Browsing by FAS Department "Philosophy"
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Berkeley, Human Agency and Divine Concurrentism
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)Berkeley ’s commentators have been highly critical of his account of human agency. In this essay I argue that there is a rather straightforward reading of his view that is historically sensitive, philosophically well-motivated, ... -
Cavell on Outsiders and Others
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Ceteris Paribus Laws: Generics & Natural Kinds
(University of Michigan, 2010)Ceteris Paribus (cp-)laws may be said to hold only “other things equal,” signaling that their truth is compatible with a range of exceptions. This paper provides a new semantic account for some of the sentences used to ... -
Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification
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Coherentism via Graphs
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) -
Comments on Michael Strevens's Depth
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) -
Comments on Weiss: The Unjust Philosophers of Republic 7
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Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen"
(Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 2006) -
The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will
(2013-09-18)In this dissertation, I argue for a Rousseauvian vision of an ideal society: one in which the people constitute a group agent, unified under a collective will, willing action that constitutes the common good. Most have ... -
Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds
(2013-10-18)Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is considered by many to be the locus classicus of a number of influential arguments for conventionalism, according to which there are no objective, privileged ways of classifying ... -
Constructivism in Practical Philosophy
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Content of Perceptual Experience
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A Contractualist Reply
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) -
Counsel and Command: An Address-Dependent Account of Authority
(2016-09-14)In this dissertation I develop an account of the concept of authority and the distinction between theoretical and practical authority in terms of their proper forms of interpersonal address. I then exploit the difference ... -
Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Personal Relations
(Blackwell Publishing, 1992)When we hold a person responsible, we regard her as answerable for her actions, reaction, and attitudes. We use the concept of responsibility in two contexts, the legal and the personal. We use it in the legal context when ... -
Critical Study: Cassam on Self-Knowledge for Humans
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David Lewis's Metaphysics
(Stanford Universty, 2010) -
Defending the Refutation of Idealism
(Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2000)In his Kant and the Claims of Knowledge, Paul Guyer offers an influential reading of Kant’s famous “Refutation of Idealism.” Guyer’s reading has been widely praised as Kantian exegesis but less favorably received as an ...