Search Results - "Philosophical studies"

Grounding in the image of causation by Schaffer, Jonathan

“…Grounding is often glossed as metaphysical causation, yet no current theory of grounding looks remotely like a plausible treatment of causation. I propose to…”
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The wrongs of racist beliefs by Basu, Rima

“…We care not only about how people treat us, but also what they believe of us. If I believe that you're a bad tipper given your race, I've wronged you. But,…”
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What do philosophers believe? by Bourget, David, Chalmers, David J.

“…What are the philosophical views of contemporary professional philosophers? We surveyed many professional philosophers in order to help determine their views…”
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What we epistemically owe to each other by Basu, Rima

“…This paper is about an overlooked aspect—the cognitive or epistemic aspect—of the moral demand we place on one another to be treated well. We care not only how…”
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What is a (social) structural explanation? by Haslanger, Sally

“…A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But…”
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Anti-exceptionalism about logic by Hjortland, Ole Thomassen

“…Logic isn't special. Its theories are continuous with science; its method continuous with scientific method. Logic isn't a priori, nor are its truths analytic…”
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What is inference? by Boghossian, Paul

“…Boghossian offers his thoughts on what constitutes inference in philosophy. He believes that no Dispositional account of rule-following can hope to succeed…”
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Enkrasia or evidentialism? Learning to love mismatch by Lasonen-Aarnio, Maria

“…I formulate a resilient paradox about epistemic rationality, discuss and reject various solutions, and sketch a way out. The paradox exemplifies a tension…”
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Speaker’s reference, stipulation, and a dilemma for conceptual engineers by Deutsch, Max

“…Advocates of conceptual engineering as a method of philosophy face a dilemma: either they are ignorant of how conceptual engineering can be implemented, or…”
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Epistemic norms on evidence-gathering by Flores, Carolina, Woodard, Elise

“…In this paper, we argue that there are epistemic norms on evidence-gathering and consider consequences for how to understand epistemic normativity. Though the…”
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Belief, credence, and norms by Buchak, Lara

“…There are currently two robust traditions in philosophy dealing with doxastic attitudes: the tradition that is concerned primarily with all-or-nothing belief,…”
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Belief is weak by Hawthorne, John, Rothschild, Daniel, Spectre, Levi

“…It is tempting to posit an intimate relationship between belief and assertion. The speech act of assertion seems like a way of transferring the speaker's…”
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Skill and motor control: intelligence all the way down by Fridland, Ellen

“…When reflecting on the nature of skilled action, it is easy to fall into familiar dichotomies such that one construes the flexibility and intelligence of skill…”
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Inquiry and the epistemic by Thorstad, David

“…The zetetic turn in epistemology raises three questions about epistemic and zetetic norms. First, there is the relationship question : what is the relationship…”
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Grounding and metaphysical explanation: it's complicated by Maurin, Anna-Sofia

“…Grounding theorists insist that grounding and explanation are intimately related. This claim could be understood as saying either that grounding 'inherits' its…”
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Essentialist explanation by Glazier, Martin

“…Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in metaphysical explanation, and philosophers have fixed on the notion of ground as the conceptual tool with…”
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Equal treatment for belief by Rinard, Susanna

“…This paper proposes that the question "What should I believe?" is to be answered in the same way as the question "What should I do?," a view I call Equal…”
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The dark side of niche construction by Coninx, Sabrina

“…Niche construction denotes the alteration, destruction, or creation of environmental features through the activities of an organism, modifying the relation…”
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The moral fixed points: new directions for moral nonnaturalism by Cuneo, Terence, Shafer-Landau, Russ

“…Our project in this essay is to showcase nonnaturalistic moral realism's resources for responding to metaphysical and epistemological objections by taking the…”
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Against dispositionalism: belief in cognitive science by Quilty-Dunn, Jake, Mandelbaum, Eric

“…Dispositionalism about belief has had a recent resurgence. In this paper we critically evaluate a popular dispositionalist program pursued by Eric…”
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