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Defining sensory representation Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Umrao Sethi
In the paper, I argue that the notion of sensory representation that Pautz defines (via the Ramsey method) has incompatible features. The notion is defined in terms of its ability to explain both t...
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Counterpossibles, consequence and context Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Daniel Nolan
What is the connection between valid inference and true conditionals? Many conditional logics require that when A is a logical consequence of B, ‘if B then A’ is true. Taking counterlogical conditi...
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What is the proper function of language? Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Eliot Michaelson
It doesn't have (just) one, and this matters for how we ought to pursue a theory of meaning and communication.
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Injustice by design Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Elena Ruíz, Ezgi Sertler
Systemic epistemic failings in institutions are often explained through settler epistemologies and settler colonial frameworks that both obscure and reproduce the conditions necessary for those fai...
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Can theorising epistemic injustice help us decolonise?* Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Veli Mitova
The paper argues that some tools from the epistemic injustice literature can be fruitfully applied to the debate on epistemic decolonisation. The first step for such a project is to defuse recent m...
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Pautz on the laws of appearance, internalism, and color realism Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jeff Speaks
I focus on two of the challenges Pautz raises for representationalist theories of perception. The first is the challenge of explaining the necessity of certain principles which Pautz calls 'laws of...
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Is present-bias a distinctive psychological kind? Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Natalja Deng, Batoul Hodroj, Andrew J. Latham, Jordan Lee-Tory, Kristie Miller
Present-bias is the preference, all else being equal, for positive events to be located in the present rather than the non-present, and for negative events to be located in the non-present rather t...
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On epistemic freedom and epistemic injustice Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Karl Landström
This article examines the relationship between epistemic freedom, and epistemic injustice and epistemic oppression. I situate epistemic freedom within the larger project of epistemic decolonisation...
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Attitudes as positions Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Daniel Drucker
In these comments on David Hunter’s insightful new book On Believing, I consider Hunter’s account of believing that p as being in a position to act in light of the fact (or apparent fact) that p. A...
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Understanding racism Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Kwame Anthony Appiah
This article defends an account of racism as centrally an ideology, a system of illusory ideas. It argues that the relevant ideology has the effect of oppressing people of some racial identities, a...
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‘The many faces of laziness’ Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
What do we owe to the lazy? On the assumption that the lazy are a paradigmatic case of people who are worse off, when they are through a fault, or choice, of their own, one might suspect that the a...
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What was that like? Intuitions and the epistemology of consciousness Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Brandon Ashby
I argue that physicalists have been too conciliatory in granting that certain classic thought experiments about consciousness like Mary the colour scientist, colour spectrum inversion, and zombies ...
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Buridan on ‘Ex impossibili quodlibet’, ‘Ex contradictione quodlibet’, and ‘Ex falso quodlibet’ Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Wolfgang Lenzen
Buridan endorsed the principles that any impossible, and a fortiori any self-contradictory, proposition entails each proposition. These principles are usually referred to as ‘Ex impossibili quodlib...
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Judgments of taste as strategic moves in a coordination game Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Filip Buekens
Recent work on evaluative discourse and judgements of personal taste in particular has focused on active interpersonal disagreements. I explore the communicative import of judgements of taste: why ...
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Debating powers: where the real puzzle lies Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Samuel Kimpton-Nye
Stephen Mumford and Alexander Bird disagree about which properties are powers and, correspondingly, about the extent of the philosophical work to which powers may be put. Unfortunately, there is an...
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Facts and ideologies: race and moral equality Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Anna Smajdor
Appiah distinguishes between people who are racist because they are motivated by strong ideological convictions, and those who are racist because they believe certain facts to be true. I explore to...
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Hope: a solution to the puzzle of difficult action Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Catherine Rioux
Pursuing difficult long-term goals typically involves encountering substantial evidence of possible future failure. If decisions to pursue such goals are serious only if one believes that one will ...
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Regulating speech: harm, norms, and discrimination Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Daniel Wodak
Mary Kate McGowan's Just Words offers an interesting account of exercitives. On McGowan's view, one of the things we do with words is change what's permitted, and we do this ubiquitously, without a...
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Does know-how need to be autonomous? Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Gloria Andrada
In chapter 4 of Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy and the Future of Knowing (OUP, 2021), Carter takes on the question of whether there is an epistemic autonomy condition on know-h...
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A way forward for responsibility in the age of AI Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Dane Leigh Gogoshin
Whatever one makes of the relationship between free will and moral responsibility – e.g. whether it’s the case that we can have the latter without the former and, if so, what conditions must be met...
