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The Invalidity of the Argument from Illusion and the Argument from Appearance
One crucial premise in the argument from illusion is the Phenomenal Principle. It states that if there sensibly appears to be something that...
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The Hole Argument without the notion of isomorphism
In this paper, I argue that the Hole Argument can be formulated without using the notion of isomorphism, and for this reason it is not threatened by...
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The consequence argument and ordinary human agency
Brian Cutter (Analysis 77: 278-287, 2017) argues that one of the most prominent versions of the consequence argument—viz., Peter van Inwagen’s (An...
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The function argument for ascribing interests
In the debate over the moral status of nonsentient organisms, biocentrists argue that all living things, including nonsentient ones, have interests...
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Epiphenomenalism and the Epistemic Argument
The epistemic argument against epiphenomenalism aims to prove that even if epiphenomenalism is true, its adherents are not able to justify their...
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The Consequence Argument and the Possibility of the Laws of Nature Being Violated
In a recent paper, Brian Cutter objected to the consequence argument due to its dependence on the principle that miracle workers are metaphysically...
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Resisting the epistemic argument for compatibilism
In this paper, we clarify, unpack, and ultimately resist what is perhaps the most prominent argument for the compatibility of free will and...
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The operator argument and the case of timestamp semantics
The Operator Argument against eternalism holds that having non-vacuous tense operators in the language is incompatible with the claim that every...
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The Positive Argument Against Scientific Realism
Putnam coined what is now known as the no miracles argument “[t]he positive argument for realism”. In its opposition, he put an argument that by his...
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Cognitivism and the argument from evidence non-responsiveness*
Several philosophers have recently challenged cognitivism, i.e., the view that moral judgments are beliefs, by arguing that moral judgments are...
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Against an Epistemic Argument for Mineness
When you have a conscious experience—such as feeling pain, watching the sunset, or thinking about your loved ones—are you aware of the experience as...
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Authenticity and the argument from testability: a bottom-up approach
Jesper Ahlin Marceta published an article in this journal in which he formulated his “argument from testability”, stating that it is impossible, at...
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Some Benefits and Limitations of Modern Argument Map Representation
Argument maps represent some arguments more effectively than others. The goal of this article is to account for that variability, so that those who...
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Justifying Why Individuals Should Reduce Personal Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Develo** the Argument of Integrity
Humans ought to do much more in order to remedy the severe harm caused by climate change. While there seems to be an overall consensus that...
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On the Top-Down Argument for the Ability to Do Otherwise
The Top-Down Argument for the ability to do otherwise aims at establishing that humans can do otherwise in the sense that is relevant for debates...
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Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument
This paper presents a new argument to defend the normativity of meaning, specifically the thesis that there are no meanings without norms. The...
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Against the status response to the argument from Vagueness
The Argument from Vagueness for Universalism contends that any non-arbitrary restriction on composition must be vague, but that vague composition...
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Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement
According to the skeptical argument from disagreement, we are mandated to suspend judgement about a question if we discover that others disagree with...
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Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative
We propose a revised definition of “argument scheme” that focuses on describing argumentative performances and normative assessments that occur...
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Putnam’s model-theoretic argument (meta)reconstructed
In “Models and Reality”, H. Putnam formulated his model-theoretic argument against “metaphysical realism”. The article proposes a meta-reconstruction...