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...     

Neo-Pragmatism,Primitive Intentionality and Animal Minds

Philosophia - According to Hutto and Satne (Philosophia, 43(3), 521–536, 2015), an “essential tension” plagues contemporary neo-Pragmatist accounts of mental contents: their...     

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...     

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...     

Correction to: Non-transitive Better than Relations and Rational Choice

Philosophia - There is a mistake in the definition of the covering criterion on page 6.     

Mereological Dominance and Simpson’s Paradox

Philosophia - Numerous papers have investigated the transitivity principle of ‘better-than.’ A recent argument appeals to the principle of mereological dominance for transitivity....     

Comments on Nietzsche’s Constructivism by Justin Remhof

Philosophia - Justin Remhof defends a constructivist interpretation of Nietzsche’s view regarding the metaphysics of material objects. First, I describe an attractive feature of...     

A Fundamental Failure of Frankfurt’s Agentic Counterfactual Intervention: No Agency

Philosophia - Frankfurt’s “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility” (1969) made an important intervention into the literature on moral responsibility via a classical...     

Correction to: The Ethical Subject and Willing Subject in the Tractatus: an Alternative to the Transcendental Reading

Philosophia - The original version of the article missed to include an acknowledgments. The missing information is provided below.     

Engineered Knowledge,Fragility and Virtue Epistemology

Philosophia - There is a clean image of knowledge transmission between thinkers that involves sincere and reliable speakers, and hearers who carefully assess the epistemic credentials of the...     

“One’s an Illusion: Organisms,Reference, and Non-Eliminative Nihilism”

Philosophia - Gabriele Contessa has recently introduced and defended a view he calls ‘non-eliminative nihilism’. Non-eliminative nihilism (NEN, henceforth) is the conjunction of...     

Non-transitive Better than Relations and Rational Choice

Philosophia - This paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reasons to accept...     

Epistemic Disadvantage

Philosophia - Recent philosophical literature on epistemic harms has paid little attention to the difference between deliberate and non-deliberate harms. In this paper, I analyze the “Curare...     

A Hexagon of Opposition for the Theism/Atheism Debate

Philosophia - Burgess-Jackson has recently suggested that (the logical structure underlying) the debate between theism and atheism can be represented by means of a classical square of opposition....     

Does Moral Disagreement Pose a Semantic Challenge to Moral Realism?

Philosophia - Many philosophers have argued that moral disagreement raises metaphysical and/or epistemological challenges for moral realism. In this paper, I consider whether widespread moral...     

The Indispensability of Knowledge

Philosophia - Nuno Venturinha holds that the contextualist epistemology adumbrated in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty--the most powerful response to philosophical skepticism yet developed-- falls...     

Intentional and Phenomenal Properties: How not to be Inseparatists

Philosophia - In this paper I give an overview of the recent developments in the phenomenalism – intentionalism debate and try to show that the proposed solutions of neither sides are...     

Venturinha and Epistemic Vertigo

Philosophia - This paper critically explores Nuno Venturinha’s (2018) discussion of the Wittgensteinian notion of epistemic vertigo in the context of the radical sceptical problematic, at...