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On Hedden's proof that machine learning fairness metrics are flawed Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Anders Søgaard, Klemens Kappel, Thor Grünbaum
Brian Hedden, in a recent article in Philosophy and Public Affairs [Hedden 2021. “On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 49 (2): 209–231. https://doi.org/10...
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Al-Ḫūnaǧī on essentialist and externalist propositions and inferences from the impossible Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Behnam Zolghadr
Afḍal al-Dīn al-Ḫūnaǧī (d. 1248) is one of the most influential Arabic logicians who departed from and argued against Avicenna in various places in his logical works. This paper is about al-Ḫūnaǧī’...
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Logical norms as defeasible obligations: disentangling sound and feasible inferences Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Matteo De Benedetto, Alessandra Marra
This paper develops a novel approach to the question of the normativity of logic, which we reinterpret as a clash between two intuitions: the direct normativity intuition and the unfeasibility intu...
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What is good thinking? Comments on Mona Simion’s Shifty Speech and Independent Thought Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Robin McKenna
Mona Simion's Shifty Speech and Independent Thought argues for epistemic independence—the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. Along the way, she argues against “shifty” vie...
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Reasoning from the impossible: early medieval views on conditionals and counterpossibles Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Irene Binini
Impossible antecedents entered the scene of medieval logic around the 1120s and soon started to dominate this scene, becoming one of the most debated issues from the second half of the twelfth cent...
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Cooperation – Kantian-style Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Jan Willem Wieland
Should you reduce your energy consumption? Tragically enough, it may be better for you, and for everyone involved, to refrain from doing so even if you care about the climate. Given this tragedy, w...
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Maimon as a Baconian: natural histories, induction and the ladder of certainty Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Idit Chikurel
In this article, I address an uncharted topic in the scholarship on Salomon Maimon – the great influence that Bacon's philosophy had on Maimon. I suggest that by considering Maimon as a Baconian, w...
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Moral progress and grand narrative genealogy Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jinglin Zhou
In this article, I explore the method of genealogy in moral philosophy, with a focus on evaluating the credibility of moral progress judgments. Despite genealogy becoming a new trend in this field,...
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Machine learning in healthcare and the methodological priority of epistemology over ethics Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Thomas Grote
This paper develops an account of how the implementation of ML models into healthcare settings requires revising the methodological apparatus of philosophical bioethics. On this account, ML models ...
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Legal gluts? Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
In ‘From inconsistent obligations to the possibility of legal gluts’, Bradley Armour-Garb outlines the debate between Graham Priest and Jc Beall concerning the (possible) existence of legal gluts –...
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Multiplying co-intensional properties: a reply to Streumer Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 J. J. Snodgrass
Bart Streumer employs a reductio ad absurdum to show that a hyperintensional conception of properties has a multiplication problem; roughly, this conception of properties leads to the absurd result...
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Property dualists shouldn’t be nominalists about properties Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Daniel Giberman, David Mark Kovacs
Substance dualism is the view that there are two fundamentally different kinds of substances: physical and mental. By contrast, according to property dualism there is only one kind of substance (ph...
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Why do numbers exist? A psychologist constructivist account Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Markus Pantsar
In this paper, I study the kind of questions we can ask about the existence of numbers. In addition to asking whether numbers exist, and how, I argue that there is also a third relevant question: w...
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Real sparks of artificial intelligence and the importance of inner interpretability Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Alex Grzankowski
The present paper looks at one of the most thorough articles on the intelligence of GPT, research conducted by engineers at Microsoft. Although there is a great deal of value in their work, I will ...
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Reply to Critics of The Birth of Ethics Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Philip Pettit
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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There is no right to a competent electorate Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Brian Kogelmann, Jeffrey Carroll
This paper addresses the debate surrounding epistocracy. While many discussions of epistocracy focus on its instrumental defenses, this paper aims to critically examine the non-instrumental jury ar...
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Proposing an Islamic virtue ethics beyond the situationist debates Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Muhammad Velji
I begin the first part by showing how situationism should make us question traditional understandings of virtues as intrinsic dispositions. I concentrate specifically on situationist experiments re...
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What is Nietzschean about Nietzsche’s perspectivism? Preliminary reflections Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 R. Lanier Anderson
Nietzsche’s perspectivism has received restricted and unrestricted interpretations. The latter take the cognitive effects of ‘perspectives’ to be pervasive and general; the former argue they are re...
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Precis the birth of ethics Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Philip Pettit
“The Birth of Ethics”, which is summarized here, argues that creatures like us who lacked prescriptive concepts of a kind with desirability and responsibility would be robustly likely to develop pr...
