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... of Quantifiers.” Fundamenta Mathematicae 44 : 12 -36. Sher, Gila. 1991 . The Bounds of Logic: A Generalized Viewpoint . Cambridge: MIT Press. ____. 1996 . “Did Tarski Commit `Tarski's fallacy'?” Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 : 653 -86. ____. 2001 . “The Formal-Structural View of Logical...

...Harold T. Hodes Jan von Plato and Sara Negri, Structural Proof Theory . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 257 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Christopher Peacocke, The Realm of Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 284...

.... Corcoran. History and Philosophy of Logic 7 (1986): 143 -54. Warmbrōd, K. 1999 . “Logical Constants.” Mind 108 : 503 -36. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 2 (April 2001) DISCUSSION The Formal-Structural View Of Logical Consequence...

.... ‘There’s something it’s like’ and the Structure of Consciousness Benj Hellie University of Toronto For an experience to be phenomenally conscious is for there to be something it’s like; our talk about phenomenal consciousness...

...Logi Gunnarsson Robert Audi, The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 286. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2003...

...Jeremy Butterfield [email protected] North Jill , Physics, Structure, and Reality . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . x + 252 pp. © 2025 by Cornell University 2025 This is a very good book. It addresses central questions about the interpretation of physical...

...Sam Berstler In conversation, we often do not acknowledge what we jointly know to be true. This article identifies a distinctive kind of non-acknowledgment norm, open secrecy norms, and analyzes how such norms constrain our speech. First, the author argues that open secrecy norms are structurally...

...Franklin Mason PARTS AND PLACES: THE STRUCTURES OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION. By Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999. Pp. 238. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS important philosophical topic. It deserves readers who...

...Andrew Bacon This paper argues that the theory of structured propositions is not undermined by the Russell-Myhill paradox. I develop a theory of structured propositions in which the Russell-Myhill paradox doesn’t arise: the theory does not involve ramification or compromises to the underlying logic...

...David Liebesman Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 230 pp. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 Collins, John. 2007 . “Syntax, More or Less.” Mind 116 : 805 –50. Ramsey, F. P. 1925 . “Universals.” Mind 34 : 401...

...Christopher Shields Verity Harte, Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 311. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 2 (April 2005...

... the details, there is no question that an orthodoxy—metaphysical foundationalism—has fast settled upon the research program: reality is hierarchically structured and contains a fundamental level populated by contingent existents. To question these commitments, it has been suggested (although...

... correspond to degrees of phenomenal similarity. This article argues that the standard framework is structurally inadequate and develops a new framework that is more powerful and flexible. The core problem for the standard framework is that it cannot capture precision structure : for example, consider...

...Jon Erling Litland This paper develops a novel theory of abstraction—what we call collective abstraction . The theory solves a notorious problem for noneliminative structuralism. The noneliminative structuralist holds that in addition to various isomorphic systems there is a pure structure that can...

...James Wilberding In the Republic Plato presents a hierarchy of five cities, each representing a structural arrangement of the soul. The timocratic soul, characterized by its governance by spirit and its consequent desire for esteem and aversion to shame, is ranked as the second-best kind of soul...

..., to be performed. This thesis assumes that the structure of motivating reasons is sufficiently similar to the structure of normative reasons that the required coincidence in content and strength is a genuine possibility. But because motivating reasons have only one dimension of strength, while normative reasons...

... mathematical structure of a probability function does. The second mistake is that the hyperreals make too many distinctions. They have a much more complex structure than credences in ordinary propositions can have, so they make distinctions that don't exist among credences. While they might be useful...

... Darwall's example of motivationally potent reasoning that is not based on preexisting desires, Thomas Scanlon's criticism that the Humean theory fails to account for the structure and phenomenology of deliberation, and the phenomenon of akrasia as discussed by John Searle. In each case a Humean account...

... decision theories are subject to counterexamples. Decision rules can be reinterpreted as voting rules, where the voters are the agent's possible future selves. The problematic examples have the structure of voting paradoxes. Just as voting paradoxes show that no voting rule can do everything we want...