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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 335–338.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Daniel Rubio Pruss Alexander R. , Infinity, Causation, and Paradox . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . vi + 207 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 In Infinity, Causation, and Paradox , Alexander Pruss undertakes a sweeping defense of the metaphysical thesis...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 227–262.
Published: 01 April 2021
...David James Barnett Is self-knowledge a requirement of rationality, like consistency, or means-ends coherence? Many claim so, citing the evident impropriety of asserting, and the alleged irrationality of believing, Moore-paradoxical propositions of the form < p , but I don't believe that p...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 373–408.
Published: 01 July 2000
... Press. Ryan, Sharon. 1991 . “The Preface Paradox.” Philosophical Studies 64 : 293 -307. ____. 1996 . “The Epistemic Virtues of Consistency.” Synthese 109 : 121 -41. Sosa, Ernest. 1970 . “Two Conceptions of Knowledge.” Journal of Philosophy 67 : 59 -66...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 624–627.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Tim Crane THE PARADOX OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. By José Luis Bermúdez. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 338. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVEWS
the object of the de re intention beyond that it is usually bodily movement.
Oddly, Cleveland holds...
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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 (2016) 125 (3): 397–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Roger M. White David Pears, Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 133 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 BOOK REVIEWS
David Pears, Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy.
Oxford...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 454–456.
Published: 01 July 2001
...David Carr THE PARADOX OF SUBJECTIVITY: THE SELF IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRADITION. By David Carr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 150. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVLEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 3 (July 2001...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 395–404.
Published: 01 July 2003
... University Press. DeRose, Keith. 1996 . Knowledge, Assertion and Lotteries. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 : 568 -80. Douven, Igor. 2002 . A New Solution to the Paradoxes of Rational Acceptability. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 : 391 -410. Dretske, Fred. 1970...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (3): 478–481.
Published: 01 July 2007
...JC Beall Tim Maudlin, Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles . Oxford: Clarendon, 2004. xiv + 209 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS
Jody Azzouni, Defl ating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 January 2010
... decision theories are subject to counterexamples. Decision rules can be reinterpreted as voting rules, where the voters are the agent's possible future selves. The problematic examples have the structure of voting paradoxes. Just as voting paradoxes show that no voting rule can do everything we want...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 617–620.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Colin Radford PARADOXES OF EMOTION AND FICTION. By Robert J. Yanal. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 164 Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS
would not require him to make any sacrifice to benefit others in the real...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Andrew Bacon Most work on the semantic paradoxes within classical logic has centered around what this essay calls “linguistic” accounts of the paradoxes: they attribute to sentences or utterances of sentences some property that is supposed to explain their paradoxical or nonparadoxical status...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 273–313.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Thomas Sattig It seems to be a platitude of common sense that distinct ordinary objects cannot coincide, that they cannot fit into the same place or be composed of the same parts at the same time. The paradoxes of coincidence are instances of a breakdown of this platitude in light...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Andrew Bacon This paper argues that the theory of structured propositions is not undermined by the Russell-Myhill paradox. I develop a theory of structured propositions in which the Russell-Myhill paradox doesn’t arise: the theory does not involve ramification or compromises to the underlying logic...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 81–122.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jared Warren This essay clarifies quantifier variance and uses it to provide a theory of indefinite extensibility that I call the variance theory of indefinite extensibility. The indefinite extensibility response to the set-theoretic paradoxes sees each argument for paradox as a demonstration...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 529–578.
Published: 01 October 2023
... to be explained by its inferential relation to assertion. We combine this account of the meaning of the truth predicate with a new diagnosis of the liar paradox: its derivation requires the truth rules to preserve evidence, but these rules only preserve commitment. The result is a novel inferential deflationist...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 385–449.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Desmond Hogan Incongruent counterparts are pairs of objects which cannot be enclosed in the same spatial limits despite an exact similarity in magnitude, proportion, and relative position of their parts. Kant discerns in such objects, whose most familiar example is left and right hands, a “paradox...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 255–291.
Published: 01 July 2019
... under entailment, or does the preface paradox show that rational agents can believe inconsistent propositions? Does whether you believe a proposition depend partly on your practical interests? My account of belief resolves the tension between conflicting answers to these questions that have been...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 1–54.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Michael Caie An attractive approach to the semantic paradoxes holds that cases of semantic pathology give rise to indeterminacy. What attitude should a rational agent have toward a proposition that it takes to be indeterminate in this sense? Orthodoxy holds that rationality requires that an agent...
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