...Sasha Mudd Merritt Melissa , Kant on Reflection and Virtue . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 2019 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 In Kant on Reflection and Virtue , Melissa Merritt offers a detailed interpretation of what she calls “the Kantian...

...Michael E. Bratman Cornell University 2000 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (January 2000) Reflection, Planning, and Temporally Extended Agency Michael E. Bratman 1. Core Features of Human Agency We...

...Rachael Briggs Diachronic Dutch book arguments seem to support both conditionalization and Bas van Fraassen's Reflection principle. But the Reflection principle is vulnerable to numerous counterexamples. This essay addresses two questions: first, under what circumstances should an agent obey...

...C. C. W. Taylor THE ART OF LIVING: SOCRATIC REFLECTIONS FROM PLAT0 TO FOUCAULT. By Alexander Nehamas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 283. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REWEWS The Philosophical h i e w , Vol. 109, No. 3 (July 2000) THE ART OF LIVING: SOCRATIC...

...Eric Gordon Epstein Armour-Garb Bradley , ed., Reflections on the Liar . New York: Oxford University Press , 2017 . 383 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Bradley Armour-Garb's new collection, Reflections on the Liar , brings together a number of essays by accomplished...

...Eric Swanson Paul Horwich, Reflections on Meaning . New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 236 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. 229 pp...

...Natalie Brender KANT'S CONCEPTION OF MORAL CHARACTER: THE “CRITICAL” LINK OF MORALITY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT. By G. Felicitas Munzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 377. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS political...

.... 1971 . A Theory of Justice . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Sellars, W. 1963 . Some Reflections on Language Games. In his Science, Perception, and Reality . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Stalnaker, R. 1984 . Inquiry . Cambridge: MIT Press. Stampe, D. 1977 . Toward a causal...

...Michael Weisberg Philip Kitcher, In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 385. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS graph were more widely accessible. He rightly complains that ethical...

...Anna Mahtani The Reflection Principle can be defended with a Diachronic Dutch Book Argument (DBA), but it is also defeated by numerous compelling counter-examples. It seems then that Diachronic DBAs can lead us astray. Should we reject them en masse—including Lewis’s Diachronic DBA...

... and Jonathan Bennett in effect interprets the result to mean that PSR entails that there are no contingent truths. But reflection on parallels in philosophy of mathematics shows it can equally be interpreted either as a proof that there are “too many” contingent truths to combine in a single conjunction...

... the diagnosis of verbal disputes as a tool for philosophical progress. Second, they are interesting as a subject matter for first-order philosophy. Reflection on the existence and nature of verbal disputes can reveal something about the nature of concepts, language, and meaning. In this article I first...

....” The traditional interpretation regards the distinction between the two notions as reflecting a distinction between indeterminate space and determinations of space by the understanding, respectively. By contrast, a recent influential reading has argued that the two notions can be fused into one and that space...

...Eric Schwitzgebel We are prone to gross error, even in favorable circumstances of extended reflection, about our own ongoing conscious experience, our current phenomenology. Even in this apparently privileged domain, our self-knowledge is faulty and untrustworthy. We are not simply fallible...

... a period of time. On this view, watching is a kind of perceptual activity distinguished by a distinctive epistemic role. The essay presents a puzzle about watching an object that arises through elementary reflection on the consequences of two apparent truths about watching an object throughout a period...

... nature as reflective beings. This account has considerable appeal. It resonates with those who think that at least some of our impulses provide us with rea- sons to act, but who doubt that the mere having of an impulse or desire, as such, counts in favor of acting. It elaborates...

... normative weight to their ends as well as to our own. “Enlightenment morality is true,” she concludes. “Human beings are valuable” ( 1996c, 123 ). Moreover, anyone can recognize this truth upon sufficient reflection: “any reflective agent can be led to acknowledge that she has moral obligations” ( 1996c...

... be it. The grail is an approach to perception that satisfies key motivations for both internalism and externalism: externalists emphasize an objective connection between justification and truth, while internalists maintain that subjects have reflective access to the justification for their beliefs. The holy grail...

... with specialized issues in aesthetics and biology, Ginsborg argues that these two Critiques are of a piece because they both make an invaluable contribution to Kant's theory of cognition. It is, in particular, Kant's analysis of the reflecting power of judgment in the third Critique that, Ginsborg claims...

...—I conscientiously judge that I am more likely to get a true belief or I conscientiously judge that I am more likely to get a belief that survives critical self-reflection—it is the latter that serves in the justification of religious authority and in the resolution of intractable disagreements...