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  1. Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities.Jack Wilson - 1999 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy to be a living individual. He explores the reason for this failure and explains why we should limit ourselves to examples involving real organisms rather than thought experiments. This book explores and resolves paradoxes that arise when one applies past notions of individuality to biological examples beyond the conventional range and presents an analysis of identity and (...)
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  2. The Problem of Consciousness.Andrew Jack & Colin McGinn - 1992 - Philosophical Quarterly 42 (166):106.
  3. Logical Partisanhood.Jack Woods - 2019 - Philosophical Studies 176 (5):1203-1224.
    A natural suggestion and increasingly popular account of how to revise our logical beliefs treats revision of logic analogously to the revision of scientific theories. I investigate this approach and argue that simple applications of abductive methodology to logic result in revision-cycles, developing a detailed case study of an actual dispute with this property. This is problematic if we take abductive methodology to provide justification for revising our logical framework. I then generalize the case study, pointing to similarities with more (...)
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  4. A Lewisian Argument Against Platonism, or Why Theses About Abstract Objects Are Unintelligible.Jack Himelright - 2023 - Erkenntnis 88 (7):3037–3057.
    In this paper, I argue that all expressions for abstract objects are meaningless. My argument closely follows David Lewis’ argument against the intelligibility of certain theories of possible worlds, but modifies it in order to yield a general conclusion about language pertaining to abstract objects. If my Lewisian argument is sound, not only can we not know that abstract objects exist, we cannot even refer to or think about them. However, while the Lewisian argument strongly motivates nominalism, it also undermines (...)
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    The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less than economics imperialism.Jack J. Vromen - 2009 - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 2 (1):70.
    Over the last few years there seems to have been a sharp increase in the number of books that want to spread the news that economics is, or at least can be, fun. This paper sets out to explain in what senses economics is supposed to be fun. In particular, the books in what I will call the economics-made-fun genre will be compared first with papers and books written by economists with the explicit intent of making fun of economics. Subsequently, (...)
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  6. Applied Mathematics without Numbers.Jack Himelright - 2023 - Philosophia Mathematica 31 (2):147-175.
    In this paper, I develop a "safety result" for applied mathematics. I show that whenever a theory in natural science entails some non-mathematical conclusion via an application of mathematics, there is a counterpart theory that carries no commitment to mathematical objects, entails the same conclusion, and the claims of which are true if the claims of the original theory are "correct": roughly, true given the assumption that mathematical objects exist. The framework used for proving the safety result has some advantages (...)
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    Plurality and conjunction.Jack Hoeksema - 1983 - In Alice G. B. ter Meulen, Studies in modeltheoretic semantics. Cinnaminson, U.S.A.: Foris Publications. pp. 1--63.
  8. Intertranslatability, Theoretical Equivalence, and Perversion.Jack Woods - 2018 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 7 (1):58-68.
    I investigate syntactic notions of theoretical equivalence between logical theories and a recent objection thereto. I show that this recent criticism of syntactic accounts, as extensionally inadequate, is unwarranted by developing an account which is plausibly extensionally adequate and more philosophically motivated. This is important for recent anti-exceptionalist treatments of logic since syntactic accounts require less theoretical baggage than semantic accounts.
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  9. A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore's Paradox.Jack Woods - forthcoming - In An Atlas of Meaning: Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface).
    Moore’s paradox, the infamous felt bizarreness of sincerely uttering something of the form “I believe grass is green, but it ain’t”—has attracted a lot of attention since its original discovery (Moore 1942). It is often taken to be a paradox of belief—in the sense that the locus of the inconsistency is the beliefs of someone who so sincerely utters. This claim has been labeled as the priority thesis: If you have an explanation of why a putative content could not be (...)
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    Trusting the Subject?: Volume Two.Anthony Jack & Andreas Roepstorff (eds.) - 2003 - Imprint Academic.
    Introspective evidence is still treated with great suspicion in cognitive science. This work is designed to encourage cognitive scientists to take more account of the subject's unique perspective.
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    Seeing human: Distinct and overlapping neural signatures associated with two forms of dehumanization.Anthony I. Jack, Abigail J. Dawson & Megan E. Norr - 2013 - NeuroImage 79:313-328.
    The process of dehumanization, or thinking of others as less than human, is a phenomenon with significant societal implications. According to Haslam's model, two concepts of humanness derive from comparing humans with either animals or machines: individuals may be dehumanized by likening them to either animals or machines, or humanized by emphasizing differences from animals or machines. Recent work in cognitive neuroscience emphasizes understanding cognitive processes in terms of interactions between distributed cortical networks. It has been found that reasoning about (...)
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  12. Safety first: making property talk safe for nominalists.Jack Himelright - 2022 - Synthese 200 (3):1-26.
    Nominalists are confronted with a grave difficulty: if abstract objects do not exist, what explains the success of theories that invoke them? In this paper, I make headway on this problem. I develop a formal language in which certain platonistic claims about properties and certain nominalistic claims can be expressed, develop a formal language in which only certain nominalistic claims can be expressed, describe a function mapping sentences of the first language to sentences of the second language, and prove some (...)
