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Javier Kalhat 《Acta Analytica》2008,23(2):161-176
In this paper I argue against Armstrong’s recent truthmaking account of possibility. I show that the truthmaking account presupposes
modality in a number of different ways, and consequently that it is incapable of underwriting a genuine reduction of modality.
I also argue that Armstrong’s account faces serious difficulties irrespective of the question of reduction; in particular,
I argue that his Entailment and Possibility Principles are both false.
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Javier KalhatEmail: |
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Wayne D. Riggs 《Acta Analytica》2008,23(1):1-8
It is generally assumed that there are (at least) two fundamental epistemic goals: believing truths, and avoiding the acceptance
of falsehoods. As has been often noted, these goals are in conflict with one another. Moreover, the norms governing rational
belief that we should derive from these two goals depend on how we weight them relative to one another. However, it is not
obvious that there is one objectively correct weighting for everyone in all circumstances. Indeed, as I shall argue, it looks
as though there are circumstances in which a range of possible weightings of the two goals are all equally epistemically rational.
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Wayne D. RiggsEmail: |
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Steffen Borge 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(2):149-154
In this paper I argue against a criticism by Matthew Weiner to Grice’s thesis that cancellability is a necessary condition
for conversational implicature. I argue that the purported counterexamples fail because the supposed failed cancellation in
the cases Weiner presents is not meant as a cancellation but as a reinforcement of the implicature. I moreover point out that
there are special situations in which the supposed cancellation may really work as a cancellation.
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Steffen BorgeEmail: |
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Michael McDermott 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(4):333-335
In this note I discuss what seems to be a new kind of counterexample to Lewis’s account of counterfactuals. A coin is to be
tossed twice. I bet on ‘Two heads’, and I win. Common sense says that (1) is false. But Lewis’s theory says that it is true.
(1) If at least one head had come up, I would have won.
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Michael McDermottEmail: |
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In this paper, we defend and extend a (simple) mathematical model of akrasia.
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Joseph S. FuldaEmail: |
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Kelly Becker 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(1):17-31
Timothy Williamson has provided damaging counterexamples to Robert Nozick’s sensitivity principle. The examples are based
on Williamson’s anti-luminosity arguments, and they show how knowledge requires a margin for error that appears to be incompatible
with sensitivity. I explain how Nozick can rescue sensitivity from Williamson’s counterexamples by appeal to a specific conception
of the methods by which an agent forms a belief. I also defend the proposed conception of methods against Williamson’s criticisms.
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Kelly BeckerEmail: |
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Kristie Miller 《Acta Analytica》2008,23(1):69-89
There is a fundamental ontological difference between two kinds of entity: things and objects. Unlike things, objects are
not identical to any fusion of particulars. Unlike things, objects do not have mereological parts. While things are ontologically
innocent, objects are not. Objects are meaty. I defend the distinction between things and objects, and provide an account of the nature of objects.
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Kristie MillerEmail: |
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Nic Damnjanovic 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(2):113-126
In several publications Graeme Forbes has developed and defended one of the strongest arguments for essentialism about biological
origins. I attempt to show that there are deep, as yet unrecognized, problems with this argument. The problems with Forbes’s
argument suggest that a range of other arguments for various forms of origin essentialism are also likely to be flawed, and
that we should abandon the seemingly plausible general metaphysical thesis that concrete entities that share all intrinsic
properties are identical.
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Nic DamnjanovicEmail: |
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Charlie Pelling 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(3):169-182
According to the conceptualist view in the philosophy of perception, we possess concepts for all the objects, properties,
and relations which feature in our experiences. Richard Heck has recently argued that the phenomenon of illusory experience
provides us with conclusive reasons to reject this view. In this paper, I examine Heck’s argument, I explain why I think that
Bill Brewer’s conceptualist response to it is ineffective, and I then outline an alternative conceptualist response which
I myself endorse. My argument turns on the fact that both Heck, in constructing his objection to conceptualism, and Brewer,
in responding to it, miss a crucial distinction between perceptual demonstrative concepts of objects, on the one hand, and
perceptual demonstrative concepts of properties, on the other.
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Charlie PellingEmail: |
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Xiaoqiang Han 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(1):33-42
The aim of this paper is to explain how the Heraclitean doctrine of universal flux must be rejected, while the notion of flux
should and can be preserved. Against the reductionist account of subjectless change, a modern version of the Heraclitean doctrine
advocated by revisionist metaphysics, I argue that (1) the idea of subjectless change is one that can and should be formulated
in the established conceptual framework, and (2) subjectlessness is a feature that most aptly characterizes material changes.
In essence, I seek to provide a proper accommodation for the notion of flux in a conceptual framework that is traditionally
understood (or rather misunderstood) as decidedly excluding it.
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Xiaoqiang HanEmail: |
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Georg Spielthenner 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(2):139-153
In this paper my primary aim is to present a logical system of practical reasoning that can be used to assess the validity
of practical arguments, that is, arguments with a practical judgment as conclusion. I begin with a critical evaluation of
other approaches to this issue and argue that they are inadequate. On the basis of these considerations, I explain in Sect.
