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| Author | Title | Category | Date |
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| Nadeem J. Z. Hussain, Michelle Robinson | Individual User Manual for Website Version 1.9 |
Other | 3/12/09 |
| Tamar Schapiro | The Nature of Inclination There is a puzzle in the very notion of passive motivation ("passion" or "inclination"). To be motivated is not simply to be moved from the outside. Motivation is in some sense self-movement. But how can an agent be passive with respect to her own motivation? How is passive motivation possible? In this paper I defend the ancient view that inclination stems from a motivational source independent of reason, a motivational source that is both agential and nonrational. |
Publication | 3/12/09 |
| Allen Wood | Fichte's Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation A new Introduction to the Cambridge reissue of the Garrett Green translation of J. G. Fichte's first published work. It provides historical background, exposition of the work and a discussion of Fichte's influence on nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy. |
None | 3/11/09 |
| Allen Wood | Exploitation This paper attempts to clarify the concept of exploitation and to say what we think is bad about exploitation. It features discussions of recent literature on the topic, the Marxist thesis that capital exploits labor and the charge that surrogacy contracts exploit the birth mother. |
None | 3/11/09 |
| Alistair Isaac | Measuring Information in Nature Dretske (1981) attempts to ground epistemology in an account of the flow of information in nature. Skyrms (forthcoming) argues that Dretske’s account offers the wrong notion of informational content. Dretske argues that a signal carries information about some state of affairs if and only if that state of affairs obtains with probability 1. This strict requirement allows Dretske to ground knowledge in information, but prevents him from taking advantage of the flexibility inherent in a probabilistic account. In... |
Manuscript | 3/11/09 |
| Allen Wood | Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences Hegel develops a theory of the imputability of deeds and consequences that contrasts favorably with Kant's and deals interestingly with some issues usually considered under the heading of "moral luck." |
None | 3/11/09 |
| Allen Wood | Herder and Kant on History: Their Enlightenment Faith J. G. Herder is commonly understood as a critic of Kant, and the Enlightenment. This paper defends a different reading, and also the thesis that the Enlightenment embodies a faith in human progress that is not only consistent with historical evidence but sometimes required to evaluate the evidence rationally. |
None | 3/11/09 |
| Alexis Burgess |
How to Reconcile Deflationism and Nonfactualism
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Publication | 3/10/09 |
| Allen Wood | Kant and the Intelligibility of Evil Kant's thesis that human nature has a radical propensity to evil has been criticized as not allowing for actions that are extremely evil, and also on the ground that Kant does not make human evil intelligible to us. This paper replies to both criticisms, and argues that Kant locates both evil and the struggle against it in human social life. |
None | 3/10/09 |
| John Perry |
Links to C.V. and to online papers
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None | 3/10/09 |