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    Rescuing Objectivity: A Contextualist Proposal.Jack Wright - 2018 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 48 (4):385-406.
    Ascriptions of objectivity carry significant weight. But they can also cause confusion because wildly different ideas of what it means to be objective are common. Faced with this, some philosophers have argued that objectivity should be eliminated. I will argue, against one such position, that objectivity can be useful even though it is plural. I will then propose a contextualist approach for dealing with objectivity as a way of rescuing what is useful about objectivity while acknowledging its plurality.
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  14. (1 other version)Getting back in shape: Persistence, shape, and relativity.Jack Himelright & Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez - 2024 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 110 (1):75-96.
    In this paper, we will introduce a novel argument (the “Region Argument”) that objects do not have frame-independent shapes in special relativity. The Region Argument lacks vulnerabilities present in David Chalmers' argument for that conclusion based on length contraction. We then examine how views on persistence interact with the Region Argument. We argue that this argument and standard four-dimensionalist assumptions entail that nothing in a relativistic world has any shape, not even stages or the regions occupied by them. We also (...)
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  15. Footing the Cost (of Normative Subjectivism).Jack Woods - 2018 - In Jussi Suikkanen & Antti Kauppinen, Methodology and Moral Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
    I defend normative subjectivism against the charge that believing in it undermines the functional role of normative judgment. In particular, I defend it against the claim that believing that our reasons change from context to context is problematic for our use of normative judgments. To do so, I distinguish two senses of normative universality and normative reasons---evaluative universality and reasons and ontic universality and reasons. The former captures how even subjectivists can evaluate the actions of those subscribing to other conventions; (...)
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    The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism.Jack Jacobs - 2014 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse. At some points, their Jewish family backgrounds clarify their life paths; at others, these backgrounds help to explain why the leaders of the School stressed the significance of antisemitism. In the post-Second World War (...)
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  17. No Crystal Balls.Jack Spencer - 2018 - Noûs 54 (1):105-125.
    The world is said to contain crystal balls whenever the present carries news of the as-yet-undetermined parts of the future. Many philosophers believe that crystal balls are metaphysically possible. In this essay, I argue that they are not. Whether crystal balls are possible matters, for at least two reasons. The first is epistemological. According to a simple, user-friendly chance norm for credence, which I call the Present Principle, agents are rationally required to conform their credences to their expectations of the (...)
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    Competition as an evolutionary process: Mark Blaug and evolutionary economics.Jack J. Vromen - 2013 - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 6 (3):104.
    Mark Blaug and I agree that if there is a realist interpretation of economic behavior to be discerned in Friedman, it is to be found not in Friedman's belief that the profit motive overrides other possible motives, but in his belief that a selection mechanism is working in competitive markets. Our joint sympathy for evolutionary economics is largely based on a conviction that the conception of competition as a dynamic evolutionary process is rather plausible. We disagree, however, on two issues: (...)
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  19. Een vruchtbare kruisbestuiving. Rationele-keuzetheorie en evolutie.Jack Vromen - 2002 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 94 (1).
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    15 Heterogeneous economic evolution: a different view on Darwinizing evolutionary economics.Jack Vromen - 2011 - In J. B. Davis & D. W. Hands, Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology. Edward Elgar Publishers. pp. 341.
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    Introduction:'Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?'.Jack J. Vromen & Caterina Marchionni - 2010 - Journal of Economic Methodology 17 (2).
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    Introduction to the Review Symposium on Robert Sugden's The Community of Advantage.Jack Vromen & N. Emrah Aydinonat - 2021 - Journal of Economic Methodology 28 (4):349-349.
    The publication of Robert Sugden's The Community of Advantage in 2018 might very well turn out to be a landmark event in welfare economics. In the book, Sugden presents a highly original view on wh...
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  23. René Descartes.Jack Rochford Vrooman - 1970 - New York,: Putnam.
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    Voltaire's aesthetic pragmatism.Jack R. Vrooman - 1972 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (1):79-86.
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    Masking: Response-ability, in Unsteady, Broken Breaths.Jack Wallace - 2020 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 53 (3):336-343.
    ABSTRACT A reflection on the “mask,” as a question of response and responsibility in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Rhetorical Hesitancy.Jack Wallace - 2022 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 55 (1):119-126.
    ABSTRACT A brief reflection on the possibility of contingency in the midst of what cannot be said.
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    The Literature of the Book: Book collecting.Jack Walsdorf - 2003 - Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 14 (4):212-214.
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  28. Conjunction and Plurality'.Jack Hoeksema - 1983 - In Alice G. B. ter Meulen, Studies in modeltheoretic semantics. Cinnaminson, U.S.A.: Foris Publications.
     
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    Logic: a philosophical introduction.Jack Kaminsky - 1974 - Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Edited by Alice R. Kaminsky.
