...Kai von Fintel; Anthony S. Gillies Epistemic modals are standardly taken to be context-dependent quantifiers over possibilities. Thus sentences containing them get truth-values with respect to both a context and an index. But some insist that this relativization is not relative enough: `might...

.... This article shows that contrary to initial appearances, we can accept all three of these claims. Disagreement significantly shifts the balance of the evidence; but with respect to certain kinds of claims, one should nonetheless retain one's beliefs. And one should retain them even though these beliefs would...

... respects (for example, modally or causally), it satisfies this independence-by-nature condition. I will spell out several problems with existing interpretations before turning to my positive proposal. Stated briefly, the proposal is that in characterizing substance, Descartes invokes a type...

... of count noun. This data set, they say, reveals that names’ interaction with the determiner system differs from that of common count nouns only with respect to the definite article ‘the’. They conclude that this special distribution of names is best explained by the-predicativism, the view that posits...

... to a body's microscopic surface texture (or some other mechanistically respectable property), I argue that she accepts a nonreductive account, on which sensuous color is not thus reducible. Cavendish responds to this family of arguments by rejecting their common premise, namely, the claim that we can...

...Kurt L. Sylvan Despite the recent backlash against epistemic consequentialism, an explicit systematic alternative has yet to emerge. This article articulates and defends a novel alternative, Epistemic Kantianism , which rests on a requirement of respect for the truth . Section 1 tackles some...

...Anders J. Schoubye M ILLIANISM and DESCRIPTIVISM are without question the two most prominent views with respect to the semantics of proper names. However, debates between MILLIANS and DESCRIPTIVISTS have tended to focus on a fairly narrow set of linguistic data and an equally narrow set of problems...

..., and dogmatists. That is, such “bad ideology” cases are, in all relevant respects, just like cases that are thought to count against externalism—except that they intuitively favor externalism. This, the author argues, is a serious worry for internalism. What is more, it bears on the debate over whether...

..., with respect to objective causation. The essay begins with Newcomb problems, which turn on an apparent tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential factors. Two-boxers give priority...

... foreknowledge. The arguments are exactly parallel in certain crucial respects. At any rate, investigating the issues surrounding prepunishment can help to throw into relief the various different strategies of response to the foreknowledge argument and can bring out what their costs and commitments really...

....” 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...

... that memory and a diary differ with respect to their psychological roles, and second that this psychological difference underwrites important downstream epistemic differences. The resulting view stands opposed to prominent discussions of memory and testimony, which either, like the diary model, treat memory...

...Graeme Forbes In this critical review I discuss the main themes of the papers in Kit Fine's Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers . These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist...

... will argue that depiction is governed by respects of resemblance that are either intended by their makers to obtain between picture and object, or are related indirectly to intentions through stylistic conventions. In section 4, I explain how we are able to work out that one thing bears such an intention...

... rationale (see Fumerton 1995, 80-82, and Moser 1989, 173- 76). BonJour, who endorsed the second rationale in his 1985 (at least with respect to empirical beliefs), has recently been showing signs of distancing 159 MTCHAEL BERGMA...

...Jeremy Waldron References Berlin Isaiah 2013 . The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History . Princeton : Princeton University Press . Darwall Stephen 1977 . “ Two Kinds of Respect .” Ethics 88 : 36 . Dworkin Ronald 1986 . Law's...

...” described above. Chapters 4-6 argue that Kan- tian conceptions of respect, pure practical reason, and dignity are under- mined by the (alleged) benign nature of integral breakdown and the vul- nerability and fragility of character that is essential to human dignity. The final three chapters...

..., majority rule is also principled. Procedural solutions can be acceptable to all, and majority rule provides the most obvious of procedures. Waldron contends that it gets its obviousness not only from its simplicity, but also from the two ways in which it respects people. First, it is respectful...

... of the book, Goldberg investigates the moment in which the assertion is proffered. Goldberg argues that when you assert that p , and I observe your assertion, I am morally required to treat you “with the sort of respect due to one who conveys having [epistemic] authority,” with regard to the truth of p (94...

.... The content of an expression determines its extension with respect to discourse about various scenarios, and in particular, with respect to any possible “circumstance of evaluation”—that is, any pos- sible world at a particular time. Indexicals reveal a need for a third layer of semantic value...