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Flexible Counterparts

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Counterpart theories are powerful thanks to their flexibility: counterpart relations are not symmetrical or transitive, and one can apply more than one counterpart relation to one object. This is used to analyze metaphysical puzzles, but it also gives rise to an objection: this flexibility forces one to deny that the phenomena analyzed using ...
Florian Gatignon
wiley   +1 more source

Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Icons

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
wiley   +1 more source

Refinement of Kripke Models for Dynamics [PDF]

, 2008
We propose a property-preserving refinement/abstraction theory for Kripke Modal Labelled Transition Systems incorporating not only state mapping but also label and proposition lumping, in order to have a compact but informative abstraction. We develop a 3-valued version of Public Announcement Logic (PAL) which has a dynamic operator that changes the ...
F. Dechesne (Francien), S.-M. Orzan (Simona-Mihaela), Y. Wang (Yanjing)   +2 more
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Neo‐Reidian Naïve Realism

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most naïve realists do not distinguish between perception and consciousness; to say that I perceive the table is akin to saying that I am conscious of the table. Doing so leads many to maintain that if the character of experience is constituted by anything other than the table, I do not perceive it, and so naïve realism fails.
R. P. Koutedakis
wiley   +1 more source

Kripkeański Wittgenstein, faktualizm i znaczenie

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2015
The paper provides a detailed discussion of George Wilson’s factualist interpretation of Saul Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language and presents a new non-factualist interpretation.
Adam Łukasik, Alexander Miller
doaj  

On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
wiley   +1 more source

Food fight: What the debate about food security means at the WTO

Canadian Food Studies, 2015
Although still experiencing significant levels of hunger and malnutrition, India has recently taken historic measures to improve food security, namely through the expansion of domestic food assistance programs.
Gawain Kripke
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Death, Deprivation, and the Symmetry Problem

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to the deprivation account of the badness of death, death is bad for the one who dies because it deprives her of goods she would otherwise have enjoyed. This view faces the so‐called symmetry problem when one considers prenatal nonexistence. Scholars have proposed various solutions to this problem, but all of them encounter their own
Ryota Ishihara
wiley   +1 more source

Descartes in Two Dimensions

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Descartes' cogito argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent a priori knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analysed through the lens of (classical)
Tom Schoonen
wiley   +1 more source