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Crime and punishment; drama and meaning: lessons from On the Genealogy of Morals II Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Mark Migotti
This paper takes up Nietzsche’s contrast between a relatively enduring ‘drama’ of punishment, which consists in sequences of procedures, and a congeries of often discrepant meanings and purposes of...
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Authenticity as transparency Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Allan Hazlett
What do we ordinarily mean when we describe people as authentic or inauthentic? We describe friends, enemies, acquaintances, and colleagues as authentic and inauthentic, as well as politicians, cel...
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The point of view of shared agency Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Glenda Satne, Johannes Roessler
This paper introduces the special issue 'The point of view of shared agency', a collection of papers that develops, and critically assesses, a striking development in recent philosophy of mind, epi...
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Conceptual engineering and conceptual change. An argument for the learnability of ameliorated concepts Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Markus Bohlmann
I argue that conceptual engineers should consider the learnability of concepts in their designs. At least some conceptual engineers design for implementation of their ameliorated concepts. Implemen...
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Modelling the mind: Nietzsche’s epistemic ends in his account of drive interaction Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Toby Tricks
Nietzsche offers us an account of how different drives interact with one another; it is rich but also appears to risk the homunculus fallacy. Competing attempts to deflect this charge on his behalf...
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Genealogy and political philosophy: introduction to the special issue Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Paul Raekstad, Janosch Prinz
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A disjointed account of the illusion of auditory continuity: in favor of hearing everyday sounds but against hearing semantic properties Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Elvira Di Bona
I will investigate the auditory illusion of continuity, which is the phenomenon of auditory occlusion in which we are able to hear a sound as continuous even though it has been masked by another so...
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Advancing the debate on the consequences of misinformation: clarifying why it’s not (just) about false beliefs Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Maarten van Doorn
The debate on whether and why misinformation is bad primarily focuses on the spread of false beliefs as its main harm. From the assumption that misinformation primarily causes harm through the spre...
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Can prejudiced beliefs be rational? Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Thomas Kelly
In his book Prejudice, Endre Begby argues that people who hold paradigmatically prejudiced beliefs – for example, the belief that women are less adept at math than men – might be fully rational in ...
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‘Poor mankind!—’: reexamining Nietzsche’s critique of compassion Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jessica N. Berry
Between his calling into question, on the one hand, the apparently unquestionable value of compassion itself, and his refusal, on the other hand, to concede that suffering is unconditionally bad, N...
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Nietzsche’s response to David Strauss: a case study in the Nietzschean practice of enmity Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Mark Higgins
This article argues for an interpretation of David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer as embodying the key components of the Nietzschean practice of conflict with a ‘worthier’ enemy. These are c...
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The Kripkean explanation of aposteriori necessity: in the case of identity statements about chemical substances Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Dongwoo Kim
In the addenda to his Naming and Necessity, Kripke provides an account of how necessary aposteriori statements are possible. In such a case, there is an apriori general principle telling us that it...
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Responses to critics Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Endre Begby
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Ordinal type theory Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jan Plate
Higher-order logic, with its type-theoretic apparatus known as the simple theory of types (STT), has increasingly come to be employed in theorising about properties, relations, and states of affair...
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A new concept of replication Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Vera Matarese
The replication crisis has spawned discussions on the meaning of replication. In fact, in order to determine whether an experiment fails to replicate, it is necessary to establish what replication ...
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Correction Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-10-28
Published in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Precis of Amie L. Thomasson, norms and necessity Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Amie L. Thomasson
Claims about what is necessary or possible play a central role in debates in metaphysics and elsewhere in philosophy. But how can we understand such claims, and how can we come to know which are tr...
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Norms and necessity: replies to critics Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Amie L. Thomasson
The critics in this volume raise several important challenges to the modal normativist position developed in Norms and Necessity, including whether the relation I claim holds between semantic rules...
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The social life of prejudice Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Renée Jorgensen
This article considers a particular explanation (offered in Chapter 7 of Begby 2021) for the persistence of prejudicial stereotypes: that pluralistic ignorance can motivate individuals to act accor...
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Heard but not received Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Grace Paterson
In speech act theory, we say there has been successful uptake of a speech act when a hearer has understood what the speaker was trying to say to them. I argue that it is possible to be understood w...
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The revenge of Moral Twin Earth Inquiry (IF 1.462) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier
In this paper I revisit an important response to the Moral Twin Earth (MTE) challenge: The Common Functional Role strategy (CFR). I argue that CFR is open to a revenge problem. MTE-cases allegedly ...