Sensitivity has Multiple Heterogeneity Problems: a Reply to Wallbridge

Philosophia - In this paper, I defend the heterogeneity problem for sensitivity accounts of knowledge against an objection that has been recently proposed by Wallbridge in Philosophia (2016b). I...     

Metaethics and Mental Time Travel: a Reply to Gerrans and Kennett

Philosophia - In “Neurosentimentalism and Moral Agency” (Mind 2010), Philip Gerrans and Jeanette Kennett argue that prominent versions of metaethical sentimentalism and moral realism...     

The Inference Objection to Evidence Cases

Philosophia - Chastain (1975) and Sawyer (2012), among others, claim that direct cognitive relations can be initiated in evidence cases. Direct cognitive relations will here include...     

Epistemological Disjunctivism and Introspective Indiscriminability

Philosophia - According to Duncan Pritchard’s Philosophical Issues, 21(1), 434–455, (2011, 2012, 2015)version of epistemological disjunctivism, in paradigm cases of perceptual...     

CHOICE: an Objective,Voluntaristic Theory of Prudential Value

Philosophia - It is customary to think that Objective List (“OL), Desire-Satisfaction (“D-S”) and Hedonistic (“HED”) theories of prudential value pretty much cover the...     

Kantian Forgiveness: Fallibility,Guilt and the need to become a Better Person: Reply to Blöser

Philosophia - In ‘Human Fallibility and the Need for Forgiveness’, Claudia Blöser (Philosophia 47:1-19, 2019) has proposed a Kantian account of our reasons to forgive that situates...     

On an Alleged Loophole in Causal Closure: A Reply to Gamper

Philosophia - This paper intends to critically consider the idea put forward by Johan Gamper (Philosophia 45: 631–636, 2017) that the principle of causal closure can be reconciled with the...     

Can reductio Arguments Defeat the Hypothesis that Ideal Conceivability Entails Possibility?

Philosophia - Howell Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 89(3), 348–358 (2008) and Mizrahi and Morrow Ratio, 28(1), 1–13 (2015) offer a group of reductio arguments to rebut the CP thesis,...     

Extended Modal Realism — a New Solution to the Problem of Intentional Inexistence

Philosophia - Kriegel described the problem of intentional inexistence as one of the ‘perennial problems of philosophy’ (Kriegel Philosophical Perspectives 21(1), 307–340, 2007:...     

No Trust is Hybrid: Reply to Faulkner

Philosophia - There is a well-developed literature on trust. In his important article Faulkner (Analysis, 75(3), 424?429, 2015) distinguishes three-place, two-place and one-place trust...     

Can Bayesianism Solve Frege’s Puzzle?

Philosophia - Chalmers (Mind, 125, 499–510, 2016), responding to Braun (Mind, 125, 469–497, 2016), continues arguments from Chalmers (Mind, 120, 587–636, 2011a) for the conclusion...     

Double Defence Against Multiple Case Manipulation Arguments

Philosophia - The article aims to show that compatibilism can be defended against Pereboom’s ‘Four Case’ Manipulation Argument (Pereboom 2001), hereinafter referred to as 4-Case...     

More Grounds for Grounding Nominalism

Philosophia - In this paper, I examine Peter Schulte’s “Grounding Nominalism” (Schulte, 2018), understood as the claim that first-order properties and relations are grounded in...     

Epistemic Uniqueness and the Practical Relevance of Epistemic Practices

Philosophia - By taking the practical relevance of coordinated epistemic standards into account, Dogramaci and Horowitz (Philosophical Issues, 26(1), 130–147, 2016) as well as Greco and...     

On Complete Information Dispositionalism

Philosophia - In a trio of recent articles, Johnson and Nado (2014, 2016, Philosophia, 45, 717–734, 2017) defend a form of metasemantic dispositionalism, arguing for a novel approach to the...     

The Principle of Double Effect and Just War Theory

Philosophia - The paper explores the relationship between the Principle of Double Effect (PDE) and Just War Theory (JWT), with emphasis on their relationship in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas....     

Bias? Who is Bias? Comments to Dellsén

Philosophia - (Dellsén, Philosophical Studies, 177(12), 3661–3678, 2020) argues that a positivistic defense of science’s objectivity is incoherent because bias in the...     

The Bare Past

Philosophia - In this paper, I first introduce one of the most prominent objections against the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), the so-called ‘epistemic objection’, according to...     

Problems with Rowland’s Practical Conciliationism

Philosophia - Richard Rowland (2017, Philosophy Compass, 12(2), 1–16) defends the following principle: if we must suspend judgement about whether it is permissible for us to φ, then it...