• Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Volume 6 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
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    Infelicitous Conditionals and KK
    Mind 133 (529): 196-209. 2024.
    Kevin Dorst (2019) uses the ‘manifest unassertability’ of conditionals of the form ‘If I don’t know p, then p’ as a new motivation for the KK thesis. In this paper we show that his argumentation is misguided. Plausible heuristics offer a compelling and nuanced explanation of the relevant infelicity data. Meanwhile, Dorst relies on tools that, quite independently of KK, turn out to be rather poor predictors of the infelicity of indicative conditionals.
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    A festschrift for Dorothy Edgington, containing contributions from Cleo Condoravdi, Dorothy Edgington, Kit Fine, Alan Hájek, John Hawthorne, Sabine Iatridou, Nick Jones, Rosanna Keefe, Angelika Kratzer, David Over, Daniel Rothschild, Robert Stalnaker, Scott Sturgeon, and Timothy Williamson.
  •  311
    Narrow Content
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Can there be 'narrow' mental content, that is entirely determined by the goings-on inside the head of the thinker? This book argues not, and defends instead a thoroughgoing externalism: the entanglement of our minds with the external world runs so deep that no internal component of mentality can easily be cordoned off.
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    Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Vol. 8 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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    The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind (edited book)
    with Michaelis Michael
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1996.
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    Ethics (edited book)
    Wiley Periodicals. 2004.
    moral community between humans, the “membership” of which is unearned. With this claim in the background, I will then try in the next section to engage with ...
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    De Rijke, M., 109 Di Maio, MC, 435 Doria, FA, 553 French, S., 603
    with E. M. Hammer, M. Kracht, E. Martino, J. M. Mendez, R. K. Meyer, L. S. Moss, A. Tzouvaras, J. van Benthem, and F. Wolter
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 27 (661). 1998.
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    Knowledge and Action
    with J. Stanley
    Revista Cultura E Fé 37 (144). 2008.
    Reconhecido centro de formação profissional em carreiras jurídicas, o IDC oferece Especialização, preparação para Exame de Ordem e Cursos de Extensão em mais de 20 áreas do Direito, aprofundando os conhecimentos de advogados e bacharéis. Possui também graduação em Filosofia, além de promover Cursos Preparatórios para Concursos em diversas áreas, obtendo excelentes resultados de aprovação graças à preocupação constante na qualificação e excelência de seu corpo docente e infra-estrutura.
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    Absolutism and its Limits
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 21 (1-2): 170-189. 2023.
    Many philosophers think that given the choice between saving the life of an innocent person and averting any number of minor ailments or inconveniences, it would be better to save the life. How, then, should one compare the risk of an innocent person’s life to such minor ailments and inconveniences? If lives are infinitely more important than insignificant factors then any risk cannot be outweighed, and that is untenable. An alternative approach seems more promising: let the values of such insig…Read more
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    In general, a given object could have been different in certain respects. For example, the Great Pyramid could have been somewhat shorter or taller; the Mona Lisa could have had a somewhat different pattern of colours; an ordinary table could have been made of a somewhat different quantity of wood. But there seem to be limits. It would be odd to suppose that the Great Pyramid could have been thimble-sized; that the Mona Lisa could have had the pattern of colours that actually characterizes T…Read more
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    The preface, the lottery, and the logic of belief
    with Luc Bovens
    Mind 108 (430): 241-264. 1999.
    John Locke proposed a straightforward relationship between qualitative and quantitative doxastic notions: belief corresponds to a sufficiently high degree of confidence. Richard Foley has further developed this Lockean thesis and applied it to an analysis of the preface and lottery paradoxes. Following Foley's lead, we exploit various versions of these paradoxes to chart a precise relationship between belief and probabilistic degrees of confidence. The resolutions of these paradoxes emphasize di…Read more
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    Oxford Studies in Epistemology 7 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2022.
    Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a periodical publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: - traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism,…Read more
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    Deconstructing the Mind (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 479-483. 2000.
