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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 159–210.
Published: 01 April 2020
... on autonomy is large and varied, and it's important—in order to preempt misunderstanding—to be explicit about the kinds of autonomy I will not be concerned with here. 10 First, the kind (or kinds) of autonomy that is important here—that is a part of or is closely related to what makes a life go...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 273–277.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Christopher Shields Verity Harte, Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 311. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 2 (April 2005...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Michael Roubach Heidegger, Martin. 1998 . Pathmarks . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cornell University 2002 A PARTING OF THE WAYS: CARNAP, CASSIRER, AND HEIDEGGER. By Michael Friedman. Chicago: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xv, 175. BOOK REVIEWS...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 479–481.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Franklin Mason Cornell University 2001 PARTS AND PLACES: THE STRUCTURES OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION. By Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. Pp. 238. BOOK REVIEWS
important philosophical topic. It deserves readers who...
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Figure 2. An injection from B into some partition (“division”) of A . This pairs any two distinct members of B with mutually disjoint nonempty subsets (“disjoint parts”) of A .
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 31–76.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Jonathan Schaffer Which is prior, the whole or its parts? The monist holds that the whole is prior to its parts, and thus views the cosmos as fundamental, with metaphysical explanation dangling downward from the One. The pluralist holds that the parts are prior to their whole, and thus tends...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 349–383.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Michael McKenna Peter van Inwagen contends that nonresponsibility transfers across deterministic relations. Suppose it does. If the facts of the past and the laws of nature entail every truth about what one does, and no one is even in part morally responsible for the past and the laws, then no one...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 351–374.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., though this should strike us as surprising since the timocratic figure would seem to be duplicitous, intellectually passive, and at the mercy of the fortuitous opinions of others. This timocrat's position thus raises problems concerning the intrinsic value of the spirited part of the soul, problems...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 481–527.
Published: 01 October 2017
...David Shoemaker This essay attempts to provide and defend what may be the first actual argument in support of P. F. Strawson's merely stated vision of a response-dependent theory of moral responsibility. It does so by way of an extended analogy with the funny. In part 1, it makes the easier...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 45–92.
Published: 01 January 2013
... elegant explanations of a range of puzzling observations about epistemic modals. The first part of the story offers a unifying treatment of disputes about epistemic modality and disputes about matters of fact while at the same time avoiding the complexities of alternative theories. The second part...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 481–532.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Jon Erling Litland Most authors on metaphysical grounding have taken full grounding to be an internal relation in the sense that it's necessary that if the grounds and the grounded both obtain, then the grounds ground the grounded. The negative part of this essay exploits empirical and provably...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., as the prototypes to which a satisfactory account must answer. I argue against these positions and then pursue an account that finds its motivation in their rejection. My main claim is: the power to make promises, and other related forms of commitment, is an integral part of the ability to engage in special...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 April 2014
.... In particular, I'll be discussing whether, or to what extent, the overdetermination problem turns on particular conceptions of causation. The essay falls into two parts. In the first half (sections 1–2), after briefly presenting the overdetermination problem in section 1, I address the question whether...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 345–383.
Published: 01 July 2017
... in part how to do something, or that one knows how to do something better than somebody else. When coupled with absolutism, the gradability of ascriptions of know-how can be used to mount a powerful argument against intellectualism about know-how—the view that know-how is a species of propositional...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 1–61.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Matthew Mandelkern What does ‘might’ mean? One hypothesis is that ‘It might be raining’ is essentially an avowal of ignorance like ‘For all I know, it's raining’. But it turns out these two constructions embed in different ways—in particular, as parts of larger constructions like Wittgenstein's...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 395–431.
Published: 01 July 2020
... by, systems of social oppression. In such cases, the article suggests, the externalistic view that justification is in part a matter of worldly relations, rather than the internalistic view that justification is solely a matter of how things stand from the agent’s individual perspective, becomes the more...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 327–359.
Published: 01 July 2022
... problems. This article defends the view that there is always an object of hallucination—a physical object, sometimes with spatiotemporally scattered parts. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 perception hallucination memory scattered objects externalism When one hallucinates a flying pig...
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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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