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... exploring whether a type of solution that works for one can be extended to the other. In this essay, I want to try out one neglected route for such a uniform treatment. There have been some attempts to account for the knowledge Mary acquires on the model of the knowledge that the gods lack. 1 However...

...Abe Roth TRYING WITHOUT WILLING: AN ESSAY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. By Timothy Cleveland. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. Pp. xiii, 188. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVIEWS I “endorse”-is roughly this: If OT were true, then, if we were unable...

...Michael Caie Probabilism is the view that a rational agent's credences should always be probabilistically coherent. It has been argued that Probabilism follows, given the assumption that an epistemically rational agent ought to try to have credences that represent the world as accurately...

... for the incompatibility of deflationism and RI. Section 3 argues that direct RI—RI that is not simply a derivative of some other, nonreferential instance of indeterminacy—is strictly incompatible with deflationism. Section 4 considers a couple of different ways the deflationist might try to achieve indirect RI—via...

... to such counterfactuals. In light of this, one could try to save the orthodox theories either by appealing to pragmatics or by denying that the antecedents of alleged counteridenticals really contain identity claims. Or one could reject the orthodox theory of counterfactuals in favor of a hyperintensional semantics...

.... Imagine Attacker is trying to kill Victim, and the only way one could save Victim is by killing Attacker. It would seem that, in such a case, killing is necessary. But now suppose there is some other innocent person, suffering some entirely distinct threat, whose life one could save instead. Is killing...

... and 2002), but in this paper I will try to remain as neutral as possible about their answers. The problem discussed here is orthogonal to these issues, arising for any version of the optimality prescription. So I will simply give the decision theorist his formulation of the decision problem...

...; and they should also think that even if I do not try the exotic dish, my possible but nonactual future desire to try it gives me a reason to do so. The simplest way for them to do this would be to endorse possibilism , on which every possible future desire of yours can generate a reason for you to promote its...

... in the essays and I heartily welcome their publication in a single volume. The earliest of the previously published papers are three in part 2: “Is Raising One’s Arm a Basic Action?” (1972), “Volition and Basic Action” (1974), and “Trying, Paralysis, and Volition” (1975). They argue that vol...

... (a fact that our theory will try to make sense of by adverting to indeterminacy). We do say, however, that (8) is not clearly true. But, on the approach just sketched, (8) is predicted to be clearly, determinately true, since it is certainly compatible with Susie's intrinsic properties, along with local...

... to their own professional inter- ests. Welcome exceptions in this volume are David Crocker’s informed and informative analysis of the role civil society institutions can play in transitions to democracy, and Anthony Ellis’s argument for trying war criminals before international tribunals: both authors have...

... and typically has the character of being richly generated and yet unconsummated” (102). By ‘unconsummated’ Yanal means that, though genuinely moved, the reader does not try to comfort Anna, run from the Beast, offer to fight Tybalt, etc. Yanal’s is a causal theory, namely, of how emotions can be generated...

... to alleviate and prevent it when possible, she writes, “We can’t truly say both of those things at the same time. You can’t embrace and normalize something you’re trying to reduce and prevent” (150). 3 But I am not sure this is right. To embrace and normalize something is not necessarily to claim that we...

... that in trying to move one’s arm when unaware it’s paralyzed, one’s trying involves intending de re of some hain activity that it be arm movement (145). So, instead of having to posit a volition for this case, one only needs a special de re intention regarding some brain activity. But if trying...

.... Hyman, J. 1999 . How Knowledge Works. Philosophical Quarterly 49 : 433 -51. James, H. 1881 . The Portrait of a Lady . Ed. G. Moore. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1986. Jones, O. R. 1983 . Trying. Mind 92 : 368 -85. Juarrero, A. 1999 . Dynamics in Action . Cambridge: MIT Press...

... the kind of two-dimensional semantics for indexical and demonstrative expressions developed by David Kaplan and used it to try “to reinstate descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and some version of conceptualism in our understanding of modality...

...). There are alternatives to this dilemma. Apart from the extreme move of rejecting (4), one may renounce (1) in favor of (multiple, local) type-identi- ties, or deny (2) and adopt some robust version of (Substance- or Property-) Dualism. But serious doubts have been cast on the stability of positions that try to hold...

... of believing truly and not believing falsely. There are also deontological and virtue-theoretic veritists who understand belief that responds fittingly to the value of truth in terms of notions like respect and virtue , and try to show that the problems with consequentialist sharpenings of veritism stem...

... do seem to learn something when we are shown a proof that—on natural ways of measuring accuracy—if a credence function is not probabilistic, it is guaranteed to be less accurate than some specifiable probabilistic one ( Joyce 1998, 2009 ). At a first pass: since you should try to be accurate, you...

... to assisted concep- tion since even assisted conception is impossible for some couples and no one has a right to the impossible (15). Is there—or should there be—the right to try 288 BOOK REVIEWS to have a child? (16). Warnock thinks...