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De-Fining Material Things Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Charles M. Jansen
This paper investigates Kit Fine's account of the nature of material objects – the theory of embodiments.1 This theory is custom-fitted to an intuitive distinction between ‘timeless’ and ‘temporary’ parthood. It incorporates these notions by postulating two operations by which objects can be generated from their (immediate) parts. The operation of ‘rigid embodiment’ generates objects which have their
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Causal Exclusion and Physical Causal Completeness Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Dwayne Moore
Nonreductive physicalists endorse the principle of mental causation, according to which some events have mental causes. Nonreductive physicalists also endorse the principle of physical causal completeness, according to which physical events have sufficient physical causes. Critics typically level the causal exclusion problem against this nonreductive physicalist model, according to which the physical
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Towards a Reformed Liberal and Scientific Naturalism Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Dionysis Christias
The purpose of this paper is threefold: First, I provide a framework – based on Sellars' distinction between the manifest and the scientific image – for illuminating the distinction between liberal and ‘orthodox’ scientific naturalism. Second, I level a series of objections against expanded liberal naturalism and its core commitment to the autonomy of manifest-image explanations. Further, I present
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Quantification in the Ontology Room Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Bradley Rettler
There is a growing movement towards construing some classic debates in ontology as meaningless, either because the answers seem obvious or the debates seem intractable. In this paper, I respond to this movement. The response has three components: First, the members of the two sides of the ontological debates that dismissivists have targeted are using different quantifiers. Second, the austere ontologist
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Emotional Experience and Propositional Content Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Jonathan Mitchell
Those arguing for the existence of non-propositional content appeal to emotions for support, although there has been little engagement in those debates with developments in contemporary theory of emotion, specifically in connection with the kind of mental states that emotional experiences are. Relatedly, within emotion theory, one finds claims that emotional experiences per se have non-propositional
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MargheritaArcangeli, Supposition and the Imaginative Realm. A Philosophical Inquiry, Routledge: New York, 2018, 148 pp., US$150 (hardback), ISBN: 978‐1138223042 Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Steve Humbert‐Droz
In her excellent monograph, Margherita Arcangeli offers a defense of supposition as a sui generis kind of imagination. Endorsing a simulationist account of imagination according to which every imaginative attitude simulates/re‐creates a genuine counterpart (visualizing re‐creates visual perception, for instance), she argues against this backdrop that supposition is a re‐creative state of acceptance
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Challenging Liberal Representationalism: A Reply to Artiga Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Peter Schulte
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How Close Are Impossible Worlds? A Critique of Brogaard and Salerno's Account of Counterpossibles Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Dan Baras
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From Scepticism to Anti‐Realism Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Folke Tersman
A common anti-realist strategy is to argue that moral realism (or at least the non-naturalist form of it) should be abandoned because it cannot adequately make room for moral knowledge and justifie ...
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A Formal Solution to Reichenbach's Reference Class Problem Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Paul D. Thorn
Following Reichenbach, it is widely held that in making a direct inference, one should base one’s conclusion on a relevant frequency statement concerning the most specific reference class for which one is able to make a warranted and relatively precise-valued frequency judgment. In cases where one has accurate and precise-valued frequency information for two relevant reference classes, R1 and R2, and
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Concepts and the Epistemology of Essence Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Sonia Roca‐Royes
This paper is an exploration of the prospects of rationalist, concept-based epistemologies of modality as far as essentialist and de re modal claims are concerned. I grant certain explanatory power to such epistemologies but, primarily, I identify their limitations. I first explore them in view of the (possible) existence of general as well as of singular modally loaded concepts and find their explanatory
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The Standing To Blame, or Why Moral Disapproval Is What It Is Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Stefan Riedener
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Presentism and the Specious Present: From Temporal Experience to Meta‐Metaphysics Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Olla Solomyak
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Brentanian Inner Consciousness and the Infinite Regress Problem Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Andrea Marchesi
By “Brentanian inner consciousness” I mean the conception of inner consciousness developed by Franz Brentano. The aim of this paper is threefold: first, to present Brentano’s account of inner consciousness; second, to discuss this account in light of the mereology outlined by Brentano himself; and third, to decide whether this account incurs an infinite regress. In this regard, I distinguish two kinds
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J.Faye and H.J.Folse, eds, Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics: Twenty‐First Century Perspectives, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 384 pp., US$114.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781350035126. Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Vincenzo Fano,Gino Tarozzi
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A Teleological Answer to the Special Composition Question Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Jason Bowers
