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...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...

... language quantifying only over atomic facts. The nonlogical ideology of the theory includes two geometric primitives (a tetradic parallelism relation and a dyadic similarity relation), as well as a truth predicate. In a model of Tractarian geometry, the domain of facts is partitioned into quality spaces...

... that, by his own admission, nobody holds, then I fail to understand what stands to be accomplished by this ritual slaughter. Maybe the thought is that if aestheticians come to see that their narrow interests are causally downstream from the heyday of an untenable, largely repudiated ideology...

... the cluster of tra- ditional philosophical issues surrounding the interpretation of the seman- tics of modal logic as merely a quaint, “popular ideology concerning a conceptual framework which itself admits of many possible uses.” This ideology, he continues, has now been supplanted by a more...

... of tra- ditional philosophical issues surrounding the interpretation of the seman- tics of modal logic as merely a quaint, “popular ideology concerning a conceptual framework which itself admits of many possible uses.” This ideology, he continues, has now been supplanted by a more mature un...

...”) constitute a complex and dynamic ideology, not in the sense of an explicit doctrine, but in the sense of commonsensical and socially reproduced ideas about so-called races—entities that on Blum’s own account do not exist. But this belief system must be understood not only in terms of its oppressive...

... between film theory and phi- losophy on topics of representation, authorship, ideology, aesthetics, and emotion. The editors explain that film studies has reached a crisis of meth- od after a growth period founded on structural linguistics, psychoanalysis, and Continental philosophy. They wish...

.... I don’t think Barnes would disagree with any of this, and she does mention economic and political struggles over the concept of health. But she seems less worried than I am about the weaponization of health. Given the intense social, economic, political, and ideological pressures that the concept...

... and empiricist ideologies that would deny the possibility of such knowledge by self-consciously articulating and deploying a rationalist counterideology. Not only, then, does the book discuss large and important topics in meta- physics and epistemology, but it is also a meditation on metaphilosophy...

... fascinating chap- ters on mass art and the emotions, mass art and morality, and mass art and ideology. The theme of these discussions is that mass art is on a continuum with other art, in its emotional effects on audiences, in its ability to deepen and clarify our moral understanding by giving us...

...-interest. In the light of this, one might wonder if it is reasonable to think that citizens in a society such as ours, who are, as Thakkar stresses, living in a culture that is dominated by a materialistic and individualistic capitalist ideology, would adopt anything like his ideal of citizenship. One...

... demands on all parties involved seem to be about as high as in the intentional model. Further, it is still an open question if such a highly demanding deliberative process does not run the risk of entrenching ideological barriers. The major alternative to deliberative models is a democratic process based...

... of sentences like ‘If Fred had been here, he wouldn't have asserted anything false’ will thus commit us to the kinds of pervasive false beliefs that the “loose talk” idea was designed to avoid. 55. As Williamson (1994, chap. 5) points out, this ideology is in itself perfectly neutral as regards...

... (and friend, too1 The book comprises a brief introduction and four long chapters. The first of the long chapters sets out the essentials of Kramer’s analysis and illustrates its usefulness by applying it to the current ideological controversy dividing liberals and republicans. Kramer provides...

... De Jing: The Book of the Way. By Laozi. Trans. Moss Roberts. Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 226. Kierkegaard’s Metaphors. By Jamie Lorentzen. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 201. Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death, and the West...

... truth. It is hard not to see this as evidence of an underlying foundationalism, raising the sorts of worries that troubled Bentham and Mill about intuitionism. Which intuitively compelling principles are true and which are simply prejudices or ideological blandish- ments? Indeed, given...

..., when those successes have ceased to seem so stunning and the Soviet state that produced them is no more, Farrington’s is a reading that is both less obviously ideologically charged and, as it has been for a good many years, less popular. But he had focused on an important way of understanding...

... between film theory and phi- losophy on topics of representation, authorship, ideology, aesthetics, and emotion. The editors explain that film studies has reached a crisis of meth- od after a growth period founded on structural linguistics, psychoanalysis, and Continental philosophy. They wish...

..., not by the primitive tying relation, but by the nature of the primitive tying relation. But isn't the fundamental tie more an item of ideology than ontology? And, if so, how can it have a nature in the same way that particulars and properties do? And why think that its nature can tie just because it can tie...

..., it is no one's business who I am. While there is much that I would disagree with in modern feminist gender theory, I would agree that there is something deeply troubling with ideological and religious worldviews being shoved down the throats of the young, especially views that lead individuals within...