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Blameworthiness Implies ‘Ought not’
Here is a crucial principle for debates about moral luck, responsibility, and free will: a subject is blameworthy for an act only if, in acting, she...
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An all-purpose framework for affordances. Reconciling the behavioral and the neuroscientific stories
Research on the concept of affordance generated different interpretations, which are due to different stories aimed at describing how this notion...
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Having a Disposition and Making a Contribution
Dispositional accounts of various phenomena have claimed that dispositions can be intrinsically masked. In cases of intrinsic masking, something has...
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Interpersonal independence of knowledge and belief
We show that knowledge satisfies interpersonal independence , meaning that a non-trivial sentence describing one agent’s knowledge cannot be...
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Alternatives to the self-indication assumption are doomed
The self-indication assumption (SIA) claims that given that one exists, one should think that the universe has many people, for a universe that has...
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Propositional Logic for Infinitive Sentences
This paper is about sentences of form To be human is to be an animal , To live is to fight , etc. I call them ‘infinitive sentences’. I define an...
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...
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Singular concepts
Alonzo Church proposed a powerful and elegant theory of sequences of functions and their arguments as surrogates for Russellian singular propositions...
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Indeterministic grounding
Grounding is sometimes thought of as metaphysical causation. If we take this analogy seriously, given the possibility of indeterministic causation we...
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The order of operations and A/Ā interactions
Double object constructions provide an ideal context in which to investigate interactions between multiple instances of movement. With two internal...
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Extended mentality and ascriptive authority
Self-ascriptions of one’s current mental states often enjoy a distinctively strong presumption of truth. Some philosophers claim that this ascriptive...
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Varieties of Cubes of Opposition
The objects called cubes of opposition have been presented in the literature in discordant ways. The aim of the paper is to offer a survey of such...
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The Oppositions of Categorical Propositions in Avicenna’s Frame
The aim of this paper is to analyse categorical propositions and their oppositional relations in Avicenna’s frame. For Avicenna’s expression and...
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The Sum Relation as a Primitive Concept of Mereology
Mereology in its formal guise is usually couched in a language whose signature contains only one primitive binary predicate symbol representing the par...
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Are generics quantificational?
The standard view about generic generalizations is that they have a tripartite quantificational logical form involving a phonologically null...
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Locative grounding harmony
In this paper, we explore locative grounding harmony, according to which the location of the grounds mirrors the location of the grounded. We proceed...
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Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof
This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First,...
