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Against the Property Theory of Musical WorksRes Philosophica. forthcoming.
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Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate FallacyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72 (4): 965-993. 2021.The replication (replicability, reproducibility) crisis in social psychology and clinical medicine arises from the fact that many apparently well-confirmed experimental results are subsequently overturned by studies that aim to replicate the original study. The culprit is widely held to be poor science: questionable research practices, failure to publish negative results, bad incentives, and even fraud. In this article I argue that the high rate of failed replications is consistent with high-qua…Read more
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The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence: With Selections From the Correspondence with Ernst, Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels (edited book)Yale University Press. 2016._In this critical edition, Leibniz submits his metaphysics of substance and form, concomitance and expression, freedom and necessity to the searching Socratic interrogation of Arnauld_ In this critical edition, Stephen Voss establishes the text of the magnificent Socratic correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Antoine Arnauld, provides an accurate English translation of the French text, and includes full apparatus helpful to student and scholar alike. The philosopher, physicist, an…Read more
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Pain: New Essays on its Nature and the Methodology of its Study (edited book)MIT Press. 2005.What does feeling a sharp pain in one's hand have in common with seeing a red apple on the table? Some say not much, apart from the fact that they are both conscious experiences. To see an object is to perceive an extramental reality -- in this case, a red apple. To feel a pain, by contrast, is to undergo a conscious experience that doesn't necessarily relate the subject to an objective reality. Perceptualists, however, dispute this. They say that both experiences are forms of perception of an o…Read more
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Rigid Designation and Theoretical Identities (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 28 (2): 217-220. 2014.
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Inostensible Reference and Conceptual CuriosityCroatian Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 21-41. 2010.A lot has been said about how the notion of reference relates to the notion of knowledge; not much has been said, however, on how the notion of referencerelates to our ability to become aware of what we do not know that allows us to be curious. In this essay I attempt to spell out a certain type of reference I call ‘inostensible’ that I claim to be a fundamental linguistic tool which allows us to become curious of what we do not know. In the first part, I try to explicate the notion of inostensi…Read more
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Unanswerable questions for MilliansPhilosophical Studies 154 (2): 279-283. 2011.
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Afterthoughts on Critiques to The Philosophy of CuriosityCroatian Journal of Philosophy 16 (3): 419-439. 2016.
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Afterthoughts on Critiques to The Philosophy of CuriosityCroatian Journal of Philosophy 16 (3): 419-439. 2016.
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Awareness of ignoranceSATS 20 (2): 141-173. 2020.Despite the recent increase in interest in philosophy about ignorance, little attention has been paid to the question of what makes it possible for a being to become aware of their own ignorance. In this paper, I try to provide such an account by arguing that, for a being to become aware of their own ignorance, they must have the mental capacity to represent something as being unknown to them. For normal adult humans who have mastered a language, mental representation of an unknown is enabled by…Read more
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The Philosophy of CuriosityRoutledge. 2011.In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as _a desire to know._ Working in an area where epistemology and philosophy of language overlap, Inan forges a link between our ability to become aware of our ignorance and our linguistic aptitude to construct terms referring to things unknown. The book introduces the notion of inostensible reference. Ilhan connects this notion to related concepts in philosophy of language: knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by descrip…Read more
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Mere Possibilities: Metaphysical Foundations of Modal SemanticsPrinceton University Press. 2012.
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Origins of ObjectivityOxford University Press. 2010.
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Reliabilism, the Generality Problem, and the Basing RelationTheoria 85 (2): 119-144. 2019.In “A well-founded solution to the generality problem,” Comesaña argues, inter alia, for three main claims. One is what I call the unavoidability claim: Any adequate epistemological theory needs to appeal, either implicitly or explicitly, to the notion of a belief’s being based on certain evidence. Another is what I call the legitimacy claim: It is perfectly legitimate to appeal to the basing relation in solving a problem for an epistemological theory. According to Comesaña, the legitimacy claim…Read more
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In Defense of Empathy: A response to PrinzAbstracta 8 (2): 31-51. 2015.A prevailing view in moral psychology holds that empathy and sympathy play key roles in morality and in prosocial and altruistic actions. Recently, Jesse Prinz (2011a, 2011b) has challenged this view and has argued that empathy does not play a foundational or causal role in morality. He suggests that in fact the presence of empathetic emotions is harmful to morality. Prinz rejects all theories that connect empathy and morality as a constitutional, epistemological, developmental, motivational, or…Read more
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