Search Results - "American philosophical quarterly (Oxford)"

Stuff by Miller, Kristie

“…Linguistically, "thing" is a count noun, and "stuff" is a mass noun. Syntactically, "thing" functions as a singular referring term, while "stuff" functions as…”
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PROPOSITIONAL FAITH: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT by Howard-Snyder, Daniel

“…His topic is propositional faith. At a first approximation, people might answer that propositional faith is the psychological attitude picked out by standard…”
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PRESSURE, TRICKERY, AND A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF MANIPULATION by Noggle, Robert

“…Although manipulation is neither rational persuasion nor coercion, a more precise definition remains elusive. Two main accounts have been offered. One…”
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IS GROUND A STRICT PARTIAL ORDER? by Raven, Michael J.

“…Orthodoxy says ground induces a strict partial order structure on reality, from the more derivative to the more fundamental. Heresy denies that ground is a…”
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GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION by Manela, Tony

“…This article argues that gratitude to and gratitude that are fundamentally different concepts. The former (prepositional gratitude) is properly a response to…”
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TRUTH AS THE GOOD IN THE WAY OF BELIEF by Lynch, Michael P.

“…William James once said that truth is “the good in the way of belief.” This has the ring of, well, truth. While it may appear as if James’ claim is…”
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ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PRAISE by Stout, Nathan

“…In recent years there has been an explosion of philosophical work on blame. Much of this work has focused on explicating the nature of blame or on examining…”
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RECENT WORK ON NAÏVE REALISM by Genone, James

“…Naïve realism, often overlooked among philosophical theories of perception, has in recent years attracted a surge of interest. In this essay, I distinguish…”
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TWO FOR THE KNOWLEDGE GOAL OF INQUIRY by Kelp, Christoph

“…The goal of inquiry into a given question by an agent, α, can be characterized, neutrally, as α's having the answer to that question. Kelp focuses only on…”
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CAN PLURALISM ACCOUNT FOR THE NORMATIVITY OF TRUTH? by Edwards, Douglas

“…In this paper I assess whether truth pluralism can account for the normativity of truth. This is a key issue, as accommodating the idea that truth is normative…”
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THE FORCE OF ALETHIC PLURALISM: TRUTH PLURALISM AND THE AIM OF BELIEF by Strollo, Andrea

“…Belief, according to many philosophers, aims at truth. In this paper I discuss in what measure a pluralist conception of truth is compatible with this claim…”
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KNOWLEDGE FROM KNOWLEDGE by Borges, Rodrigo

“…This paper argues that a necessary condition on inferential knowledge is that one knows all the propositions that knowledge depends on. That is, I will argue…”
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HUMOR AND MORALITY by Lycan, William G.

“…The ethics of humor has suffered from failure to distinguish objects of evaluation. This paper’s main thesis is that once we do distinguish the evaluation of…”
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PICTURES, PROPOSITIONS, AND PREDICATES by Gregory, Dominic

“…Do representational pictures have propositional contents? The current paper argues that the characteristic contents of pictures are predicative rather than…”
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ALETHIC PLURALISM AND TRUTH-ATTRIBUTIONS: A DILEMMA by Wrenn, Chase

“…The core of alethic pluralism is the idea that truth is a different property in some discourses from others. Orthodox pluralists such as Crispin Wright and…”
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MODERATE TRUTH PLURALISM AND THE STRUCTURE OF DOXASTIC NORMATIVITY by Pedersen, Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding

“…According to moderate truth pluralism, there is a single property that qualifies as truth for any (truthapt) domain whatsoever. However, propositions…”
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THE FORCE OF ALETHIC PLURALISM by Strollo, Andrea

“…Abstract Belief, according to many philosophers, aims at truth. In this paper I discuss in what measure a pluralist conception of truth is compatible with this…”
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ALETHIC PLURALISM AND TRUTH-ATTRIBUTIONS by Wrenn, Chase

“…Abstract The core of alethic pluralism is the idea that truth is a different property in some discourses from others. Orthodox pluralists such as Crispin…”
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WHAT IF OUR SPECIES IS EPISTEMICALLY IMMATURE? by Schellenberg, J. L.

“…New insights about a variety of epistemological topics including skepticism, peer disagreement, and the nature of knowledge emerge when we give the right sort…”
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DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT TASTE VS. DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT MORAL ISSUES by Stojanovic, Isidora

“…The aim of this paper is to argue against a growing tendency to assimilate moral disagreements to disagreements about matters of personal taste. The…”
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