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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 295–300.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of artificial ingredients, and the virtues and vices of locavorism. But PCD is particularly valuable because it teaches two lessons: Despite the many sins of industrial animal agriculture, it's hard to explain why individual consumers shouldn't purchase its products. Even if individual consumers...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 503–506.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., whereas linen is measured according to its length, a continuous quantity. These disparate quantities can be combined in an account of purchasing, one that allows comparisons of rate across different purchases. How? By comparing a ratio of linen-lengths, on the one hand, with a ratio of numbers of drachmae...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 July 2002
... holes. Kutz argues that there is no clear victim for what each of these people did. “In the absence of any victim to whom an individual driver’s act makes an actual difference, there is simply no purchase for the Individual Difference Principle. And in the absence of any structure of participation...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 238–241.
Published: 01 April 2014
... claims of conscience. Interestingly, Leiter's argument might have greater purchase if it were based on a principled and defensible nonconsequentialism. But this would require him to give up his moral skepticism. ...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 618–620.
Published: 01 October 2002
... REVIEWS ing the talented to compensate the untalented, regardless of whether the talented receive gifts, earn a salary, or purchase goods) may not. A second subject about which one finds something new in JF is Rawls’s defense of his conception of justice. Recall that in PL the derivation...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 349–353.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of espresso (product), which are consumed by customers (consumers) by means of a purchase (return). By E-function, tokens of espresso have the e-function of producing pleasant gustatory experiences in customers in SES-Espresso. Next, Kelp and Simion defend the following general evaluative norm...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 614–617.
Published: 01 October 2000
...- roque art” (there is too little Baroque music shares with Baroque painting for a catch-all aesthetic concept of the “Baroque” to have purchase). While the skeptic allows that some works in some artforms and genres are acces- sible and get mass distribution, she denies that the concept of “mass art...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 344–349.
Published: 01 April 2023
... then is that knowledge is not apt belief (relatedly, knowledge is not a cognitive achievement). 5 Even if we grant to Sosa that apt belief (or cognitive achievement), even when unsafe, can amount to knowledge, it is not clear that this affords us a purchase on the problem of radical skepticism as he supposes...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 51–98.
Published: 01 January 2022
... involves the good faith purchase of a stolen horse. Has the purchaser acquired a property right in the horse? From the point of view of private right or “right in itself” ( MM 6:302), the answer must be no : no one can transfer to another a title they do not possess. But, as Kant notes, a court...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 183–223.
Published: 01 April 2009
... only the basic appearance properties nonexistent objects would have if they existed, the resemblance relation provides some purchase on the nature of the thing depicted. However, when it is further broad- ened to take into account properties things could have, were their visual properties different...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
... intends to develop her land for commercial purposes because the potential buyer does not want to live next door to a commercial property. Hoping the potential buyer will purchase, the neighbor sincerely reports that she has no plans to develop and cannot...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 153–177.
Published: 01 April 2005
... to the necessity of ethical demands. The recog- nition of morality as being practically authoritative should make my attitudes to duty as impervious to my inclinations as my attitudes toward logical or mathematical necessities. For self-love to find some purchase in my moral resolve, what I really care about...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 191–217.
Published: 01 April 2017
... is (primarily) what allows normative considerations to get a purchase on beliefs.” 14. Saul Kripke (2011, 316n65) , in his recent paper, asks, echoing Stalnaker, “Can two people get into an argument without each participant knowing which side she is taking?” 13. It is not hard to see why...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 215–245.
Published: 01 April 2003
... of unavoidable conflict of ideals that the agent act in a way that alienates her from the ideals she then holds, isn’t prudence purchased at the price of authen- ticity? We can reconcile the demands of prudence and authenticity if we remember that the agent is a person who is temporally extended. Her...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (4): 507–535.
Published: 01 October 2004
..., maintaining that resolution in the face of his later attraction will not be rational. We thus need some account of when it is rational to maintain a resolution. I suspect that nothing like a rigorous formal theory will be forthcoming. Nevertheless, the approach advocated here gives us some purchase...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., “better or worse from a moral point of view” (240). This notion, in turn, has some intuitive purchase in our diverse thinking about moral questions, and giving it closer scrutiny might help us either to reconstruct our more familiar moral concepts or to encour- age us to replace them...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 108–112.
Published: 01 January 2006
... as an account of a slightly different notion, namely, “better or worse from a moral point of view” (240). This notion, in turn, has some intuitive purchase in our diverse thinking about moral questions, and giving it closer scrutiny might help us either to reconstruct our more familiar moral concepts...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 January 2006
... as an account of a slightly different notion, namely, “better or worse from a moral point of view” (240). This notion, in turn, has some intuitive purchase in our diverse thinking about moral questions, and giving it closer scrutiny might help us either to reconstruct our more familiar moral concepts...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 January 2006
... as an account of a slightly different notion, namely, “better or worse from a moral point of view” (240). This notion, in turn, has some intuitive purchase in our diverse thinking about moral questions, and giving it closer scrutiny might help us either to reconstruct our more familiar moral concepts...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 118–121.
Published: 01 January 2006
... as an account of a slightly different notion, namely, “better or worse from a moral point of view” (240). This notion, in turn, has some intuitive purchase in our diverse thinking about moral questions, and giving it closer scrutiny might help us either to reconstruct our more familiar moral concepts...