In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of "meaning," a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians. Meaning, they propose, does not exist solely within words and sentences but resides…
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This book defends modal realism: the thesis that the world we are part of is but one of a plurality of worlds, And that we who inhabit this world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. First I review the ways in which…
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Machine generated contents note: Essay 1. Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963) - Essay 2. How is Weakness of the Will Possible? (1969) - Essay 3. Agency (1971) - Essay 4. Freedom to Act (1973) - Essay 5. Intending (1978) Event and Cause - Essay 6.…
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This paper attacks the Implicit Reference Class Theory of gradable adjectives and proposes instead a âpluralistâ approach to the semantics of those terms, according to which they can be governed by a variety of different types of standards, one, but…
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How should you take into account the opinions of an advisor? When you completely defer to the advisors judgment (the manner in which she re- sponds to her evidence), then you should treat the advisor as a guru. Roughly, that means you should believe…
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In this paper we survey some main arguments for and against epistemological contextualism. We distinguish and discuss various kinds of contextualism, such as attributed contextualism (the most influential version of which is semantic,…
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Owens (1993) argues that one cannot accept the anti-individualistic conclusions of arguments inspired by Twin Earth thought experiments and still maintain that folk psychological states casually explain behavior. Saidel (1994) has argued that…
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Many philosophers, including direct reference theorists, appeal too naively to 'modes of presentation' in the analysis of belief reports. I show that a variety of such appeals can be analyzed in terms of a precise theory of modes of presentation.…
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This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that…
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A finite-element simulation study has been made of the effect upon the uncompensated resistance, U, of the size of a reference electrode positioned at various distances above the center of an inlaid-disk working electrode. The idealized reference…
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This paper examines the implications of certain social psychological experiments for moral theory-specifically, for virtue theory. Gilbert Harman and John Doris have recently argued that the empirical evidence offered by situationism' demonstrates…
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