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Michael Rubin 《Philosophical Studies》2008,139(3):307-327
A number of philosophers defend naturalistic moral realism by appeal to an externalist semantics for moral predicates. The
application of semantic externalism to moral predicates has been attacked by Terence Horgan and Mark Timmons in a series of
papers that make use of their “Moral Twin Earth” thought experiment. In response, several defenders of naturalistic moral
realism have claimed that the Moral Twin Earth thought experiment is misleading and yields distorted and inaccurate semantic
intuitions. If they are right, the intuitions generated by Moral Twin Earth cannot be appealed to in arguments against externalist
moral semantics. The most developed case against the Moral Twin Earth argument that follows this strategy is found in a paper
by Stephen Laurence, Eric Margolis and Angus Dawson. Here I argue that their attack on the Moral Twin Earth thought experiment
fails. Laurence, Margolis and Dawson have not shown that we have reason to distrust the semantic intuitions it generates
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Michael RubinEmail: |
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Peter Lamarque 《Philosophical Studies》2007,135(1):27-40
The paper argues that there is a proper place for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying
just what the relation is. In characterising aesthetic pleasure associated with literature it is all too easy to fall into
reductive accounts, for example, of literature as merely “fine writing”. Belleslettrist or formalistic accounts of literature
are rejected, as are two other kinds of reduction, to pure meaning properties and to a kind of narrative realism. The idea
is developed that literature—both poetry and prose fiction—invites its own distinctive kind of aesthetic appreciation which
far from being at odds with critical practice, in fact chimes well with it.
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Peter LamarqueEmail: |
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Peter Godfrey-Smith 《Philosophical Studies》2008,137(1):141-148
Kyle Stanford’s arguments against scientific realism are assessed, with a focus on the underdetermination of theory by evidence.
I argue that discussions of underdetermination have neglected a possible symmetry which may ameliorate the situation.
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Peter Godfrey-SmithEmail: |
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David Enoch 《The Journal of Ethics》2009,13(1):15-50
Moral disagreement is widely held to pose a threat for metaethical realism and objectivity. In this paper I attempt to understand
how it is that moral disagreement is supposed to present a problem for metaethical realism. I do this by going through several
distinct (though often related) arguments from disagreement, carefully distinguishing between them, and critically evaluating
their merits. My conclusions are rather skeptical: Some of the arguments I discuss fail rather clearly. Others supply with
a challenge to realism, but not one we have any reason to believe realism cannot address successfully. Others beg the question
against the moral realist, and yet others raise serious objections to realism, but ones that—when carefully stated—can be
seen not to be essentially related to moral disagreement. Arguments based on moral disagreement itself have almost no weight,
I conclude, against moral realism.
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David EnochEmail: |
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Jeff Wisdom 《Philosophical Studies》2008,138(3):429-434
In this essay I distinguish between a synchronic view of base property exemplification and a diachronic one. I argue that
only a diachronic view of base property exemplification can substantiate a ban on morally mixed worlds. I then argue that
one of Robert Mabrito’s recent criticisms of Russ Shafer-Landau’s moral realism fails on either a synchronic or a diachronic
view.
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Jeff WisdomEmail: |
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Jeffrey Dunn 《Philosophical Studies》2008,139(3):367-393
Finding disjunctivist versions of direct realism unexplanatory, Mark Johnston [(2004). Philosophical Studies, 120, 113–183] offers a non-disjunctive version of direct realism in its place and gives a defense of this view from the problem
of hallucination. I will attempt to clarify the view that he presents and then argue that, once clarified, it either does
not escape the problem of hallucination or does not look much like direct realism.
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Jeffrey DunnEmail: |
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Anjan Chakravartty 《Philosophical Studies》2008,137(1):149-158
Two of the most potent challenges faced by scientific realism are the underdetermination of theories by data, and the pessimistic
induction based on theories previously held to be true, but subsequently acknowledged as false. Recently, Stanford (2006,
Exceeding our grasp: Science, history, and the problem of unconceived alternatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press) has formulated what he calls the problem of unconceived alternatives: a version of the
underdetermination thesis combined with a historical argument of the same form as the pessimistic induction. In this paper,
I contend that while Stanford does present a novel antirealist argument, a successful response to the pessimistic induction
would likewise defuse the problem of unconceived alternatives, and that a more selective and sophisticated realism than that
which he allows is arguably immune to both concerns.
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Anjan ChakravarttyEmail: |
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Stefano Predelli 《Philosophical Studies》2009,142(3):293-305
This essay proposes a semantic analysis of biscuit-conditionals, such as Austin’s classic example “there are biscuits in the
cupboard if you want some”. The analysis is grounded on the ideas of contextual restrictions, and of non-character encoded
aspects of meaning, and provides a rigorous framework for the widespread intuitions that (i) the if-clause in a biscuit-conditional
is truth-conditionally idle, but (ii) it ‘qualifies’ the speech-act in question. In the concluding section of this essay,
the analysis is also applied to the importantly similar phenomenon of speech-act adverbs.
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Stefano PredelliEmail: |
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In this introduction we discuss the motivation behind the workshop “Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics” of which this
special issue constitutes the proceedings. We elaborate on historical and empirical aspects of the desired new epistemology,
connect it to the public image of mathematics, and give a summary and an introduction to the contributions to this issue.
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Bernd BuldtEmail: |
Benedikt L?we (Corresponding author)Email: |
Thomas MüllerEmail: |
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Towfic Shomar 《Journal for General Philosophy of Science》2008,39(2):321-349
There is confusion among scholars of Bohr as to whether he should be categorized as an instrumentalist (see Faye 1991) or a realist (see Folse 1985). I argue that Bohr is a realist, and that the confusion is due to the fact that he holds a very special view of realism,
which did not coincide with the philosophers’ views. His approach was sometimes labelled instrumentalist and other times realist,
because he was an instrumentalist on the theoretical level, but a realist on the level of models. Such a realist position
is what I call phenomenological realism. In this paper, and by taking Bohr’s debate with Einstein as a paradigm, I try to
prove that Bohr was such a realist.
