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63Thinking beyond ImaginingSynthese 199 (3-4): 7423-7435. 2021.This paper defends a rational account of conceivability according to which conceiving is a kind of modal thinking that is distinct from imagining effectively allowing us to think beyond what we can imagine, and that we are subject to rational rather than experiential constraints when we do so. Defending this view involves appealing to the perspective of an idealized agent and I’ll argue that this appeal is not worrisome given an “objective” view of propositional justification.
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44Intellectual Flourishing, The Truth Norm, and Epistemic Norm PluralismSouthwest Philosophy Review 32 (1): 77-83. 2016.
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131Folk psychological concepts: CausationPhilosophical Psychology 22 (2): 205-213. 2009.Which factors influence the folk application of the concept of causation? Knobe has argued that causal judgments are primarily influenced by the moral valence of the behavior under consideration. Whereas Driver has pointed out that the data Knobe relies on can also be used to support the claim that it is the atypicality of the agent's behavior that influences our willingness to assign causality to that agent. While Knobe and Fraser have provided a further study to address the cogency of this alt…Read more
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