    Here is a popular style of argument for eliminativisim
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    Dogmatism & Inquiry
    with Sam Carter
    Mind. forthcoming.
    Inquiry aims at knowledge. Your inquiry into a question succeeds just in case you come to know the answer. However, combined with a common picture on which misleading evidence can lead knowledge to be lost, this view threatens to recommend a novel form of dogmatism. At least in some cases, individuals who know the answer to a question appear required to avoid evidence bearing on it. In this paper, we’ll aim to do two things. First, we’ll present an argument for this novel form of dogmatism and s…Read more
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    On the compatibility of connectionist and classical models
    Philosophical Psychology 2 (1): 5-16. 1989.
    This paper presents considerations in favour of the view that traditional (classical) architectures can be seen as emergent features of connectionist networks with distributed representation. A recent paper by William Bechtel (1988) which argues for a similar conclusion is unsatisfactory in that it fails to consider whether the compositional syntax and semantics attributed to mental representations by classical models can emerge within a connectionist network. The compatibility of the two paradi…Read more
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    Causal Structuralism
    Noûs 35 361-378. 2002.
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    Testing for Context‐Dependence1
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (2): 443-450. 2007.
    How much context-sensitivity is there in English? Cappelen and Lepore’s answer: Not very much. On their view, context-sensitivity is confined to a ‘Basic List’, ‘plus or minus a bit’, that includes pronouns, demonstratives, temporal and spatial adverbs like ‘here’, ‘now’, and ‘yesterday’, and a short list of context dependent nouns and adjectives. Shockingly, the authors claim that ‘Lepore is ready’, ‘Cappelen has had enough’, and ‘Cappelen is quite tall,’ have a context-invariant meaning. Nor i…Read more
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    From a Normative Point of View
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 71 (1): 28-46. 1990.
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    Practical Realism? 1
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (1): 169-178. 2002.
    In ‘Normative and Recognitional Concepts’, Allan Gibbard attempts to combine a sort of naturalistic moral realism with some of the main threads of quasi-realism. While his piece is certainly rich and suggestive, I found it unpersuasive at almost every key step. Below, I detail six areas of puzzlement.
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    Deeply Contingent A Priori Knowledge
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 247-269. 2002.
    The argument is not, however, problem-free. First: while the meaning of s might not guarantee a verifying state of affairs, mightn’t the fact of one’s believing that s is true guarantee a verifying state of affairs? And mightn’t this fact be exploited to secure knowledge of truths that are deeply contingent? Second: the argument seems to rely on the principle that if I can conceive that not P is actually the case, then I do not know that P. But it is generally agreed that a knowledge-conferring …Read more
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    Deconstructing the Mind (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 479-483. 2000.
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    The strongest version of the principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles states that of necessity, there are no distinct things with all their universals in common (where such putative haecceities as being Aristotle do not count as universals: I use 'universal' rather than 'property' here and in what follows for the simple reason that 'universal' is the term of art that most safely excludes haecceities from its instances). It is commonly supposed that Max Black's famous paper 'The identity of in…Read more
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    Strategies for free will compatibilists
    with P. Pettit
    Analysis 56 (4): 191-201. 1996.
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    Reliabilism and world counting
    Philosophia 24 (3-4): 377-388. 1995.
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    Numbers, minds, and bodies: A fresh look at mind-body dualism
    Philosophical Perspectives 12 349-371. 1998.
    In this essay, we explore a fresh avenue into mind-body dualism by considering a seemingly distant question posed by Frege: "Why is it absurd to suppose that Julius Caesar is a number?". The essay falls into three main parts. In the first, through an exploration of Frege’s Julius Caesar problem, we attempt to expose two maxims applicable to the mind-body problem. In the second part, we draw on those maxims in arguing that “full blown dualism” is preferable to more modest, property-theoretic, ver…Read more
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    Minimalism and truth
    Noûs 31 (2): 170-196. 1997.
    This paper canvasses the various dimensions along which theories of truth may disagree about the extent to which truth is minimal.