..., decision-theoretic paradoxes show that no decision rule can do everything we want. Luckily, the so-called “tickle defense” establishes that EDT, CDT, and BT will do everything we want in a wide range of situations. Most decision situations, this essay argues, are analogues of voting situations in which...

... give voice to our most cognitively primitive generalizations and that this hypothesis accounts for a variety of facts ranging from acquisition patterns to cross-linguistic data concerning the phonological articulation of operators. I go on to develop an account of the nature of these cognitively...

... (or propositional justification) and well-groundedness (or doxastic justification). The discussion focuses on conciliatory views, according to which peer disagreements require you to significantly revise your view or to suspend judgment. The article argues that for a wide range of conceptions of evidential support...

...Barry Maguire; Jack Woods It is plausible that there is a distinctively epistemic standard of correctness for belief. It is also plausible that there is a range of practical reasons bearing on belief. These theses are often thought to be in tension with each other. To resolve the tension...

... that there are two distinct normative senses of 'ought', which actually exhibit different syntactic behavior, and then going on to argue that the deliberative sense of 'ought' relates agents to actions, rather than to propositions. It closes by drawing lessons for a range of issues in moral theory. Special thanks...

... elegant explanations of a range of puzzling observations about epistemic modals. The first part of the story offers a unifying treatment of disputes about epistemic modality and disputes about matters of fact while at the same time avoiding the complexities of alternative theories. The second part...

... how the resulting theory of conversational exculpature accounts for a varied range of linguistic phenomena. A distinctive feature of the approach is the crucial role played by the question under discussion in determining the result of a given exculpature. © 2018 by Cornell University 2018...

...). According to DRH, perceptual processes are constrained to compute over a bounded range of dimensions, while cognitive processes are not. This view allows that perception is cognitively penetrable, but places strict limits on the varieties of penetration that can occur. The article argues that DRH enjoys...

.... To motivate this claim, Raffman argues that even when all the contextual facts have been fixed, there is still a sense in which the application of a vague predicate is unsettled. In particular, according to Raffman, given a vague predicate ϕ and a context c , there will be a range of permissible stopping...

... MacLaine is the value of ‘y ’ . I n c l a s s i c a l semantics, the open formula (“open sentence”) (1) (∃x)(y is a sister of x) is true under our value-assignment A if and only if there is some element or other i of the universe over which the variables range such that (2) y...

... to Aristotle. Standing firm in battle when all is lost would not be exceptionally brave but rash. Curzer has a solution. The good person has a range of action that is appropriate, but pinpointing the perfect midpoint of every parameter is heroic. For example, suppose Norbert can give between $10,000...

... the perfectly natural restricted quantifiers, one ranges over past entities and another over present entities. Turning to ontological categories, McDaniel articulates a novel version of the view that ontological categories are ways of being. The perfectly natural restricted quantifiers represent ontological...

... to be a substitution instance. Künne understands the quantifier ‘ p’ in (MOD) as an objectual quantifier that 136 BOOK REVIEWS ranges over propositions, conceived as entities that exist independently of us and our language...

... that a wide range of spatialized signs make precise contributions to meaning through distinctively iconic mechanisms, well beyond the traditional symbolic mold. 4 Together, these lines of inquiry point to a pair of representational kinds with sharply divergent structural, expressive, and inferential...

... texts did not appear in Latin ex nihilo. The history of their transmission involved a complicated network and exchange of ideas (the full range of which we’re still rediscovering) that included Jewish and Islamic as well as Christian communities, and that also reached into Africa and Asia. Although...

... and vari- ables cannot be understood apart from identity. Similarly, ‘x exists’ cannot be analyzed as ‘for some object y, y=x’, because the quantifier must be understood as ranging only over objects that exist, and not, say, Sherlock Holmes or Vulcan. And ‘x is possibly F’ cannot be analyzed...

... to the beloved's sexual interest in another, and so on. None of these specific experiences is necessary (the whole idea of necessary and sufficient conditions for being a thing is rejected in chapter 7), but having a broad range of them, or other experiences like them, suffices for being in romantic love...

... or narrower ranges of values for X. So, generalizations such as the Ideal Gas Law, Hooke’s Law, etc. may be invariant to some useful degree despite the fact that they break down for extreme values. Woodward suggests (203) that a good scientific explanation of fact f cites some particular facts...

.... The view is described as antifoundationalist, thoroughly externalist, and deeply contextualist. The book combines some very broad-ranging insights in the philosophy of mind of lan- guage with detailed discussion of many of the deepest puzzles that have con- cerned philosophers in these fields over...

... very broad-ranging insights in the philosophy of mind of lan- guage with detailed discussion of many of the deepest puzzles that have con- cerned philosophers in these fields over the last decades including Sleeping Beauty, Lewis’s Two Gods, Kripke’s Pierre, and Jackson’s Mary. The book...