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Towfic ShomarEmail: |
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Chris Calvert-Minor 《Philosophia》2009,37(1):67-86
Realism about the external world enjoys little philosophical support these days. I rectify this predicament by taking a relatively
pragmatist line of thought to defend commonsense realism; I support commonsense realism through an interpretation and application
of Donald Davidson’s notion of triangulation, the triangle composed of two communicators coordinating and correcting their
responses with a shared causal stimulus. This argument is important because it has a crucial advantage over the often used
abductive argument for realism. My argument avoids unwarranted conclusions, whereas the abductive argument is “inflationary”
because it reaches beyond the limits of evidence for its realist conclusion. To illustrate the problems of the abductive argument
and motivate my Davidsonian approach, I take a brief look at the abductive argument for realism in Frederick Will’s work.
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Chris Calvert-MinorEmail: |
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Patricia Sheridan 《Sophia》2007,46(3):263-275
Hutcheson’s theory of morality shares far more common ground with Clarke’s morality than is generally acknowledged. In fact,
Hutcheson’s own view of his innovations in moral theory suggest that he understood moral sense theory more as an elaboration
and partial correction to Clarkean fitness theory than as an outright rejection of it. My aim in this paper will be to illuminate
what I take to be Hutcheson’s grounds for adopting this attitude toward Clarkean fitness theory. In so doing, I hope to bring
to light an otherwise unexpected continuity between moral sense theory and the moral rationalism to which it is usually opposed,
and, in so doing, draw attention to the anti-sceptical realism that lies at the heart of both accounts.
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Patricia SheridanEmail: |
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Ian Hargraves 《Knowledge, Technology, and Policy》2007,20(3):131-139
In examining representations of cities, disease, and human biology, this paper reflects on what technologies reveal of the
conditions to which they’re turned.
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Ian HargravesEmail: |
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Holger Andreas 《Erkenntnis》2008,69(3):315-333
In this paper, a solution to the problem of theoretical terms is developed that is based on Carnap’s doctrine of indirect
interpretation of theoretical terms. This doctrine will be given a semantic, model-theoretic explanation that is not given
by Carnap himself as he remains content with a syntactic explanation. From that semantic explanation, rules for the truth-value
assignment to postulates, i.e. sentences that determine the meaning of theoretical terms, are derived. The logical status
of postulates will be clarified thereby in such a way that the problem of theoretical terms disappears.
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Holger AndreasEmail: |
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Rolf Loeber Dustin A. Pardini Alison Hipwell Magda Stouthamer-Loeber Kate Keenan Mark A. Sembower 《Journal of abnormal child psychology》2009,37(6):777-791
Relatively little is known about the factor structure of disruptive behavior among preadolescent girls. The present study
reports on exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of disruptive girl behavior over four successive data waves as rated
by parents and teachers in a large, representative community sample of girls (N = 2,451). Five factors were identified from parent ratings (oppositional behavior/conduct problems, inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity,
relational aggression, and callous-unemotional behaviors), and four factors were identified derived from teacher ratings (oppositional
behavior/conduct problems/callous-unemotional behaviors, inattention, hyperactivityimpulsivity, and relational aggression).
There was a high degree of consistency of items loading on equivalent factors across parent and teacher ratings. Year-to-year
stability of factors between ages five and 12 was high for parent ratings (ICC = 0.70 to 0.88), and slightly lower for teacher
ratings (ICC = 0.56 to 0.83). These findings are discussed in terms of possible adjustment to the criteria for children's
disruptive behavior disorders found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders.
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Rolf Loeber (Corresponding author)Email: |
Dustin A. PardiniEmail: |
Alison HipwellEmail: |
Magda Stouthamer-LoeberEmail: |
Kate KeenanEmail: |
Mark A. SembowerEmail: |
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Daniel E. Flage 《Philosophia》2009,37(3):379-380
This note is a reply to some of Giovanni Grandi’s comments on my paper “Berkeley’s Contingent Necessities.”
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Daniel E. FlageEmail: |
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Laurence Goldstein 《Philosophical Studies》2009,144(3):377-389
Consideration of a paradox originally discovered by John Buridan provides a springboard for a general solution to paradoxes
within the Liar family. The solution rests on a philosophical defence of truth-value-gaps and is consistent (non-dialetheist),
avoids ‘revenge’ problems, imports no ad hoc assumptions, is not applicable to only a proper subset of the semantic paradoxes
and implies no restriction of the expressive capacities of language.
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Laurence GoldsteinEmail: |
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Graham Stevens 《Philosophical Studies》2009,143(2):213-221
In this paper I defend Kaplan’s claim that the sentence “I am here now” is logically true. A number of counter-examples to
the claim have been proposed, including occurrences of the sentence in answerphone messages, written notes left for later
decoding, etc. These counter-examples are only convincing if they can be shown to be cases where the correct context with
respect to which the utterance should be evaluated is the context in which it is decoded rather than encoded. I argue that
this is not the case, and draw on the distinction between force and content to suggest an alternative account of how information
is communicated in these cases that is consistent with Kaplan’s semantic theory.
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Graham StevensEmail: |
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J. Angelo Corlett 《Journal of Academic Ethics》2008,6(3):205-209
This paper amounts to a reply to Professor Donald G. Brown’s thoughtful comment on my “Ethical Issues in Journal Peer-Review”,
which appeared in this journal.
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J. Angelo CorlettEmail: |