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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
Published: 01 October 2017
..., 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.” The consequentialist theory that mandates minimizing the number of deaths can...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 144–149.
Published: 01 January 2020
... claims and conclusions (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...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 326–330.
Published: 01 April 2021
...”; and, second, that “the nature of belief cannot be determined by scientific theorizing alone, but must be relativized 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 151–197.
Published: 01 April 2001
... 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
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that realists must avoid the trap of taking realism to be the default position...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 285–324.
Published: 01 July 2009
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 394–398.
Published: 01 July 2022
... evidence favors any one of these propositions over any 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 399–403.
Published: 01 July 2022
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 January 2019
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 641–647.
Published: 01 October 2013
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 478–483.
Published: 01 July 2002
...). 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 142–147.
Published: 01 January 2002
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 131–171.
Published: 01 April 2014
... given E , either T or H needs to be given up, and it is not clear which—a classical Duhem-Quine case of underdetermination of theories by evidence, or so it seems. That is where the Bayesian story begins: Dorling (1979) argues that this apparent instance of underdetermination...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 1–58.
Published: 01 January 2015
...-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...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 43–79.
Published: 01 January 2017
... possible for deflationists is because they take reference to be insubstantial and thus have no way 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 433–468.
Published: 01 October 2005
...’ 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (1): 55–93.
Published: 01 January 2012
...
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...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 243–246.
Published: 01 April 2010
... 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 246–250.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., 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...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 250–255.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., 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...
Journal Article
The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., 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...
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