Philosopher's Digest » Philosophy and Phenomenological Research http://www.philosophersdigest.com Timely Reviews of Current Philosophy Articles Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 “Seeing Reasons” Jennifer Church http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/seeing-reasons-jennifer-church http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/seeing-reasons-jennifer-church#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0000 Amy Kind http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=920 I can see the broken window, but can I also see why the window is broken?  In this ambitious and interesting paper, Church argues for an affirmative answer to this question.  Just as we can have perceptual knowledge of a…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/seeing-reasons-jennifer-church/feed 0 “The Humean Theory of Motivation Rejected” G. F. Schueler http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cthe-humean-theory-of-motivation-rejected%e2%80%9d-g-f-schueler http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cthe-humean-theory-of-motivation-rejected%e2%80%9d-g-f-schueler#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:42:19 +0000 Scott Wilson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=426

Main authors discussed: Michael Smith, Donald Davidson, Phillip Pettit, Thomas Nagel

Schueler presents a dilemma for the defender of the Humean theory of motivation. First, let’s define the theory. Schueler focuses on the theory as one that explains why a person…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cthe-humean-theory-of-motivation-rejected%e2%80%9d-g-f-schueler/feed 0 “Inconsistency Theories of Semantic Paradox” Douglas Patterson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cinconsistency-theories-of-semantic-paradox%e2%80%9d-douglas-patterson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cinconsistency-theories-of-semantic-paradox%e2%80%9d-douglas-patterson#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:00:09 +0000 Berit Brogaard http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=372 Main authors discussed: Alfred Tarski, Kirk Ludwig, Matti Eklund

Douglas Patterson argues that the best way to respond to the semantic paradoxes that arise in natural language is to take natural language semantics to be (explosively) inconsistent. According to Patterson, to understand…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cinconsistency-theories-of-semantic-paradox%e2%80%9d-douglas-patterson/feed 0 “Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility, and Concessive Knowledge Attributions” Trent Dougherty and Patrick Rysiew http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/fallibilism-epistemic-possibility-and-concessive-knowledge-attributions-trent-dougherty-and-patrick-rysiew http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/fallibilism-epistemic-possibility-and-concessive-knowledge-attributions-trent-dougherty-and-patrick-rysiew#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:29:10 +0000 Clayton Littlejohn http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=319 Main authors discussed: David Lewis and Jason Stanley

The fallibilist claims that it’s possible to know p even if your evidence for believing p does not entail p.  It seems that infallibilism entails scepticism because it seems that we don’t have…

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