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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 188-199, December 2025.ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Reflection, introspection, and book
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1136-1158, November 2025.Abstract The much‐debated Reflection principle states that a coherent agent's credences must match their estimates for their future credences. Defenders claim that there are Dutch‐book arguments in its favor, putting it on the same normative footing as probabilistic coherence.
Kevin J. S. Zollman, Kevin Dorst
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Understanding the Logical Constants and Dispositions
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 Many philosophers claim that understanding a logical constant (e.g. ‘if, then’) fundamentally consists in having dispositions to infer according to the logical rules (e.g. Modus Ponens) that fix its meaning.
Corine Besson
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Présentation de La Certitude de G. E. Moore
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2010 The first part of Certainty analyzes several assertions such as "I am standing up, I have clothes on, I have in my hand some sheets of paper", etc. Moore insists that, in spite of their contingent character, they may be known to be true with certainty ...
Bernard Drigout
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A Meta-Logic of Inference Rules: Syntax [PDF]
, 2014 This work was intended to be an attempt to introduce the meta-language for working with multiple-conclusion inference rules that admit asserted propositions along with the rejected propositions.
Citkin, Alex
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Ratio Juris, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 198-235, November 2025.Abstract This essay revisits the early methodology of Rudolph von Jhering. It has often been dismissed due to its heavy metaphysics, unwieldy presentation, and alleged neglect of teleology. But a charitable reconstruction in contemporary terms reveals a coherence theory of jurisprudence that is in many ways superior to current coherence accounts.
Pascal Felix Meier
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Seguir una regla: ¿Se trata siempre de un caso de conocimiento?
Praxis Filosófica, 2015 La discusión sobre seguir una regla plantea cuestiones centrales sobre la naturaleza de nuestros conceptos. En el presente ensayo situamos y discutimos una tesis del enfoque de Crispin Wright, a saber: el seguimiento de reglas conlleva siempre un ...
Juan Saharrea
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On feeling relieved that something is over
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 496-512, September 2025.Abstract On one way of interpreting it, Arthur Prior's “Thank Goodness That's Over” argument aims to establish the truth of tense realism on the basis of two key assumptions: that tensed relief requires tensed propositions and that tensed propositions require tensed facts.
Giovanni Merlo
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The Big Four - Their Interdependence and Limitations [PDF]
Four intuitions are recurrent and influential in theories about conditionals: the Ramsey’s test, the Adams’ Thesis, the Equation, and the robustness requirement. For simplicity’s sake, I call these intuitions ‘the big four’.
Silva, Matheus
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Alternative axiomatics and complexity of deliberative STIT theories
, 2007 We propose two alternatives to Xu's axiomatization of the Chellas STIT. The first one also provides an alternative axiomatization of the deliberative STIT.
Andreas Herzig +10 more
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