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  1. Bradford Cokelet, Review of The Retrieval of Ethics by Talbot Brewer. [REVIEW]
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  2. Gabriele Contessa, Does Your Metaphysics Need Structure?
    This paper is part of a book symposium on Theodore Sider's Writing the Book of the World.
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  3. Luca Incurvati, The Reference Book By John Hawthorne and David Manley.
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  4. Mark Jago, Recent Work in Relevant Logic.
    This paper surveys important work done in relevant logic in the past 10 years.
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  5. Simon Căbulea May, What We May Demand of Each Other.
    In this critical notice of Gerald Gaus's The Order of Public Reason, I reject two arguments Gaus advances for the claim that social moral rules must be publicly justified.
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  6. Peter Menzies, Critical Notice of Alexander Bird, Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties.
    This book advocates dispositional essentialism, the view that natural properties have dispositional essences.1 So, for example, the essence of the property of being negatively charged is to be disposed to attract positively charged objects. From this fact it follows that it is a law that all negatively charged objects will attract positively 10 charged objects; and indeed that this law is metaphysically necessary. Since the identity of the property of being negatively charged is determined by its being related in a (...)
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  7. Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Review of Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (Eds.), Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker. [REVIEW]
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  8. Kieran Setiya, Causality in Action.
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  9. Jonathan Tallant, Problems of Parthood for Proponents of Priority.
    According to some views of reality, some objects are fundamental and other objects depend for their existence upon these fundamental objects. In this article, I argue that we have reason to reject these views.
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  10. Matthew Tugby, Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem.
    The causal nominalist theory of properties appears at first glance to offer a novel nominalist approach and one that can provide an illuminating response to the one over many problem. I argue, however, that on closer inspection causal ‘nominalism’ collapses into either a version of realism or a mere variant of one of the traditional nominalist approaches. In the case of Whittle’s specific brand of causal nominalism, I suggest it is best thought of as a version of what Armstrong calls (...)
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  11. J. L. Bermudez, Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem: Why Lewis's Argument Fails.
    According to David Lewis, the prisoner's dilemma (PD) and Newcomb's problem (NP) are really just one dilemma in two different forms (Lewis 1979). Lewis's argument for this conclusion is ingenious and has been widely accepted. However, it is flawed. As this paper shows, the considerations that Lewis brings to bear to show that the game he starts with is an NP equally show that the game is not a PD.
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  12. J. Bransen, Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will By Alfred R. Mele.
  13. N. Brett, Justice and Health Care: Selected Essays.
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  14. T. Button, Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy By Colin McGinn.
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  15. R. Casati, E. Di Bona & J. Dokic, The Ockhamization of the Event Sources of Sound.
    There is one character too many in the triad sound, event source, thing source. As there are neither phenomenological nor metaphysical grounds for distinguishing sounds and sound sources, we propose to identify them.
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  16. F. D'Agostino, Science in a Democratic SocietyBy Philip Kitcher.
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  17. J. M. Fischer, The Deterministic Horn of the Dilemma Defence: A Reply to Widerker and Goetz.
    I have argued that a proponent of the Frankfurt Cases as showing that the Principle of Alternative Possibilities is false can successfully reply to the Dilemma Defense. In their 2013 paper, Widerker and Goetz offer a critique of my view, especially as regards the deterministic horn of the dilemma. Here I clarify my strategy of response to the Dilemma Defense and reply to the critique developed by Widerker and Goetz.
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  18. N. Fotion, Pursuing Meaning By Emma Borg.
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  19. B. Garrett, On Behalf of Gaunilo.
    In this discussion note, I defend Gaunilo's famous parody of Anselm's Ontological Argument for God's existence against a well-known objection due to Alvin Plantinga.
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  20. M. Godman, Hard LuckBy Neil Levy.
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  21. R. Groenhout, Nature, Reason, and the Good Life By Roger Teichmann.
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  22. R. Joyce, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement.
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  23. S. A. Kalantari & M. Luntley, On the Logic of Aiming at Truth.
    We argue that the debate about the normativity of belief thesis has been hampered by the slogan, ‘belief aims at truth’. We show that the slogan provides no content to the normativity of belief. The slogan encourages formulations of the norm as a prescriptive norm. There are well-known problems with such formulations. We provide a new formulation of the thesis as a prohibitive norm. This captures the key intuition most normativists about belief want to endorse.
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  24. E. Marcus, Rational Causation By Eric Marcus.
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  25. E. Marcus, On the Parallels Between Theoretical and Practical Rationality: Reply to Setiya.
    Two principles are central to Rational Causation. Causalism: Believing and acting for a reason are causal phenomena in the sense that there is in both domains a causal connection between ground and grounded. Equivalence: There is a necessary connection between something's being the reason why I believe or act and my taking it to favour the belief or action. Kieran Setiya argues that Causalism is false in the theoretical case and that Equivalence is false in the practical case. I reply (...)
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  26. S. McCall, Freewill and Omniscience: A Reply to Garrett.
    Brian Garrett (Analysis (2012), 293–5) comments on McCall's paper (Analysis (2011), 501–6). McCall had claimed that since the truth of true empirical propositions supervenes on, and depends upon, empirical fact, what God knows and does not know also depends upon being, i.e. upon facts. Consequently God's foreknowing what I freely decide to do depends upon what I freely do. Garrett objects that the dependence of truth on being seems to play no essential role in McCall's argument. McCall replies that his (...)
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  27. C. McKinnon, Luck, Value and Commitment.
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  28. D. H. Mellor, Probability in the Philosophy of Religion.
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  29. J. Skorupski, Reply to Schroeder on Being For.
    This article is a discussion of Mark Schroeder's response to my earlier criticism of some aspects of his book, Being For. I defend the soundness of that earlier criticism.
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  30. J. S. Taylor, Habilitation, Health, and Agency: A Framework for Basic Justice By Lawrence C. Becker.
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  31. P. Vallentyne, Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis.
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