The issue isn't just what the conditions are for there existing agents who have rational practical abilities, but also what the conditions are are for...
Actually, I was putting forth, on behalf of Wolf, the thesis that right-doing (and hence also, praiseworthiness) and wrong-doing (and hence also, blam...
I think you can make sense of her asymmetry thesis if you keep in mind that the rational practical abilities of human agents (and, even more so, their...
I don't think human decisions are determined by physical forces but neither are they determined by psychic forces outside of nature (as they seemingly...
Indeed. It seems like this is what tends to happen when libertarians hold that the 'circumstances' in which an agent acts must be taken to include the...
That's a very nice multi-part OP! I just finished reading the whole thing. I had copy-pasted all parts in a unique documents and saved it as a pdf in ...
I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm going to read his 2008 paper How to Think about the Problem of Free Will in order to better un...
That's cool. In care you're interested, the published positive account that has seemed the most convincing to me so far, is Victoria McGeer's, in her ...
I'm not sure I understand the second one. Since p and q are propositional variables, they can represent the conjunction of all the statements of 'fact...
Yes, thank you. Now it is valid. It's a good starting point. It now remains to be elucidated what "having the power over..." means exactly in such a w...
Your argument, so far as I had understood it, basically amounts to a combination of van Inwagen's argument for incompatibilism and Galen Strawson's 'B...
Yes, I had read most of the post in this and in the previous thread. But in that case, if you rely on the idea of the fixity of the past to infer that...
I wonder why you are favoring this form of the argument for incompatibilism, starting with a premise denying control over facts of the future, over th...
Yes, I was not making anything hinge on the possibility of rational agency being gradually rather than suddenly acquired. My concern rather is about t...
I was distinguishing facts from laws because of the way deterministic systems usually are defined. I took 'facts about the past' to include all the ph...
The idea of "having power over the facts of the future" seems a little obscure to me. I would rather rely on the more straightforward definition that ...
I quite agree with your diagnosis of the main problem but it seems to me that the underlying assumptions that yield this sort of externalization of th...
This ancient conundrum has a modern variant that has been articulated by the American philosopher D. J. Trump. "If a Russian hoe who Rudy hired peed o...
Also, read last September, three excellent papers by Victoria McGeer: Mindshaping is Inescapable, Social Injustice is not: Reflections on Haslanger’s ...
Matthew McManus, The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020 Halfway t...
Some of my favorite philosophers, of any gender, are Elizabeth Anscombe, Sabina Lovibond, Jennifer Hornsby, Sarah Broadie, Susan Hurley, Ruth Groff, K...
Option 2, that there exists only a descriptive domain? If there were only a descriptive domain, then this domain would be self-sufficient. What there ...
On the present view, they're different applications of a deeply integrated set of rational skills -- involving both 'knowledge that' and 'knowing how'...
This would also constitute an option I would have voted for, had it been included in the poll. I like the idea of the co-constitution of the two "doma...
What's wrong with intersectional feminism anyway? The new anti-woke warriors have a beef with identity politics, as crudely defined by them. But there...
When the issue is the empirical demonstration of a gender pay gap, our science guy is all about confounding variables. When it's about the empirical d...
That's great, but then they offer no good complement to Peterson's advice to boys; and no good parallel to his advice to girls. In his college lecture...
Peterson owes much of his influence to his media appearances and social media productions. I've read his 12 Rules for Life (and chunks of his earlier ...
People on the right align themselves with Jordan Peterson because he is very very nuanced and moderate in his political opinions. For instance, Peters...
I wouldn't say either that "I believe(s) that..." has the primary function to strengthen the force of an assertion either, only that it can do so and ...
I think we're agreeing that Moore's paradox is instructive and suggestive rather than it being merely trivial or no puzzle at all. We aren't quite all...
That's an interesting take. But if the function of "I believe..." in "I believe P" primarily is to take away some of the pragmatic force from just "P"...
Ah! Sorry. I may not have read you carefully enough. On Brandom's account, the difference is pragmatic and perspectival. When one ascribes a belief to...
Brandom's pragmatist account of language (together with his inferentialist semantics), which I am not fully endorsing, only expounding a little, here)...
Tom's assertion "It is raining but I don't believe it is raining" is Moore-paradoxical regardless of the truth of the component proposition "It is rai...
Regardless of the statement being true or false, Moore acknowledges that it is defective in some respect. But he points out that it's not defective or...
I appreciate @"Snakes Alive"'s approach too. It evokes a pragmatics of entitlements and commitments à la Brandom. It's a pragmatist approach that's in...
(Edited response) You are making the assumption that the "sentences" (assertions?) "I know it's raining" and "It's raining" are equivalent. One can su...
It's useful in making trouble for theories of language that fail to account for the absurdity of the utterance. It's not devised to instruct ordinary ...
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