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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 417–420.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Mary Salvaggio Michaelian Kourken , Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press , 2016 . xx + 291 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 Mental Time Travel defends the extraordinary claim that episodic memory...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 250–254.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Huw Price Callender Craig , What Makes Time Special? Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xvii + 336 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Craig Callender's What Makes Time Special? is a special book in at least four dimensions. It is the most original work...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 527–531.
Published: 01 October 2019
...” of experience (28) amounts to, whether perceptually represented change has a “dynamic aspect” (165), whether there is a “dynamic element in the phenomenal character” of experience (169), and so on. Prosser proposes to understand this central notion in terms of “those apparent features of time for which...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 495–499.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Brian Hedden Sullivan Meghan , Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 196 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 This book is about, and more precisely against , time biases. Time biases involve...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 154–158.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Antti Kauppinen Calhoun Cheshire , Doing Valuable Time . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . vii + 185 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Sadly, we're all going to die, so we have a finite amount of time at our disposal. How should we spend it if we want to lead...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 495–499.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Jeffrey K. McDonough [email protected] Arthur Richard T. W. , Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . xi + 404 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 In his impressive Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity , Ric Arthur...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 January 2001
...John Heil THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS: SUBSTANCE, IDENTITY, AND TIME. By E. J. Lowe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 275. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVLEWS
concerns the metaphysics of Lewis, Plantinga, Forbes, and Rosen...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 148–152.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Steven Weinstein GÖDEL MEETS EINSTEIN: TIME TRAVEL IN THE GÖDEL UNIVERSE. By Palle Yourgrau. Chicago: Open Court, 1999. Pp. xiv, 253. Cornell University 2002 Bell, John. 1976 . “How to Teach Special Relativity.” Reprinted in Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 278–281.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Quentin Smith Cornell University 2002 Peter Ludlow, Semantics, Tense, and Time. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 252. BOOK REVIEWS
inalienability is a normative notion, it is hard to see why a person’s not being able to give
up a right should imply...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Kathrin Koslicki Theodore Sider, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 250. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS
ical speculations in an attempt to “get closer to some real (even if inarticulate...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 405–451.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Dilip Ninan This essay uses a puzzle about assertion and time to explore the pragmatics, semantics, and epistemology of future discourse. The puzzle concerns cases in which a subject is in a position to say, at an initial time t , that it will be that ϕ , but is not in a position to say, at a later...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
... a period of time. On this view, watching is a kind of perceptual activity distinguished by a distinctive epistemic role. The essay presents a puzzle about watching an object that arises through elementary reflection on the consequences of two apparent truths about watching an object throughout a period...
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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 (2022) 131 (1): 1–49.
Published: 01 January 2022
... study, we turn to the Past Hypothesis, a postulate that (partially) explains the direction of time in our world. We have reasons to take it seriously as a candidate fundamental law of nature. Yet it is vague: it admits borderline (nomologically) possible worlds. An exact version would lead...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 555–606.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Beauty awakens her degree of belief in heads should be one-third. This demonstrates that it can be rational for an agent who gains only self-locating beliefs between two times to alter her degree of belief in a non-self-locating claim. © 2008 by Cornell University 2008 Arntzenius, F. 2003...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Trenton Merricks Suppose that time t is just a few moments from now. And suppose that the proposition that Jones sits at t was true a thousand years ago. Does the thousand-years-ago truth of that proposition imply that Jones's upcoming sitting at t will not be free? This article argues that it does...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (4): 425–464.
Published: 01 October 2009
...Dilip Ninan When one considers one's own persistence over time from the first-person perspective, it seems as if facts about one's persistence are “further facts,” over and above facts about physical and psychological continuity. But the idea that facts about one's persistence are further facts...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of the female ones and despite the number of mosquitoes that don't carry the virus being ninety-nine times the number that do. Puzzling facts such as these have made generic sentences defy adequate semantic treatment. However complex the truth conditions of generics appear to be, though, young children grasp...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (4): 473–507.
Published: 01 October 2016
... when the judgment is in fact mistaken). In these instances, your friendship can make it the case that you may not act on your own practical and even moral judgments because, at those times, you have a duty as their close friend to defer to their judgments. As a result, treating your friend properly...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 487–514.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Peter B. M. Vranas The claim that (OIC) “ought” implies “can” (i.e., you have an obligation only at times at which you can obey it) entails that (1) obligations that become infeasible are lost (i.e., you stop having an obligation when you become unable to obey it). Moreover, the claim that (2...
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