Salim Hirèche
Salim Hirèche
Grounding necessitarianism (GN) is the view that full grounds necessitate what they ground. Although GN has been rather popular among philosophers, it faces important counterexamples: For instance, A = [Socrates died] fully grounds C = [Xan...
Symmetries and ground [0.03%]
对称性和基态属性的研究
Martin Glazier
Martin Glazier
If the tiles of a mosaic are arranged symmetrically, then the image those tiles constitute must be symmetric as well. This paper formulates and defends the general principle at work in this case: roughly, that a symmetry cannot ground an as...
Ground by Status [0.03%]
状态下的基础
Lisa Vogt
Lisa Vogt
What is the explanatory role of 'status-truths' such as essence-truths, necessity-truths and law-truths? A plausible principle, suggested by various authors, is Ground by Status, according to which status truths ground their prejacents. For...
Broad, subjective, relative: the surprising folk concept of basic needs [0.03%]
广泛的，主观的，相对的：基本需求的民间概念令人惊讶
Thomas Pölzler,Tobu Tomabechi,Ivar R Hannikainen
Thomas Pölzler
Some normative theorists appeal to the concept of basic needs. They argue that when it comes to issues such as global justice, intergenerational justice, human rights or sustainable development our first priority should be that everybody is...
Justin Sytsma,Pascale Willemsen,Kevin Reuter
Justin Sytsma
The standard view in philosophy is that responsibility entails causation. Most philosophers treat this entailment claim as an evident insight into the ordinary concepts of responsibility and causation. Further, it is taken to be equally obv...
Too humble for words [0.03%]
谦得没话说了
Neil Levy
Neil Levy
It's widely held that a lack of intellectual humility is part of the reason why flagrantly unjustified beliefs proliferate. In this paper, I argue that an excess of humility also plays a role in allowing for the spread of misinformation. Ci...
What we know when we act [0.03%]
行动时我们知道什么
Timothy Kearl
Timothy Kearl
Two traditions in action theory offer different accounts of what distinguishes intentional action from mere behavior. According to the causalist tradition, intentional action has certain distinguished causal antecedents, and according to th...
J R G Williams
J R G Williams
Are interpersonal comparisons of desire possible? Can we give an account of how facts about desires are grounded that underpins such comparisons? This paper supposes the answer to the first question is yes, and provides an account of the na...
Matthias Rolffs
Matthias Rolffs
Resultant moral luck occurs whenever aspects of an agent's moral responsibility are affected by luck pertaining to the outcomes of their actions. Many authors reject the existence of moral luck in this sense, but they do so in different way...
Jeremy Fantl
Jeremy Fantl
According to one prominent critique of mainstream epistemology, discoveries about what it takes to know or justifiedly believe that p can't provide the right kind of intellectual guidance. As Mark Webb puts it, "the kinds of principles that...