2 the informal conception of practical validity and introduce in Sect. 3 the logical system P, which is an extension of propositional logic and can be used to assess the validity of a wide range of practical arguments.
In the last section, I apply this system to some examples of practical reasoning in order to demonstrate how it can be used
in practice.
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Georg SpielthennerEmail: |
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Julia Tanner 《Acta Analytica》2008,23(4):337-347
The fact that humans have a special relationship to each other insofar as they belong in the same species is often taken to
be a morally relevant difference between humans and other animals, one which justifies a greater moral status for all humans, regardless of their individual capacities. I give some reasons why this kind of relationship is not an appropriate
ground for differential treatment of humans and nonhumans. I then argue that even if relationships do matter morally species
membership cannot justify a difference in moral status. This has important implications because it removes one barrier to
giving animals greater moral status.
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Julia TannerEmail: |
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Pavel Materna 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(1):69-90
If concepts are explicated as abstract procedures, then we can easily show that each empirical concept is a not an effective
procedure. Some, but not all empirical concepts are shown to be of a special kind: they cannot in principle guarantee that
the object they identify satisfies the intended conditions.
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Nikolaj Nottelman 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(2):105-124
In this paper I discuss the claim that believing at will is ‘conceptually impossible’ or, to use a formulation encountered
in the debate, “that nothing could be a belief and be willed directly”. I argue that such a claim is only plausible if directed
against the claim that believing itself is an action-type. However, in the debate, the claim has been univocally directed
against the position that forming a belief is an action-type. I argue that the many arguments offered in favor of the ‘conceptual impossibility’ of performing
such actions fail without exception. If we are to argue against doxastic voluntarism we are better off by resorting to more
modest means.
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Nikolaj NottelmanEmail: |
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Claudio de Almeida 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(4):301-319
It is argued, on the basis of new counterexamples, that neither knowledge nor epistemic justification (or “epistemic rationality”)
can reasonably be thought to be closed under logical implication. The argument includes an attempt to reconcile the fundamental
intuitions of the opposing parties in the debate.
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Claudio de AlmeidaEmail: |
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Wayne A. Davis 《Acta Analytica》2008,23(3):207-231
According to Peacocke, concepts are individuated by their possession conditions, which are specified in terms of conditions
in which certain propositions containing those concepts are believed. In support, Peacocke tries to explain what it is for
a thought to have a structure and what it is for a belief to have a propositional content. I show that the possession condition
theory cannot answer such fundamental questions. Peacocke’s theory founders because concepts are metaphysically fundamental.
They individuate the propositions and thoughts containing them, which in turn individuate the propositional attitudes that
are relations to those propositions or thoughts.
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Wayne A. DavisEmail: |
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Michael P. Wolf 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(3):207-222
Causal theories of reference in the philosophy of language and philosophy of science have suggested that it could resolve
lingering worries about incommensurability between theoretical claims in different paradigms, to borrow Kuhn’s terms. If we
co-refer throughout different paradigms, then the problems of incommensurability are greatly diminished, according to causal
theorists. I argue that assuring ourselves of that sort of constancy of reference will require comparable sorts of cross-paradigm
affinities, and thus provides us with no special relief on this problem. Suggestions on how to think about rigid designation
across paradigms are included.
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Michael P. WolfEmail: |
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István Aranyosi 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(1):1-10
In his latest book, Roy Sorensen offers a solution to a puzzle he put forward in an earlier article -The Disappearing Act.
The puzzle involves various question about how the causal theory perception is to be applied to the case of seeing shadows.
Sorensen argues that the puzzle should be taken as bringing out a new way of seeing shadows. I point out a problem for Sorensen’s
solution, and offer and defend an alternative view, according to which the puzzle is to be interpreted as showing a new way
of seeing objects, in virtue of their contrast with light.
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István AranyosiEmail: Email: |
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Steve Bankes 《Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory》2009,15(1):8-10
Computer models are artifacts that facilitate conducting computational experiments. In that sense they are laboratory equipment.
The utility of a piece of laboratory equipment comes from the range of useful experiments it supports. However, general purpose
models are in general much more costly to create and maintain. Consequently, issues regarding the design of computer models
are best understood as pragmatic questions regarding the costs and utility of alternative designs.
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Steve BankesEmail: |
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It has recently been argued that any epistemological theory that allows for what is called basic knowledge, viz., knowledge
that an agent acquires from a certain source, even if he fails to know that the source is reliable, falls victim to what is
known as the problem of easy knowledge. The idea is that for such theories bootstrapping and closure allow us far too easily
to acquire knowledge (justification) that seems unlikely under the envisaged circumstances. In this paper, I begin by highlighting
the distinction between the (epistemic) legitimacy and dialectical effectiveness of such inferences. After evaluating some
of the well-known solutions to this problem, I offer a mixed view of the legitimacy of easy knowledge inferences while trying
to provide novel explanations as to how contrary intuitions arise.
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Hamid VahidEmail: |