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Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
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Referential Indeterminacy and De Re Thoughts
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referential indeterminacy may seem to leave little room for de re or singular thoughts about ordinary objects. I argue that this impression is misleading. We can direct our thoughts at particular objects, even though there is no fact of the matter as to which objects are referred to by the singular terms purporting to stand for them.
Bahram Assadian
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Order of Explanation: Having it Both Ways
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Order‐of‐explanation objections say that some philosophical view implies p$p$ because q$q$, when it's more natural to say that q$q$ because p$p$; and since such mirroring explanations are presumed to be incompatible, the targeted view must be in conflict with the intuitive explanation.
Kenneth Black
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Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What is the temporal structure of conscious experience? While it is popular to think that our most basic conscious experiences are temporally extended, we will be arguing against this view, on the grounds that it makes our conscious experiences depend on the future in an implausible way.
David Builes +1 more
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How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano +2 more
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Is Having a Pain Having an Unshareable Particular?
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do I have something no one else can have when I am in pain? This puzzle about the so‐called ‘privacy of ownership’ of sensations is a special case of the problem of whether the states and qualities of a subject are particulars. (For if someone ‘has’ a pain, then that someone ‘is in’ a pain state and vice versa.) The debate addressing the ...
Bernhard Ritter
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Is There a Real Difference Between Undercutting and Rebutting?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Defeaters in epistemology are the things that make justified beliefs lose their justification. Philosophers distinguish between different kinds of defeaters, and one such distinction is commonly made between rebutting and undercutting defeaters.
Dan Baras
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Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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Scepticism Without Consequence? On Hard Incompatibilism and Its Normative Recommendations
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Free will scepticism about moral responsibility denies that human agents possess the kind of control required for basic desert moral responsibility. This position is often taken to have substantive normative implications, including the rejection of retributive punishment and support for reformist approaches to criminal justice.
Thomas Nys, Gijs van Donselaar
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