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Self‐Knowledge as Knowledge of the Good: Hugh of St. Victor on Self‐Knowledge Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Boris Hennig
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On the Conceivability of a Cognitive Phenomenology Zombie Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Martina Fürst
The cognitive phenomenology thesis has it that conscious cognitive states essentially exhibit a phenomenal character. Defenders of ‘conservatism’ about cognitive phenomenology think that the phenomenology of thought is reducible to sensory phenomenology. In contrast, proponents of ‘liberalism’ hold that there is a proprietary, sui generis cognitive phenomenology. Horgan develops a morph-sequence argument
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An Argument for Minimal Logic Dialectica Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Nils Kürbis
The problem of negative truth is the problem of how, if everything in the world is positive, we can speak truly about the world using negative propositions. A prominent solution is to explain negation in terms of a primitive notion of metaphysical incompatibility. I argue that if this account is correct, then minimal logic is the correct logic. The negation of a proposition A is characterised as the
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GiorgioLando, Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction, London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, viii + 237 pp., US$120 (hardback), ISBN: 978‐1472583666. Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Massimiliano Carrara,Filippo Mancini
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Thought Sharing, Communication, and Perspectives about the Self Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Víctor M. Verdejo
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Linda T.Zagzebski, Exemplarist Moral Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 274 pp., £48.49 (hardback), ISBN 9780190655846. Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
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Kinds of Tropes without Kinds Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Markku Keinänen,Jani Hakkarainen,Antti Keskinen
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Dodging the Perils of Dogmatism: A Response to Crispin Wright Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Tim Butzer
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You Cannot Steal Something that Doesn't Exist: Against Fictionalism about Fiction Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Fredrik Haraldsen
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What is the Relation between a Philosophical Stance and Its Associated Beliefs? Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Sandy C. Boucher
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Max Kistler, L'esprit matériel. Réduction et émergence, Paris: Ithaque, 2016, 304 pp., €25 (paperback), ISBN 978-2-916120-51-5. Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Christian Sachse
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On Shoemaker's Response-Dependent Theory of Responsibility Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Sybren Heyndels,Benjamin De Mesel
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Karen Bennett, Making Things Up, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, ix + 260 pp., £45 (hardback), ISBN: 9780199682683. Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Jan Plate
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On a Dilemma of Redistribution Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Alexandru Marcoci
McKenzie Alexander presents a dilemma for a social planner who wants to correct the unfair distribution of an indivisible good between two equally worthy individuals or groups: either she guarantees a fair outcome, or she follows a fair procedure (but not both). In this paper I show that this dilemma only holds if the social planner can redistribute the good in question at most once. To wit, the bias
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Brutalist Non-naturalism and Hume's Principle Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Nick Zangwill
Does moral non-naturalism have a problem with supervenience? That is, are necessary relations between moral and natural properties mysterious if those properties are distinct? Here I try to remove anxiety about the modal comments of moral non-naturalism. I also want to understand the source of the anxiety for those afflicted by it. That source is a commitment to what is called ‘Hume’s Principle’. I
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Stefan Müller-Doohm, Habermas: A Biography. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, 598 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7456-8906-7. Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Alessandro Pinzani
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Meaning Underdetermines What Is Said, Therefore Utterances Express Many Propositions Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Thomas Hodgson
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What in the World Is Collective Responsibility? Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Alberto Giubilini, Neil Levy
Abstract In this paper we analyse the notion of collective responsibility and the criteria for its application to different types of groups. We argue that most of the ways in which the notion of collective responsibility has been attributed to different types of groups actually refer to a form of responsibility that is not genuinely collective, but that boils down to some form of individual responsibility
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A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Thomas Müller, Hans J. Briegel
Abstract The aim of this paper is to establish that free agency, which is a capacity of many animals including human beings, is compatible with indeterminism: an indeterministic world allows for the existence of free agency. The question of the compatibility of free agency and indeterminism is less discussed than its mirror image, the question of the compatibility of free agency and determinism. It
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What Will Be Best for Me? Big Decisions and the Problem of Inter-World Comparisons Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Peter Baumann
Big decisions in a person’s life often affect the preferences and standards of a good life which that person’s future self will develop after implementing her decision. This paper argues that in such cases the person might lack any reasons to choose one way rather than the other. Neither preference-based views nor happiness-based views of justified choice offer sufficient help here. The available options
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There is Something about the Image: A Defence of the Two-Component View of Imagination Dialectica Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Uku Tooming