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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 483–538.
Published: 01 October 2012
... in Lewis’s views on these two matters, by presenting a class of decision problems—some of them themselves Newcomb problems—in which Lewis’s view of the relevance of inadmissible evidence seems in tension with his causal decision theory. It offers a diagnosis for this dilemma and proposes a remedy, based...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 533–581.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Louis deRosset A raft of new philosophical problems concerning truth have recently been discovered by several theorists. These problems concern the question of how ascriptions of truth are to be grounded. Most previous commentators have taken the problems to shed light on the theory of ground...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 453–497.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Jon Erling Litland This paper develops a novel theory of abstraction—what we call collective abstraction . The theory solves a notorious problem for noneliminative structuralism. The noneliminative structuralist holds that in addition to various isomorphic systems there is a pure structure that can...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 501–532.
Published: 01 October 2009
... the Indispensability and the Consistency Problems. By what right does Kant present affection by supersensible entities as an indispensable requirement of experience? And how could any argument for such indispensability avoid violating the Critique's doctrine of noumenal ignorance? This essay develops a new solution...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 529–578.
Published: 01 October 2023
... theory of truth, which solves the liar paradox in a principled manner. We end by showing that our theory and simple extensions thereof have the resources to axiomatize the internal logic of several supervaluational hierarchies, including Cantini’s. This solves open problems of Halbach (2011) and Horsten...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 301–343.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Matthew Mandelkern; Ginger Schultheis; David Boylan This essay proposes a new theory of agentive modals : ability modals and their duals, compulsion modals. After criticizing existing approaches—the existential quantificational analysis, the universal quantificational analysis, and the conditional...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
... be at the party
only get assigned truth-values relative to contexts of utterance, indices of
evaluation, and—the new wrinkle—points of assessment. We dub such
semantic analyses CIA theories.1 Our goal here is to catalogue some cen-
tral problems that any CIA theory must solve. We begin by briefly sketch...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., or items of personal conviction, they give no reason to think that the
theory we so prefer constitutes objective knowledge, or is closer to the truth.
AOE is supposed to handle this problem because on this view (instead of
the two-tiered picture of evidence and theory) we take scientific knowledge...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 January 2004
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tent.4 Until further notice, it is the strong form of the theory I will have
in mind. (Strong) neo-descriptivists think that their theory can do
what Frege and Russell wanted descriptivism to do, without running
into the problems that face descriptivism’s supposed nemesis—the
New Theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 149–177.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Darren Bradley This article defends the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will argue that all four problems have the same structure...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (3): 401–425.
Published: 01 July 2007
... on Putnam's Models: A Reply to Belloti.” Erkenntnis . ____. Forthcoming b. “Two Arguments against Realism.” Philosophical Quarterly . Devitt, Michael. 1984 . Realism and Truth . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Lewis, David. 1983 . “New Work for a Theory of Universals.” Australasian...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Theory , ed. C. A. Hooker, J. J. Leach, and E. F. McClennen, 125 -62. Dordrecht: Reidel. Goldman, Alvin. 1970 . A Theory of Human Action . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Jeffrey, Richard. 1965 . The Logic of Decision . New York: McGraw-Hill. ____. 1983 . The Logic of Decision. 2d...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (3): 309–315.
Published: 01 July 2024
... about how quantum mechanics might contribute to an ultimate theory of consciousness. I’ll follow the book’s order. In chapter 1, David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen develop a new consciousness-triggered collapse interpretation of quantum mechanics. On their approach, consciousness has a strict...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 463–509.
Published: 01 October 2019
... deductive problems than at others, which is measured primarily in terms of pervasive and predictable errors. These nonsyntactic theories, which explain our capacity for deductive reasoning in terms of heuristic processes, would be paradoxical if ‘deduction’ had to pick out a particular kind...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Lei Zhong [email protected] Kroedel Thomas , Mental Causation: A Counterfactual Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 x + 224 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 In this book, Thomas Kroedel develops a novel account of mental causation...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 279–322.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., for example, proposed that moral goodness is a primitive, non-natural property. Could that be primitively action-guiding? In Dasgupta 2017a I argue not, and that his view suffers from the very same problem of missing value as the divine command theory. This kind of objection to Moore is not new: many have...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
Published: 01 July 2015
... how and why the deception was produced is what I wish to call “the diagnostic problem of the paradox.” ( Chihara 1979 , 590) Russell's theory of impredicative definitions, Kripke's theory of grounding, the Gupta-Belnap theory of circular definitions, McGee's theory of indefinite and definite...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 April 2020
... such nonlocal correlations as reliable prescriptions for agents who want to use quantum theory successfully, and it is a mistake to try to describe in virtue of what such correlations obtain. What are the reasons for accepting Healey's new interpretation of quantum theory? I think the main reason...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 296–300.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Press. Nozick, Robert, 1969 . “Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice.” In Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel, ed. Nicholas Rescher et. al, 114 -46. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Savage, Leonard, 1972 . The Foundations of Statistics, 2d ed. New York: Dover. (First edition, 1954...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 465–470.
Published: 01 July 2002
...Michael Glanzberg André Chapuis and Anil Gupta, eds., Circularity, Definition and Truth. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2000. Pp. vi, 402. Cornell University 2002 Gupta, Anil, and Nuel Belnap. 1993 . The Revision Theory of Truth . Cambridge: MIT Press...
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