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...José Luis Bermúdez Maximilian De Gaynesford, I: The Meaning of the First Person Term . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 198 pp. © 2008 by Cornell University 2008 xxx prjuly2008-04 October 21, 2008 11:39 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Dilip Ninan When one considers one's own persistence over time from the first-person perspective, it seems as if facts about one's persistence are “further facts,” over and above facts about physical and psychological continuity. But the idea that facts about one's persistence are further facts...

...Mario De Caro Baker Lynne Rudder , Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 248 pp . © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 Many contemporary philosophers hold a version of scientific naturalism, the view according to which (i...

...Michael B. Burke Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 203. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 4 (October 2002) Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons. Oxford...

...Tyler Burge Cornell University 2003 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2003) Memory and Persons Tyler Burge I want to reflect on some functions of memory and their relations to traditional issues about personal...

...Peter B. M. Vranas John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 272. Cornell University 2004 Darley, J. M., and C. D. Batson. 1973 . “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional...

...Travis Butler Lloyd P. Gerson, Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 308. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 1 (January 2005) Lloyd P. Gerson, Knowing...

...Jason D’Cruz [email protected] Doris John M. , Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . 356 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 Character Trouble (2022) needed to be written. Doris’s...

... , then there cannot be a duty to not discriminate against people with extreme facial disfigurement, at least in cases such as dating, romance, or close personal friendship. In such cases, the subjectively felt horror at their appearance may win out against one’s good-natured attitude toward others...

... of believing the truth about one's personal past. Thus, in this domain, we might expect endorsement mechanisms that select for stability rather than truth. Indeed, psychological research has shown that people tend to erroneously project their current beliefs, opinions, and emotions onto their past selves...

...Brian Hedden Sullivan Meghan , Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 196 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 This book is about, and more precisely against , time biases. Time biases involve...

...Naomi Scheman INTERPRETING THE PERSONAL: EXPRESSION AND THE FORMATION OF FEELINGS. By Sue Campbell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 204. Cornell University 2000 McFall, Lynne. 1991 . “What's Wrong with Bitterness?” In Feminist Ethics, ed. Claudia Card, 146 -60...

...Paul F. Snowdon Gasser Georg Stefan Matthias , eds., Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . xi+259 pp. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 The papers in this collection are committed to contributing to the debate as to whether...

...Peter Van Inwagen PERSONS AND BODIES: A CONSTITUTION VIEW. By Lynne Rudder Baker.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 233. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS enology of sense includes representing moving objects, Clark’s theory seems...

...Theron Pummer It seems plausible that (i) how much punishment a person deserves cannot be affected by the mere existence or nonexistence of another person. We might have also thought that (ii) how much punishment is deserved cannot increase merely in virtue of personal division. I argue that (i...

...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...

...Seth Shabo In his seminal essay “Freedom and Resentment,” P. F. Strawson drew attention to the role of such emotions as resentment, moral indignation, and guilt in our moral and personal lives. According to Strawson, these reactive attitudes are at once constitutive of moral blame and inseparable...

... of mind in action, this essay examines a debate between David Lewis and Derek Parfit over what matters in survival. Lewis argued that indeterminacy in personal identity allows caring about psychological connectedness and caring about personal identity to amount to the same thing. The essay argues...

...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...

... a particular question just in case you expect that person to be more accurate than you are about that question. [email protected] © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 accuracy deference chance Principal Principle Epistemic Utility Theory Humeanism New Principle Objective chance...