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81A Puzzle About Responsibility: A Problem and its Contextualist SolutionErkenntnis 74 (2): 207-224. 2011.This paper presents a puzzle about moral responsibility. The problem is based upon the indeterminacy of relevant reference classes as applied to action. After discussing and rejecting a very tempting response I propose moral contextualism instead, that is, the idea that the truth value of judgments of the form S is morally responsible for x depends on and varies with the context of the attributor who makes that judgment. Even if this reply should not do all the expected work it is a first step.
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2Müller, Synonymie und Analytizität: Zwei sinnvolle Begriffe (review)Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 24 (1): 94-99. 1999.
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Response to Schaffer's ReplyIn Stefan Toiksdorf (ed.), Conceptions of Knowledge, De Gruyter. pp. 425-431. 2012.This is a response to Jonathan Schaffer's reply to my criticism of contrastivism.
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92Justification and the Truth-Connection By Clayton Littlejohn (review)Analysis 74 (4): 731-733. 2014.Review of Littlejohn, "Justification and the Truth Connection".
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972To Thine Own Self Be Untrue: A Diagnosis of the Cable Guy ParadoxLogique Et Analyse 51 (204): 355-364. 2008.Hájek has recently presented the following paradox. You are certain that a cable guy will visit you tomorrow between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. but you have no further information about when. And you agree to a bet on whether he will come in the morning interval (8, 12] or in the afternoon interval (12, 4). At first, you have no reason to prefer one possibility rather than the other. But you soon realise that there will definitely be a future time at which you will (rationally) assign higher proba…Read more
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Kant y el yoIn Felipe Castañeda, Vincente Durán & Luis Eduardo Hoyos (eds.), Immanuel Kant: vigencia de la filosofía crítica, Siglo Del Hombre Editores. pp. 79-89. 2007.An interpretation and discussion of Kant's theory of the self.
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34Gerhard Ernst: Das problem Des wissens, paderborn: Mentis 2002Grazer Philosophische Studien 68 (1): 221-223. 2005.Review of Ernst, "Das Problem des Wissens".
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330The Scottish Pragmatist? The Dilemma of Common Sense and the Pragmatist Way OutReid Studies 2 (2): 47-58. 1999.One of the great attractions of Thomas Reid's account of knowledge is that he attempted to avoid the alternative between skepticism and dogmatism. This attempt, however, faces serious problems. It is argued here that there is a pragmatist way out of the problems, and that there are even hints to this solution in Reid's writings.
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1Epistemic contractsIn Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research, Dr. Hänsel-hohenhausen. pp. 1--19. 2002.The idea of a social contract has played a major role in modern political philosophy but not in modern epistemology, -- not even in more recent "social theories of knowledge". The idea of an epistemic contract, however, is very interesting and deserves more attention. In this paper, I discuss arguments to the effect that we cannot do without epistemic contracts. I come to the conclusion that these arguments are not convincing. If one wants to make use of contractarian arguments in epistemology, …Read more
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Handlung, Absicht und InstrumentalitätIn Christoph Hubig, Andreas Luckner & Nadia Mazouz (eds.), Handeln und Technik - mit und ohne Heidegger, Lit-verlag. pp. 77-82. 2007.This paper argues that two types of action - routine action and affective action - have been neglected in current action theory. Inquiry into these kinds of action can lead to interesting insights.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |