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Article & book summaries from the meetings of the Propositional Attitudes Task Force
8/26/16
Kleingeld, Pauline - Kant's Second Thoughts on Race
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2016/08/26 The Philosophical Quarterly, No 229 Vol 57 October 2007 This paper seeks to describe Kant's views on race clearly and arg...
6/10/16
Lycan, William - Giving Dualism Its Due
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2016/06/10 Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol 87, No 4, December 2009 This paper is a serious but largely brisk jaunt through the a...
8/7/15
Blackburn, Simon - Williams, Smith, and the Peculiarity of Piacularity
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2015/08/07 Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2015 This is a paper that revisits Bernard Williams' discussion of mor...
7/24/15
Blackburn, Simon - The Majesty of Reason
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2015/07/24 Philosophers of Our Times, Edited by T Honderich, Oxford University Press, 2015 This paper tries to re-establish the use of r...
7/17/15
Putnam, Hilary - Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity
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2015/07/17 Journal of American Philosophical Association, 2015 This article is a review of three positions that author holds, that of ...
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7/10/15
Kennedy, Anthony - Obergefell v. Hodges
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7/10/2015 No. 14-574, June 26, 2015 This is a SCOTUS decision that overturns various state prohibitions on same-sex marriage. This is un...
6/26/15
Feinberg, Joel - The Nature and Value of Rights
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2015/06/26 The Journal of Value Inquiry, 1979 This paper might be considered a foundational explanation of what rights are and what it m...
5/1/15
Audi, Robert - Intuition and Its Place in Ethics
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2015/05/01 Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Vol 1 Issue 1 2015 This paper starts with a discussion of how William Ross...
11/7/14
Kolodny, Niko - That I should Die and Others Live
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2014/11/07 Comments to Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler, Oxford University Press, 2013 Author starts with two assumptions fr...
Shiffrin, Seana Valentine - Preserving the Valued or Preserving Valuing?
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2014/11/07 Comments to Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler, Oxford University Press, 2013 Author generally agrees with Scheffl...
10/24/14
Frankfurt, Harry - How the Afterlife Matters
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10/24/2014 Comments to Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler, Oxford University Press, 2013 Author starts by complimenting Scheff...
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Wolf, Susan - The Significance of Doomsday
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10/24/2014 Comments to Death and the Afterlife, by Samuel Scheffler, Oxford University Press, 2013 Author starts by acknowledging that ...
8/22/14
Brink, David - Principles and Intuitions in Ethics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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2014/08/22 Ethics, Vol 124 No 4 (July 2014) This paper sets out to revisit the contrast between Mill's moral naturalism and Sidgwick...
6/20/14
Aune, Bruce - On An Argument by Castañeda
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2014/06/19 Unpublished Paper This is a short paper that argues that Hector-Neri Castañeda's discussion of the sentence: (1) The E...
5/23/14
Smith, Malcolm - The Duty to Obey the Law
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2014/05/23 A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, 2nd edition, Dennis Patterson ed. This paper revisits previous discussions...
4/18/14
Wisdom, John - Other Minds V
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04/18/2014 Other Minds, by John Wisdom, Chapter 5: Basil Blackwell (pub), 1965 [This is a brief summary] In this chapter, which is tho...
4/11/14
Wisdom, John - Other Minds IV
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04/11/2014 Other Minds, by John Wisdom, Chapter 4: Basil Blackwell (pub), 1965 [This is a brief summary] This chapter is a continuatio...
4/4/14
Wisdom, John - Other Minds III
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04/04/2014 Other Minds, by John Wisdom, Chapter 3: Basil Blackwell (pub), 1965 [This is a brief summary] In this chapter, a continuat...
3/28/14
Wisdom, John - Other Minds II
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03/28/2014 Other Minds, by John Wisdom, Chapter 2: Basil Blackwell (pub), 1965 [This is a brief summary] This chapter (which was ...
3/21/14
Wisdom, John - Other Minds I
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03/21/2014 Other Minds, by John Wisdom, Chapter 1: Basil Blackwell (pub), 1965 [This is a brief summary] While this is the first chapt...
1/10/14
Mankiw, Nicholas Gregory - Defending the One Percent
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01/10/2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol 27 No 3 Summer 2013 This paper starts with the author admitting that the question of wh...
11/22/13
Turing, Alan - Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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11/22/2013 Mind, Vol 54 No 236, Oct 1950 This paper examines the question of whether machines can think. Since it was written when ...
11/15/13
Proudfoot, Diane - Rethinking Turning's Test
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11/15/2013 The Journal of Philosophy, Vol 110 No 7, July 2013 Author starts by reviewing the history of Alan Turing's "Computin...
11/1/13
Lovejoy, Arthur - Plentitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza
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11/01/2013 The Great Chain Of Being, Ch 5 Harvard University Press, 1936 Author sets out to discuss the relationship between Leibniz...
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