Ethics 118, Number 4 (July 2008), pages 589-613.
William FitzPatrick presents a critical assessment of a recent argument for skepticism regarding attributions of moral responsibility. While he applauds it for drawing our attention to difficult problems surrounding the theory and practice of our attributions of moral responsibility, FitzPatrick concludes that the argument’s skeptical conclusion is too strong.
Ethics, Volume 119, Number 1 (October 2008), pages 109-141.
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. …
Neuropsychologia, Volume 46, Number 3 (2008), pages 829-840
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…
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…
Faith and Philosophy, Volume 26, number 1 (January 2009), pages 23-41.
Main authors discussed: William Lane Craig, J.P. Moreland, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, William J. Wainwright
The moral argument for theism tries to show the existence of God is necessary to explain or ground certain features of morality. Wielenberg focuses on the version of…
Philosophical Studies, Volume 143, Number 2 (March 2009), pages 223-248.
Main authors discussed: Michael Bratman, John Broome, A.C. Ewing, Kieran Setiya
Schroeder’s main goal is to begin to develop an interesting view of the coherence requirements of rationality. He focuses on two coherence requirements, the first of which is the instrumental…
Analysis, Volume 68, Number 4 (October 2008), pages 271-282.
Main authors discussed: Galen Strawson, John Heil, C. B. Martin, Stephen Mumford, Frank Ramsey
Strawson begins his argument for the thesis of his title by asking us to consider triangularity and trilaterality in a closed plane rectilinear figure. There is a…
Philosophical Studies, volume 143 (March 2009), pages 291-314
Main authors discussed: Gregory Currie, Ian Ravenscroft, David Velleman, Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich
Some philosophers (e.g., Currie and Ravenscroft, Velleman) have recently argued that pretense provides a counterexample to the standard Humean Theory of Motivation (HTM). Pretense behavior is a novel kind of…
Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2 (November 2008), pages 157-173
Lasonen-Aarnio argues that a problem that might seem to affect only multi-premise closure (MPC), having to do with the accumulation of risk, is also a problem for single premise closure (SPC).
Here are the epistemic closure principles in question, as formulated…
The Journal of Philosophy, volume CV, number 9 (September 2008), pages 518-539.
Main authors discussed: Stewart Cohen, James Van Cleve, Michael Bergmann (Bergmann discussed in the Appendix)
Jonathan Vogel revisits his bootstrapping argument against reliabilism and defends it from the charge that internalism…
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