Search Results for interpretation

...Theodore Gracyk Robert Stecker, Interpretation and Construction: Art, Speech, and the Law . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003. x + 212 pp. Cornell University 2006 Danto, Arthur. 1981 . The Transfiguration of the Commonplace . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Grice, H. P. 1969...

...Anthony Simon Laden LEGITIMATE DIFFERENCES: INTERPRETATION IN THE ABORTION CONTROVERSY AND OTHER PUBLIC DEBATES. By Georgia Warnke. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 214. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVEWS The Philosophical...

...James M. Joyce David Howie, Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 262. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol...

...Naomi Scheman INTERPRETING THE PERSONAL: EXPRESSION AND THE FORMATION OF FEELINGS. By Sue Campbell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 204. Cornell University 2000 McFall, Lynne. 1991 . “What's Wrong with Bitterness?” In Feminist Ethics, ed. Claudia Card, 146 -60...

...David Sussman Mark Timmons, ed., Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 446 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS John Searle, Rationality in Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001...

...James Owen Weatherall Ruetsche Laura , Interpreting Quantum Theories . Oxford : Oxford University Press . xvii + 377 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Most philosophical work on quantum physics has concerned simple systems. And for good reason. Even one or two particle...

...Samuel Levey It can be shown by means of a paradox that, given the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), there is no conjunction of all contingent truths. The question is, or ought to be, how to interpret that result: Quid sibi velit? A celebrated argument against PSR due to Peter van Inwagen...

...Jeffrey E. Brower; Susan Brower-Toland This essay explores some of the central aspects of Aquinas's account of mental representation, focusing in particular on his views about the intentionality of concepts (or intelligible species). It begins by demonstrating the need for a new interpretation...

...Jonathan Cottrell This essay gives a new interpretation of Hume's second thoughts about minds in the Appendix, based on a new interpretation of his view of composition. In Book 1 of the Treatise , Hume argued that, as far as we can conceive it, a mind is a whole composed by all its perceptions...

... several challenges to Garber's interpretation, questioning, among other things, Garber's claims about development and Garber's account of Leibniz's primary arguments for the theory of monads. The article concludes that while crucial elements of the standard interpretation of Leibniz as an idealist can...

...Harvey Lederman This article presents a new interpretation of the great Ming dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming’s (1472–1529) celebrated doctrine of the “unity of knowledge and action” (知行合一). Wang held that action was not unified with all knowledge, but only with an elevated form of knowledge...

... liberty and his embrace of supererogation, both of which elude traditional interpretations. Cornell University 2008 Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill Daniel Jacobson Bowling Green State University...

... are ambiguous between de re * and de dicto * interpretations. This fact is used to account for asymmetric mistaken identity attributions (for example, Biron thinks Katherine is Rosaline, but he doesn't think Rosaline is Katherine ). The variable theory compares favorably with its alternatives, including...

.... It is surprisingly difficult, or at least surprisingly complicated, however, to articulate even a possible psychology that would explain the thesis of possible goodness. Interpretations of Rousseau, even several to which the author of this essay is highly indebted, have not fully engaged, I think...

...Darren Bradley This article defends the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will argue that all four problems have the same structure...

...Samuel Newlands Leibniz’s views on modality are among the most discussed by his interpreters. Although most of the discussion has focused on Leibniz’s analyses of modality, this essay explores Leibniz’s grounding of modality. Leibniz holds that possibilities and possibilia are grounded...

... to the orthodoxy that removes this impossibility. The starting point is a proposal by Jeffrey and Stalnaker that conditionals take semantic values in the unit interval, interpreting these (à la McGee) as their expected truth-values at a world. Their theories imply a false principle, namely, that the probability...

... interpretation, and first-order normative assumptions. This story is distinguished from extant “reference magnetic” explanations of the phenomenon, and objections and replies are considered. References Boyd Richard 1979 . “ Metaphor and Theory Change .” In Metaphor and Thought , ed. Ortony...