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    The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life P Lus the Secrets of Enigma.B. Jack Copeland (ed.) - 2004 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press UK.
    Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work, which is also rich in philosophical and logical insight.
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    The Role of Comprehension.Julie Jack - 1994 - In A. Chakrabarti & B. K. Matilal, Knowing from Words. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 163--193.
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    Complex predicates and liberation in dutch and English.Jack Hoeksema - 1991 - Linguistics and Philosophy 14 (6):661 - 710.
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  33. Imitators of God: Leibniz on human freedom.Jack Davidson - 1998 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (3):387-412.
    Imitators of God: Leibniz on Human Freedom JACK DAVIDSON QUESTIONS CONCERNING DIVINE AND HUMAN FREEDOM mattered to Leibniz. He found the problems surrounding these issues important and difficult to solve, at one point writing: "There are two labyrinths of the human mind: one concerns the composition of the continuum, and the other the nature of freedom" : Although there is no unanimity among scholars about the details to his solution to the labyrinth of freedom, most have thought that Leibniz (...)
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    Rudolf A. Makkreel 1936-2021.Jack Zupko - 2023 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (1).
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Rudolf A. Makkreel 1936-2021Jack Zupko, Former Editor, Journal of the History of PhilosophyRudi Makkreel, longtime editor (1983–98) of the Journal of the History of Philosophy and President of its Board of Directors (1998–2018), died October 2021 in Atlanta, GA, of complications from ALS.Rudi was one of the foremost Kant scholars of his generation, helping to bring the Critique of Judgment into the broader currency it enjoys among philosophers today. (...)
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    Language and ontology.Jack Kaminsky - 1969 - Carbondale,: Southern Illinois University Press.
    The acceptance of the concept of necessary linguistic cate­gories has given renewed prominence to the subject of ontology in contemporary discussions of language and logic. Jack Kaminsky, Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton, here contributes an important expo­sition of this school of thought. He examines the views of many philosophers who either admit or deny that ontological com­mitments are necessary, and he raises broad questions and shows why there is a compelling interest in (...)
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  36. Trust or interaction? Editorial introduction.Anthony I. Jack & Andreas Roepstorff - 2004 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (7-8):11--7.
    One of the best gimmicks on the cognitive science conference circuit is the demonstration of inattentional blindness. Many readers of this journal must have already been exposed to it. For the rest we will briefly describe a striking and popular demonstration. It typically evolves during a conference talk, where the presenter provides the audience with a stimulus in the form of a small video clip of six people, three in white, three in black, who pass two basket balls around. The (...)
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    Experience as Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life.Jack A. Hobbs - 1984 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 18 (2):120.
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    An undecidable aspect of the unexpected hanging problem.Jack M. Holtzman - 1987 - Philosophia 17 (2):195-198.
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    Can "essence" be a scientific term?Jack Kaminsky - 1957 - Philosophy of Science 24 (2):173-179.
    In a recent paper Copi has argued for the admission of the term “essence” into scientific terminology. His primary reason is that the increasing adequacy of scientific theories is evidence of a gradual approximation to the real essences of things. Copi is aware that the laws of modern science are not to be taken as formulations of essences. But, he claims, “that is an ideal towards which science strives… Centuries hence wiser men will have radically different and more adequate theories, (...)
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    Corrigibility and law.Jack Kaminsky - 1954 - Philosophy of Science 21 (1):9-15.
    Corrigibility has generally been designated as the major qualification of a scientific law. Although various other characteristics of a scientific law have been questioned, corrigibility has usually been accepted as one of its essential features. On this basis scientists, positivists, and pragmatists have frequently distinguished between genuine empirical laws and all other assertions that only seem to be laws. The mark of a genuine law in the scientific sense is its corrigibility; the mark of a pseudo law is its non-corrigibility. (...)
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    Essence revisited.Jack Kaminsky - 1969 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 30 (1):1-6.
  42. Language and Knowledge.Jack Kaminsky - 1959 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 13 (4=50):430.
     
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    Logic and Language.Jack Kaminsky - 1957 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 17 (3):434-435.
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    Lambert Karel. On naming and claiming. Philosophical studies , vol. 7 , pp. 43–46.Jack Kaminsky - 1959 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 24 (2):182-183.
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    Metaphysics and the problem of synonymity.Jack Kaminsky - 1953 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 14 (1):49-61.
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    Scientific statements and statements about humanly created objects.Jack Kaminsky & Raymond J. Nelson - 1958 - Journal of Philosophy 55 (15):641-648.
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  47. The Derivation of "Ought" from "Is".Jack Kaminsky - 1958 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 12 (2):144.
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    The Empirical Metaphysics of George Henry Lewes.Jack Kaminsky - 1952 - Journal of the History of Ideas 13 (1/4):314.
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  49. The empirical metaphysics of Geroge Henry Lewes.Jack Kaminsky - 1952 - [n. p.,:
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  50. The Philosophy of George Henry Lewes.Jack Kaminsky - 1950
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