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57Checking the Neighborhood: A Reply to DiPaolo & Behrends on PromotionJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (1): 1-8. 2016.In previous work I argued that purely probabilistic accounts of what it takes to promote a desire are mistaken. This is because, I argued, there are desires that it is possible to promote but impossible to probabilistically promote. In a recent article critical of my account, Joshua DiPaolo and Jeffrey Behrends articulate a methodological principle -- Check the Neighborhood -- and claim that respecting this principle rescues pure probabilism from my argument. In this reply, I accept the methodol…Read more
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