...David Shoemaker This essay attempts to provide and defend what may be the first actual argument in support of P. F. Strawson's merely stated vision of a response-dependent theory of moral responsibility. It does so by way of an extended analogy with the funny. In part 1, it makes the easier...

... premise in the incompatibilist's argument and the Ockhamist response. It sketches some potential links between the issues here and recent work on ontological dependence, and it connects the issues raised by Merricks to important work that has appeared in (among other places) the Philosophical Review . ©...

... it plausible that you now have a choice about it. Recall this line from the Third Answer: You have a choice about whether God was in that mental state.… For, if God was in that mental state, God's having been in it depends on what you do at t . I think the proper response to any such suggestion mirrors what...

... of truth, reference, and realism should be utilized for this domain. The above gives readers a flavor for Gert's view. I end with a few observations. Although Gert maintains that his colors are objective, they seem response-dependent in the sense that we have no means of specifying or identifying...

... depending on the region of discourse to which it belongs” (6). The cruces discussed by Wright are Evidence Transcendence (familiar from Dummett and Putnam), the Euthyphro Contrast (response-dependence), Cognitive Command (Wright’s pro- posal on behalf of the relativist), and Width of Cosmological Role...

... moral values as revealed in their conduct, about which our judgments may be true or false. On this view, the fairness or propriety of blaming and holding responsible depends on facts about the agent being responsible, not the other way round. To put this point more sharply, we may say...

.... For example, in efforts by Mark Johnston and Crispin Wright to differenti- ate more and less objective accounts of various discourses (about, e.g., color, shape, value), in developing the infl uential idea that certain such discourses are “response- dependent.” See Mark Johnston, “Objectivity Refi gured...

...-world interactions . Other views (e.g., standard response-dependent realist views, irrealist views) accommodate the point equally well. It is also possible to ask whether interactionism fits with the metaphysical and phenomenological facts. Most hold that, necessarily, if something (whether...

... section, I consider an important response on behalf of DS, and in sections 5–7, I address three important objections to JS in comparison to DS. Section 8 concludes. 3. Mark C. Murphy, “The Simple Desire-Fulfillment Theory,” Nouˆs 33 (1999): 247–72. 4. A number of “idealized” subjectivist...

... in Plato. Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides. xxv + 279 pp. Moran, Dermot. 2005. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity. xiii + 297 pp. Norris, Christopher. 2005 [2002]. Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press...

..., demonstratives, names, and definite descriptions can all be used to refer to the same things. They can also all be used anaphorically. But, as noted by Gundel, Hedberg, and Zacharski (1993) , these expressions appear to be governed by a so-called giveness hierarchy . That is, depending on the cognitive status...

... focuses on metaethics. For Parfit, the stakes here are especially high since unlike many philosophers, Parfit holds that the results of normative theory depend on metaethics. The Triple Theory purports to tell us what matters morally, at least, so far as our obligations are concerned. But Parfit believes...

..., there is no straightforward route from the independence of substance to monism. 3 What I shall say about the notions of substance and independence in Descartes might also be of interest to contemporary debates in metaphysics concerning relations of grounding and ontological dependence. Much of this debate takes...

... the former “spur that the clear spirit doth raise” among the most elevated impulses after the moral sen- timents; while others think it degrading to depend for one’s hap- piness on the breath of popular favour. —Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics At the end of Republic book...

... of objective, nonintrinsic features, such as occlusion shape and aperture color, both of which are relative to a point. Finally, some are resemblances in respect of response-dependent features. For example, some paintings mimic the effect of simultaneous contrast, which occurs in conditions of bright...

... of the response-dependence of Johnston and Wright (chapter 4), the “Canberra Plan” for reductionism associated with Jackson and Chalmers (chapters 6 and 12), and Blackburn’s brand of local expressivism (throughout the book). His positive proposal is essentially a gen- eralization of this last “ism”: a global...

..., containing brilliant criticisms of the response-dependence of Johnston and Wright (chapter 4), the “Canberra Plan” for reductionism associated with Jackson and Chalmers (chapters 6 and 12), and Blackburn’s brand of local expressivism (throughout the book). His positive proposal is essentially a gen...

... brilliant criticisms of the response-dependence of Johnston and Wright (chapter 4), the “Canberra Plan” for reductionism associated with Jackson and Chalmers (chapters 6 and 12), and Blackburn’s brand of local expressivism (throughout the book). His positive proposal is essentially a gen- eralization...

... criticisms of the response-dependence of Johnston and Wright (chapter 4), the “Canberra Plan” for reductionism associated with Jackson and Chalmers (chapters 6 and 12), and Blackburn’s brand of local expressivism (throughout the book). His positive proposal is essentially a gen- eralization of this last...

... on realism and its con- traries, containing brilliant criticisms of the response-dependence of Johnston and Wright (chapter 4), the “Canberra Plan” for reductionism associated with Jackson and Chalmers (chapters 6 and 12), and Blackburn’s brand of local expressivism (throughout the book). His positive...