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47A Note on Safety and Iterated KnowledgeGrazer Philosophische Studien 96 (2): 244-254. 2019.Timothy Williamson has argued that the safety condition on knowledge places certain limits on iterations of knowledge. But at the same time, Williamson claims that interpersonal iterations of knowledge aren’t so restricted as to rule out ordinary cases. The present authors show that Williamson’s discussion misconstrues the challenge to iterated interpersonal knowledge. The proper argument against interpersonal iterations is rather what the authors call a third-person argument that does not share…Read more
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42The Concept of Identity.The Identity of the SelfPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (3): 467-473. 1985.
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40Physical‐Object Ontology, Verbal Disputes, and Common SensePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (1): 67-97. 2007.Two main claims are defended in this paper: first, that typical disputes in the literature about the ontology of physical objects are merely verbal; second, that the proper way to resolve these disputes is by appealing to common sense or ordinary language. A verbal dispute is characterized not in terms of private idiolects, but in terms of different linguistic communities representing different positions. If we imagine a community that makes Chisholm's mereological essentialist assertions, and a…Read more
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34Practically StrangeDividing RealityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1): 203. 1996.In Eli Hirsch’s clever and careful Dividing Reality he asks us to consider several strange languages. For example, in the Gricular language there is no word that applies to all and only green things and none that applies to all and only circular things, but there are the three words “gricular,” which applies to anything that is either green or circular, “grincular,” which applies to anything that is either green or not circular, and “ngricular,” which applies to anything that is either circular …Read more
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32Identity and Discrimination (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (2): 435-436. 1991.This is a strikingly original, rich, and trenchant study. Its point of departure is the notion of discrimination, which is shown to illuminate a range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology, including subjectivity, observationality, sorites paradoxes, and identity criteria. A central problem involves the phenomenal character of experience. We are intuitively tempted to say that character is subjective in the sense that distinct characters must be discriminable. This seems to imply that matchi…Read more
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30Hume's Distinction between Genuine and Fictitious IdentityMidwest Studies in Philosophy 8 (1): 321-338. 1983.
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15Ontology and alternative languagesIn David Chalmers, David Manley & Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, Oxford University Press. pp. 231--58. 2009.
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15Diabolical Mysticism, Death, and SkepticismPhilosophic Exchange 39 (1). 2009.According to one view, death is bad for the one who dies. The challenge for this view is to explain exactly why and when death is bad for the one who dies. According to an alternative view, death is not actually bad for the one who dies. There is a third alternative, according to which the thought of one’s own death elicits an experience that reveals the horror of one’s own death in a way that is ineffable. This paper explores this third alternative.
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13Peter van Inwagen’s Material BeingsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3): 687-691. 1993.
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13Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier varianceIn Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, Blackwell. pp. 367--81. 2008.
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4The Rational PhysicianPhilosophic Exchange 30 (1). 2000.In recent years, some professors of medicine have applied the results of decision theory to the practice of medicine. This paper argues that this agenda is deeply flawed and potentially unethical.
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3Kripke's argument against materialismIn Robert C. Koons & George Bealer (eds.), The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Talmudic destinyIn Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz & Aaron Segal (eds.), Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2019.
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Rashi's View of the Open Future: Determinateness and BivalienceIn Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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