Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Volume 81 Issue 2

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The Mind as Neural Software? Understanding Functionalism, Computationalism, and Computational Functionalism

PICCININI, GUALTIERO

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00356.x

Defending or attacking either functionalism or computationalism requires clarity on what they amount to and what evidence counts for or against them. My goal here is not to evaluate their plausibility. My goal is to formulate them and their relationship clearly enough that we can determine which...

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Voluntary Belief on a Reasonable Basis

NICKEL, PHILIP J.

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00380.x

A person presented with adequate but not conclusive evidence for a proposition is in a position voluntarily to acquire a belief in that proposition, or to suspend judgment about it. The availability of doxastic options in such cases grounds a moderate form of doxastic voluntarism not based on...

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Things That Make Things Reasonable

GIBBONS, JOHN

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00373.x

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Mechanisms, Causes, and the Layered Model of the World

GLENNAN, STUART

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00375.x

Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in virtue of nomological relations between properties of these individuals and events. Such views fail to take into account the consequences of the fact that in general the properties of...

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Kant and the Claims of the Poor

GILABERT, PABLO

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00374.x

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The Reflective Epistemic Renegade

FRANCES, BRYAN

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00372.x

Philosophers often find themselves in disagreement with contemporary philosophers they know full well to be their epistemic superiors on the topics relevant to the disagreement. This looks epistemically irresponsible. I offer a detailed investigation of this problem of the reflective epistemic...

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Coordination Problems

SOAMES, SCOTT

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00404.x

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Comments on Scott Soames’‘Coordination Problems’

FINE, KIT

2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00405.x