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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Franz Dietrich; Christian List This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
Published: 01 April 2020
... on reasons. Then the author argues that core object representations are based on reasons, through an examination of both experimental results and key markers of the basing relation. The scope of mental states that are subject to epistemic evaluation as justified or unjustified is not restricted to beliefs...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 179–217.
Published: 01 April 2019
... an explanatory challenge for representationalism.) In this case, the latter representation (or its content) is a reason why Toshiro believes that Russian forces have bombed civilian targets in Syria, because it is a reason why the causally relevant subliminal message is broadcast in the first place...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 147–190.
Published: 01 April 2017
... found in the Schematism. The texts we have examined provide reasons to think that Kant's conception of number includes the representation of both cardinal and ordinal properties. I believe that Kant's discussions of arithmetic and number in the critical period, taken in their entirety, point...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
... orientation was task-relevant? One reason to doubt this is that the effects of feature-based expectation were distinct from those standardly exerted by attention. While attention and expectation both produce sharpened neural representation (and increased perceptual sensitivity), attention tends to increase...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 215–287.
Published: 01 April 2013
... by biology rather than social convention. But this linguis-
tic model is inappropriate for pictorial representation for many reasons.
The most fundamental is that successful pictorial representation does not
seem to be arbitrary at all. The relationship between a drawing, photo-
graph, or perceptual...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 431–435.
Published: 01 July 2016
... representation and physics strained. The thought of the anticausalists was not that physics is incompatible with causal representation but that we don't find causal structures at the fundamental level of physical description. The most valuable part of the book is the demonstration that causal reasoning plays...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 183–223.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of
representation, it gives us reason to think that some other such features
are not in fact so distinctive.
Hopkins identifies six features as distinctive of depiction. My
account explains four of these features readily. First, it explains why, as
Hopkins argues, pictures must depict their objects...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 January 2019
.... The last two chapters of the book put forward the idea that even higher-level mental phenomena such as reflection, thought, and mathematical reasoning are to be treated in an enactivist paradigm. Here Gallagher introduces the notion of an affordance space , derived from Gibson's notion of an affordance...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 481–531.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., to the valenced aspects of other perceptual experiences. Call this explanatory requirement the Uniformity Assumption. Evaluativists have additional reasons to accept this assumption. As already mentioned, Evaluativism is an extension of Representationalism, and it is widely accepted...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 179–225.
Published: 01 April 2005
... master such exercises to a reasonable degree, they will
be taught to add, subtract, and multiply using the symbols alone. At this
stage, children will learn tricks for adding that are based on the use of
the decimal system, like carrying over ones, or multiplying with the
tens first and the ones...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 483–523.
Published: 01 October 2000
... only sensational content,
not representational content: It is, as one might put it in an un-
dergraduate course, not about anything. It is, for that reason, ob-
scure how, on this view, my current perception is supposed to jus-
tify my believing, say, that there is a brown desk in front of me...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 289–337.
Published: 01 July 2003
..., interlocution,
conclusions inferred from empirical or mathematical premises, com-
mitment to practical goals based on practical reasoning from values,
and so on.33
Genuine purely preservative memory, like all memory, presupposes
that its content came from the individual who relies on purely preser...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of hyperreal credences is just about the numerical representation. 30. Premise 3 entails that in fact every dartboard is properly parameterized by the real numbers. But, as already mentioned, this fact is compatible with at least some reasonable agents being unsure of it. 31. Interestingly...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 619–622.
Published: 01 October 2012
... questions might vary wildly even
within the bounds of the cognitive. The reason it’s useful to coordinate our
aesthetic commitments, for example, might look very different from the reason
it’s useful to deliberate on logical or mathematical matters. This is his “func-
tional pluralism” about...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 622–625.
Published: 01 October 2012
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BOOK REVIEWS
threat of “creeping minimalism” about representation, but it also opens up the
possibility that the answers to Price’s pragmatic questions might vary wildly even
within the bounds of the cognitive. The reason it’s useful to coordinate our
aesthetic...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 625–630.
Published: 01 October 2012
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BOOK REVIEWS
threat of “creeping minimalism” about representation, but it also opens up the
possibility that the answers to Price’s pragmatic questions might vary wildly even
within the bounds of the cognitive. The reason it’s useful to coordinate our
aesthetic...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 630–633.
Published: 01 October 2012
...
619
BOOK REVIEWS
threat of “creeping minimalism” about representation, but it also opens up the
possibility that the answers to Price’s pragmatic questions might vary wildly even
within the bounds of the cognitive. The reason it’s useful to coordinate our
aesthetic...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 634–636.
Published: 01 October 2012
.... The reason it’s useful to coordinate our
aesthetic commitments, for example, might look very different from the reason
it’s useful to deliberate on logical or mathematical matters. This is his “func-
tional pluralism” about the indicative mood. If language has a downtown, on
Price’s map, it’s a melting...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 87–102.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... ____. 1984 . Reasons and Persons . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Rovane, C. 1990 . “Branching Self-Consciousness.” Philosophical Review 99 : 355 -95. Shoemaker, S. 1970 . “Persons and Their Pasts.” American Philosophical Quarterly 7 ( 4 ): 269 -85. ____. 1984 . “Personal Identity...
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