... between theories with a teleological structure and those without. Reason-based representations also shed light on an important but underappreciated phenomenon: the “underdetermination of moral theory by deontic content.” © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 moral theories normatively relevant...

... relation. I may be right about Coco's intentions but wrong about her reasons (maybe she just likes the thrill of stealing), or right about her reasons but wrong about her intentions (maybe she's planning to ask me for a cookie politely). Theoretical underdetermination like this is simply ubiquitous...

... underdetermination of theories by evidence (chapter 8), Fine’s deflationary anti-epistemology of the natural ontological attitude (chap- 142 BOOK REVIEWS ter 10), Worrall’s half-way house of structural realism (chapter 7), attacks on the realist...

... proper role in deliberation (Raz, 57–58). Because principles by their very nature underdetermine right action, any view in normative ethics can accept that identifying the applicability and the requirement of principles in a particular case isn’t mechanical but requires some responsiveness to par...

... underdetermine what counts as the relevant group. This requires that we rethink the discourse effects of epistemic modal claims as well as the pragmatics of assertion and assessment. On von Fintel and Gillies's view, utterances that are contextually underspecified “put into play” the propositions corresponding...

... virtue of the pro- cedural fairness of the way in which they’re selected. Policies selected by voting are legitimate in virtue of the fact that voting treats any two voters alike. Because many nonvoting procedures also treat persons alike, this kind of fairness radically underdetermines the...

... treats any two voters alike. Because many nonvoting procedures also treat persons alike, this kind of fairness radically underdetermines the choice of a procedure. Dice, for exam- ple, are also impartial. If voting is better than dice, this is thanks to some feature of voting beyond its...

... virtue of the pro- cedural fairness of the way in which they’re selected. Policies selected by voting are legitimate in virtue of the fact that voting treats any two voters alike. Because many nonvoting procedures also treat persons alike, this kind of fairness radically underdetermines the...

... virtue of the pro- cedural fairness of the way in which they’re selected. Policies selected by voting are legitimate in virtue of the fact that voting treats any two voters alike. Because many nonvoting procedures also treat persons alike, this kind of fairness radically underdetermines the...

... virtue of the pro- cedural fairness of the way in which they’re selected. Policies selected by voting are legitimate in virtue of the fact that voting treats any two voters alike. Because many nonvoting procedures also treat persons alike, this kind of fairness radically underdetermines the...

.... Body a’s trajectory is R(t). What are the bodies’ velocities at t=0? Tooley (1988, 246–47) and Carroll (2002, 59–60) suggest that the answer is underdetermined by the bodies’ trajectories, contrary both to Russell’s reductive view and to the derivative-from-below pro- posal. In other words, they...

... that Elizabeth the First was crowned on a Tuesday would support our belief in the conjunction by leaving less underdetermined, Goodman does not want such support to count as confirmation; otherwise, we end up with the result that the historian’s report confirms “8497 is prime” since that sentence is...

... linguistic community. The constraint of making folk theory true wildly underdetermines reference (that was one of Putnam's points). Some additional metasemantic factor needs to be introduced to correct for this (that point was Lewis's). At this point, the distinctive gambit of folklore-Lewis enters: a...

... religious commitments of medieval thinkers greatly underdetermine the range of philosophical theories consistent with them, as is clear to anyone who cares to examine medieval debates on issues as diverse as the nature of language, the soul, universals, being, moral psychol- ogy, and so forth. The...

... of considerable ingenuity and rigor. In fact, the religious commitments of medieval thinkers greatly underdetermine the range of philosophical theories consistent with them, as is clear to anyone who cares to examine medieval debates on issues as diverse as the nature of language, the soul...