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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 383–421.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Karen Margrethe Nielsen This article examines Aristotle's model of deliberation as inquiry (zêtêsis), arguing that Aristotle does not treat the presumption of open alternatives as a precondition for rational deliberation. Deliberation aims to uncover acts that are up to us and conducive to our ends...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 225–228.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Luca Castagnoli Fine Gail , The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . xiv + 399 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 Gail Fine's The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno's Paradox from Socrates to Sextus...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (4): 537–556.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Janet Broughton Cornell University 2004 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 4 (October 2004) The Inquiry in Hume’s Treatise Janet Broughton In the Introduction to A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume says he will make a careful...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 162–167.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Erin Taylor Gilbert Margaret , Rights and Demands: A Foundational Inquiry . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018. xx + 369 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Gilbert is interested in explaining the nature and source of one central species of rights— demand-rights...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Umrao Sethi sethi@brandeis.edu Gupta Anil , Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2019 440 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 It is incumbent upon philosophers of mind and epistemologists alike to study the links...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 642–644.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Ted A. Warfield PUTTING SKEPTICS IN THEIR PLACE: THE NATURE OF SKEPTICAL ARGUMENTS AND THEIR ROLE IN PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. By John Greco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 264. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 501–536.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Jane Friedman Call the norms of inquiry zetetic norms. How are zetetic norms related to epistemic norms? At first glance, they seem quite closely connected. Aren't epistemic norms norms that bind inquirers qua inquirers? And isn't epistemology the place to look for a normative theory of inquiry...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 147–190.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Daniel Sutherland Despite the importance of Kant's claims about mathematical cognition for his philosophy as a whole and for subsequent philosophy of mathematics, there is still no consensus on his philosophy of arithmetic, and in particular the role he assigns intuition in it. This inquiry sets...
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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 (2002) 111 (2): 288–291.
Published: 01 April 2002
... on Charles Peirce’s notions of truth, ratio- nality, and pragmatism indicates an investigation of Peirce’s overall approach to inquiry. Specifically, he attends to all the features of human experience, from instinctive beliefs to logical constraints, that make scientific inquiry pos- sible. What gives...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 645–650.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of the idea that truth can constitute a norm or a goal of inquiry. Rorty and Davidson both claim that we can never tell which of our beliefs are true, since, as Davidson puts it in his contribution to this volume, “truths do not come with a ‘mark’, like the date in the corner of some photographs, which...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 459–463.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Heather Dyke Taylor diagnoses the urge toward the way of ideas as symptomatic of the fear that philosophy will have nothing to contribute to metaphysical inquiry if it cannot be done a priori (106). Callender takes a similar view. Their work, among others, demonstrates that metaphysics...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 45–92.
Published: 01 January 2013
... William L. Stalnaker Robert C. Pearce Glenn , 87 – 104 . Dordrecht : Reidel . ———. 1984 . Inquiry . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Stephenson Tamina . 2007 . “ Towards a Theory of Subjective Meaning .” PhD diss. , MIT . ———. 2008 . “ Judge Dependence, Epistemic Modals...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 229–232.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., such as Jörg Hardy's (2011, 179–212) solution to the paradox of inquiry. The resources of current philosophy of discovery would also have improved the book. Benson formulates the method as a two-part proof stage and a two-part confirmation stage. “In the first, or proof, stage [Pa] one seeks to identify...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 265–271.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Thinking: A Concise Guide.3rd ed. New York: Routledge. x + 294 pp. Boylan, Michael. 2010. Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. xii + 212 pp. Brandom, Robert B. 2009. Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Belknap...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 127–134.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace. Value Inquiry Book Series. By Alison Bailey and Paula J. Smithka, eds. Atlantic Highlands: Rodopi, 2002. Pp. xv, 380. The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. In the series Cultural Memory in the Present. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 277–287.
Published: 01 April 2003
..., Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace. Value Inquiry Book Series, vol. 127. Edited by Alison Bailey and Paul J. Smithka. Atlantic High- lands: Rodopi, 2002. Pp. xv, 380. The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt. By Gopal Balakrishnan. Lon- don: Verso, 2000. Pp. vii, 312...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 435–446.
Published: 01 July 2003
.... Edited and translated by R. W. Dyson. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xli, 312. Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry into Moral Agency. By Nomy Arpaly. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 203. In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion. Evolution...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 July 2004
... to Regain the Love of Wisdom. Value Inquiry Book Series, vol. 155. By Albert A. Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech Witkowski, edi- tors. Atlantic Highlands: Rodopi, 2004. Pp. xvii, 268. The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Instrinsic Value. By Robert Audi. Princeton: Princeton...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 299–302.
Published: 01 April 2002
... and materialist giants, all “mean-minded opponents” whose views threaten the very possibility of rational inquiry. Refutation of them, accordingly, is Plato’s means of establishing certain basic principles of reason. 299 BOOK REVIEWS Thus...