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... joy, balletic clumsiness, silliness, ordinary age-specific behavior, ambiguous language, mimicry, irony, insults, and incompetence. But when we look at them from our engaged human perspective, there are two obvious ways to see the group as perfectly unified. First, these are all things to which we...

...Sonia Roca-Royes Penelope Mackie, How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. xii + 212 pp. Cornell University 2009 Chalmers, David. 2002 . “Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?” In Conceivability and Possibility , ed...

... on naturalness (Hirsch 1993). [email protected] Worsnip Alex , Fitting Things Together . New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 335 pp. © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 Fitting Things Together defends the distinctive normativity of structural rationality , which...

...) Putting Things in Contexts Ben Caplan 1. Introduction Thanks to David Kaplan (1989a, 1989b), we all know how to handle indexicals like ‘I’. ‘I’ doesn’t refer to an object simpliciter; rather, it refers to an object only relative to a context. In particular, relative...

...Eric Hiddleston James Woodward, Making Things Happen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vi, 410. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 4 (October 2005) James Woodward, Making Things Happen...

...Robert J. Stainton Stephen Schiffer, The Things We Mean . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 362 pp. Cornell University 2006 Cappelen, Herman, and Ernest Lepore. 2005 . Insensitive Semantics . Oxford: Blackwell. Carston, Robyn. 2002 . Thoughts and Utterances . Oxford...

... might suggest that the knowledge gained is immediate. This essay argues, to the contrary, that in these target cases, the knowledge is mediate, depending as it does on one's knowledge of what the relevant kind of thing looks like. To make the case requires examining the nature of knowing what Fs look...

...Thomas Hofweber Bennett Karen , Making Things Up . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xi + 260 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Karen Bennett's book defends the layered picture of reality: some things are more fundamental than others. And as a book in metaphysics...

...A. W. Moore KANTIAN HUMILITY: OUR IGNORANCE OF THINGS IN THEMSELVES. By Rae Langton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 232. Cornell University 2001 Kant, Immanuel. 1781/1787. Kritik der reinen Vernunft. English translation: Critique of Pure Reason, trans. and ed...

... by Ralph Wedgwood that this essay will call benchmark theory (BT) all advise agents to maximize different types of expected value. Consequently, their verdicts sometimes conflict. In certain famous cases of conflict—medical Newcomb problems—CDT and BT seem to get things right, while EDT seems to get things...

... wholly distinct things would be mysterious and inexplicable. Philosophers deploy this claim in the service of a wide variety of philosophical projects. But Saul Kripke has argued that it is false. According to Kripke, there are necessary connections between distinct existences; in particular...

...Desmond Hogan A central doctrine of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason holds that the content of human experience is rooted in an affection of sensibility by unknowable things in themselves. This famous and puzzling affection doctrine raises two seemingly intractable old problems, which can be termed...

...Mark Eli Kalderon In Fear of Knowledge , Paul Boghossian argues against the very coherence of epistemic relativism. This essay does two things. First, without questioning the truth of his conclusion, it argues that Boghossian's argument for that conclusion fails. Second, it argues that the avowed...

... about which things are F er than which overall ? Social choice theory can be used to model and investigate this aggregation problem. This article focuses on a particularly thorny problem made salient by this social choice-theoretic framework: the underlying dimensions of a given concept might...

... water and other natural kinds, among other things) in the consequent, is a priori. The question arises why, since facts about water and the like do not metaphysically supervene on the phenomenal facts, is it appropriate to include the phenomenal facts in the antecedent of the relevant supervenience...

... view that 'ought' always expresses this relation—adherents of the naive view are happy to allow that 'ought' also has an evaluative sense, on which it means, roughly, that were things ideal, some proposition would be the case. What is important to the naive view is that there is also a deliberative...

...John Martin Fischer; Patrick Todd In his recent essay in the Philosophical Review , “Truth and Freedom,” Trenton Merricks contends (among other things) that the basic argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and human freedom is question-begging. He relies on a “truism” to the effect...

... several challenges to Garber's interpretation, questioning, among other things, Garber's claims about development and Garber's account of Leibniz's primary arguments for the theory of monads. The article concludes that while crucial elements of the standard interpretation of Leibniz as an idealist can...

...? Because if determinism is true—if the laws of nature and the initial conditions of the Big Bang determined a unique future for our universe—then doing anything other than what you are determined to do would require one of two things: either a miracle , a violation of the actual laws of nature...

... friendly versions of (i) and (ii) by replacing the appeal to possible worlds with reference to the newly introduced entities. This maneuver invites an obvious reply, however. If the new entities are the things that play the role we typically associate with worlds, as partially described by (i) and (ii...