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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 201–242.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Julia Markovits This essay examines the thought that our right actions have moral worth only if we perform them for the right reasons. It argues against the view, often ascribed to Kant, that morally worthy actions must be performed because they are right and argues that Kantians and others ought...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 209–239.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Nomy Arpaly; Timothy Schroeder Theoretical and practical deliberation are voluntary activities, and like all voluntary activities, they are performed for reasons. To hold that all voluntary activities are performed for reasons in virtue of their relations to past, present, or even merely possible...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 619–639.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Patrick Todd The most promising way of responding to arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom (in one way or another) invokes a claim about the order of explanation: God knew (or believed) that you would perform a given action because you would, in fact, perform...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
... to the conventionalist's core instincts, including embracing: the view that binding promises must involve the promisee's belief that performance will occur; the view that through the promise, the promisee and promisor create a shared end; and the tendency to take promises between strangers, rather than intimates...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 35–82.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the resources to formulate a nonfactualist account of know-how. On this account, know-how has a kind of nonpropositional content and plays the role of guiding performance of action, rather than recording information from the environment. References Adams Marcus 2009 . “ Empirical Evidence...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 189–214.
Published: 01 April 2013
... determined agents are incapable of making a difference, but to argue that responsibility is not grounded in difference making. These compatibilists have rested such a claim on Frankfurt cases—cases where agents are intuitively responsible for acts that they couldn’t have failed to perform. This essay argues...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 611–618.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., to be performed. This thesis assumes that the structure of motivating reasons is sufficiently similar to the structure of normative reasons that the required coincidence in content and strength is a genuine possibility. But because motivating reasons have only one dimension of strength, while normative reasons...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... what actions to perform at any given time. For
example, I may want to decide whether to go to a movie this evening or
stay home and read a book. The actions between which we want to
choose are perfectly ordinary actions, and the presumption is that to
make such a decision we should attend...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 179–207.
Published: 01 April 2012
... cannot perform any action the
performance of which would require the past to have unfolded different-
ly than it actually did. Let us rewrite the principle with a few modifi-
cations:
(FP) For any action y, agent s, and times t and t 0 (t # t 0 ), if it is
true that if s were to do y...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 152–155.
Published: 01 January 2002
...: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 327.
In this book, Alston articulates and argues for a use-based and normative
account of sentence meaning. He proposes that sentence meaning consists in
illocutionary act potential, the usability of a sentence for the performance of a cer-
tain...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 95–130.
Published: 01 January 2020
... to do things now. This is why they must tell us which of your many possible future desires can ground reasons for you to perform actions at present. Because futurist subjectivism has not yet been developed in any detail, this problem has not been discussed. 19 But it should be, since the prospects...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 July 2004
....
Consider some action of mine, A, that a compatibilist claims to be
free despite its occurrence being causally determined. Let B be some
alternative action that the compatibilist says I could have performed
instead of A. I propose the following simple argument against the com-
patibilist (premise (1...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 235–241.
Published: 01 April 2002
... (1981) response to van Inwagen—is unsuccessful.
Following Huemer, let
NSp = No matter what S does, p
where
(No matter what S does, p) = (p, and for each action, A, that S can
perform, if S were to perform A, it would still be the case that p).
(538)
‘NSp’ is Huemer’s...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 525–544.
Published: 01 October 2000
... ARGUMENT
2. The Rendering-False Interpretation
According to van Inwagen, to say S has a choice about the fact that
p is the same as to say that although p is the case, S can render p
false. This, in turn, is equivalent to saying that although p, there is
some action S can perform, his...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 January 2006
... a specifi c, underived obligation to perform.14
Promise and Choice
In the cases just considered, I can take on an obligation to perform by
communicating an intention but not by making a prediction. This is the
fi rst of those points that the information-interest theory fi nds hard to
explain...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (1): 93–114.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... The Case against Evidential Decision Theory
Evidential decision theory says that the action that it’s rational to perform
is the one (ignoring the possibility of ties) with the greatest expected
utility—the one such that your expectations for how well things will turn
I am particularly grateful...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 344–349.
Published: 01 April 2023
... skepticism. As will be familiar to readers of Sosa’s work, he understands knowledge in terms of what he calls aptness . Roughly, a performance is apt (‘accurate because adroit’) when one’s success in the target endeavour is properly attributable to one’s manifestation of relevant skill. As applied...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
...—an image of colored light projected onto the retina. In nearly all real-world cases of inverse inference, the proximal effects underdetermine the distal causes. Inverse inference shows up everywhere in the mind, not just in vision. Audition performs inverse inference when it separates out particular...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 345–383.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of performing tasks can be less than complete methods for performing them, so that there may be many ways for performing a task (such as making tagliatelle al ragù ) corresponding to one fully specific and complete recipe. This proposal, however, flies against intuitions: in our story Gianni does not know many...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 429–484.
Published: 01 October 2014
... not agree, and this and this alone constitutes a mistake , then the mistake is not in the list but in the man's performance (if his wife were to say: “Look, it says butter and you have bought margarine,” he would hardly reply: “What a mistake! We must put that right” and alter the word on the list...
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