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... yields a variety of robust con- cepts. For example, while minimal mind might be what thinks and experiences; robust mind might be a nonmaterial object. The fact that a minimal concept may be “enriched” to yield different robust concepts leads Lynch to claim that “our neuroscientist and Cartesian...

... people possess “robust” character traits (which help their possessors withstand situational pressures) and thus typically behave consistently across situations, and (ii) situationism, according to which people lack robust charac- ter traits and thus typically behave inconsistently across situations.1...

..., will not be apt for truth and falsity. Correla- tively, realism about a discourse will be the view that its characteristic statements are apt for truth and falsity; or—as I shall sometimes say— that those statements (or the facts they depict) are robust. Even with 'true' and its kin so regimented, to speak...

... “the so-called third-person perspective is centerless; it is [Thomas Nagel's] ‘view from nowhere’” (xix). In this respect, Baker makes an important distinction between the “rudimentary first-person perspective” and the “robust first-person perspective” (a distinction that is very promising, it could...

...—will be all that attractive to the ardent realist. (Admittedly, I am shadow boxing a bit.) Eklund's ardent realist sounds most like a robust nonnaturalist realist, and I can't help but think that robust nonnaturalist realists would be reluctant to place so much weight on normative role qua practical profile...

...). There are alternatives to this dilemma. Apart from the extreme move of rejecting (4), one may renounce (1) in favor of (multiple, local) type-identi- ties, or deny (2) and adopt some robust version of (Substance- or Property-) Dualism. But serious doubts have been cast on the stability of positions that try to hold...

... bacteria. Many critics regard this consequence as implausible, because one can satisfactorily explain magnetotaxis without any attribution of representational content ( Burge 2010 : 300). Shea avoids attributing representational content to magnetotactic bacteria by imposing a robustness constraint...

...- ual alternative possibility; rather, the alternative possibility must be suf- ficiently robust to ground plausibly attributions of moral responsibility.12 Robert Kane, who is a libertarian, agrees with me about this point; he has emphasized what he takes to be the “plurality” conditions on moral...

... placeholder cannot be transformed into something “heftier” by the application of a further explanatory inference rule. Suppose we accept, in accord with the deflationary viewpoint that we are exploring, that truth-ascriptions like (28) It is true that there are human beings play no robust role...

... facie quite successful. Chapter 2 provides an account of measurement as the reliable interaction with in- dependent causal structure and then argues that statistical testing is a kind of measurement. Chapter 3 identifies different versions of realism. Robust realism claims that the theoretical...

... a friend or family member to bear a child for them to begin with? Love is a central thread running through this book. Parental love, Ferracioli argues, is peculiarly deep and robust: it not only inspires parents to care for their children but disposes them to a level of self-sacrifice we expect from...

... and external objects. He holds that a genuinely robust realism must reject all forms of mind-dependence, including dependence on the conceptual resources peculiar to human cognizers. If we must have substances, which sorts are there? Nyāya answers that we must have both objects that exist independently...

... are identifying is absurd. But, absurd or not, this intuitive underlying “phenomenology” is not easily disposed of. There is a remarkable robustness about the phenomenology: it erupts into our linguistic practices, not just in our sense of what is going on, and not in a way that we can easily suppress...

... when restricted to instances in which premises (1*) and (2 if true, would still be true were S to face the choice of whether to make A true or make B true. To have a handier expression, we may formulate the restriction thus: the premises (1*) and (2*) must be robust (to borrow a term from Roy...

..., but that sincerity has been doubted. Holden himself concedes that recognition of the “great cause” produces something hardly recognizable as religious. More problematically, the conclusion that Holden has defeated readings of Hobbes as a more robust theist (or even as an unorthodox Christian) relies on his...

... (even if the principled considerations against it by and large fail). Perhaps most interestingly in this context, Wall argues that some of these pragmatic difficulties are not entirely contingent, they are “robust across social contexts” (204). (The discussion in this chapter would have benefited from...

... concerning what I would do if I were in those situations (for exam- ple, to ask oneself whether Caesar ought to cross the Rubicon is to ask, roughly speaking, whether one plans to cross the Rubicon in the situation where one is Caesar faced with the option of crossing the Rubicon) with the more robust nor...

... concerning what I would do if I were in those situations (for exam- ple, to ask oneself whether Caesar ought to cross the Rubicon is to ask, roughly speaking, whether one plans to cross the Rubicon in the situation where one is Caesar faced with the option of crossing the Rubicon) with the more robust nor...

... concerning what I would do if I were in those situations (for exam- ple, to ask oneself whether Caesar ought to cross the Rubicon is to ask, roughly speaking, whether one plans to cross the Rubicon in the situation where one is Caesar faced with the option of crossing the Rubicon) with the more robust nor...

... concerning what I would do if I were in those situations (for exam- ple, to ask oneself whether Caesar ought to cross the Rubicon is to ask, roughly speaking, whether one plans to cross the Rubicon in the situation where one is Caesar faced with the option of crossing the Rubicon) with the more robust nor...