Philosopher's Digest http://www.philosophersdigest.com Timely Reviews of Current Philosophy Articles Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:12:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 “The Sense of Deity and Begging the Question with Ontological and Cosmological Arguments” Daniel M. Johnson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/faith-and-philosophy/%e2%80%9cthe-sense-of-deity-and-begging-the-question-with-ontological-and-cosmological-arguments%e2%80%9d-daniel-m-johnson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/faith-and-philosophy/%e2%80%9cthe-sense-of-deity-and-begging-the-question-with-ontological-and-cosmological-arguments%e2%80%9d-daniel-m-johnson#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:24:15 +0000 R. Zachary Manis http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=807 Main authors discussed: John Calvin, Alvin Plantinga, William Rowe

Reformed epistemology often is thought to be on the opposite end of the theological spectrum from, if not outright opposed to, natural theology.  Johnson, however, aims to demonstrate that Calvin’s view of…

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According to the standard reading, Søren Kierkegaard is a staunch critic of natural theology.  Johannes Climacus, the pseudonymous author of Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments, lampoons all attempts to…

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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…

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Anscombe was the first philosopher in modern times to note that when we act intentionally, we know what we are doing without observation, under the description(s) on which the action is intentional.  Paul calls…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophersimprint/how-we-know-what-were-doing-sarah-k-paul/feed 0 “Truth and Public Reason” Joshua Cohen http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ppa/%e2%80%9ctruth-and-public-reason%e2%80%9d-joshua-cohen http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ppa/%e2%80%9ctruth-and-public-reason%e2%80%9d-joshua-cohen#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:14:06 +0000 Guido Pincione http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=774 Joshua Cohen argues that a political conception of truth plays a role in public political justification. He draws a distinction between a conception of truth, which consists in a “set of claims about truth—for example, that truth is distinct from warrant,…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ppa/%e2%80%9ctruth-and-public-reason%e2%80%9d-joshua-cohen/feed 0 “The Non-identity of the Categorical and the Dispositional” David S. Oderberg http://www.philosophersdigest.com/analysis/%e2%80%9cthe-non-identity-of-the-categorical-and-the-dispositional%e2%80%9d-david-s-oderberg http://www.philosophersdigest.com/analysis/%e2%80%9cthe-non-identity-of-the-categorical-and-the-dispositional%e2%80%9d-david-s-oderberg#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:09:31 +0000 Edward Feser http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=768 Analysis, Volume 69, Number 4 (October 2009), pages 677-684.

Main authors discussed: David Oderberg, Galen Strawson, Alexander Bird, Mark Heller

Oderberg’s article is a response to Galen Strawson’s “The identity of the categorical and the dispositional” (reviewed previously). Strawson, following Descartes, assumes…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/analysis/%e2%80%9cthe-non-identity-of-the-categorical-and-the-dispositional%e2%80%9d-david-s-oderberg/feed 0 “Moral Responsibility and Normative Ignorance: Answering a New Skeptical Challenge” William J. FitzPatrick http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ethicsqtrly/moral-responsibility-and-normative-ignorance-answering-a-new-skeptical-challenge-william-j-fitzpatrick http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ethicsqtrly/moral-responsibility-and-normative-ignorance-answering-a-new-skeptical-challenge-william-j-fitzpatrick#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:04:53 +0000 Vaughn Bryan Baltzly http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=458 http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ethicsqtrly/moral-responsibility-and-normative-ignorance-answering-a-new-skeptical-challenge-william-j-fitzpatrick/feed 0 “Immigration and Freedom of Association” Christopher H. Wellman http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ethicsqtrly/%e2%80%9cimmigration-and-freedom-of-association%e2%80%9d-christopher-h-wellman http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ethicsqtrly/%e2%80%9cimmigration-and-freedom-of-association%e2%80%9d-christopher-h-wellman#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:54:13 +0000 Bas van der Vossen http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=733 Wellman defends the view that states have an almost unqualified right to admit or keep out immigrants, including refugees.  Wellman argues that this is a direct implication of the freedom of association (henceforth: FoA) of the citizens of a state. …

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/ethicsqtrly/%e2%80%9cimmigration-and-freedom-of-association%e2%80%9d-christopher-h-wellman/feed 0 “Consciousness and its Function” David Rosenthal http://www.philosophersdigest.com/neuropsychologia/consciousness-and-its-function-david-rosenthal http://www.philosophersdigest.com/neuropsychologia/consciousness-and-its-function-david-rosenthal#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:46:11 +0000 Richard Brown http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=658 Main authors discussed: David Rosenthal

David Rosenthal is a well-known defender of a particular kind of theory of consciousness known as the higher-order thought theory (HOTT).  Higher-order theories are united by what Rosenthal calls the Transitivity Principle (TP), which states that…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/neuropsychologia/consciousness-and-its-function-david-rosenthal/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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