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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 473–480.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Michelle Montague Kriegel Uriah , Brentano’s Philosophical System: Mind, Being, and Value . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 308 pp. Textor Mark , Brentano's Mind . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xvi+302 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 469–472.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Muhammad Ali Khalidi DYNAMICS IN ACTION: INTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM. By Alicia Juarrero. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. x, 288. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS
The Philosophical hinu,Vol. 110, No. 3 uuly 2001...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 453–497.
Published: 01 October 2022
...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...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (2): 251–298.
Published: 01 April 2020
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (1): 31–76.
Published: 01 January 2010
... to consider particles fundamental, with metaphysical explanation snaking upward from the many. There seem to be physical and modal considerations that favor the monistic view. Physically, there is good evidence that the cosmos forms an entangled system and good reason to treat entangled systems as irreducible...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 339–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
... fruitfully been applied to modulating the way agents or systems make choices over time. This article extends the trade-off to belief. We can be torn between two ways of believing, one of which is expected to be more accurate in light of current evidence, whereas the other is expected to lead to more learning...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 385–449.
Published: 01 July 2021
... is that Kant’s idealist argument from incongruent counterparts rests essentially on his theory of freedom. The surprising result sheds new light on deep and overlooked links among the pillars of transcendental idealism, pointing the way to a comprehensive and unified reading of Kant’s system of idealist...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of count noun. This data set, they say, reveals that names’ interaction with the determiner system differs from that of common count nouns only with respect to the definite article ‘the’. They conclude that this special distribution of names is best explained by the-predicativism, the view that posits...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 433–485.
Published: 01 October 2018
... theory and a dynamic system of contingent identity. I then consider a variant on the initial puzzle that helps us to choose between the two theories. The variant also sheds light on how the phenomenon discussed in this essay relates to Frege's Puzzle about attitude ascriptions. © 2018 by Cornell...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 395–431.
Published: 01 July 2020
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 277–284.
Published: 01 April 2012
... systems will preserve their equivalence. If they were functionally equivalent before the exchange, they will also be so after. Consideration of the contextual nature of realization shows that Principle P is not a general truth as Tye claims, and his argument against the possibility of absent qualia thus...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 135–163.
Published: 01 April 2010
... it is easy to appreciate Leibniz's reasons for embracing this view, it has proven difficult to see how his doctrine of incompossibility might be reconciled with the broader commitments of his larger philosophical system. This essay develops, in four sections, a novel solution to the “puzzle...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 495–519.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of visuomotor action, on the other. This “dual visual systems” hypothesis, which finds many echoes in various other bodies of cognitive scientific research, poses a prima facie challenge to the Assumption of Experience-Based Control. More importantly, it provides (I shall argue) fuel for an alternative...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Christian List; Marcus Pivato This article offers a new argument for the claim that there can be nondegenerate objective chance in a deterministic world. Using a formal model of the relationship between different levels of description of a system, the article shows how objective chance at a higher...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 579–627.
Published: 01 October 2023
... semantics of familiar sign systems, both for atomic first-order representations, like words, pixel colors, and dials, and for complex second-order representations, like sentences, diagrams, and pictures. [email protected] © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 iconic symbolic sign...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 96–101.
Published: 01 January 2024
...: “To the question how chance can be reconciled with determinism, …my answer is: it can’t be done .” But a number of philosophers have tried, in the past thirty years or so, to show that Lewis was mistaken. Motives for doing so are not hard to find. Classical gambling systems such as coin flips and dice rolls...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 536–541.
Published: 01 October 2018
... general study of implicit cognition, which tends to be based on two-systems theories of cognition. Two-systems theories posit two distinct cognitive systems: a lower-level system that is associative, automatic, rapid, and unconscious, and a higher-level system that is rule-based, controlled, relatively...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 434–436.
Published: 01 July 2001
... are a bit
unjust. A principled concern for “systemicvalues” therefore entails that a state
must routinely punish persons who have broken a law that may not be just.
In Mural Combat Heidi M. Hurd seeks to resolve this important dilemma
facing modern legal systems. The book’s title refers to one...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 641–645.
Published: 01 October 2023
... or abstracting away details from the full description of a physical system given by fundamental physical theory. Batterman argued that recognizing that many details of a physical system are irrelevant to much of its dynamical behavior and, using asymptotic reasoning to eliminate those irrelevant details, often...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 225–240.
Published: 01 April 2009
... to pragmatic justification.
Before we come to Boghossian’s characterization of epistemic rel-
ativism, we must first understand three auxiliary notions:
• an epistemic judgment
• an epistemic principle
• an epistemic system
First, an epistemic judgment is a belief whose content...
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