Philosopher's Digest » Synthese 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 “Warrant and Action” Mikkel Gerken http://www.philosophersdigest.com/synthese/warrant-and-action-mikkel-gerken-2 http://www.philosophersdigest.com/synthese/warrant-and-action-mikkel-gerken-2#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:00:12 +0000 Clayton Littlejohn http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=834 Main authors discussed: Keith DeRose, John Hawthorne, Jason Stanley, and Timothy Williamson

Hawthorne and Stanley (2008) defend the Knowledge-Action Principle:

(KA) It is proper to treat p as a reason for action (for some p-dependent choice) iff you know p.

Mikkel Gerken defends the…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/synthese/warrant-and-action-mikkel-gerken-2/feed 0 “Nonindexical Contextualism” John MacFarlane http://www.philosophersdigest.com/synthese/nonindexical-contextualism-john-macfarlane http://www.philosophersdigest.com/synthese/nonindexical-contextualism-john-macfarlane#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:37:40 +0000 Iris Einheuser http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=661 Synthese, Volume 166, Number 2 (January 2009), pages 231–250.

Main authors discussed: Herman Cappelen, Keith DeRose, Nikola Kompa, Ernie Lepore, Jason Stanley

On what is arguably the standard view in contemporary philosophy of language, an expression is context sensitive if its semantic contribution to…

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