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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 169–206.
Published: 01 April 2015
... benefits of a kind that can constitute surrogate satisfaction. The further worry surfaces once we take seriously the fact that the goods in our cases are indivisible in a sense that is not causal but conceptual . It is not that we are somehow causally kept from providing people with half a rescue. If you...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 140–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
... visiting the preserved Bentham on display at the University College London, we cannot escape the impression that he indeed would make a splendid scarecrow. But when seeking friends and foes for the republican project, one should shy away from placing—of all people—Bentham as a straw man on the muddy fields...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 87–102.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Sydney Shoemaker Tyler Burge argues on the basis of an account of memory that the notion of quasimemory cannot be used to answer the circularity objection to psychological accounts of personal identity. His account implies the impossibility of the “Parfit people,” creatures psychologically like us...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 43–77.
Published: 01 January 2014
...) and (ii) are inconsistent with the popular belief that, other things being equal, when people culpably do very wrong or bad acts, they ought to be punished for this—even if they have repented, are now virtuous, and punishing them would benefit no one. Insofar as we cannot deny (i), we are either forced...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 451–472.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Caspar Hare Some moral theories (for example, standard, “ex post” forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 531–563.
Published: 01 October 2010
... or virtuous people is conscious. The characterization of human consciousness that underlies both theories is best understood as one on which a wide variety of ideas in human minds are conscious, and the intensity or degree of consciousness of a given idea is a function of its power. For human minds, because...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 209–239.
Published: 01 April 2012
... by people through the same nondeliberative, nonvoluntary capacities to think and act for reasons that they are enhancing the effectiveness of by deliberating. © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 We would like to thank a number of people for helpful discussion of the ideas presented here, including...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (1): 93–117.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Nicolas Bommarito The contemporary discussion of modesty has focused on whether or not modest people are accurate about their own good qualities. This essay argues that this way of framing the debate is unhelpful and offers examples to show that neither ignorance nor accuracy about the good...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 295–325.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Chunghyoung Lee Many people believe that human beings begin to exist with the emergence of the 1-cell zygote at fertilization. I present a novel argument against this belief, one based on recently discovered facts about human embryo development. I first argue that a human zygote is developmentally...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 89–145.
Published: 01 January 2023
... situation, then one can know that that possibility does not obtain. This explains how people can have inductive knowledge that goes beyond what is strictly entailed by their evidence. We motivate the framework by showing how it illuminates knowledge about the future, knowledge of lawful regularities...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 355–458.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Kevin Dorst Predictable polarization is everywhere: we can often predict how people’s opinions, including our own, will shift over time. Extant theories either neglect the fact that we can predict our own polarization, or explain it through irrational mechanisms. They needn’t. Empirical studies...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 541–545.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and preferences. For example, inhabitants of a city will routinely converge on similar aesthetic preferences, and similar assumptions about what's cool. Likewise, people from similar cultural backgrounds will often accept similar dietary norms, and pursue the same child rearing and marriage practices. Finally...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 284–288.
Published: 01 April 2004
... people possess “robust” character traits (which help their possessors
withstand situational pressures) and thus typically behave consistently across
situations, and (ii) situationism, according to which people lack robust charac-
ter traits and thus typically behave inconsistently across situations.1...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 375–378.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Dwight Newman © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Seymour Michel , A Liberal Theory of Collective Rights . Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2017 . 315 pp . Can there be a non-individualist liberalism that grounds collective rights for peoples? It is this tension-laden...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 609–611.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of morality evidently requires, lest morality be
entirely detached from reason. That this is a problem depends on the assump-
tion, first, of some form of internalism about practical reason, some kind of
necessary connection between people’s reasons and their desires—suggesting
that there are only agent...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 251–256.
Published: 01 April 2018
... significantly greater than the odds of being worse off overall without it. This belief is fully consistent with the view that some people's lives are not worse in virtue of having a disability, and that disability is thus a mere difference, in at least one of Barnes's senses. Even with these definitional...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (2): 212–217.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in their work might suggest that the mere capacity for perfection makes everyone valuable to some extent, but Bett emphasizes that, according to these ancient philosophers, even the capacity for perfection varies among people and that most or all of us can never become perfect. Bett suggests, however...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 237–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
...-argued book, A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief , Allan Hazlett calls this idea into question. It might just be that “there is nothing more to the value of true belief than the fact that some people, contingently, care about, or love, or value, true belief” (274). This suggestion...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 April 2015
... gives pride of place to the Aristotelian virtues of character, highlights the relationship between justice and friendship, and provides an account of moral development, giving a taxonomy of different types of people. He also argues for a novel view of contemplation as reflecting and concentrating...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in the com-
mon-law systems of the English-speaking world, he continually makes clear how
his discussions bear on the moral judgments involved in holding people
accountable for their actions and decisions. Moral philosophers will profit
from this volume nearly as much as legal philosophers. Best known...
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