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The Moral Psychology Handbook, 2010
Journal of Symbolic Logic, Mar 1, 1967
Journal of Symbolic Logic, Sep 1, 1970
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1967
The Yale Law Journal, 1981
Philosophy in Mind, 1994
Epistemology, the theory of knowledge as pursued by philosophers, has changed a great deal in the... more Epistemology, the theory of knowledge as pursued by philosophers, has changed a great deal in the last fifty years. This is how things look today (or at least how they looked the other day).
Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality, 2002
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2003
The Journal of Ethics, 2009
The first part of this article discusses recent skepticism about character traits. The second des... more The first part of this article discusses recent skepticism about character traits. The second describes various forms of virtue ethics as reactions to such skepticism. The philosopher J.-P. Sartre argued in the 1940s that character traits are pretenses, a view that the sociologist E. Goffman elaborated in the 1950s. Since then social psychologists have shown that attributions of character traits tend to be inaccurate through the ignoring of situational factors. (Personality psychology has tended to concentrate on people's conceptions of personality and character rather than on the accuracy of these conceptions). Similarly, the political theorist R. Hardin has argued for situational explanations of bloody social disputes in the former Yugoslavia and in Africa, rather than explanations in terms of ethnic hatred for example. A version of virtue ethics might identify virtues as characteristics of acts rather than character traits, as traits consisting in actual regularities in behavior, or as robust dispositions that would manifest themselves also in counterfactual situations.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Jun 1, 2000
Noûs, 1996
We can distinguish two issues about analyticity. First, is there a useful philosophical distincti... more We can distinguish two issues about analyticity. First, is there a useful philosophical distinction between analytic and synthetic truths? Second, does analyticity help to explain a priori knowledge? Quine's "Truth by Convention"1 provides a negative answer to the second ...
Noûs, 1984
I am going to compare two competing theories of reasoned belief revision. I will call the theorie... more I am going to compare two competing theories of reasoned belief revision. I will call the theories I am concerned with the "founda-tions theory of belief revision" and the "coherence theory of belief revision," respectively, since there are similarities between these theories and ...
... Consider, then, the following conversations. cl. She: We should never have scheduled our part... more ... Consider, then, the following conversations. cl. She: We should never have scheduled our party for the same night as the championships. No one will come. He: Well, here is old Carstairs coming up the walk. She: Thank God! Someone will be here anyway. c2. ...
The Moral Psychology Handbook, 2010
Journal of Symbolic Logic, Mar 1, 1967
Journal of Symbolic Logic, Sep 1, 1970
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1967
The Yale Law Journal, 1981
Philosophy in Mind, 1994
Epistemology, the theory of knowledge as pursued by philosophers, has changed a great deal in the... more Epistemology, the theory of knowledge as pursued by philosophers, has changed a great deal in the last fifty years. This is how things look today (or at least how they looked the other day).
Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality, 2002
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2003
The Journal of Ethics, 2009
The first part of this article discusses recent skepticism about character traits. The second des... more The first part of this article discusses recent skepticism about character traits. The second describes various forms of virtue ethics as reactions to such skepticism. The philosopher J.-P. Sartre argued in the 1940s that character traits are pretenses, a view that the sociologist E. Goffman elaborated in the 1950s. Since then social psychologists have shown that attributions of character traits tend to be inaccurate through the ignoring of situational factors. (Personality psychology has tended to concentrate on people's conceptions of personality and character rather than on the accuracy of these conceptions). Similarly, the political theorist R. Hardin has argued for situational explanations of bloody social disputes in the former Yugoslavia and in Africa, rather than explanations in terms of ethnic hatred for example. A version of virtue ethics might identify virtues as characteristics of acts rather than character traits, as traits consisting in actual regularities in behavior, or as robust dispositions that would manifest themselves also in counterfactual situations.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Jun 1, 2000
Noûs, 1996
We can distinguish two issues about analyticity. First, is there a useful philosophical distincti... more We can distinguish two issues about analyticity. First, is there a useful philosophical distinction between analytic and synthetic truths? Second, does analyticity help to explain a priori knowledge? Quine's "Truth by Convention"1 provides a negative answer to the second ...
Noûs, 1984
I am going to compare two competing theories of reasoned belief revision. I will call the theorie... more I am going to compare two competing theories of reasoned belief revision. I will call the theories I am concerned with the "founda-tions theory of belief revision" and the "coherence theory of belief revision," respectively, since there are similarities between these theories and ...
... Consider, then, the following conversations. cl. She: We should never have scheduled our part... more ... Consider, then, the following conversations. cl. She: We should never have scheduled our party for the same night as the championships. No one will come. He: Well, here is old Carstairs coming up the walk. She: Thank God! Someone will be here anyway. c2. ...