Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Volume 63 Issue 1

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From Friendship to Marriage: Revising Kant

DENIS, LARA

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00090.x

This paper examines Kant's accounts of friendship and marriage, and argues for what can be called an ideal of “moral marriage” based on Kant's notion of moral friendship. After explaining why Kant values friendship so highly, it gives an account of the ways in which marriage falls far short,...

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Rationality and Puzzling Beliefs

FEIT, NEIL

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00091.x

The author presents and defends a general view about belief, and certain attributions of belief, with the intention of providing a solution to Saul Kripke's puzzle about belief. According to the position developed in the paper, there are two senses in which one could be said to have contradictory...

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Mental Causation: Unnaturalized but not Unnatural

MARCUS, ERIC

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00092.x

The central problem for a realist about mental causation is to show that mental causation is compatible with the causal completeness of physical systems. This problem has seemed intractable in large part because of a widely held view that any sort of systematic overdetermination of events by...

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Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?

GOLDMAN, ALVIN I.

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00093.x

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Donnellan on Neptune*

JESHION, ROBIN

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00094.x

Donnellan famously argued that while one can fix the reference of a name with a definite description, one cannot thereby have a de re belief about the named object. All that is generated is meta‐linguistic knowledge that the sentence “If there is a unique F. then N is F” is true. Donnellan's...

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‘Portraying’ a Proposition1

TEXTOR, MARK

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00095.x

Hector‐Neri Castaüeda claimed in several papers that a proposition expressed by an indexical sentence (in a context of utterance) can be re‐expressed by means of an oratio obliqua clause (in a sentential context) that contains a quasi‐indicator. Robert M. Adams and Rogers Albritton have presented...

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An Argument that Internalism Requires Infallibility

SIDELLE, ALAN

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00096.x

Most contemporary internalists are fallibilists, denying that there need be anything about which we are infallible for us to have knowledge or justified beliefs. At the same time, internalists standardly appeal to ‘internal twins’ in arguing against externalism and motivating internalism—a...

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The Authority of Affect*

JOHNSTON, MARK

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00097.x

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Sensing Values?

WEDGWOOD, RALPH

2001 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00098.x