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...A. John Simmons AN ESSAY ON THE MODERN STATE. By Christopher W. Morris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 305. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVlEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2000) ANESSAY ON THE MODERN...

...Kevin E. Dodson WELFARE IN THE KANTIAN STATE. By Alexander Kaufman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. Xii, 179. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS (Incidentally, it is unfortunate that Curley and Walski perpetuate the strange mistranslation...

...Laurie Shrage Chambers Clare , Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xi + 226 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Against Marriage appeals to liberal feminist principles to expose the injustices...

...Stephanie Collins References Collins Stephanie . 2016 . “ Distributing States’ Duties .” Journal of Political Philosophy 24 , no. 3 : 344 – 66 . In all, Pasternak is to be applauded for her incisive, comprehensive, and thought-provoking treatment of these issues...

... by the extent to which its preferences are satisfied, irrespective of the quantity or strength of the preferences. Third, Višak presents an evolutionary argument to the effect that the best account of hedonic states entails that the hedonic scale is relative for all animals; so, again, EQU is true even...

... : State University of New York Press . Sprague Rosamond Kent . 1973 . Plato: “Laches” and “Charmides.” Indianapolis : Hackett . Tsouna Voula . 2022 . Plato’s “Charmides”: An Interpretative Commentary . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Tuckey Thomas G...

... will discuss are either unconditional or such that their conditions are guaranteed to be met regardless of what their subjects do. 6 According to subjectivists, facts about reasons for action are explained by facts about which states of affairs would be promoted by which actions. The idea of promotion...

...). The next chapter (“Parsimony in Evolutionary Biology”) is an extended reflection on the use of parsimony arguments in evolutionary biology, especially with respect to phylogenetic inference (figuring out how particular populations are related to one another, and what the ancestral state of previous...

... unsuccessful. Korsgaard's Argument relies on a conception of rational agency with three important features. The first is the reflective structure of human consciousness . Unlike other animals, Korsgaard argues, humans are conscious of their own mental states and, as a result, face the question of whether...

... observes no real connection among its perceptions, then there is no such connection. So, however our perceptions form a whole, it is not thanks to a real connection among them. 30 To see this, let us start with the Appendix. After stating that distinct perceptions “form a whole only by being...

... and Epistemology is a broad, impressive, and interesting collection of essays on the nature of implicit bias. It presents various views on the kind of cognitive states that underlie implicit bias; how to interpret the results of methodological tools that purport to measure implicit bias; the relation...

... theses: (A) Only desires or similar conative states provide impulses to act. (B) Beliefs alone cannot initiate action, nor cause affective states that in turn move us to act; they can only influence action by directing already-present desires. (C) Necessarily, all moral evaluations are motives. (D...