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A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 237–240.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij Hazlett Allan , A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2013 . xi + 302 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 We commonly think of true belief as something valuable. In his provocative and well...
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True Enough
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 363–366.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Angela Potochnik Elgin Catherine Z. , True Enough . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press , 2017 . ix + 309 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 The project Catherine Elgin embarks on in her latest book, True Enough , is expansive and ambitious. The book shares its title with a 2004...
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The Taming of the True
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 290–293.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Michael Glanzberg THE TAMING OF THE TRUE. By Neil Tennant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 465. Cornell University 2000 Dummett, Michael. 1991 . The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ____. 1993 . The Seas Of Language. Oxford...
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Cantor, Choice, and Paradox
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (3): 223–263.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Nicholas DiBella This article proposes a revision of Cantor’s account of set size that understands comparisons of set size fundamentally in terms of surjections rather than injections. This revised account is equivalent to Cantor’s account if the axiom of choice is true, but its consequences differ...
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'Ought' and Ability
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 337–382.
Published: 01 July 2011
... that have been offered for it. Toward the end, a proposal about moral obligation according to which something like a restricted version of 'Ought' Implies 'Can' is true is floated. Though no full-fledged argument for this proposal is offered, that it fits with a rather natural and intuitive picture...
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Freedom and the Fixity of the Past
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 179–207.
Published: 01 April 2012
...? 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...
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Multidimensional Possible-World Semantics for Conditionals
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
... the world would be like if one or another supposition were true). To capture this observation, this essay proposes that the semantic contents of conditionals be treated as sets of vectors of possible worlds, not singleton worlds, with the coordinates of each specifying the world that is or would be true...
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Generics: Cognition and Acquisition
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Sarah-Jane Leslie `Ducks lay eggs' is a true sentence, and `ducks are female' is a false one. Similarly, `mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus' is obviously true, whereas `mosquitoes don't carry the West Nile virus' is patently false. This is so despite the egg-laying ducks' being a subset...
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Truth and Freedom
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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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Distorted Reflection
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that dramatize incoherence and those that dramatize self-doubt cross-cuts the distinction between synchronic and diachronic Dutch books. The essay explains why the Dutch book for conditionalization reveals true incoherence, whereas the Dutch book for Reflection reveals only self-doubt. Cornell University 2009...
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On Truth-Conditions for If (but Not Quite Only If )
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 325–349.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Anthony S. Gillies What we want to be true about ordinary indicative conditionals seems to be more than we can possibly get: there just seems to be no good way to assign truth-conditions to ordinary indicative conditionals. Some take this argument as reason to make our wantings more modest. Others...
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The Structure of Open Secrets
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (2): 109–148.
Published: 01 April 2025
...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...
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Fictional Reality
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (2): 149–201.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Kyle Blumberg; Ben Holguín This article defends a theory of fictional truth. According to this theory, there is a fact of the matter concerning the number of hairs on Sherlock Holmes’s head, and likewise for any other meaningful question one could ask about what’s true in a work of fiction...
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Where Love and Resentment Meet: Strawson's Intrapersonal Defense of Compatibilism
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 January 2012
... as incompatibilists believe that we can or should forgo moral blame if determinism is true, their stance may seem out of touch with our emotional reality. This essay examines Strawson's claim that the reactive attitudes are inseparable from ordinary interpersonal relationships. Strawson says surprisingly little...
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Foreknowledge and Freedom
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (4): 567–586.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Trenton Merricks The bulk of the essay “Truth and Freedom” ( Philosophical Review 118 [2009]: 29–57) opposes fatalism, which is the claim that if there is a true proposition to the effect that an action A will occur, then A will not be free. But that essay also offers a new way to reconcile divine...
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Haecceitism, Chance, and Counterfactuals
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 573–609.
Published: 01 October 2012
...), then it is natural to conclude that they really are the entities we talk about when we speak of worlds, so that haecceitism is true after all. © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 For helpful comments and discussion, I am indebted to David Baker, Ross Cameron, David Chalmers, Shamik Dasgupta, John Divers...
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Semantic Plasticity and Speech Reports
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 281–338.
Published: 01 July 2014
... reasonably be confident in a counterfactual whose consequent can be true only if a certain very finely tuned microphysical configuration obtains. This essay develops the foregoing puzzle and explores several possible solutions. © 2014 by Cornell University, 2014 2014 Understand ‘semantics’ broadly...
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Locke's Simple Account of Sensitive Knowledge
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 205–239.
Published: 01 April 2016
... to solving both problems is Locke's claim that simple ideas are all real, adequate, and true. This explains why, on Locke's view, we have certain knowledge through the senses. It also explains how sensitive knowledge can consist in perceiving an agreement between ideas: perceived agreements among simple...
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The Paradox of Sufficient Reason
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 397–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
... is a more satisfactory explanation of why, if PSR is true, there should be no conjunction of all contingent truths. This sheds new light on the nature of the explanatory demand embedded in PSR and uncovers a number of surprising implications for the commitments of rationalism. © 2016 by Cornell University...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 241–286.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Cian Dorr This essay considers how counterfactuals should be evaluated on the assumption that determinism is true. It argues against Lewis's influential view that if anything had happened that did not actually happen, the actual laws of nature would have been false, and defends the competing view...
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