions ( Hamlin 2013 ; Wynn et al. 2017 ), others...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 230–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
...), utility changes are measured by comparisons (of average results) between a treatment group and a control group. In the cases of interest, over a fixed period of time, members of the treatment group undergo transformative experiences. Members of the control group do not. All else is held fixed. After...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 January 2022
...William J. FitzPatrick [email protected] O’Connor Cailin , The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 240 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 Human groups across cultures and times...
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (2): 109–148.
Published: 01 April 2025
..., he isn’t exactly breaking the silence either. At a more basic level, this analysis makes paradoxical demands on group members. If Amelia is conforming to open secrecy norms, then Amelia is acting as if or presupposing that the will is unfair. But she is doing so because she is treating...
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 96–100.
Published: 01 January 2025
... and then examines evidence about our more recent hunter-gatherer ancestors during the Pleistocene. He accepts the current paradigm that our hunter-gatherer ancestors were fairly egalitarian, with group members actively preventing alpha males from garnering too much power. It was only recently, with the advent...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 295–300.
Published: 01 April 2017
... with our collective obligation—as the group of food purchasers—not to support factory farming. Plainly, most members of the group ignore the collective obligation, purchasing factory-farmed meat anyway. What should the rest of us do? He suggests that we should dissociate ourselves from the group's...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 647–650.
Published: 01 October 2013
... of a racial group are simply not competent to engage in racial profiling with respect to that group. So the question is whether the individuals who would be doing the profiling are or are not members of the racial group being profiled. However, Boonin correctly holds that it is not a conceptual truth...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 399–410.
Published: 01 July 2005
...- ysis, according to which “the condition of personal identity” is “the condition that gives rise to … a commitment to achieving overall rational unity” (8) among “beliefs, desires and other psychological states and events” (20–21). Rovane claims that this condition can be satisfied both by “group...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 637–641.
Published: 01 October 2023
... is rooted in an experience of powerlessness that is blamed on a more powerful group. Its aim is to pay members of the more powerful group back for one’s own (or one’s group’s) powerlessness. It is fundamentally reactive, focused more on the condition and history of the powerful than on the angry person’s...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
... to us by (name withheld because the infor- mant is under witness protection)—the CIA wants to claim that although in principle it is possible to have points of assessment occupied by individual judges, the official doctrine has always had it that groups of judges occupy points of assessment...