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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 2. Visual inference can be affected by information about what one is looking at. Look at the image and search for anything out of the ordinary before reading this footnote for a hint. 54 Image reprinted from Lupyan 2017 (original photographer unknown).
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 2. Visual inference can be affected by information about what one is looking at. Look at the image and search for anything out of the ordinary before reading this footnote for a hint. 54 Image reprinted from Lupyan 2017 (original photographer unknown). ...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 191–217.
Published: 01 April 2017
... about the knowledge that Mary acquires. What the gods might lack despite their propositional omniscience is not any distinctive kind of information, but certain abilities of introspection. The motivating idea is that knowledge one acquires by exercising introspective abilities cannot fail...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 83–134.
Published: 01 January 2016
... discussion. It argues that to mislead is to disrupt the pursuit of the goal of inquiry—that is, to discover how things are. Lying is seen as a special case requiring assertion of disbelieved information, where assertion is characterized as a mode of contributing information to a discourse that is sensitive...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
...E. J. Green A venerable view holds that a border between perception and cognition is built into our cognitive architecture and that this imposes limits on the way information can flow between them. While the deliverances of perception are freely available for use in reasoning and inference...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
Published: 01 October 2020
... need in order to write the “book of the world.” This paper attempts to make good on this metaphor. To that end, a modality is introduced that, put informally, stands to propositions as logical truth stands to sentences. The resulting theory, formulated in higher-order logic, also vindicates the Humean...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 35–82.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the resources to formulate a nonfactualist account of know-how. On this account, know-how has a kind of nonpropositional content and plays the role of guiding performance of action, rather than recording information from the environment. 19. Arguably, the setup of standard theories is based on just...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 1–61.
Published: 01 January 2019
... consequences even in informational logic; for instance, ⌜Might (p and q)⌝ will no longer even informationally entail ⌜Might p⌝. 60 So it seems to me that the resulting logic remains unsatisfactory. The symmetry of the data in question also complicates any attempt to account for them in a principled way...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 495–519.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Andy Clark How should we characterize the functional role of conscious visual experience? In particular, how do the conscious contents of visual experience guide, bear upon, or otherwise inform our ongoing motor activities? According to an intuitive and (I shall argue) philosophically influential...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Daniel Hoek Conversational exculpature is a pragmatic process whereby information is subtracted from, rather than added to, what the speaker literally says. This pragmatic content subtraction explains why we can say “Rob is six feet tall” without implying that Rob is between 5 ′11.99″ and 6 ′0.01...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 315–360.
Published: 01 July 2001
... for other conjunctions among
the four statements discussed in this section.)
(2) Indexical truths. As described, the information contained in PT
specifies a world objectively. For this reason, it does not imply any
indexical truths: truths such as ‘I am Australian’, or ‘life evolved...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 45–92.
Published: 01 January 2013
...: Does Presupposition Accommodation Mandate Dynamic Semantics? ” webspace.utexas.edu/deverj/personal/papers/aquatic.pdf . Does Jaap van der Groeneveld Willem Veltman Frank . 1997 . “ An Update on Might .” Journal of Logic Language and Information 6 ( 4 ): 361 – 80 . doi:10 .1023...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 July 2017
... system consisting of an information producer and an endorsement mechanism. The endorsement mechanism either endorses or rejects the content generated by the information producer, and endorsed content results in a belief. The reliability of this two-step process depends on the ratio of accurate...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 378–385.
Published: 01 July 2019
... aims to solve it via an informational teleosemantic theory. In this review, we provide a chapter-by-chapter summary followed by some critical discussion. Chapter 1 outlines the book's project. Neander is interested in the phenomenon of intentionality, which she introduces through everyday...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 112–116.
Published: 01 January 2014
... justify the government overriding my considered wishes along with those of the telemarketers? Or consider doctor and patient confidentiality. One could view this as a case where an individual's informational privacy rights over his or her own health information coupled with a general right to make...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (4): 577–582.
Published: 01 October 2004
... in Bermuda. According to popular informed-
desire accounts of a person’s good, if George would desire to take a vacation to
Bermuda upon being made fully aware of what his experience of the vacation
would be like and of all the consequences therein, then this course of action
would benefit him. This does...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (4): 574–577.
Published: 01 October 2004
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Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 135.
George, feeling stressed and anxious about the criminal investigation into his
firm’s accounting practices, decides that it would do him good to get away and
take a long, relaxing vacation in Bermuda. According to popular informed-
desire accounts of a person’s good...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 326–330.
Published: 01 April 2021
...). It would be interesting to see Zimmerman work with this understanding of imagination's relation to pretense in future writings. Coming from the other direction, when we believe some information, we typically do so without its guiding all the attentive actions to which it might prove relevant, simply...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 January 2006
... do human beings make and accept promises? What human interest
is served by this procedure? Many hold that promising serves what I shall
call an information interest, an interest in information about what will
happen. And they hold that human beings ought to keep their promises
because...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
... conditionalize on complete information about the truncated history up to time t . 17 Formally, this yields the following test: Test for pure epistemic probability: Let Pr be a probability function held by an agent A in history h at time t , and suppose Pr( E ) is nondegenerate for some event E...
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