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Four Dthats (2019)
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Predelli, S. (2021). Four Dthats. Synthese, 198, 2959-2972. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02257-y

The distinction between a merely ‘rigidifying’ dthat and a directly-referential take on dthat-terms is well known, and is explicitly highlighted by Kaplan in Afterthoughts, his 1989 commentary on Demonstratives. What is not equally widely recognized... Read More about Four Dthats.

Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Knowledge in Euthydemus 293b7–d1 (2019)
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Duncombe, M. (2019). Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Knowledge in Euthydemus 293b7–d1. Australasian Philosophical Review, 3(2), 198-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2020.1716666

McCabe [2021: 137–40] identifies a crucial ambiguity in the terms ‘learns’ and ‘knows’. Such terms can be read as either ‘perfective’ or ‘imperfective’. This is an aspect difference. The former indicates a settled state, the latter a directed process... Read More about Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Knowledge in Euthydemus 293b7–d1.

Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles (2019)
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Kisolo-Ssonko, J. (2019). Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles. Monist, 102(2), 172-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onz004

© The Author(s), 2019. Charles Mills claims that there are specific "civic and political duties" which individuals have a responsibility to fulfil because of the racial social roles they occupy. However, even those generally sympathetic to Role Ethic... Read More about Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles.

It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions (2019)
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Egerton, K. (2021). It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions. Erkenntnis, 86(2), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00107-4

Several recent discussions of metaphysics disavow existence-questions, claiming that they are metaphysically uninteresting because trivially settled in the affirmative by Moorean facts. This is often given as a reason to focus metaphysical debate ins... Read More about It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions.

You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t (2019)
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Tallant, J. (2019). You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t. Theoria, 85(2), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12177

My claim in this paper is that, contra what I take to be the orthodoxy in the wider literature, we do trust inanimate objects—per the example in the title, there are cases where people really do trust a ladder (to hold their weight, for instance), an... Read More about You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t.

The Formulation of Disjunctivism About φ-ing for a Reason (2018)
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Cunningham, J. J. (2019). The Formulation of Disjunctivism About φ-ing for a Reason. Philosophical Quarterly, 69(275), 235-257. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy019

We can contrast rationalising explanations of the form S φs because p with those of the form S φs because S believes that p. According the Common Kind View, the two sorts of explanation are the same. The Disjunctive View denies this. This paper sets... Read More about The Formulation of Disjunctivism About φ-ing for a Reason.

Why purists should be infallibilists (2018)
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Hannon, M. (2018). Why purists should be infallibilists. Philosophical Studies, 177, 689-704. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1200-x

© 2018, Springer Nature B.V. Two of the most orthodox ideas in epistemology are fallibilism and purism. According to the fallibilist, one can know that a particular claim is true even though one’s justification for that claim is less than fully concl... Read More about Why purists should be infallibilists.

It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them (2018)
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Tallant, J., & Baron, S. (2021). It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them. Synthese, 198(1), 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01983-z

In this paper we offer a response to one argument in favour of Priority Monism, what Jonathan Schaffer calls the nomic argument for monism. We proceed in three stages. We begin by introducing Jonathan Schaffer’s Priority Monism and the nomic argument... Read More about It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them.

How naive realism can explain both the particularity and the generality of experience (2018)
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French, C., & Gomes, A. (2019). How naive realism can explain both the particularity and the generality of experience. Philosophical Quarterly, 69(274), 41–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy047

Visual experiences seem to exhibit phenomenological particularity: when you look at some object, it–that particular object –looks some way to you. But experiences exhibit generality too: when you look at a distinct but qualitatively identical object,... Read More about How naive realism can explain both the particularity and the generality of experience.

The invalidity of the argument from illusion (2018)
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French, C., & Walters, L. (2018). The invalidity of the argument from illusion. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(4), 357-364

The argument from illusion attempts to establish the bold claim that we are never perceptually aware of ordinary material objects. The argument has rightly received a great deal critical of scrutiny. But here we develop a criticism that, to our knowl... Read More about The invalidity of the argument from illusion.

An error in temporal error theory (2018)
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Tallant, J. (2018). An error in temporal error theory. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(1), 14-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.5

Within the philosophy of time there has been a growing interest in positions that deny the reality of time. Those positions, whether motivated by arguments from physics or metaphysics, have a shared conclusion: time is not real. What has not been mad... Read More about An error in temporal error theory.

Every performance is a stage: musical stage theory as a novel account for the ontology of musical works (2018)
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Moruzzi, C. (2018). Every performance is a stage: musical stage theory as a novel account for the ontology of musical works. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12579

This paper defends Musical Stage Theory as a novel account of the ontology of musical works. Its main claim is that a musical work is a performance. The significance of this argument is twofold. First, it demonstrates the availability of an alternati... Read More about Every performance is a stage: musical stage theory as a novel account for the ontology of musical works.

Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism (2018)
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Duff, K. (2018). Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism. Historical Materialism, 26(2), 123-148. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-00001649

Its critics call it ‘feminism-as-crime-control’, or ‘Governance Feminism’, diagnosing it as a pernicious form of identity politics. Its advocates call it taking sexual violence seriously – by which they mean wielding the power of the state to ‘punish... Read More about Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism.

Knowledgeably Responding to Reasons (2018)
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Cunningham, J. (2020). Knowledgeably Responding to Reasons. Erkenntnis, 85(3), 673-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0043-3

Jennifer Hornsby has defended the Reasons-Knowledge Thesis (RKT): the claim that Φ -ing because p requires knowing that p, where the ‘because’ at issue is a rationalising ‘because’. She defends (RKT) by appeal to the thought that it provides the best... Read More about Knowledgeably Responding to Reasons.