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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Anthony S. Gillies What we want to be true about ordinary indicative conditionals seems to be more than we can possibly get: there just seems to be no good way to assign truth-conditions to ordinary indicative conditionals. Some take this argument as reason to make our wantings more modest. Others...
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 2. The right diagram depicts epistemic accessibility given the pattern of comparative normality depicted on the left. It only depicts what is epistemically accessible from the situations in bold. Triple arrows indicate what is accessible under all three of k- , km- , and i-normality
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 49–75.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Stephen S. Bush Nicomachean Ethics presents a puzzle as to whether Aristotle views morally virtuous activity as happiness, as book 1 seems to indicate, or philosophical contemplation as happiness, as book 10 seems to indicate. The most influential attempts to resolve this issue have been either...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2009
... connections between wholly distinct things would be mysterious and inexplicable indicate that there must be some such necessary connections. Thus, in the absence of alternative support, there is no reason to believe the Humean claim. Cornell University 2009 Barnett, David. 2005 . “The Problem...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Richard Bradley Adams’s Thesis, the claim that the probabilities of indicative conditionals equal the conditional probabilities of their consequents given their antecedents, has proven impossible to accommodate within orthodox possible-world semantics. This essay proposes a modification...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
...John Mackay A person of average height would assert a truth by the conditional ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would be taller than I am,’ in which an indicative clause ‘I am’ is embedded in a subjunctive conditional. By contrast, no one would assert a truth by ‘if I were seven feet tall, I would...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
...'-claims, they say, only get truth-values with respect to contexts, indices, and—the new wrinkle—points of assessment (hence, cia ). Here we argue against such “relativist” semantics. We begin with a sketch of the motivation for such theories and a generic formulation of them. Then we catalogue central...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
Published: 01 July 2018
... indicatives (if the predicate theorist rejects this, the onus is on them to supply an alternative explanation). Then it seems as though the antecedents of their counterfactual counterparts must also contain identity statements. After all, consider ( Einstein ) and ( Einstein Ind ) side by side: ( Einstein...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
... in the Synopsis and the Principles . For whereas the indication in these texts is that created substance depends for its persistence only on the continuation of God's ordinary concourse, we know that determined-parts-of-matter can be naturally destroyed by means of motion. Perhaps, then, these parts can...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., with a focus on epistemic vocabulary, indicative conditionals, and logical connectives. The third (chaps. 5–10) turns to knowledge. Here, the central thesis is that all grades of Bayesian credence—traditionally considered as mere partial belief—can in fact constitute knowledge in many of its central...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 January 2017
... propositions, we shouldn't be worried about properties. Hanks is to be commended for seeing that it would be inconsistent for a Naturalist to take properties to be Platonic abstract objects that have their satisfaction conditions independently of minds and languages. Rather, as Hanks puts it, to indicate...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 167–171.
Published: 01 January 2021
... natural to apply existing epistemologies. Thus, testimony can be thought of as just another sign in the world, indicating its truth in the same way that smoke indicates fire. Understood in this way, testimonial knowledge might be explained in reliabilist terms, since both the receipt of a speaker's words...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 449–452.
Published: 01 July 2002
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BOOK REVIEWS
The response to this paradox that Dahlstrom extracts from Heidegger’s
writings in the mid- to late-1920s is to construe philosophical remarks as “for-
mal indications.” While it is difficult to summarize Dahlstrom’s interpretation
of Heidegger’s notion, the essential feature...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Figure 2. Self-Indication. ...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2022
... for incorporation into a unified view of indicative and subjunctive conditionals appear dimmer than those of contextualist possible-worlds views. Williamson’s book is broadly organized as a defense of the material interpretation against these two challenges. All material conditionals with false antecedents...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 603–632.
Published: 01 October 2007
... it to everyone, not bother
providing the component when doing so is too expensive, or provide
more of other components instead? (And how much more? Of which
other components?) The point is not merely that the theories are thus
incomplete. More important, there is little indication of how in principle...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 359–406.
Published: 01 July 2012
...-Sensitive .” In Epistemic Modality , ed. Egan A. Weatherson B. , 144 – 78 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Ninan Dilip . 2008 . “ Imagination, Content, and the Self .” PhD diss. , MIT . Nolan Daniel . 2003 . “ Defending a Possible-Worlds Account of Indicative...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 429–435.
Published: 01 July 2002
...’ for both urteilen and beurteilen, every occurrence of beurteilen is flagged.
And, in many other cases where divergences are not indicated on a passage by
passage basis, these divergences are often indicated in a general way in the glos-
saries or in the introduction (where, for example, Guyer makes...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 337–382.
Published: 01 July 2011
... it. In such a case, the prima facie moral
obligation is said to be equally counterbalanced by the countervailing considerations.
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of ‘ought Suppose all of my evidence indicates that I can save ten inno-
cent people from being...
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