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The Unity of Marx’s Concept of Alienated Labor
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 33–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... This article defends a reinterpretation of the concept that explains this unity. The various features of alienated labor, the article argues, all follow from a single, hitherto underappreciated feature of its formal motivational structure: the fact that such labor is motivated not by its product...
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Nonclassical Minds and Indeterminate Survival
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 379–428.
Published: 01 October 2014
...J. Robert G. Williams Revisionary theories of logic or truth require revisionary theories of mind. This essay outlines nonclassically based theories of rational belief, desire, and decision making, singling out the supervaluational family for special attention. To see these nonclassical theories...
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The Paradox of Sufficient Reason
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 397–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
... 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...
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Emergent Chance
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... The article demonstrates that the distinction between objective chance and epistemic probability can be drawn, and operationalized, at every level of description. There is, therefore, not a single distinction between objective and epistemic probability but a family of such distinctions. © 2014 by Cornell...
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Typical shape from shading stimuli; shape (either convex or concave) is ass...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Typical shape from shading stimuli; shape (either convex or concave) is assigned to multiple objects under the assumption of a single illuminant governing them all. This assumption is defeasible, as discussed in Morgenstern, Murray, and Harris 2011 and Wilder, Adams, and Richard F
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The right diagram depicts epistemic accessibility given the pattern of comp...
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; double arrows indicate what is accessible under both km- and i-normality ; and single arrows indicate what is accessible under i-normality only.
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Averroes on Intellect: from Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas’s Critique
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 297–301.
Published: 01 April 2023
... at the very least puts the onus on interpreters to explain how we humans are, in our multiplicity, somehow the same as one single intellect. Ogden’s reading has a consequence that Averroes seems to admit (see esp. 223), namely that humans have no prospect of an individual afterlife. The human species...
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Brute Rationality
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 306–310.
Published: 01 April 2008
.... It follows, on Gert’s view,
that even though we may be all-things-considered rationally justified in doing
X, we need not be, even when fully rational and fully informed, motivated to
do X.
On the common view of practical reason rejected by Gert, every rea-
son is associated with a single value...
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Multiple Universes and Self-Locating Evidence
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 241–294.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that is preserved by embeddings of one world in another. Any local proposition that is true in a single universe is also true in any multiverse that includes a copy of that single universe. Whatever probability such a proposition may have conditional on there being a single universe (strictly between zero...
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Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 241–245.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., in the case of the Supreme Court and a trog, he claims that there is no single object that is the Supreme Court (“the Supreme Court” is referentially plural on his view), whereas ex hypothesi a trog is a single object. This view, he says, accords with various intuitions that we have, including the intuition...
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Neutral Relations
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2000
... s1 that we
may describe as the state of a’s being on top of b. There is also a
certain state of affairs s, that may be described as the state of b’s
being beneath a. Yet surely the states s1 and s, are the same. There
is a single state of affairs s “out there” in reality, consisting...
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Brentano’s Philosophical System: Mind, Being, and Value and Brentano’s Mind
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 473–480.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-evidence. It is crucial to Brentano’s theory that the inner perception of M and M itself form a single state . It is as Brentano says a “unity”—one thing. (In recent literature, Brentano’s view is often characterized as a same-order view and opposed to higher-order views according to which...
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The Quality of Freedom
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 551–553.
Published: 01 October 2005
... of freedom serve to refute the republicans’
claim to have identified a distinct conception of freedom. A suitably refined
account of negative freedom—which takes into account, for example, the
times and probabilities of freedoms, and the difference between a single free-
dom and a set of conjunctively...
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Consciousness in Action
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 465–469.
Published: 01 July 2000
... to their presence in a single subject, since there is no way to
identify a subject of experience apart from the unification of content that
is at issue. This is an “objective” solution that makes a subject into too
much of an object. But Hurley also rejects Kant’s own appeal to ac& of
synthesis-because...
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Rights and Demands: A Foundational Inquiry
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 162–167.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the agents standing in a normative relationship which entails (roughly) that they ought to “emulate, by virtue of their several actions including their utterances, a single body that ϕ-s” (166). There is something prima facie puzzling about the idea that this relationship could explain why each agent thereby...
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Narrow Content
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 475–480.
Published: 01 July 2021
... this will not do. YVH purport to describe a single agent, Mirror Man, who, at a single time, thinks two qualitatively indistinguishable thoughts that differ in truth-value. Think of Mirror Man as Ethan and Twin Ethan crammed into one body. Mirror Man is a left-right symmetric agent. Every time he thinks...
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Objective Becoming
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 418–422.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and this demonstrates that the other assumptions of the Passage Intuition are false as well. Temporal passage and change are just mere variations in a single eternal space-time manifold. This is the so-called “block view” of space-time. While Skow ultimately endorses the block (or, as he calls it, the “anemic...
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Parthood
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (1): 51–91.
Published: 01 January 2007
... relation.
2. The Intimacy of Parthood
Composition as identity challenges our habitual thinking about iden-
tity and number. How can many things be identical to a single thing?
Section 4 will present a watered-down version for the faint of heart. But
fi rst, please take a fresh look, and appreciate...
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Objects and Persons
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 586–588.
Published: 01 October 2002
... it C—that is a proper or
improper part of O. (Since there is a single cerebral realization of conscious-
ness, it’s plausible, to say the least, that there is a single consciousness realized,
and a single subject of it, even though there are multiple containers of it: the
brain; the head; the whole...
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