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2008
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Abstract. Consciousness supervenes on activity; computation supervenes on structure. Because of this, some argue, conscious states cannot supervene on computational ones. If true, ...
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2010
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2010
Recent work in the philosophy of science has generated an apparent conflict between theories attempting to explicate the nature of scientific representation. On one side, there are...
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2010
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2010
We discuss several features of coherent choice functions – where the admissible options in a decision problem are exactly those which maximize expected utility for some probabil...
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2010
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I examine the radical contextualists’ two main arguments for the semantic underdeterminacy thesis, according to which all, or almost all, English sentences lack context-independ...
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2010
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2010
This is a reply to Timothy Williamson’s paper ‘Tennant’s Troubles’. It defends against Williamson’s objections the anti-realist’s knowability principle based on the au...