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An Account of Luck, Fortune, and Fate

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Luck is one of our most important concepts. In this article, I first argue that extant accounts of luck are deeply flawed. I then argue for a hybrid account of luck that is based around the difference between skill‐based and non‐skill‐based events.
Jesse Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Verbal Metadisputes

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many philosophical disputes have become so intractable that philosophers question whether there is a fact of the matter as to which side is right or whether these disputes are entirely verbal. Yet these “metadisputes” have also become intractable. This raises the question: Could they, too, be verbal? What would that even mean? Using tools from
Alexander W. Kocurek
wiley   +1 more source

Deterministic Theories

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deflating and Debunking: A Case for Hard‐Line Structuralism

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can manipulated agents be morally responsible for what they do? According to hard‐line structuralism, yes. On this view, manipulated agents are responsible in virtue of satisfying the relevant structural conditions taken to be sufficient for responsibility.
Chris Cho
wiley   +1 more source

Symposium on Richard Shusterman’s "Philosophy and the Art of Writing"

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In this Symposium we present to the readers of Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy a long and detailed discussion of Richard Shusterman's last monograph, Philosophy and the Art of Writing (Routledge, London & New ...
Romagnoli, Elena, Marino, Stefano
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