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Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Interests And Regret, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Interests And Regret, Christopher Kaczor
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The article provides an assessment of the burdens of continuing a pregnancy. Topics discussed include the burdens and costs of abortion, anecdotal evidence regarding feelings of regret after opting for abortion, reference to the book "A Defense of Abortion" by David Boonin, and the violinist argument, which must take account of the possible burdens of a crisis pregnancy.
Review Of "Reckoning With The Imagination: Wittgenstein And The Aesthetics Of Literary Experience" By C. Altieri, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Review Of "Reckoning With The Imagination: Wittgenstein And The Aesthetics Of Literary Experience" By C. Altieri, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor
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No abstract provided.
Review Of "The Philosophy Of Tragedy" By C. Hamilton, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Review Of "The Philosophy Of Tragedy" By C. Hamilton, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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No abstract provided.
Knowledge Across Contexts. A Problem For Subject-Sensitive Invariantism, Peter Baumann
Knowledge Across Contexts. A Problem For Subject-Sensitive Invariantism, Peter Baumann
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The possibility of knowledge attributions across contexts (where attributor and subject find themselves in different epistemic contexts) can create serious problems for certain views of knowledge. Amongst such views is subject-sensitive invariantism—the view that knowledge is determined not only by epistemic factors (belief, truth, evidence, etc.), but also by non-epistemic factors (practical interests, etc.). I argue that subject-sensitive invariantism either runs into a contradiction or has to make very implausible assumptions. The problem has been very much neglected but is so serious that one should look for alternative accounts of knowledge.
Philosophy, Literature, Death, And Wisdom: On Philip Kitcher's "Deaths In Venice", Richard Thomas Eldridge
Philosophy, Literature, Death, And Wisdom: On Philip Kitcher's "Deaths In Venice", Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On A Future-Like-Ours And The Substance View, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On A Future-Like-Ours And The Substance View, Christopher Kaczor
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Epistemic Contrastivism, Knowledge And Practical Reasoning, Peter Baumann
Epistemic Contrastivism, Knowledge And Practical Reasoning, Peter Baumann
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Epistemic contrastivism is the view that knowledge is a ternary relation between a person, a proposition and a set of contrast propositions. This view is in tension with widely shared accounts of practical reasoning: be it the claim that knowledge of the premises is necessary for acceptable practical reasoning based on them or sufficient for the acceptability of the use of the premises in practical reasoning, or be it the claim that there is a looser connection between knowledge and practical reasoning. Given plausible assumptions, epistemic contrastivism implies that we should cut all links between knowledge and practical reasoning. However, …
Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical And Ethical, Alan Richard Baker
Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical And Ethical, Alan Richard Baker
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This chapter examines how the general framework for indispensability arguments developed by Enoch in the metaethical context plays out in its ancestral home, the philosophy of mathematics. Enoch’s framework is inspired by the Quine–Putnam type of indispensability argument in mathematics and is liable to inherit the latter’s holism. But once this holism is expunged from Enoch’s framework it turns out that Enoch’s indispensability argument is stronger in the moral than in the mathematical case, since it is more plausible that normative entities are indispensible to all projects of practical deliberation than it is that mathematical entities are indispensible to all …
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense, Peter Baumann
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense, Peter Baumann
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This book develops and defends a version of epistemic contextualism, that is, of the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form “S knows that p” can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book is about arguments for contextualism and develops a particular version of it. The first chapter deals with the argument from cases and ordinary usage. More weight, however, is put on more “theoretical” arguments: arguments from reliability (Chapter 2) and from luck (Chapter 3). The second part of the book discusses problems contextualism faces and …
Images Of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, And The Human Subject, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Images Of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, And The Human Subject, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact. Each sees a special place for religious consciousness and critical practice in the articulation and revision of ideals that are to have cultural effect, but they differ sharply in the forms of religious-philosophical understanding, cultural criticism, and political practice that they favor. Kant defends a liberal, reformist, Protestant stance, emphasizing the importance of liberty, individual rights, …
The Question Of Truth In Literature: Die Poetische Auffassung Der Welt, Richard Thomas Eldridge
The Question Of Truth In Literature: Die Poetische Auffassung Der Welt, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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This chapter starts with the question of truth in literature, noting that this question has several interrelated senses: can literature present (significant) truths at all?; what does its presentation of truths (if it exists) have to do with its manner of presentation (with literary language)?; and is the presentation of truth a central aim of literary art? The chapter surveys a variety of neo-Fregean (Lamarque and Olsen, Walton) views that reject the very possibility of literary truth as well as a variety of anti-Fregean views (Goodman, Heidegger) that endorse it. But those endorsements often do not say enough about literary …
The Four Dimensions Of An Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr
The Four Dimensions Of An Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr
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Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor
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Mechanistic Abstraction, Worth Boone, Gualtiero Piccinini
Mechanistic Abstraction, Worth Boone, Gualtiero Piccinini
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We provide an explicit taxonomy of legitimate kinds of abstraction within constitutive explanation. We argue that abstraction is an inherent aspect of adequate mechanistic explanation. Mechanistic explanations—even ideally complete ones—typically involve many kinds of abstraction and therefore do not require maximal detail. Some kinds of abstraction play the ontic role of identifying the specific complex components, subsets of causal powers, and organizational relations that produce a suitably general phenomenon. Therefore, abstract constitutive explanations are both legitimate and mechanistic.
Reference Magnetism As A Solution To The Moral Twin Earth Problem, William Dunaway
Reference Magnetism As A Solution To The Moral Twin Earth Problem, William Dunaway
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‘Moral Twin Earth’ thought experiments constitute a central semantic challenge to naturalistic normative realism. This paper first outlines a general framework for understanding the challenge, according to which (i) central normative terms are semantically stable in ways that contrast with many other paradigmatic descriptive terms, and (ii) realists should expect to have a unified meta-semantic theory that explains the difference in stability between the normative and descriptive terms in question. The most attractive way of meeting this challenge, we argue, appeals to the idea of reference magnetism. According to this influential idea, some properties are reference magnets, which (roughly) means …
Responsibilist Virtues And The ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ Of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr
Responsibilist Virtues And The ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ Of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr
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In Judgment and Agency, Ernest Sosa takes “reliabilist” virtue epistemology deep into “responsibilist” territory, arguing that “a true epistemology” will assign “responsibilist-cum-reliabilist intellectual virtue the main role in addressing concerns at the center of the tradition.” However, Sosa stops short of granting this status to familiar responsibilist virtues like open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual humility. He cites three reasons for doing so: responsibilist virtues involve excessive motivational demands; they are quasi-ethical; and they are best understood, not as constituting knowledge, but rather as putting one “in a position” to know. I elaborate on and respond to each of these …
Is Intellectual Character Growth A Realistic Educational Aim?, Jason Baehr
Is Intellectual Character Growth A Realistic Educational Aim?, Jason Baehr
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No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Chance In Evolution, Timothy Shanahan
Book Review Of Chance In Evolution, Timothy Shanahan
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No abstract provided.