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... (sec. 1), and then raise some concerns about his master argument for the underdetermination of ontology by science (sec. 2), before concluding with remarks on the view's contribution to contemporary metaontology (sec. 3). The book has three sections. The first part serves as an extended...

..., and 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.” We confirm that there are limits to consequentialization, unless we permit...

... to a set of theoretically underdetermined taxonomic choices” (98, emphasis added). In light of the first of these principles, behaviors that are not controlled and attentive are, by definition, not guided by beliefs and perforce not evidence of racist beliefs. When they are “relatively automatic...

... vigorously by Richard Boyd in a series of articles, beginning with “Realism, Underdetermination, and the Causal Theory of Evidence,” Noh 7 (1973): 1-12) Boyd has seen very clearly I that realists must avoid the trap of taking realism to be the default position...

... in registrations of arrays of light fre- quencies on the retina significantly underdetermines the environmen- tal distal causes of those registrations. It underdetermines the particu- lars that are perceived and the types that are perceptually attributed. The same kinds of proximal stimulations could have been...

... planning to ask me for a cookie politely). Theoretical underdetermination like this is simply ubiquitous. The early chapters aim to place some of the most common pitfalls of contemporary moral psychology into theoretical context. Fedyk takes issue, in particular, with the fervor for positing universal...

... of the others. While this process will never produce highly accurate credences about the members of this set, it is arguably the best policy available for minimizing inaccuracy in such situations of evidential underdetermination. Perhaps this makes her credence-forming process sufficiently reliable to confer...

... in learning environments that are impoverished with respect to its content and scope. Children are taught that killing is wrong, yet they acquire something much more elaborate than this simple injunction. Clearly the underdetermination problems here are severe. Yet the same is true of other common moral rules...

... offer a contextualism-friendly treatment of problematic cases such as (3). They preserve the idea that judgments of epistemic modality are true or false depending on what is known by a contextually relevant group, but maintain that the facts of a conversation often underdetermine what counts...

...). 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- ticulars (Crisp, 28–30). Perhaps what one’s...

... empirically, and true theories fail, breaking the realist connection between success and truth? Psillos also provides robust realist responses to the following challenges: the argument from the underdetermination of theories by evidence (chapter 8), Fine s deflationary anti-epistemology of the natural...

... about underdetermination in terms of the ideal astrophysicist's beliefs as determined by the stability theory, we can be quite certain that he was right when he claimed that his interpretation did not “depend on the precise numbers.” First, Dorling's argument seems to rely, if only tacitly...

...-grainedness of this variation is not limited: it is a potentially infinitely fine resolution, as defined by a regress in infinitum (compare A510–14/B538–42). We thus get an underdetermination here that mirrors that of the potential infinite of the extensive magnitude of space. 54 The topological...

... of explaining how reference could ever be indeterminate. Our primary way of understanding RI is as a direct result of an underdetermination by whatever base facts generally go into settling facts about reference. But, given the insubstantiality of reference, deflationists' conception of these base facts...

...’ 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 suggest that it could be that at t=0, a’s speed is 1 unit...

... 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 entailed by the conjunction. Thus, Goodman’s...

... 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 procedural fairness. Estlund nominates the fact that voting is likelier than a lottery to select a policy that’s correct according...

..., 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 procedural fairness. Estlund nominates the fact that voting is likelier than a lottery to select a policy...

..., 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 procedural fairness. Estlund nominates the fact that voting is likelier than a lottery to select a policy...

..., 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 procedural fairness. Estlund nominates the fact that voting is likelier than a lottery to select a policy...