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... that, in each type of case, the would-be critics should not constrain their participation in moral discourse on the grounds that they are not themselves innocent of the wrongdoing they criticize in others. © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 hypocrisy criticism blame equality standing The call...

... forgiving is genuinely possible—as this essay hopes to illustrate—then this fact has implications for our understanding of both relational normativity and the nature of forgiveness. © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 forgiving forgiveness rights standing complaint This essay defends...

...Andrew Bacon In explaining the notion of a fundamental property or relation, metaphysicians will often draw an analogy with languages. The fundamental properties and relations stand to reality as the primitive predicates and relations stand to a language: the smallest set of vocabulary God would...

... on an extension of a proposal due to Ned Hall and others from the case of chance to that of causation. The remedy suggests a new view of the relation between causal decision theory and evidential decision theory, namely, that they stand to each other much as chance stands to credence, being objective...

... of political equality is for the state to treat each citizen as an equal coauthor of the law. The overarching goal is to catalyze a more vigorous debate about political equality, akin to the long-standing debates about other dimensions of equality. [email protected] © 2024 by Cornell University...

... of mental systems that stand at the border of perception and belief, and has been extensively studied in developmental psychology. Core cognition's borderline states do not fit neatly into the traditional epistemic picture. What is the epistemic role of these states? Focusing on the core object system...

... still necessary? The seemingly obvious answer is “yes.” Killing is necessary since it is the only means to achieve the goal that stands to justify killing. The problem with this answer is that it presupposes a certain description of that goal as something like “saving Victim’s life” or “saving Victim’s...

... by, systems of social oppression. In such cases, the article suggests, the externalistic view that justification is in part a matter of worldly relations, rather than the internalistic view that justification is solely a matter of how things stand from the agent’s individual perspective, becomes the more...

...Jacob M. Nebel The standard view of believes and other propositional attitude verbs is that such verbs express relations between agents and propositions. A sentence of the form “ S believes that p ” is true just in case S stands in the belief-relation to the proposition that p ; this proposition...

... 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...

... Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (April 2002) Peter Byrne, Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Mental Handicap. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 175. The central theme of Byrne’s book is the fundamental moral standing of peo- ple who are mentally handicapped. Most ethical theories...

... . Such rights are “internally relational” (50), typically involving a special status of obligation to particular individuals. When X has a demand right against Y to Y's ϕ-ing, Y is pro tanto obligated to X to ϕ, and owes X his ϕ-ing. X has the standing to demand of Y that they ϕ. Such demands are more...

... ( Reiland 2013, n.d. ). 1. I use ‘judge * ’ because Hanks thinks that the basic propositional act is defined in terms of taking a stand on whether the object has the property. In contrast, the ordinary notion of judging has intuitively more packed in it than just taking such a stand. For example...

... . The Rationality of Perception is an important book. It offers a lucid description of a new puzzle about experience, and it describes a fresh approach to thinking about perception's epistemic and rational standing. It also is a pleasure to read, lively and engaging. The narrative is rich with vivid examples...

... it stands in. Since I wish to allow that different occurrences of the same expression might des- ignate different things, I really need to characterize designation for occurrences of expressions in sentences as follows: an occurrence of expression e in sentence S designates o iff this occurrence of e...

... version of reliabilism, there are three types of knowledge: foundational, truth-tracking knowledge; evidence-based inferential knowledge; and knowledge where one simply has a true standing belief, that is, when one has an “innate predisposition to form [a belief] that is largely independent of input...

... between people and other animals are incoherent, for “there is no place to stand and make” such judgments, “at least…with any plausibility” (15). Nevertheless, a concept of “absolute goodness” can be retained that is consistent with tethered value: what is of absolute goodness is what is good for everyone...

... appeared over the last ten years. To stand out in this field, you need a twist. Ichikawa's is that contextualism and knowledge first epistemology go well together. This is a surprising theme, and Contextualizing Knowledge is full of adventuresome ideas. I'm puzzled about the basic agenda at the heart...

... further development. Having established this psychological structure of will to power, standing in the world, and ressentiment , Reginster applies it to the three essays of the Genealogy . It is not possible here to engage with details, but the analyses are penetrating, nuanced, and insightful...

... and is known to us through books 5 and 7 of Euclid’s Elements.12 Euclid does not define magnitude [megathos]. He does, however, use the term to help pick out the sorts of things that are capable of standing in ratios. Euclid states: “A ratio is a kind of relation with respect to size between two...