Will Gamester
Will Gamester
Inflationists have argued that truth is a causal-explanatory property on the grounds that true belief facilitates practical success: we must postulate truth to explain the practical success of certain actions performed by rational agents. D...
Aboutness in imagination [0.03%]
想象中的指称性问题
Francesco Berto
Francesco Berto
I present a formal theory of the logic and aboutness of imagination. Aboutness is understood as the relation between meaningful items and what they concern, as per Yablo and Fine's works on the notion. Imagination is understood as per Chalm...
Daniel Whiting
Daniel Whiting
What is a normative reason for acting? In this paper, I introduce and defend a novel answer to this question. The starting-point is the view that reasons are right-makers. By exploring difficulties facing it, I arrive at an alternative, acc...
Hein Duijf,Jan Broersen,John-Jules Ch Meyer
Hein Duijf
Many philosophers are convinced that rationality dictates that one's overall set of intentions be consistent. The starting point and inspiration for our study is Bratman's planning theory of intentions. According to this theory, one needs t...
Lorenzo Rossi
Lorenzo Rossi
Revenge arguments purport to show that any proposed solution to the semantic paradoxes generates new paradoxes that prove that solution to be inadequate. In this paper, I focus on revenge arguments that employ the model-theoretic semantics ...
Jonathan Farrell
Jonathan Farrell
Ambitious higher-order theories of consciousness aim to account for conscious states when these are understood in terms of what-it-is-like-ness. This paper considers two arguments concerning this aim, and concludes that ambitious theories f...
Daan Evers,Natalja Deng
Daan Evers
We offer a new answer to the paradox of tragedy. We explain part of the appeal of tragic art in terms of its acknowledgement of sad aspects of life and offer a tentative explanation of why acknowledgement is a source of pleasure. ...
Tom McClelland
Tom McClelland
The ubiquity of inner awareness thesis (UIA) states that all conscious states of normal adult humans are characterised by an inner awareness of that very state. UIA-Backers support this thesis while UIA-Skeptics reject it. At the heart of t...
The contours of control [0.03%]
监管的轮廓
Joshua Shepherd
Joshua Shepherd
Necessarily, if S lacks the ability to exercise (some degree of) control, S is not an agent. If S is not an agent, S cannot act intentionally, responsibly, or rationally, nor can S possess or exercise free will. In spite of the obvious impo...
Daan Evers
Daan Evers
According to Stephen Finlay, 'A ought to X' means that X-ing is more conducive to contextually salient ends than relevant alternatives. This in turn is analysed in terms of probability. I show why this theory of 'ought' is hard to square wi...