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..., occupied by John Stuart Mill. The key to understanding Mill's unorthodox utilitarianism and the role it plays in his moral philosophy is to appreciate his sentimentalist metaethics—especially his account of wrongness in terms of fitting guilt and resentment. Mill recognizes a fundamental moral asymmetry...

... thank Sam Carter, Sinan Dogramaci, Cian Dorr, Simon Goldstein, Jeremy Goodman, Al Hájek, John Hawthorne, Robert Hopkins, Jenny Judge, Harvey Lederman, Andrew Lee, Matt Mandelkern, Ian Phillips, Hanna Pickard, and Stephan Torre, as well as this journal’s editorial team and three anonymous reviewers. We...

.... “The Logic of Spinoza’s Ethics.” . Della Rocca, Michael . 2002 . “ Spinoza’s Substance Monism .” In Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes , edited by Biro John and Koistinen Olli , 11 – 37 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . ...

... plus journey to shift the very foundations of the liberal philosophical order John Rawls established with A Theory of Justice and which has remained dominant, frustratingly so in its adherents' stubborn refusal to turn their gaze outward to the real political world around them and the havoc it wreaks...

... a complicated reconstruction based on evidence from an archaeological site in Afghanistan and a list of maxims from Greek literature preserved by the fifth-century CE compiler John Stobaeus (291–97). Elsewhere there is a short section on precedents for the philo - prefix in Mycenaean Greek (88–90...

... analysis—it presents a new account that builds on both the existential and conditional analyses. On this account, the act conditional analysis , a sentence like ‘John can swim across the river’ says that there is some practically available action (in a sense the essay makes precise...

... is even in part morally responsible for what one does. This argument, the Direct Argument, has drawn various critics, who have attempted to produce counterexamples to its core inference principle. This article considers two notable efforts, one by John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza and another by David...

... Darwall's example of motivationally potent reasoning that is not based on preexisting desires, Thomas Scanlon's criticism that the Humean theory fails to account for the structure and phenomenology of deliberation, and the phenomenon of akrasia as discussed by John Searle. In each case a Humean account...

... foreknowledge and human freedom. In “The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks” ( Philosophical Review 120 [2011]: 97–115), John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd raise a number of objections to “Truth and Freedom,” most of which are objections to its treatment of foreknowledge. Their central complaint seems...

...John Hyman Michael N. Forster, Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xiii + 247 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Jody Azzouni, Defl ating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism. New York...

...John Lippitt Alice Crary and Sandford Shieh, eds., Reading Cavell . New York: Routledge, 2006. x + 262 pp. Cornell University 2009 Cavell, Stanley. 1969 . “Knowing and Acknowledging.” In Must We Mean What We Say? , 44 -72. New York: Scribner's. ____. 1979 . The World Viewed...

...John Turri In this essay I show how to reconcile epistemic invariantism with the knowledge account of assertion. My basic proposal is that we can comfortably combine invariantism with the knowledge account of assertion by endorsing contextualism about speech acts. My demonstration takes place...

...John Martin Fischer The Frankfurt cases have been thought by some philosophers to show that moral responsibility does not require genuine metaphysical access to alternative possibilities. But various philosophers have rejected this putative “lesson” of the cases, and they have put forward...

...John Martin Fischer; Patrick Todd In his recent essay in the Philosophical Review , “Truth and Freedom,” Trenton Merricks contends (among other things) that the basic argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and human freedom is question-begging. He relies on a “truism” to the effect...

...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...

...John Heil Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 186 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...

...John Collins Herman Cappelen and Ernst Lepore, Insensitive Semantics: A Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism . Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. xii + 219 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough...

...John Palmer Mary Margaret McCabe, Plato and His Predecessors: The Dramatisation of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 318. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS should ignore such backward references, or (2) these backward...